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Women Authors Books

Books selected for readers looking for women authors books.

36 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 500+ tracked lists·102% reader overlap with Women Books

1. The Heroine's Bookshelf
Erin Blakemore
Fits this list for its focus on authors and women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
2. Shadow Work
Emily Hodgson Anderson
Fits this list for its focus on authors and women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
3. How to Suppress Women's Writing
Joanna Russ, Jessa Crispin
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
4. How to Be a Renaissance Woman
Jill Burke
Fits this list for its focus on authors and women.
Shelf signal: Renaissance History
5. Eve Bites Back
Anna Beer
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
6. Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Virginia Woolf, Francesca Wade
Fits this list for its focus on authors.
Shelf signal: British & Irish Literary Criticism
7. Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance
Jane Harrington
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
8. Bookishness
Jessica Pressman
Strong fit for this women authors list in the 21st century literature lane.
Shelf signal: 21st Century Literature
9. On Morrison
Namwali Serpell
Included for strong gifts alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Black Lit Crit
10. No Time to Spare
Ursula Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin
Included for strong short story alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
11. The Source of Self-regard
Toni Morrison
Included for strong short story alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: African American Literary Collections
12. Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
Arielle Zibrak
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
13. Reading With Jane Austen
Elaine Bander
Included for strong first alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: 19th-Century English Fiction
14. Positive Obsession
Susana M. Morris
Included for strong american alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Black Lit Crit
15. The Book of Old Ladies
Ruth O. Saxton
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
16. Loving With a Vengeance
Tania Modleski
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Women in Literature
17. The Trembling Hand
Mathelinda Nabugodi
Included for strong history alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Black Lit Crit
18. Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin, David Naimon
Included for strong book club alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
19. The End of the Novel of Love
Vivian Gornick
Fits this list for its focus on authors and women.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
20. Meander, Spiral, Explode
Jane Alison
Included for strong book club alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Fiction Writing
21. The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk
Included for strong short story alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
22. The Language of the Night
Ursula K. Le Guin
Included for strong collection alignment with this women authors list.
Shelf signal: Women Authors Criticism
23. Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fits this list for its focus on authors and women.
Shelf signal: British & Irish Poetry
24. The Lesbian South
Jaime Harker
Fits this list for its focus on women.
Shelf signal: Queer Literary Criticism