 | Barren Ground (American Century Series) by Ellen Glasgow
Buy used from: $1.42 An engrossing tale of a woman who succeeds on her own terms without male support. Dorinda is a unique heroine in literature. You will not easily forget her.
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 | The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) by Pearl S. Buck
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.64 A classic that you should not miss.
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| My Several Worlds by Pearl S. Buck
Buy used from: $0.96 Pearl Buck's autobiography. Born in America, she grew up in China and lived there until she was 38.
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 | The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $1.95 Not just a children's book, The Yearling, is about a family trying to scrape out a living in backwoods Florida. The writing is beautiful and the theme unforgettable. One of the great novels about life in a little known part of the South.
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 | Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $2.85 A collection of essays about the author's life and her friends in the rural community of Cross Creek, Florida.
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 | Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) by Barbara Pym
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.99 Barbara Pym is a modern Jane Austen. Excellent Women is wryly funny and very endearing.
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 | The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $3.05 My second favorite novel by Du Maurier (Rebecca being the first). Two male look-a-likes switch lives. A convoluted premise but a rewarding story about the possibility of change and redemption.
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 | The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.17 My favorite novel by Amy Tan. The story of an abused wife and how she saves her life.
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 | Out of Africa (Modern Library) by Isak Dinesen
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.55 Not a novel, more a collection of essays about the author's life in Africa. Beautifully written (hard to believe that Isak Dinesen was not a native english speaker).
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| Kristen Lavransdatter, 3 Volumes: Kransen; Husfrue; Korset. by Sigrid Undset
The life of a woman from girlhood to old age in medieval Norway. Undset wond the Nobel Prize, largely because of this work.
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 | The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Onyx) by Sharyn McCrumb
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 An appalachian mystery.
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 | She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
Buy used from: $0.01 Another appalachian mystery.
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 | The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
Buy used from: $0.01 A wonderful British mystery with a twisted plot.
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 | A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.01 |
| The Killing Doll by Ruth Rendell
Buy used from: $44.65 Another twisted plot by a master mystery writer.
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| The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell
Buy used from: $3.68 Before White Oleander, there was this compelling novel of a wicked mother and innocent daughter.
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 | The Accidental Tourist: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Anne Tyler
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.16 Great novel about a man coming to terms with the loss of his marriage and child.
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| The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford-Howe
Buy used from: $3.00 A wonderful story about an elderly woman who abandons her invalid, selfish husband and discovers herself.
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 | Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, Book 2) by Diana Gabaldon
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.95 Excellent historical/time travel novel about 18th century France (you may want to read first book in series, Outlander, before reading this one).
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 | The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.24 Excellent science fiction about a utopian society.
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 | The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Great science fiction novel about a world where everyone has the abiltiy to be either male or female.
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 | The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $5.00 Wonderful story about a man who can change the world by dreaming and the psychiatrist who attempts to exploit him.
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 | In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.95 The experiences of a middle aged woman who becomes a nun.
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| The Battle of the Villa Fiorita by Rumer Godden
Buy used from: $0.93 A story about two children who refuse to accept their parent's divorce.
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| Ingrid Bergman: My Story by Ingrid Bergman
Buy used from: $0.01 Another great autobiography by an amazing woman.
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 | Désirée by Annemarie Selinko
Buy used from: $7.98 Loosely based on the true experiences of Eugenie Desiree Clary, a young french girl, daughter of a silk merchant, who grows up to be queen of Sweden.
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 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Buy used from: $5.54 A collection of essays, part philosophy, part nature study, very well written, totally engaging. Won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.
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 | Little Town on the Prairie (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Buy used from: $0.40 You are never to old to read the little house books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read them to my invalid mother and she was totally entertained at 70.
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 | The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.89 A children's book that will entertain adults. A brother and sister are captured by Vikings and taken to Norway as slaves. Very amusing and a true delight. Very original.
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 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Pavanne Books) by Hannah Green
Buy used from: $0.01 Beautiful book about a psychotic girl.
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 | The King Must Die: A Novel by Mary Renault
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Excellent novel based on the myth of Theseus.
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 | The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.32 |
 | The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 Totally original retelling of the Arthurian legend, from the viewpoint of Morgana Le Fey.
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 | Addie: A Memoir by Mary Lee Settle
Buy used from: $0.01 The story of the author's childhood and the life of her grandmother. Very satisfying to read.
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 | The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Buy used from: $18.99 A delightful, very funny book about a young woman who marries a chicken farmer.
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 | Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.07 Beautiful book about a black family. The heroine, Pilate, is one of my all time favorite fictional characters.
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 | A Thousand Acres: A Novel by Jane Smiley
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.68 King Lear transplanted to the American midwest. Chilling but totally engrossing.
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 | A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
Buy new: $9.85 / Used from: $9.84 Classic story about a young girl growing up with a crazy mother in swamp country in Indiana.
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