Novels

Amy Stewart’s Girl Waits with Gun
Anzia Yezierska’s The Bread Givers
Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Phila.)
Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban
Dorothy West’s The Wedding
Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things (Phila.)
Fran Ross’s Oreo  (Phila.)
Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona
Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral (Phila.)
Joyce Carol Oates’s Black Girl / White Girl (Suburban Philly)
Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes
Lily King’s Euphoria
Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit
Maxine Clair’s Rattlebone
Mourning Dove’s Cogewea;
Patricia Highsmith (Claire Morgan)’s The Price of Salt or Carol
Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Browstones
Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces
Sue Monk Kidd’s The Invention of Wings (Phila.)
Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Willa Cather’s O’ Pioneers