I hope to eventually get through most of these books ( • ̀ω•́ )✧

Book List Key:
Planning to Read | Read

The following list came from Book Riot

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (990s-1000s)

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Before 1021)

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (1688)

Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings by Phillis Wheatley (1760s-1770s)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1790)

The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe (1791)

Camilla by Fanny Burney (1796)

Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)

Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847).

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848)

The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts (mid-19th century)

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)

Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson (1859)

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)

The Curse of Caste, or The Slave Bride by Julia C. Collins (1865)

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley (1868)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird (1879)

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson (1890)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

Iola Leroy by Frances E.W. Harper (1892)

The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth (1897)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader by Ida B. Wells (late 19th century)

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1902)

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (1905)

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)

Mrs Spring Fragrance: A Collection of Chinese-American Short Stories by Sui Sin Far (1910s)

American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa (1910)

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)

Oh Pioneers by Willa Cather (1913)

Suffragette: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst (1914)

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (1922)

The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1924)

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (1928)

Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset (1928)

Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)

Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (1929)

Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories by Silvina Ocampo (1930s-1970s)

Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (1930)

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West (1931)

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann (1932)

Frost in May by Antonia White (1933)

Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson (1934)

The Wine of Solitude by Irene Nemirovsky (1935)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

After Midnight by Irmgard Keun (1937)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (1938)

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (1938)

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)

Mariana by Monica Dickens (1940)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)

The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (1940)

The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge (1940)

Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1942-1944)

The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty (1942)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

Nada by Carmen LeFloret (1944)

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (1945)

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes (1947)

Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton (1948)

The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West (1948)

Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang (1948)

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)

Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pritam (1950)

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1951)

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1952)

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (1953)

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple (1953)

Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone (1953)

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (1953)

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya (1954)

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1955)

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor (1955)

Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956)

The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West (1957)

Angel by Elizabeth Taylor (1957)

The King Must Die by Mary Renault (1958)

A Raisin the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)

The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns (1959)

The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath (1960)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1960)

The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart (1961)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)

The Group by Mary McCarthy (1963)

Efuru by Flora Nwapa (1966)

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)

More books added to the list from suggestions:

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

Quicksand, Nella Larson