 | The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 An entertaining story of a 14-year-old girl in 15th Century Florence.
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 | Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel by Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.34 Would you like to know what it was like for brand-new lieutenants' wives during the Vietnam War when their husbands went on active duty right after the Ohio National Guard shootings of Kent State University Vietnam War protesters?
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 | The Golden Notebook : Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics) by Doris M. Lessing
Buy used from: $3.21 A classic of women's literature that should be read by anyone who wants to better understand the dawning of women's rights in the later part of the 20th Century. Doris Lessing was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for her body of work.
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 | Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Buy used from: $1.50 An up-close-and-personal look at how upwardly mobile African-American women think about African-American men.
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 | The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $11.95 The stories told by four Chinese women who now live in the U.S.
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 | The Group by Mary McCarthy
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.99 The post-college lives of eight Vassar graduates of the class of 1933.
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $6.68 / Used from: $0.27 A chilling look at the brutality of slavery in the South.
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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.99 This book -- which I have to admit I just read for the first time -- is nothing short of genius. Harriet Beecher Stowe lets her female and male characters speak for themselves, and their words reveal the terrible, terrible brutality of slavery in the South.
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 | Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.98 Anyone who has read Michael Cunningham's THE HOURS or seen the movie version of the novel and who hasn't read MRS. DALLOWAY must immediately read MRS. DALLOWAY. Not only does MRS. DALLOWAY show how brilliant a novel THE HOURS is, MRS. DALLOWAY itself is a joy to read.
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 | Balcony Stories by Grace Elizabeth King
Buy new: $17.99 I first read about Grace King and her "Balcony Stories" in Christopher Benfey's "Degas in New Orleans." He describes the stories -- all about women: Cajuns, Creoles, free women of color. And I had to read the stories for myself. I'm glad I did -- the stories are a window into a very specific time and place in an area of the South that seems a world of its own.
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 | The Awakening, and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.01 A story of the end of the 19th Century of a New Orleans woman trapped in a conventional marriage.
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 | Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Buy used from: $1.64 The silly adventures of a single woman in modern-day London who appears clueless on so many levels.
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 | Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.56 Perhaps "the" classic of all times of women's literature that depicts the lives of ordinary women in the context of their society.
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 | Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
Buy used from: $2.19 A seminal book of the early '70s, and it continues to be studied as an significant example of women's liberation fiction. The famous expression from the book: the zipless f**k
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 | The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.54 Another classic of women's literature. This one takes place in fashionable New York in the 1970s. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.
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 | The Heidi Chronicles. by Wendy Wasserstein
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.65 For those of us who came of age in the '60s, this is our story.
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy used from: $1.71 Beautiful stories of the quiet moments in people's lives. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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 | Lovingkindness by Anne Roiphe
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $0.01 A mother-daughter story about faith and reason.
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 | Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.26 Jane Austen at her best.
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 | I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Buy used from: $3.22 Written by the woman who wrote THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS, the book is about a 17-year-old and her family who live in almost-poverty in a rundown English castle in the mid-20th Century.
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 | Caravan by Dorothy Gilman
Buy used from: $0.01 A stand-alone novel by Dorothy Gilman, this African adventure by a young woman during the early years of World War I is a joy to read.
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 | Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
Buy used from: $4.39 One of my favorite books of all time. Read it yourself to learn why.
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 | Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs
Buy used from: $0.01 A humorous mystery romp with a Long Island housewife.
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 | Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.56 A fascinating book about "free women and men of color" in New Orleans before the Civil War.
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 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 A much different look at more-recent Louisiana women than the Louisiana women in Anne Rice's THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS.
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