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120 Great Books by Women Writers in Translation (To English)

This list was inspired by the excellent crowd-sourced "100 Best Books by Women Writers in Translation" by Meytal Radzinski on Biblibio (see link below). With the goal of making an even more diverse list, I took the books from that list with the stipulation of only one book per author (I generally tried to choose the most popular of the author's books on the original list). I then added books by other authors from other classic and must-read lists, with an emphasis on classics and authors from underrepresented regions. Regions of Africa and Asia and elsewhere are still underrepresented because 1) many books were written in English in the first place and 2) too few books written in other languages have yet been translated.
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The Little Girl on the Ice Floe (Adélaïde Bon)
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe (Adélaïde Bon)
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The Notebook, the Proof, the Third Lie: Three Novels (Ágota Kristóf)
The Notebook, the Proof, the Third Lie: Three Novels (Ágota Kristóf)
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Extracting the Stone of Madness (Alejandra Pizarnik)
Extracting the Stone of Madness (Alejandra Pizarnik)
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The Remainder (Alia Trabucco Zeran)
The Remainder (Alia Trabucco Zeran)
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Distant View of a Minaret (Alifa Rifaat)
Distant View of a Minaret (Alifa Rifaat)
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Eve Out of Her Ruins (Ananda Devi)
Eve Out of Her Ruins (Ananda Devi)
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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
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Alexiad (Anna Komnene)
Alexiad (Anna Komnene)
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The Seventh Cross (Anna Seghers)
The Seventh Cross (Anna Seghers)
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Sphinx (Anne Garreta)
Sphinx (Anne Garreta)
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The Years (Annie Ernaux)
The Years (Annie Ernaux)
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Die My Love (Ariana Harwicz)
Die My Love (Ariana Harwicz)
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The Naked Woman (Armonía Somers)
The Naked Woman (Armonía Somers)
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Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Assia Djebar)
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Assia Djebar)
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Waking Lions (Ayelet Gundar-Goshen)
Waking Lions (Ayelet Gundar-Goshen)
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Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
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The Queue (Basma Abdel Aziz)
The Queue (Basma Abdel Aziz)
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The Mussel Feast (Birgit Vanderbeke)
The Mussel Feast (Birgit Vanderbeke)
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Nada (Carmen Laforet)
Nada (Carmen Laforet)
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Island of Shattered Dreams (Chantal T. Spitz)
Island of Shattered Dreams (Chantal T. Spitz)
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The Quest for Christa T. (Christa Wolf)
The Quest for Christa T. (Christa Wolf)
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A Winter's Promise (Christelle Dabos)
A Winter's Promise (Christelle Dabos)
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Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector)
Near to the Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector)
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Chéri (Colette)
Chéri (Colette)
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Trieste (Daša Drndic)
Trieste (Daša Drndic)
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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Dorthe Nors)
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Dorthe Nors)
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Arid Dreams (Duanwad Pimwana)
Arid Dreams (Duanwad Pimwana)
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Fox (Dubravka Ugrešić)
Fox (Dubravka Ugrešić)
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Novel Without a Name (Duong Thu Huong)
Novel Without a Name (Duong Thu Huong)
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Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
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My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
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Arturo's Island (Elsa Morante)
Arturo's Island (Elsa Morante)
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Sweet Days of Discipline (Fleur Jaeggy)
Sweet Days of Discipline (Fleur Jaeggy)
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Bonjour Tristesse (Françoise Sagan)
Bonjour Tristesse (Françoise Sagan)
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The Waiting Years (Fumiko Enchi)
The Waiting Years (Fumiko Enchi)
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Zuleikha (Guzel Yakhina)
Zuleikha (Guzel Yakhina)
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Human Acts (Han Kang)
Human Acts (Han Kang)
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Women of Sand and Myrrh (Hanan Al-Shaykh)
Women of Sand and Myrrh (Hanan Al-Shaykh)
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Love (Hanne Ørstavik)
Love (Hanne Ørstavik)
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Innocence (Heda Margolius)
Innocence (Heda Margolius)
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