Historical Canon

This list is organized chronologically by when the story was written.

To do: look for appropriate young adult titles

• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
• The Mystery of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe
• (Perhaps some gothic short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell or Louisa May Alcott)
• The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett
• The Feather Pillow, Horacio Quiroga
• (perhaps something by Juana Gorriti instead of the above)
• Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
• "The Monkey" or "The Roads Round Pisa", by Isak Dinesen
• Memoirs of a Spacewoman, by Naomi Mitchison
• Carmen Dog, by Carol Emshwiller
• The Wanderground, by Sally Gearhart
• The Gate to Women's Country, by Sheri Tepper
• Walk to the End of the World, by Suzy McKee Charnas
• The Female Man, by Joanna Russ
• "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr
• The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Golden Witchbreed, and Ancient Light, by Mary Gentle
• Women of Wonder, edited by Pamela Sargent
• Xenogenesis trilogy, by Octavia Butler
• White Queen, Gwyneth Jones
• Cetaganda, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Troll, by Johanna Sinisalo