Elena Ferrante's Recommended Reading Collection

“Stories of women with two feet, and sometimes one, in the 20th century.”—Elena Ferrante


TIME Magazine most influential person of the year and “one of the great novelists of our times”
(The New York Times) Elena Ferrante recommends 40 great books by female authors.

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The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Joan Didion
$16.00
ISBN: 9781400078431
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Published: Vintage - February 13th, 2007
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Beloved (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison
$16.00
ISBN: 9781400033416
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Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004
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White Teeth: A Novel (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Zadie Smith
$17.00
ISBN: 9780375703867
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Published: Vintage - June 12th, 2001
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A Little Life (Paperback)

By Hanya Yanagihara
$18.00
ISBN: 9780804172707
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Published: Anchor - January 26th, 2016
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Fates and Furies: A Novel (Paperback)

By Lauren Groff
$17.00
ISBN: 9781594634482
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 13th, 2016
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Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy #1) (Paperback)

By Rachel Cusk
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250081544
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Published: Picador - February 9th, 2016
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Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250784018
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Published: Picador - August 4th, 2020
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Americanah (Paperback)

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$16.95
ISBN: 9780307455925
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Published: Anchor - March 4th, 2014
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Strout
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812971835
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - September 30th, 2008
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Family Lexicon (Paperback)

By Natalia Ginzburg, Jenny McPhee (Translated by), Peg Boyers (Afterword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781590178386
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Published: NYRB Classics - April 25th, 2017
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Arturo's Island: A Novel (Paperback)

By Elsa Morante, Ann Goldstein (Translated by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781631496622
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Published: Liveright - February 18th, 2020
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Blonde 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel (Paperback)

By Joyce Carol Oates, Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062968456
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Published: Ecco - April 14th, 2020
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Breasts and Eggs (Hardcover)

By Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (Translator), David Boyd (Translator)
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781609455873
Published: Europa Editions - April 7th, 2020
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The Blind Assassin: A Novel (Paperback)

By Margaret Atwood
$16.95
ISBN: 9780385720953
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Published: Anchor - August 28th, 2001
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Interpreter of Maladies (Paperback)

By Jhumpa Lahiri
$15.99
ISBN: 9780358213260
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Published: Mariner Books - October 22nd, 2019
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The Love Object: Selected Stories (Paperback)

By John Banville (Introduction by), Edna O'Brien
$23.99
ISBN: 9780316378284
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Published: Back Bay Books - February 7th, 2017
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Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (Paperback)

By Christa Wolf, Jan Van Heurck (Translated by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374519049
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 1st, 1988
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Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics) (Paperback)

By Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick (Translated by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780374529260
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 18th, 2005
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Accabadora (Paperback)

By Michela Murgia, Silvester Mazzarella (Translator)
$15.95
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ISBN: 9781619020504
Published: Counterpoint LLC - October 30th, 2012
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Dear Life: Stories (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Alice Munro
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307743725
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Published: Vintage - July 30th, 2013
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Malina (Paperback)

By Ingeborg Bachmann, Philip Boehm (Translated by), Rachel Kushner (Introduction by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811228725
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Published: New Directions - June 25th, 2019
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The Piano Teacher (Paperback)

By Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802144614
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Published: Grove Press - October 1st, 2009
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The Fifth Child (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Doris Lessing
$14.95
ISBN: 9780679721826
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Published: Vintage - May 14th, 1989
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Lost Children Archive: A novel (Paperback)

By Valeria Luiselli
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525436461
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Published: Vintage - February 4th, 2020
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories (Paperback)

By Lucia Berlin
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250094735
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Published: Picador - August 2nd, 2016
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The Door (NYRB Classics) (Paperback)

By Magda Szabo, Len Rix (Translated by), Ali Smith (Introduction by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781590177716
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Published: NYRB Classics - January 27th, 2015
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The Bell (Paperback)

By Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780141186696
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Published: Penguin Classics - December 1st, 2001
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Paperback)

By Shokoofeh Azar
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609455651
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Published: Europa Editions - January 7th, 2020
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Neapolitan Chronicles (Paperback)

By Anna Maria Ortese, Ann Goldstein (Translator), Jenny McPhee (Translator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781939931511
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Published: New Vessel Press - March 13th, 2018
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Disoriental (Paperback)

By Négar Djavadi, Tina Kover (Translator)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609454517
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Published: Europa Editions - April 17th, 2018
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David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (Hardcover)

By Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translated by), Claire Messud (Introduction by)
$27.50
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ISBN: 9780307267085
Published: Everyman's Library - January 15th, 2008
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The Years (Paperback)

By Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer (Translated by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781609807870
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Published: Seven Stories Press - November 21st, 2017
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The Lover (Paperback)

By Marguerite Duras
$12.95
ISBN: 9780375700521
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Published: Pantheon - September 8th, 1998
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The Conservationist (Paperback)

By Nadine Gordimer
$16.00
ISBN: 9780140047165
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Published: Penguin Books - February 24th, 1983
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Paperback)

By Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff (Introduction by)
$15.99
ISBN: 9780358139560
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Published: Mariner Books - December 10th, 2019
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The God of Small Things: A Novel (Paperback)

By Arundhati Roy
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812979657
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - December 16th, 2008
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The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)

By Clarice Lispector, Caetano Veloso (Introduction by), Idra Novey (Translated by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780811219686
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Published: New Directions - June 13th, 2012
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Motherhood: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sheila Heti
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250214782
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Published: Picador - May 7th, 2019
Normal People: A Novel Cover Image

Normal People: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sally Rooney
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984822185
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Published: Hogarth - February 18th, 2020
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A Girl Returned (Paperback)

By Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781609455286
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Published: Europa Editions - July 2nd, 2019