During last few years I have found so many different kind of lists of books from internet. "100 best books in the history" or "100 books you should read before you die" and so on. Those are fun lists. It's interesting to see how many books have you read and how many authors you haven't even heard about.

But for some reason are very many great female writers missing from these lists. And that's why I ended up making my own list. Click here and you can find those 100 female writers that I think everybody should read before they die. I took to my list only those writers who I have read myself and can that way I can guarantee that all of them are definitely worth of reading! 

This new list of mine, on the other hand, is a list of 100 female writers who I have not read before, but who I think I should try. I can't be sure that these are good ones, but I promise to try and see. Maybe you should too!

1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2. Päivi Alasalmi

3. Rajaa Alsanea

4. Melissa Bank

5. Djuna Barnes

6. Aphra Behn

7. Karen Blixen

8. Fredrika Bremer

9. Anne Brontë

10. Emily Brontë

11. Anita Brookner

12. Pearl Buck

13. Willa Cather

14. Colette

15. Grazia Deledda

16. Emily Dickinson

17. Marguerite Duras

18. George Eliot

19. Kirsti Ellilä

20. Laura Esquivel

21. Madame de la Fayette

22. Tua Forsström

23. Marianne Fredriksson

24. Marilyn French

25. Elizabeth Gaskell

26. Nadine Gordimer

27. Ursula K. Le Guin

28. Joanne Harris

29. Bessie Head

30. Mary Higgins Clark

31. Laila Hirvisaari

32. Virpi Hämeen-Anttila

33. Helvi Hämäläinen

34. Annika Idström

35. Elfriede Jelinek

36. Eeva Joenpelto

37. Anu Kaipainen

38. Aino Kallas

39. Jamaica Kincaid

40. Sirpa Kähkönen

41. Selma Lagerlöf

42. Jhumpa Lahiri

43. Leena Lander

44. Violette Leduc

45. Harper Lee

46. Leena Lehtolainen

47. Unni Lindell

48. Katherine Mansfield

49. Carson Mccullers

50. Aila Meriluoto

51. Marja-Leena Mikkola

52. Gabriela Mistral

53. Margaret Mitchell

54. Sue Monk Kidd

55. Toni Morrison

56. Alice Munro

57. Shikibu Murasaki

58. Iris Murdoch

59. Enni Mustonen

60. Herta Müller

61. Azar Nafisi

62. Eppu Nuotio

63. Joyce Carol Oates

64. Leena Parkkinen

65. Jayne Anne Philips

66. Sylvia Plath

67. Annie Proulx

68. Tiina Raevaara

69. Irja Rane

70. Mirkka Rekola

71. Jean Rhys

72. Anne Rice

73. Luise Rinser

74. Christiane Rochefort

75. Fredrika Runeberg

76. Nawal El Saadawi

77. Nelly Sachs

78. Vita Sackvill-West

79. George Sand

80. Sapfo

81. Nathalie Sarraute

82. Solveig Von Schoultz

83. Carol Shields

84. Elvi Sinervo

85. Helena Sinervo

86. Amalie Skram

87. Agnes Smedley

88. Gertrude Stein

89. Harriet Beecher Stowe

90. Miina Supinen

91. Eeva Tikka

92. Sigrid Undset

93. Jean M. Untinen-Auel

94. Alice Walker

95. Sarah Waters

96. Edith Wharton

97. Monique Wittig

98. Hella Wuolijoki

99. Marguerite Yourcenar

100. Wislawa Zymborska

(Well, I just read Lahiri, but I hadn't read her yet when I strated to make this list…)