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
78,431 leden
1,433 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"
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Trots en vooroordeel
door Jane Austen
80,581 leden
1,368 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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Het Achterhuis
door Anne Frank
28,309 leden
513 besprekingen
4.1
16 Members
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6
Overtuiging
door Jane Austen
28,688 leden
532 besprekingen
4.2
14 Members
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7
Onder moeders vleugels
door Louisa May Alcott
26,424 leden
399 besprekingen
4
13 Members
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8
Mansfield Park
door Jane Austen
22,476 leden
357 besprekingen
3.8
13 Members
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9
De Hongerspelen
door Suzanne Collins
64,438 leden
3,484 besprekingen
½ 4.3
12 Members
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10
Verstand en gevoel
door Jane Austen
38,089 leden
525 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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11
De geheime tuin
door Frances Hodgson Burnett
35,236 leden
554 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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12
De glazen stolp
door Sylvia Plath
28,088 leden
501 besprekingen
4
12 Members
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13
De abdij van Northanger
door Jane Austen
21,621 leden
419 besprekingen
3.8
12 Members
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14
De kleur paars
door Alice Walker
19,714 leden
335 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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15
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
door Thomas Hardy
19,169 leden
244 besprekingen
3.8
12 Members
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16
Het kleine huis in het grote bos
door Laura Ingalls Wilder
16,199 leden
287 besprekingen
4.1
12 Members
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17
Een poppenhuis
door Henrik Ibsen
5,373 leden
90 besprekingen
½ 3.6
12 Members
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18
De woeste hoogte
door Emily Brontë
51,941 leden
702 besprekingen
3.9
11 Members
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19
Een rimpel in de tijd
door Madeleine L'Engle
39,443 leden
958 besprekingen
4
11 Members
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20
Emma
door Jane Austen
37,937 leden
505 besprekingen
4.1
11 Members
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21
De rode letter
door Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,538 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
29,340 leden
557 besprekingen
½ 4.3
10 Members
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24
Rebecca
door Daphne Du Maurier
20,707 leden
611 besprekingen
4.2
10 Members
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25
De Molen aan de Floss
door George Eliot
8,700 leden
119 besprekingen
3.8
10 Members
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26
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
door Judy Blume
7,683 leden
240 besprekingen
3.8
10 Members
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27
De tovenaar van Oz
door L. Frank Baum
21,939 leden
423 besprekingen
3.9
9 Members
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28
En ze keken naar God
door Zora Neale Hurston
19,103 leden
345 besprekingen
4
9 Members
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29
Naar de vuurtoren
door Virginia Woolf
17,575 leden
270 besprekingen
3.9
9 Members
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30
Het geheim van de krokodil
door Alexander McCall Smith
14,126 leden
400 besprekingen
½ 3.7
9 Members
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31
De goede aarde
door Pearl S. Buck
13,831 leden
265 besprekingen
4
9 Members
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32
Een kamer voor jezelf
door Virginia Woolf
12,396 leden
168 besprekingen
4.1
9 Members
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33
Een kamer met uitzicht
door E. M. Forster
11,164 leden
223 besprekingen
3.9
9 Members
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34
De ontnuchtering
door Kate Chopin
9,184 leden
179 besprekingen
½ 3.6
9 Members
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35
The Yellow Wallpaper - story
door Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3,200 leden
145 besprekingen
4.1
9 Members
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36
Beminde
door Toni Morrison
22,821 leden
405 besprekingen
3.9
8 Members
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37
Matilda
door Roald Dahl
22,087 leden
478 besprekingen
½ 4.3
8 Members
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38
Middlemarch
door George Eliot
17,706 leden
330 besprekingen
4.2
8 Members
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39
De jaren van onschuld
door Edith Wharton
13,912 leden
300 besprekingen
4
8 Members
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40
De uren
door Michael Cunningham
12,706 leden
232 besprekingen
3.9
8 Members
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41
Driekoningen
door William Shakespeare
10,747 leden
113 besprekingen
4
8 Members
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42
Sargasso Zee : Roman
door Jean Rhys
8,454 leden
254 besprekingen
½ 3.5
8 Members
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43
Kindred
door Octavia E. Butler
8,386 leden
351 besprekingen
4.2
8 Members
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44
Moll Flanders
door Daniel Defoe
7,677 leden
102 besprekingen
½ 3.5
8 Members
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45
The Glass Menagerie
door Tennessee Williams
6,579 leden
70 besprekingen
½ 3.7
8 Members
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46
Het liefje van de Franse luitenant
door John Fowles
6,535 leden
108 besprekingen
3.8
8 Members
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47
Cold Comfort Farm
door Stella Gibbons
5,768 leden
221 besprekingen
4
8 Members
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48
De vrouw van de tijdreiziger
door Audrey Niffenegger
39,463 leden
1,271 besprekingen
4.1
7 Members
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49
Charlottes web
door E. B. White
36,104 leden
1,022 besprekingen
4.2
7 Members
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50
De gifhouten bijbel
door Barbara Kingsolver
26,265 leden
501 besprekingen
4.2
7 Members
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51
Madame Bovary
door Gustave Flaubert
26,212 leden
390 besprekingen
½ 3.7
7 Members
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52
Mevrouw Dalloway
door Virginia Woolf
20,622 leden
329 besprekingen
3.9
7 Members
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53
De Vreugde- en Gelukclub
door Amy Tan
17,590 leden
199 besprekingen
3.9
7 Members
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54
Het dertiende verhaal
door Diane Setterfield
17,190 leden
910 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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55
De blinde huurmoordenaar
door Margaret Atwood
16,477 leden
384 besprekingen
3.9
7 Members
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56
Het huis van vreugde
door Edith Wharton
9,695 leden
202 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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57
Howards End
door E. M. Forster
8,771 leden
131 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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58
Year of Wonders
door Geraldine Brooks
8,716 leden
414 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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59
Zwarte winter
door Connie Willis
7,963 leden
374 besprekingen
4.1
7 Members
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60
Juffrouw Brodies beste jaren
door Muriel Spark
5,204 leden
169 besprekingen
½ 3.7
7 Members
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61
Dagboek van een geisha
door Arthur Golden
36,588 leden
562 besprekingen
4
7 Members
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62
Het Literaire Aardappelschiltaart Genootschap van Guernsey
door Mary Ann Shaffer
19,375 leden
1,246 besprekingen
4.2
6 Members
amarie, soffitta1, merrystar, sturlington, perennialreader, ahef1963
63
Het wonderlijke archief van mevrouw Fitzalan
door E. L. Konigsburg
16,163 leden
278 besprekingen
4.2
6 Members
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64
Ik weet waarom gekooide vogels zingen
door Maya Angelou
14,798 leden
224 besprekingen
4
6 Members
soffitta1, EMS_24, perennialreader, elkiedee, alex68, SonoranDreamer
65
Lady Chatterley's minnaar
door D. H. Lawrence
13,633 leden
221 besprekingen
½ 3.5
6 Members
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66
De stam van de holebeer
door Jean M. Auel
12,751 leden
286 besprekingen
3.9
6 Members
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67
The Westing Game
door Ellen Raskin
12,367 leden
338 besprekingen
4.1
6 Members
jain, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
68
Een meisje uit Barbados
door Elizabeth George Speare
11,059 leden
208 besprekingen
4
6 Members
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69
Het hart is een eenzame jager
door Carson McCullers
10,716 leden
243 besprekingen
4
6 Members
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70
Cassandra
door Dodie Smith
9,200 leden
294 besprekingen
4.1
7 Members
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71
Katteoog
door Margaret Atwood
9,110 leden
163 besprekingen
3.9
6 Members
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72
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
door Fannie Flagg
8,915 leden
188 besprekingen
4.1
6 Members
KimarieBee, soffitta1, perennialreader, elkiedee, cej1027, ahef1963
73
Fortuna's dochter
door Isabel Allende
8,728 leden
192 besprekingen
½ 3.7
6 Members
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74
Leven na leven
door Kate Atkinson
8,249 leden
589 besprekingen
4
6 Members
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75
Parable of the Sower
door Octavia E. Butler
8,104 leden
239 besprekingen
4.1
6 Members
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76
Het jaar van de vloed
door Margaret Atwood
7,280 leden
362 besprekingen
3.9
6 Members
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77
De kleine luistervink
door Louise Fitzhugh
6,978 leden
121 besprekingen
4
6 Members
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78
De wetten van het land
door Jane Smiley
6,165 leden
136 besprekingen
½ 3.7
6 Members
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79
De nachtwacht
door Sarah Waters
4,392 leden
153 besprekingen
½ 3.7
6 Members
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80
Anna Karenina
door Leo Tolstoy
38,445 leden
627 besprekingen
4.1
5 Members
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81
Laat me nooit alleen
door Kazuo Ishiguro
22,813 leden
938 besprekingen
3.8
5 Members
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82
Het huis met de geesten
door Isabel Allende
13,972 leden
245 besprekingen
4.1
5 Members
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83
Belcanto
door Ann Patchett
13,208 leden
459 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
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84
Alias Grace
door Margaret Atwood
11,845 leden
259 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
AnnaClaire, soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, kara.shamy
85
Winter
door Elizabeth Strout
9,900 leden
620 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
sturlington, perennialreader, alex68, kara.shamy, FranzK72
86
Leerschool
door Tara Westover
9,757 leden
511 besprekingen
½ 4.3
5 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, kara.shamy, TashMason, ManWithAnAgenda
87
We hebben altijd in het kasteel gewoond
door Shirley Jackson
8,134 leden
423 besprekingen
4.1
5 Members
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88
Vingervlug
door Sarah Waters
7,822 leden
285 besprekingen
4
5 Members
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89
De huurster van Wildfell Hall
door Anne Brontë
7,492 leden
168 besprekingen
3.9
5 Members
soffitta1, merrystar, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
90
De Jane Austen-leesclub
door Karen Joy Fowler
6,408 leden
193 besprekingen
3
5 Members
amarie, soffitta1, sturlington, Dilara86, ahef1963
91
Onrust in Oxford
door Dorothy L. Sayers
5,458 leden
150 besprekingen
½ 4.3
5 Members
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92
Fluwelen begeerte
door Sarah Waters
5,094 leden
147 besprekingen
4
5 Members
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93
Cranford
door Elizabeth Gaskell
4,534 leden
132 besprekingen
3.8
5 Members
AnnaClaire, soffitta1, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
94
Paarse hibiscus
door Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4,519 leden
183 besprekingen
4
5 Members
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95
Daisy Miller
door Henry James
3,608 leden
84 besprekingen
½ 3.4
5 Members
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96
Affiniteit
door Sarah Waters
3,341 leden
129 besprekingen
½ 3.7
5 Members
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97
Het Noorderlicht
door Philip Pullman
36,178 leden
742 besprekingen
4.1
4 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
98
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
door Betty Smith
16,518 leden
442 besprekingen
½ 4.3
4 Members
holly_golightly, merrystar, ahef1963, TashMason
99
Uglies
door Scott Westerfeld
14,026 leden
658 besprekingen
3.9
4 Members
sturlington, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963
100
My Ántonia
door Willa Cather
13,604 leden
286 besprekingen
3.9
4 Members
dara85, soffitta1, merrystar, elkiedee