March is all about classic women! From ancient Greece to early 20th-century New Orleans, our book selections feature a wide range of classics written or translated by women.

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News

• PEN America Awards
• Angie Thomas Wins ALL the Things
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• Stella Prize to Announce Its Shortlist on International Women’s Day

Books Mentioned

Featured 

• The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Emily Wilson
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstencraft Shelley
• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Currently Reading

• Circe (Little, Brown) by Madeline Miller
• Where the Line Bleeds (Scribner) by Jesmyn Ward

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