List by pseudonymous author of beloved Neapolitan novels includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney and several Italian classics
Elena Ferrante, the bestselling pseudonymous Italian author behind My Brilliant Friend, has named her favourite 40 books by female authors around the world, with Toni Morrison, Sally Rooney and Zadie Smith all making the cut.
The author, whose quartet of Neapolitan novels has sold 13m copies worldwide, has published her list on Bookshop.org, the online store that recently launched in the UK and gives a proportion of sales to independent booksellers. Ferrante’s UK publisher, Europa Editions, is returning their 10% sales commission from Ferrante’s list to Bookshop.org so it can be shared among the 300 independent bookshops that have signed up to the site so far.
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Virago)
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Anonymous (Europa Editions)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm (Penguin Classics)
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (Picador)
Outline by Rachel Cusk (Faber)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Harper Perennial)
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated by Ann Goldstein (Europa)
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover (Europa Editions)
The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray (Harper Perennial)
The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison Strayer (Fitzcarraldo)
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Jenny McPhee (Daunts)
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (Bloomsbury)
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (Windmill Books)
Motherhood by Sheila Heti (Vintage)
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Joachim Neugroschel (Serpent’s Tail)
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Flamingo)
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing (Flamingo)
The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector, translated by Idra Novey (Penguin Classics)
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Fourth Estate)
Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante, translated by Ann Goldstein (Pushkin)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Vintage Classics)
Dear Life by Alice Munro (Vintage)
The Bell by Iris Murdoch (Vintage Classics)
Accabadora by Michela Murgia, translated by Silvester Mazzarella (MacLehose Press)
Le Bal by Irene Nemirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith (Vintage)
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate)
The Love Object: Selected Stories by Edna O’Brien (Faber)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (Faber)
Evening Descends Upon the Hills: Stories from Naples by Anna Maria Ortese, translated by Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee (Pushkin)
Gilead by Marylinne Robinson (Virago)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Harper Perennial)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Penguin)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Simon & Schuster)
The Door by Magda Szabò, translated by Len Rix (Vintage Classics)
Cassandra by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck (Daunts)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Picador)
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Grace Frick (Penguin Classics)
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