Ten Favorite Novels About Women by Men

(alphabetically by author)

  • Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

  • Ekaterina by Donald Harington

  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

  • Honey by Victor Lodato

  • Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson

  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore

  • Version Control by Dexter Palmer

  • The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis *

  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

* Beth begins the novel as a child, but concludes it as a young woman.

— June 29, 2026


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