Books:

• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
• Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
• True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle By Avi
• The Oval Amulet by Lucy Cullyford Babbitt
• Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
• Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
• Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole
• Voice on the Radio by Caroline B. Cooney
• We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver
• Eva by Peter Dickinson
• In Lane Three, Alex Archer by Tess Duder
• Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
• Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
• Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg
• I am an Artichoke by Lucy Frank
• Annie on Mind by Nancy Garden.
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George.
• Running out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
• One Child by Torey L. Hayden
• Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• Mountain Valor by Gloria Houston
• Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan
• Juniper Game by Sherryl Jordan
• Listen for Rachel by Lou Kassem
• Deliver Us From Evie by M.E. Kerr
• Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
• Rose Madder by Stephen King
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
• Kinship by Trudy Krisher
• Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Tehanu by Ursula K. LeGuin
• Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Letters from a Slave Girl by Mary E. Lyons
• Back Home by Michelle Magorian
• Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
• Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
• The Abduction by Mette Newth
• Sabriel by Garth Nix
• Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien
• Stone Angel by Carol O'Connell
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr
• Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
• Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker
• Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• The Girl in the Box by Ouida Sebestyen
• Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Suzanne Fisher by Staples
• Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
• Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
• Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor
• Sweet Friday Island by Theodore Taylor
• Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson
• Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde
• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White
• Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede

This list was originally compiled by Marsha Rakestraw, YA Specialist at Washington-Centerville Public Library in Centerville, Ohio as a result of a query on pubyac. Modified by Lisa Matte at Jervis Public Library in Rome, NY.

More Authors:

• Patricia Cornwell
• Monica Furlong
• Tanya Huff's Blood series
• Mercedes Lackey
• McCaffrey's Dragonsong and Freedom's Landing series
• Robin McKinley
• Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody series
• Tamora Pierce's Immortals and Song of the Lionness series
• Ann Rinaldi

Bauermeister, Erica. Let's Hear it For the Girls: 375 great books for readers 2-14.

Morrow, Claudia. Brave, Active, and Resourceful Females in Picture Books. Created in 1992.

Odean, Kathleen. Great Books for Girls : Over 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women .

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Updated 5/19/10 by KDV