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I found this on badgerbag's blog.  Wow...completely supports the suggestion I make to myself now and again regarding my terribly short-term memory and going out amongst the people more often.  It all makes sense, on some level.  Anyway, here's a women-focussed reading list.  Instructions are at the bottom.  Badger aspires to making a less English-language centered list, which should be interesting.  

Conclusions:  I have markedly low retention of authors whose last names begin with M.  Also, I'm pleased to find a few in there that I'd heard of but didn't want to read--setting boundaries is a useful skill to hone. 

Alcott, Louisa May–Little Women
Allende, Isabel–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
* Chopin, Kate–The Awakening
* 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 (any of them) 
? 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 Lac
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

Instructions: 
Bold the ones you've read. 
Italicize the ones you have wanted/might like to read. 
? Place question marks by any titles/authors you've never heard of. 
* Put an asterisk if you've read something else by the same author.