Best Women’s Fiction Poll Opens

With a new poll, publisher Heart wants to find the 100 best women’s fiction books.

Readers can post their five nominations at this link or send a direct email. A panel of authors and critics will pick the top one hundred titles from the pool of nominees. Of the twenty-one comments posted so far, several nominations for the works of Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Marshall and Rose Gordon have been made. Who would you nominate?

Here’s more from the guidelines: “Our definition of Women’s Fiction is simple; a plausible story appealing more to women than men. Also, no young-adult or children’s titles, please…The mass genres are out too, so please, no Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Paranormal, etc; which disqualifies most of Stephen King, Charlaine Harris, Stephenie Meyer and the like…That’s it, but I can hear the howls of protest already. But arguing the fine points of ‘Women’s Fiction’ rules and such is half the fun.”