A fellow lover of literature has alerted me to the goodness that is Emerald Street, an online offshoot of U.K based Stylist magazine. It's packed full of interesting and intelligent articles for women and has just released "Our 20 Books We Love and Admire." It's seriously refreshing to see a must-read list that is made up of predominantly female authors. I'm particularly looking forward to reading Mary McCarthy's The Group (apparently the basis for Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City)
Emerald Street's 20 Must Reads:
THE ALL-TIME CLASSICS
THE GREAT GATSBY BY F Scott Fitzgerald
HOWARDS END BY EM Forster
LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE BY Nancy Mitford
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD BY Harper Lee
THE GROUP BY Mary McCarthy
EXCELLENT WOMEN BY Barbara Pym
REBECCA BY Daphne du Maurier
THE MODERN MUST-READS
HEARTBURN BY Nora Ephron
GHOSTWRITTEN BY David Mitchell
COVER HER FACE BY PD James
THE BLIND ASSASSIN BY Margaret Atwood
WOLF HALL BY Hilary Mantel
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS BY Jacqueline Susann
GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA BY Douglas Coupland
THE NEW FAVOURITES
ONE DAY BY David Nicholls
SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY BY Gary Shteyngart
VISION OF LOVELINESS BY Louise Levene
THE RULES OF CIVILITY BY Amor Towles
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING BY Rona Jaffe
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD BY Jennifer Egan
For a full synopsis on each of the books and to receive other interesting tidbits like "The Spy Novels Every Woman Should Read," sign up to Emerald Street's daily email list.
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