This is a limited selection of fictional works for adults and older teens, written by women of various national and ethnic identities. Most of the material is from the 20th Century but some historical works are also included, with publication date in parentheses. Following the author's name is her ethnicity and/or nationality as known, and a representative or popular work by her.

Ama Ata Aidoo	Ghanaian	Our Sister Killjoy
Isabel Allende	Chilean	The House of the Spirits
Julia Alvarez	Dominican American	How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Maeve Binchy	Irish	Circle of Friends
Karen Blixen [born Christentze Dinesen; used Isak Dinesen as a pseudonym for her works published in English	Danish	Seven Gothic Tales
Charlotte Bronte	Irish-English	Jane Eyre (1847)
Octavia E. Butler	African-American	Parable of the Talents
Angela Carter	British	Nights at the Circus
Willa Cather [born Wilella Sibert Cather]	Anglo-American	Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Kate Chopin	French-Irish-American	The Awakening and Other Stories

Sandra Cisneros	Mexican-American	The House on Mango Street
Edwidge Danticat	Haitian-American	Breath, Eyes, Memory
Mazo DeLaRoche [born Maxo Roche]	Canadian	Jalna
Anita Desai	German-Bengali	Clear Light of Day
George Eliot [born Mary Anne Evans]	British	Adam Bede (1859)
Buchi Emecheta	Nigerian	The Bride Price
Louise Erdrich	Chippewa-German-American	Love Medicine
Laura Esquivel	Mexican	Like Water for Chocolate
[Stella] Miles Franklin	Australian	My Brilliant Career (1901)

Cristina Garcia	Cuban-American	Dreaming in Cuban
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Anglo-American	The Yellow Wallpaper (1892/1899)
Natalia Ginzberg	Jewish-Italian	All Our Yesterdays
Nadine Gordimer	Anglo-Jewish-Afrikaaner	Burger's Daughter
Rosa Guy	Trinidadian-American	My Love, My Love: or The Peasant Girl
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn	Filipino-American	Dog Eaters
Shirley Hazzard	Australian	The Transit of Venus
Anne Hebert	French-Canadian	In the Shadow of the Wind
Ursula Hegi	German-American	Stones From the River
Minfong Ho	Chinese-Singaporean	Rice Without Rain
Linda Hogan	Chickasaw-American	The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
Nalo Hopkinson	Caribbean-Canadian	Brown Girl in the Ring
Keri Hulme	Maori-New Zealander	The Bone People
Gish Jen [born Lillian Jen]	Chinese-American	Mona in the Promised Land
Zhang Jie	Chinese	Heavy Wings

Jamaica Kincaid [born Elaine Potter Richardson]	Antiguan	Annie John
Maxine Hong Kingston	Chinese-American	Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Winona LaDuke	Anishinaabe-Jewish-American	Last Standing Woman
Jhumpa Lahiri	Bengali-American	Interpreter of Maladies
Margaret Laurence	Scots-Irish-Canadian	The Stone Angel
Catherine Lim	Malaysian-Singaporean	The Bondmaid
Kamala Markandaya	Indo-Anglian	A Handful of Rice
Ngaio Marsh	Anglo-New Zealander	Vintage Murder
Paule Marshall	Barbadian-American	Praisesong For the Widow
Anna Mitgutsch	Austrian	Three Daughters
Rosa Montero	Spanish	Absent Love: A Chronicle
Toni Morrison [born Chloe Anthony Wofford]	African-American	Beloved
Mourning Dove [Native name Hum-Ishu-Ma]	Okanogan	Cogewea, the Half-Blood
Alice Munro	Canadian	Friend of My Youth: Stories
Murasaki [aka Murasaki Shikibu]	Japanese	The Tale of Genji (ca. 1010)

Anais Nin	Danish-French-Spanish-American	Under a Glass Bell, and Other Stories
Flora Nwapa	Nigerian	This is Lagos
Silvina Ocampo	Argentinian	Leopoldina's Dream
Ann Petry	African-American	The Street
Marge Piercy	Jewish-Welsch-American	Woman On the Edge of Time
Susan Power	Sioux	The Grass Dancer
Santha Rama Rau	Indo-Anglian	Remember the House
Jean Rhys [born Gwendolen Rees Williams]	Anglo-Creole-Dominican	Voyage in the Dark
Merce Rodoreda	Catalonian-Spanish	The Time of the Doves
Ninotchka Rosca	Filipino	Twice Blessed
Laura Joh Rowland	Korean-Chinese-American	Shinju
Gabrielle Roy	French-Canadian	Street of Riches
George Sand [born Aurore Dupin]	French	Lelia (1833)
Dori Sanders	African-American	Clover
Bapsi Sidhwa	Pakistani	Cracking India

Leslie Marmon Silko	Native-Mexican-Anglo-American	Almanac of the Dead
Amalie Skram	Danish-Norwegian	Under Observation
Lillian E. Smith	American	Strange Fruit
Christina Stead	Australian	The Man Who Loved Children
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto	Japanese	A Daughter of the Nohfu
Amy Tan [born Tu Ching Tan]	Chinese-American	The Joy Luck Club
Esther Tusquets	Spanish	The Same Sea as Every Summer
Sigrid Undset	Norwegian	The Cross
Anastasya Verbitskaya	Russian	Keys to Happiness
Eudora Welty	Anglo-Swiss-American	The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Dorothy West	African-American	The Living is Easy
Christa Wolf	German	Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
[Adeline] Virginia Woolf	British	A Room of One's Own
Banana Yoshimoto	Japanese	Kitchen

For information about female authors from varied ethnic or cultural backgrounds on the World Wide Web, try this site: A Celebration of Women Writers or try meta-search services such as www.britannica.com or www.profusion.com.

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Printed List March 2000 bwc, with contributions from rs, jt, pl, mjk, ag, cac, pl
Updated and expanded for the Web February 2004 sdc / last updated March 2008 sdc

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