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74 Essential Books for Your Personal Library: A List Curated by Female Creatives

"When Open Culture recently published Jorge Luis Borges’ self-compiled list of 74 ‘great works of literature’, commissioned by Argentine publisher Hyspamerica, I, along with many others, saw one glaring issue in the otherwise fantastically diverse list: it included no works by female writers."
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The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie)
The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie)
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L'astragale (Albertine Sarrazin)
L'astragale (Albertine Sarrazin)
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The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
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Little Birds (Anaïs Nin)
Little Birds (Anaïs Nin)
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Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Y. Davis)
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Y. Davis)
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Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day
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Anne Carson Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
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Live or Die
Live or Die
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The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
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Kitchen
Kitchen
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Ain't I a Woman
Ain't I a Woman
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Master Georgie
Master Georgie
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West With the Night
West With the Night
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The Joys of Motherhood (Buchi Emecheta)
The Joys of Motherhood (Buchi Emecheta)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Roche Feuchtgebiete
Charlotte Roche Feuchtgebiete
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Chris Kraus I Love Dick
Chris Kraus I Love Dick
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Chéri
Chéri
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Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
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The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook
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The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
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Eileen Myles Inferno
Eileen Myles Inferno
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Women as Lovers (Elfriede Jelinek)
Women as Lovers (Elfriede Jelinek)
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
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The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
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Bonjour Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
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Silas Marner
Silas Marner
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The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein)
The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein)
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To Disembark (Gwendolyn Brooks)
To Disembark (Gwendolyn Brooks)
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Human Condition (Arendt Hannah)
Human Condition (Arendt Hannah)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)
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Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
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"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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