Jane Austen (1775-1817, England): Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley (1797-1851, England): Frankenstein
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855, England): Jane Eyre, Villette
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848, England): Wuthering Heights
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, France): Claudine series, Dawn
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, United States): Little Women
Kate Chopin (1850-1904, United States): Awakening, The Story of an Hour
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942, Canada): Anne of Green Gables
Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916, United States): Daddy-Long-Legs
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941, England): To the Lighthouse
Agatha Christie (1890-1976, England): Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None
Jean Rhys (1890-1979, England): Good Morning, Midnight, Wide Sargasso Sea
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980, United States): Maria Concepción, Ship of Fools
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973, United States): The Good Earth
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (1900-1949, United States): Gone with the Wind
Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989, England): Rebecca, The Birds
Eudora Welty (1909-2001, United States): The Optimist's Daughter
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996, France): The Lover
Doris Lessing (CH, 1919-2013, England): The Fifth Child, Grandmothers (Original novel for the film Two Mothers)
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995, United States): Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Carol (The Price of Salt)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964, United States): A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Wise Blood
Nelle Harper Lee (1926-2016, United States): To Kill a Mockingbird
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018, United States): A Wizard of Earthsea, The Twelve Kingdoms of Wind, The Left Hand of Darkness
Toni Morrison (1931-2019, United States): Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Jazz, Love
Alice Munro (1931-present, United States): Dance of the Happy Shades, The Beggar Maid
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963, United States): The Bell Jar
Françoise Sagan (1935-2004, France): Bonjour Tristesse, Do You Love Brahms?
Edna Annie Proulx (1935-present, United States): Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News
Lucia Berlin (1936-2004, United States): A Manual for Cleaning Women, "Welcome Home", "A Manual for Cleaning Women"
Joyce Carol Oates (1938-present, United States): Zombie, The Dream Children, The Old Man with the Boy Collecting Girls
Margaret Atwood (1939-present, Canada): The Handmaid's Tale (TV series production), Grace
Annie Ernaux (1940-present, France): La Place, A Woman's Story, Simple Passion
Anne Tyler (1941-present, United States): The Clock Winder
Monika Maron (1941-present, Germany): Dust, A Woman Crossing the Border, The Sad Beast
Isabel Allende Llona (1942-present, Chile): House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune
Connie Willis (1945-present, United States): Firewatch, Doomsday Book, The Dog Stars, To Say Nothing of the Queen, Blackout
Elfriede Jelinek (1946-present, Austria): The Lovers, The Piano Teacher, The Desire
Octavia Estelle Butler (1947-2006, United States): Kindred, Bloodchild
Laura Esquivel (1950-present, Mexico): Like Water for Chocolate, The Law of Love, The Tequila Sunrise
Patricia Cornwell (1956-present, United States): The Body Farm, The Last Interview
Elizabeth Strout (1956-present, United States): Olive Kitteridge
Jeanette Winterson (1959-present, United States): Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jennifer Egan (1962-present, United States): Keep, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Joanne Harris (1964-present, England): Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange
Joan K. Rowling (1965-present, England): Harry Potter Series
Sarah Waters (1966-present, England): Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, The Little Stranger
Amélie Nothomb (1967-present, France/Belgium): Hygiene of the Killer, Fear and Trembling, Antichrista
Jhumpa Lahiri (1967-present, England): The Interpreter of Maladies, Unaccustomed Earth
Gillian Flynn (1971-present, United States): Gone girl, Dark Places
Lauren Weisberger (1977-present, United States): The Devil Wears Prada
Miura Ayako (三浦綾子, 1922-1999, Japan): Freezing Point
Tanabe Seiko (田辺聖子, 1928-2019, Japan): Jose and the Tiger and the Fish, Cocoa on a Lonely Night
Shiono Nanami (鹽野七生, 1937-present, Japan): The Story of the Romans Series
Miybe Miyuki (宮部 みゆき, 1960-present, Japan): The Imitation Murderer, Fukurou, No Answer Is Needed
Onda Riku (恩田陸, Onda Riku, 1964-present, Japan): March is a Red Wolf, The Sea of the Library, Eugenia
Yamamoto Fumio (山本文緒, やまもと ふみお, 1962-present, Japan): Planaria, Love Addiction
Yoshimoto Banana (吉本 ばなな, 1964-present, Japan): Kitchen, N.P, Amrita
Minato Kanae (湊 かなえ, 1973-present, Japan): Confession, Atonement, Night Viewing Ferris Wheel