Here’s The top 20 most influential book written by a woman as voted by the public on twitter (must admit I missed that campaign) with To Kill a Mockingbird at number one. It was organised by the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman (and once called The Orange Prize).
How many have you read? And is your favourite here?
I’ve read 18 and by chance bought Doddie Smith’s I Capture the Castle today because I’ve heard so many great things about it. The other one I haven’t read is Middlemarch. George Elliot has kind of passed me by, although I have read and enjoyed Silas Marner.
The one that had the biggest impact on me? Probably The Handmaid’s Tale.
The one I like best – Little Women but The Golden Notebook is a close contender –…
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