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Please vote now for your Women's Watershed fiction title. You're allowed one vote, which will enable us to compile a 'top ten' list to be announced live on Woman's Hour on 8 December. The list will also be published here.
You have until 12 November to vote.

			Angelique by Sergeanne Golon

			Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
			The Awakening by Kate Chopin

			The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

			Beloved by Toni Morrison

			Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

			Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding

			The Color Purple by Alice Walker

			Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

			Game Of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

			The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

			Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

			The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

			I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

			Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

			The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

			Little Women by Louisa May Alcott


			Middlemarch by George Eliot

			Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

			The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

			Precious Bane by Mary Webb

			Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

			Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

			The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

			Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

			To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

			To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

			Unless by Carol Shields

			Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

			The Women's Room by Marilyn French



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