Jane Austen called this book "her own daring child". The book follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgements.
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
This book is widely read in US high schools and middle schools. It deals with serious issues, like rape and racial inequality, with warmth and humour.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
Published in 1985, the book is a futuristic dystopian novel which is set in near-future New England, which is a patriarchal, white supremacist, totalitarian state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the US government.
The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
The novel was initially published under the pen name "Ellis Bell". The book follows the storyline of two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moor and their turbulent relationship with each other.
Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
Originally the novel was published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. It is a semi-autobiographical novel with the names of places and people changed. It is about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures.
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein is a horror fiction that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Frankenstein: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This is one of Woolf's best novels, which details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England.
Mrs. Dalloway: Virginia Woolf
The novel is written by Indian author Arundhati Roy and revolves around the childhood experiences of a pair of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the 'Love Laws' prevalent in 1960s Kerala, India.
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy
The book is a beautiful collection of prose and poetry by Rupi Kaur that grabs the female experiences of beauty, abuse, societal expectations, love and more.
Middlemarch: George Eliot
The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, has $284 billion of US treasury holdings.
Milk and Honey: Rupi Kaur