A few weeks ago we talked about a list of approximately 100 MUST READ books that are almost all available through the Gutenberg Project. I checked out the list and was pleased to see that I have read a few of these books, and dismayed to realize that I have about 80 more to go, before I can really "WALK the TALK" in literary and intellectual contexts where people name drop like Dr. Dre drops beats.
As I read through the list I realized there were less than a handful of books by women (Jane Austen, The Bronte Sisters, and Emily Dickinson made the cut.)
So I got to thinking: if I read the male dominated list of 100 MUST READS I'm going to get a very testosterone charged perspective on all kinds of topics.
I would prefer to read some great books by women too, to get a wider perspective on life. I spent about 30 minutes looking on-line for the MUST READ LIST that includes women, and I couldn't find much, so I decided to ask my wife to help me out...
So, Dr. Ana Simon Alegre PhD, contacted some of her erudite friends and they put together the following list - I told Ana that I was going to put this list on our class blog.
THANK YOU:
Dr. Ana Simon Alegre
Cristina Simon Alegre (PhD. soon to be)
Dr. Lou Charnon Deutch (Spanish Dept. Stony Brook University)
Andrea García González
Dr. Julia Pérez
Irene García Rubio
Ana Fernandez (PhD. soon to be)
Ana Fernandez (PhD. soon to be)
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HERE'S the LIST:
Poems, Safo de Lesbos.
Sei Shönagon, The Pillow Book, 990
Hildergart von Biden, Lingua ignota, s.XII.
The Mirror of the Simple Souls Who Are Annihilated and Remain Only in Will and Desire of Love Sells, Margarita Perote, 1300.
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405.
The way of perfection, Teresa de Jesús, 1988 (1º s. XVI).
Louise Labé, Poems, 1555
María de San José Salazar, Libro de recreaciones, 1580.
Amorous and Exemplary Novels, or, the Spanish Decameron, María de Zayas, 1632.
Madame de la Fayette, The princess of Cleves, 1678
The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, XVII.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Moral and Political Subjects, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, 1811.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813.
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly, 1818.
George Sand, La Petite Fadette, 1840.
History of Peru, Juana Manuela Gorriti, XIX.
Getrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Sab, 1841.
George Elliot, Middlemarch, 1840.
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 1847.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1850.
Rosalía de Castros, Poems, 1863 (1964).
EL Doctor Alemán, Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer, 1880.
Insolación, Emilia Pardo Bazán, 1888.
Poems, Emily Dickinson, 1890.
The Yellow Wall-paper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892.
Susan B. Anthony, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2), by Ida Husted Harper (siglo XX).
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1984
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives, 1909
The Queens of Kungahälla and Other Sketches From a Swedish Homestead, Selma Lagerlöf, 1899 (1917).
Viaje de recreo: España, Francia, Inglaterra, Italia, Suiza, Alemana, Clorinda Matto de Turner, 1909.
Baroness Bertha von Suttner; Author of "Lay Down Your Arms" and Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize". New York Times Review of Books: pp. BR61. February 5, 1911.
Anna Ajmátova, Poems, 1912
Else Lasker-Schüler, Poems, 1912
Alfonsina Storni, Poems, 1916
The Vagabond, Collete, 1917.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, 1927.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928.
Masa Halamová, Gift (Dar, 1928),
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929.
Living My Life, Emma Goldman, 1931.
Masa Halamová, Red Poppy (Červený mak, 1932)
Pamela Lyndon Travers, Mary Poppins, 1934.
Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1937.
Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa, 1937
In a Place of Splendor, The Autobiography of a Spanish Woman, Constancia de la Mora, 1939.
I must have liberty, Isabel Oyarzábal de Palencia, 1940.
Anais Nin, Delta of Venus, 1940.
Carson McCullers, The heart is a lonely hunter, 1940.
Marguerite Duras, Wartime Writings, 1943-49 (2010).
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943.
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking, 1944
Virginia Wolf, A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, 1944.
Carmen Laforet, Nada, 1945, (2007).
Simone de Beauvoir, Wartime diary, 1945? (2010)
The Diary of a Young Girl, Ana Frank, 1947.
Hanna Arent, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951.
Simone Weil, The Need for Roots, 1952.
María Zambrano, Delirium and Destiny: A Spaniard in Her Twenties, 1953 (1999).
Mary Gaskell, North and South, 1955.
Masa Halamová, Poems (Básne, 1955), 1978.
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, 1962.
Zapatos de fuego, sandalias de viento, Úrsula Wölfel, 1963.
Natalia Ginzburg, Family Sayings, 1963.
Jean Rys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966.
Masa Halamová, I Live Your Death (Smrť tvoju žijem, 1966)
Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. and The Foreign Legion, 1964-66.
Maya Angelou, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969.
Silvia Plath, Winter Trees, 1971
Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck, 1973.
Adrieanne Rich, On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966–1978, 1979.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple , 1982.
Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits, 1982.
Luisa Valenzuela, Cambio de armas, 1982.
Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, 1982.
The Diary of a Good Neighbour, as Jane Somers-Doris Lessing, 1983.
Sandra Cisneros House on mango Street, 1984.
Cristina Peri Rossi, Ship of Fools, 1984.
Assia Djebar, Cuarteto Argelino, 1984.
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, 1985.
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands, 1987.
Eltit, Diamela, El cuarto mundo, 1988
S. Byatt, Possession, 1990.
Isabel Allende, The Stories of Eva Luna, 1990
Duras, Margarite, The North China Lover, 1991.
Toni Morrison, Jazz, 1992.
Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, 1992.
Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, 1992.
Masa Halamová, Fragments (Čriepky, 1993).
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949, Doris Lessing, 1994.
Ursula Heigi, Stones from the River, 1994.
Julia Alvarez, Time of the Butterflies, 1994.
Dandicat, Edwidge, Breath, Eyes, Memories, 1994
Variable cloud, Carmen Martin Gaite, 1995.
Phoolan Devi, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen, 1996.
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962, Doris Lessing 1997.
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997
Lucía Etxebarria, Beatrice and the heavenly bodies, 1998
Barbara Kingslover, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998.
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, 2000-03.
Amélie Nothomb, Fear and Trembling, 2001
Julia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt, 2001, Melanie Klein 2002, Colette 2005
Garcia, Cristina, Monkey Hunting, 2003
Hélène Cixous, Reveries of the Wild Woman, 2006
Louise Erdrich, The Beet Queen, 2006.
Alison Bechdel, Fun home, 2006.
Marie NDiaye, Three Strong Women, 2009
Maria Dueñas, The Time in Between, 2009
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, 2009.
By Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Andrea García González, Julia Pérez, Irene García Rubio, Ana Fernández (candidate PhD), Ana y Cristina Simón Alegre
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