Read Women 2014 by Joanna Walsh

Continuing on the theme of reading women authors in 2014 – a mini-movement launched by the writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh – here are more selections my book group has read over the years. We read books by and about women.

Again, these books represent our collective decisions, not necessarily my personal recommendations. I’ve loved many, but not all, of them.

In a previous post, I listed authors from A – G. Scroll down to find it.

Here are authors from H – Z.

• Haigh, Jennifer – Mrs. Kimble
• Hamilton, Gabrielle – Blood, Bones & Butter
• Hamilton, Jane – A Map of the World
• Hamilton, Masha – The Camel Bookmobile
• Harris, Joanne – Chocolat
• Hazzard, Shirley – The Great Fire
• Hegi, Ursula – Stones from the River
• Heilbrun, Carol – Writing a Woman’s Life
• Hulme, Keri – The Bone People
• Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes were Watching God
• Huston, Nancy – Fault Lines
• Jones, Ann – Looking for Lovedu
• Karr, Mary – Lit
• Kearns, Rosalie Morales – Virgins and Tricksters
• Kerman, Piper – Orange is the New Black
• Kingsley, Mary – Travels in West Africa
• Kingsolver, Barbara – Flight Behavior; The Lacuna; The Poisonwood Bible; Pigs in Heaven
• Kornblut, Ann – Notes from the Cracked Ceiling
• Lahiri, Jhumpa – Unaccustomed Earth; The Interpreter of Maladies
• Larson, Nella – Passing
• LeGuin, Ursula – Left Hand of Darkness
• Lessing, Doris – African Laughter
• Levy, Andrea – Small Island
• Lively, Penelope – Moon Tiger
• Livesey, Margot – Eva Moves the Furniture
• MacDonald, Ann Marie – Fall on Your Knees
• Maloy, Maile – Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
• Markham, Beryl – West with the Wind
• Marmon, Leslie Silk – Ceremony
• Marshall, Brenda – Dakota, or What’s a Heaven For
• Mason, Bobbie Ann – Feather Crowns
• McDermott, Alice – After This; Charming Billy;
• Messud, Claire – When the World was Steady
• Min, Anchee – Red Azalea
• Miner, Valerie – Trespass
• Morrison, Toni – Paradise
• Mujica, Barbara – Frida
• Munro, Alice – Runaway; Too Much Happiness
• Naslund, Sena Jeter – Ahab’s Wife
• Naylor, Gloria – Mama Day
• Nemirovsky, Irene – Suite Francaise
• Nunez, Sigrid – The Last of Her Kind
• O’Brien, Edna – Country Girl; The Country Girls Trilogy
• O’Connor, Flannery – Three by Flannery O’Connor
• O’Faolain, Naula – Are You Somebody?
• Orleans, Susan – The Orchid Thief
• Otsuka, Julie – The Buddha in the Attic
• Ozeki, Ruth – My Year of Meats
• Patchett, Ann – Bel Canto; State of Wonder; Truth and Beauty
• Piercy, Marge – Sex Wars
• Prager, Emily – Eve’s Tatoo
• Prose, Francine – Reading like a Writer
• Proulx, Annie – Postcards; Shipping News
• Quinlen, Anna – One True Thing
• Reichl, Ruth – Tender at the Bone
• Robinson, Marilynne – Gilead
• Roffey, Monique – White Woman on a Green Bicycle
• Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
• Sebold, Alice – The Lovely Bones
• See, Lisa – Snowflower and the Secret Fan
• Senna, Danzy – Caucasia
• Shields, Carole – Unless; The Stone Diaries
• Sittenfeld, Curtis – American Wife
• Skloot, Rebecca – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Smiley, Jane – A Thousand Acres; Duplicate Keys
• Smith, Abbe – The Case of a Lifetime
• Smith, Patti – Just Kids
• Smith, Zadie – White Teeth
• Soulif, Ahdaf – The Map of Love
• Stockett, Kathryn – The Help
• Strayed, Cheryl – Wild
• Strout, Elizabeth – Amy and Isabelle; Olive Kitteridge
• Summer, Jane – The Silk Road
• Trapido, Barbara – The Traveling Hornplayer
• Tremain, Rose – Sacred Country
• Walls, Jeanette – Half Broke Horses
• Waters, Sarah – Fingersmith; The Night Watch; Tipping the Velvet
• Weber, Katharine – Triangle
• West, Dorothy – The Wedding
• Wharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
• Wilentz, Amy – The Martyr’s Crossing
• Wilkerson, Isabelle – The Warmth of Other Suns
• Williams, Lena – It’s the Little Things
• Winterson, Jeanette – Art and Lies; Why be Happy when you can be Normal; Written on the Body
• Woolf, Virginia – A Room of One’s Own; Mrs. Dalloway
• Zeller, Zoe – The Believers; Notes from a Scandal