Literature About Women and Girls

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Recommend good books, written by men and women, telling positive stories about women and girls and examining women's issues. This is based on my massive reading list of books about women and girls, but additions are welcome.
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Spaar de spotvogels
door Harper Lee
78,847 leden
1,434 besprekingen
½ 4.4
21 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : I would argue that Scout is trans, not a woman.
sturlington: There is no evidence to support that. She is also not a woman. She is a girl.
elkiedee: I'm not anti trans, but not confirming to stereotype gender roles of her time doesn't make Scout "trans"
3
Trots en vooroordeel
door Jane Austen
81,054 leden
1,371 besprekingen
½ 4.4
17 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : Except for Elizabeth and Darcy's sister, all the other women are dolts.
sturlington: Elizabeth Bennett is one of the great heroines in literature.
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Overtuiging
door Jane Austen
28,845 leden
534 besprekingen
4.2
14 Members
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7
Onder moeders vleugels
door Louisa May Alcott
26,606 leden
402 besprekingen
4
13 Members
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8
Mansfield Park
door Jane Austen
22,625 leden
360 besprekingen
3.8
13 Members
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9
De Hongerspelen
door Suzanne Collins
64,783 leden
3,493 besprekingen
½ 4.3
12 Members
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10
Verstand en gevoel
door Jane Austen
38,308 leden
529 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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11
De geheime tuin
door Frances Hodgson Burnett
35,586 leden
561 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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12
De glazen stolp
door Sylvia Plath
28,233 leden
505 besprekingen
4
12 Members
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13
De abdij van Northanger
door Jane Austen
21,747 leden
420 besprekingen
3.8
12 Members
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14
De kleur paars
door Alice Walker
19,813 leden
340 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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15
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
door Thomas Hardy
19,267 leden
247 besprekingen
3.8
12 Members
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Het kleine huis in het grote bos
door Laura Ingalls Wilder
16,349 leden
289 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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17
Een poppenhuis
door Henrik Ibsen
5,410 leden
91 besprekingen
½ 3.6
12 Members
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18
De woeste hoogte
door Emily Brontë
52,252 leden
708 besprekingen
3.9
11 Members
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19
Een rimpel in de tijd
door Madeleine L'Engle
39,677 leden
962 besprekingen
4
11 Members
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20
Emma
door Jane Austen
38,211 leden
506 besprekingen
4.1
11 Members
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21
De rode letter
door Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,721 leden
373 besprekingen
½ 3.4
12 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : This didn't seem that positive to me, but it's been a while since I read it.
23
Anne van het Groene Huis
door L. M. Montgomery
29,621 leden
562 besprekingen
½ 4.3
10 Members
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24
Rebecca
door Daphne Du Maurier
20,821 leden
615 besprekingen
4.2
10 Members
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25
De Molen aan de Floss
door George Eliot
8,756 leden
119 besprekingen
3.8
10 Members
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26
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
door Judy Blume
7,731 leden
241 besprekingen
3.8
10 Members
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27
De tovenaar van Oz
door L. Frank Baum
22,137 leden
424 besprekingen
3.9
9 Members
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28
En ze keken naar God
door Zora Neale Hurston
19,210 leden
347 besprekingen
4
9 Members
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29
Naar de vuurtoren
door Virginia Woolf
17,691 leden
271 besprekingen
3.9
9 Members
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30
Het geheim van de krokodil
door Alexander McCall Smith
14,178 leden
401 besprekingen
½ 3.7
9 Members
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31
De goede aarde
door Pearl S. Buck
13,908 leden
264 besprekingen
4
9 Members
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32
Een kamer voor jezelf
door Virginia Woolf
12,434 leden
168 besprekingen
4.1
9 Members
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33
Een kamer met uitzicht
door E. M. Forster
11,231 leden
224 besprekingen
3.9
9 Members
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34
De ontnuchtering
door Kate Chopin
9,218 leden
179 besprekingen
½ 3.6
9 Members
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35
The Yellow Wallpaper - story
door Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3,228 leden
145 besprekingen
4.1
9 Members
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36
Beminde
door Toni Morrison
22,952 leden
408 besprekingen
3.9
8 Members
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37
Matilda
door Roald Dahl
22,218 leden
479 besprekingen
½ 4.3
8 Members
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38
Middlemarch
door George Eliot
17,805 leden
331 besprekingen
4.2
8 Members
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39
De jaren van onschuld
door Edith Wharton
13,971 leden
302 besprekingen
4
8 Members
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40
De uren
door Michael Cunningham
12,748 leden
232 besprekingen
3.9
8 Members
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41
Driekoningen
door William Shakespeare
10,824 leden
113 besprekingen
4
8 Members
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42
Sargasso Zee : Roman
door Jean Rhys
8,501 leden
255 besprekingen
½ 3.5
8 Members
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43
Kindred
door Octavia E. Butler
8,476 leden
355 besprekingen
4.2
8 Members
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44
Moll Flanders
door Daniel Defoe
7,713 leden
102 besprekingen
½ 3.5
8 Members
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45
The Glass Menagerie
door Tennessee Williams
6,617 leden
70 besprekingen
½ 3.7
8 Members
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46
Het liefje van de Franse luitenant
door John Fowles
6,558 leden
108 besprekingen
3.8
8 Members
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47
Cold Comfort Farm
door Stella Gibbons
5,796 leden
223 besprekingen
4
8 Members
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48
De vrouw van de tijdreiziger
door Audrey Niffenegger
39,607 leden
1,272 besprekingen
4.1
7 Members
KimarieBee, soffitta1, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963, sr994, TheTowers
49
Charlottes web
door E. B. White
36,290 leden
1,027 besprekingen
4.2
7 Members
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50
De gifhouten bijbel
door Barbara Kingsolver
26,351 leden
502 besprekingen
4.2
7 Members
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51
Madame Bovary
door Gustave Flaubert
26,317 leden
389 besprekingen
½ 3.7
7 Members
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52
Mevrouw Dalloway
door Virginia Woolf
20,734 leden
331 besprekingen
3.9
7 Members
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53
De Vreugde- en Gelukclub
door Amy Tan
17,666 leden
198 besprekingen
3.9
7 Members
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54
Het dertiende verhaal
door Diane Setterfield
17,255 leden
911 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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55
De blinde huurmoordenaar
door Margaret Atwood
16,514 leden
384 besprekingen
3.9
7 Members
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56
Het huis van vreugde
door Edith Wharton
9,735 leden
203 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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57
Howards End
door E. M. Forster
8,810 leden
133 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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58
Year of Wonders
door Geraldine Brooks
8,735 leden
416 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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59
Zwarte winter
door Connie Willis
7,988 leden
376 besprekingen
4.1
7 Members
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60
Juffrouw Brodies beste jaren
door Muriel Spark
5,246 leden
172 besprekingen
½ 3.7
7 Members
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61
Dagboek van een geisha
door Arthur Golden
36,728 leden
562 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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62
Het Literaire Aardappelschiltaart Genootschap van Guernsey
door Mary Ann Shaffer
19,495 leden
1,249 besprekingen
4.2
6 Members
amarie, soffitta1, merrystar, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963
63
Het wonderlijke archief van mevrouw Fitzalan
door E. L. Konigsburg
16,331 leden
279 besprekingen
4.2
6 Members
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64
Ik weet waarom gekooide vogels zingen
door Maya Angelou
14,852 leden
224 besprekingen
4
6 Members
soffitta1, EMS_24, perennialreader, elkiedee, alex68, SonoranDreamer
65
Lady Chatterley's minnaar
door D. H. Lawrence
13,682 leden
221 besprekingen
½ 3.5
6 Members
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66
De stam van de holebeer
door Jean M. Auel
12,805 leden
287 besprekingen
3.9
6 Members
KimarieBee, soffitta1, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
67
The Westing Game
door Ellen Raskin
12,484 leden
338 besprekingen
4.1
6 Members
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68
Een meisje uit Barbados
door Elizabeth George Speare
11,150 leden
209 besprekingen
4
6 Members
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69
Het hart is een eenzame jager
door Carson McCullers
10,765 leden
243 besprekingen
4
6 Members
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70
Cassandra
door Dodie Smith
9,238 leden
294 besprekingen
4.1
7 Members
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71
Katteoog
door Margaret Atwood
9,130 leden
163 besprekingen
3.9
6 Members
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72
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
door Fannie Flagg
8,952 leden
189 besprekingen
4.1
6 Members
KimarieBee, soffitta1, perennialreader, elkiedee, cej1027, ahef1963
73
Fortuna's dochter
door Isabel Allende
8,758 leden
192 besprekingen
½ 3.7
6 Members
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74
Leven na leven
door Kate Atkinson
8,304 leden
593 besprekingen
4
6 Members
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75
Parable of the Sower
door Octavia E. Butler
8,187 leden
239 besprekingen
4.1
6 Members
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76
Het jaar van de vloed
door Margaret Atwood
7,320 leden
363 besprekingen
3.9
6 Members
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77
De kleine luistervink
door Louise Fitzhugh
7,030 leden
121 besprekingen
4
6 Members
amarie, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, sr994, ManWithAnAgenda
78
De wetten van het land
door Jane Smiley
6,184 leden
137 besprekingen
½ 3.7
6 Members
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79
De nachtwacht
door Sarah Waters
4,412 leden
153 besprekingen
½ 3.7
6 Members
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80
Anna Karenina
door Leo Tolstoy
38,619 leden
632 besprekingen
4.1
5 Members
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81
Laat me nooit alleen
door Kazuo Ishiguro
22,995 leden
941 besprekingen
3.8
5 Members
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82
Het huis met de geesten
door Isabel Allende
13,995 leden
247 besprekingen
4.1
5 Members
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83
Belcanto
door Ann Patchett
13,259 leden
461 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
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84
Alias Grace
door Margaret Atwood
11,910 leden
259 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
AnnaClaire, soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, kara.shamy
85
Winter
door Elizabeth Strout
9,948 leden
623 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
sturlington, perennialreader, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72
86
Leerschool
door Tara Westover
9,902 leden
519 besprekingen
½ 4.3
5 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, TashMason, ManWithAnAgenda
87
We hebben altijd in het kasteel gewoond
door Shirley Jackson
8,210 leden
425 besprekingen
4.1
5 Members
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88
Vingervlug
door Sarah Waters
7,870 leden
287 besprekingen
4.1
5 Members
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89
De huurster van Wildfell Hall
door Anne Brontë
7,599 leden
169 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
soffitta1, merrystar, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
90
De Jane Austen-leesclub
door Karen Joy Fowler
6,430 leden
194 besprekingen
3
5 Members
amarie, soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963
91
Onrust in Oxford
door Dorothy L. Sayers
5,472 leden
150 besprekingen
½ 4.3
5 Members
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92
Fluwelen begeerte
door Sarah Waters
5,116 leden
147 besprekingen
4
5 Members
jain, soffitta1, elkiedee, kara.shamy, mspixieears
93
Cranford
door Elizabeth Gaskell
4,557 leden
132 besprekingen
3.8
5 Members
AnnaClaire, soffitta1, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
94
Paarse hibiscus
door Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4,543 leden
185 besprekingen
4
5 Members
jain, soffitta1, elkiedee, cej1027, ahef1963
95
Daisy Miller
door Henry James
3,617 leden
84 besprekingen
½ 3.4
5 Members
sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
96
Affiniteit
door Sarah Waters
3,345 leden
129 besprekingen
½ 3.7
5 Members
aulsmith, soffitta1, elkiedee, kara.shamy, mspixieears
97
Het Noorderlicht
door Philip Pullman
36,332 leden
744 besprekingen
4.1
4 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
98
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
door Betty Smith
16,577 leden
443 besprekingen
½ 4.3
4 Members
holly_golightly, merrystar, ahef1963, TashMason
99
Uglies
door Scott Westerfeld
14,131 leden
663 besprekingen
3.9
4 Members
sturlington, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963
100
My Ántonia
door Willa Cather
13,666 leden
287 besprekingen
3.9
4 Members
dara85, soffitta1, merrystar, elkiedee