| 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 |