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