Stories of women told by women: Elena Ferrante, the New York Times bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults, recommends 40 twentieth-century female writers.
 

* Some of the titles chosen by Ferrante could not be included in this list because they have not yet been translated into English or are not available on this platform.

“Stories of women who have two feet in the 1900s, or one in the following century.”—Elena Ferrante