5. _The Rising Tide of Women's Liberation_ (1973) by Kate Millett
The female protagonist is a rising star in the female-dominated world of medicine, but her restless ambition, anarchistic attitudes and sexual appetite threaten to destroy her reputation and career before the novel is half finished.
6. _The Harder They Fall_ (1973) by James T. Farrell
This story of a group of outcasts living in a wasteland deep in the American heartland features many realistic characters, a variety of plot twists and more than a few surprises.
7. _The Black Stallion_ (1979) by Walter Farley
Set in post-war Italy, this tale of an orphaned boy and a young horse, who come to live in a remote mountain community, involves a love-hate relationship between the boy and the horse.
8. _The Man Who Loved Children_ (1982) by Gail Carson Levine
This humorous novel tells the story of a family-man who has just married a wife who is a hypochondriac, a perfectionist, and a nag.
9. _The Stone Diaries_ (1983) by Carol Ann Duffy
It is the 18th century and a small group of women are breaking the rule of rigid Victorianism by meeting in the home of a wealthy landowner.
10. _The Witches of Eastwick_ (1984) by John Updike
This comedy/fantasy features a group of women who experience magical powers after having sex with witches and it centres on an ex-wife's revenge when her ex-husband hires two hags to seduce her.
11. _The Colour Purple_ (1985) by Alice Walker
This powerful novel explores a family in which the patriarch is a male-loving southern woman and her husband a cynical, domineering man, who ruthlessly exploits and terrorizes his wife and children.
12. _Possession_ (1990) by A. S. Byatt
In the 1930s, a biochemist becomes obsessed with a virus and begins to eat her meals.
13. _The Child in Time_ (1990) by James Hopkin
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