The Learning Umbrella

I got this from Mommy Brain 

Just BOLD those you’ve read, ITALICIZE the ones you’ve been meaning to read and ??? the ones you have never heard of.

Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
Allende, Isabe l– The House of Spirits
Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Atwood, Margaret – Cat’s Eye
Austen, Jane – Emma
Bambara, Toni Cade – Salt Eaters ??
Barnes, Djuna – Nightwood ??
de Beauvoir, Simone – The Second Sex
Blume, Judy – Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
Burnett, Frances – The Secret Garden
Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S. – The Good Earth
Byatt, A.S. – Possession ??
Cather, Willa – My Antonia
Christie, Agatha – Murder on the Orient Express
Cisneros, Sandra – The House on Mango Street ??
Clinton, Hillary Rodham – Living History
Cooper, Anna Julia – A Voice From the South ??
Danticat, Edwidge – Breath, Eyes, Memory ??
Davis, Angela – Women, Culture, and Politics ??
Desai, Anita – Clear Light of Day ??
Dickinson, Emily – Collected Poems
Duncan, Lois – I Know What You Did Last Summer ??
DuMaurier, Daphne – Rebecca
Eliot, George – Middlemarch
Emecheta, Buchi – Second Class Citizen ??
Erdrich, Louise – Tracks
Esquivel, Laura – Like Water for Chocolate
Flagg, Fannie – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Friedan, Betty – The Feminine Mystique
Frank, Anne – Diary of a Young Girl
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins – The Yellow Wallpaper
Gordimer, Nadine – July’s People ??
Grafton, Sue – S is for Silence - ??

Hamilton, Edith – Mythology ??
Highsmith, Patricia – The Talented Mr. Ripley
Hooks, Bell – Bone Black ??
Hurston, Zora Neale – Dust Tracks on the Road
Jacobs, Harriet – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jackson, Helen Hunt – Ramona ??
Jackson, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House ??
Jong, Erica – Fear of Flying ??
Keene, Carolyn – The Nancy Drew Mysteries (any of them)
Kidd, Sue Monk – The Secret Life of Bees
Kincaid, Jamaica – Lucy ??
Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible

Kingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior ??
Larsen, Nella – Passing??
L’Engle, Madeleine – A Wrinkle in Time

Le Guin, Ursula K. – The Left Hand of Darkness
Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris – The Golden Notebook ??
Lively, Penelope – Moon Tiger ??

Lorde, Audre – The Cancer Journals ??
Martin, Ann M. – The Babysitters Club Series
McCullers, Carson – The Member of the Wedding ??
McMillan, Terry – Disappearing Acts
Markandaya, Kamala – Nectar in a Sieve ??
Marshall, Paule – Brown Girl, Brownstones ??
Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind
Montgomery, Lucy – Anne of Green Gables
Morgan, Joan – When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost ??
Morrison, Toni – Song of Solomon
Murasaki, Lady Shikibu – The Tale of Genji ??
Munro, Alice – Lives of Girls and Women ??
Murdoch, Iris – Severed Head ??
Naylor, Gloria – Mama Day ??
Niffenegger, Audrey – The Time Traveller’s Wife
Oates, Joyce Carol – We Were the Mulvaneys
O’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man is Hard to Find ??
Piercy, Marge – Woman on the Edge of Time
Picoult, Jodi – My Sister’s Keeper ??
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Porter, Katharine Anne – Ship of Fools ??
Proulx, E. Annie – The Shipping News
Rand, Ayn – The Fountainhead
Ray, Rachel – 365: No Repeats
Rhys, Jean – Wide Sargasso Sea
Robinson, Marilynne – Housekeeping
Rocha, Sharon – For Laci ??
Sebold, Alice – The Lovely Bones
Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
Smith, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie – White Teeth ??
Spark, Muriel – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ??
Spyri, Johanna – Heidi
Strout, Elizabeth – Amy and Isabelle ??
Steel, Danielle – The House
Tan, Amy – The Joy Luck Club
Tannen, Deborah – You’re Wearing That ??
Ulrich, Laurel – A Midwife’s Tale
Urquhart, Jane – Away ??
Walker, Alice – The Temple of My Familiar ??
Welty, Eudora – One Writer’s Beginnings ??
Wharton, Edith – Age of Innocence
Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House in the Big Woods
Wollstonecraft, Mary – A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginia – A Room of One’s Own

What do you think of this list?  I wonder how Rachel Ray’s cookbook got on the list, but otherwise the books included all seem good to me.  But why Hillary Clinton and no other prominent political women?  What about Eleanor Roosevelt?  Or what about Helen Keller?  Why Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and not The Handmaid’s Tale?  I don’t think Cat’s Eye is her best or most important work.