Book quiz - 20th century female authors - 1950 to 1999

Can you name the authors of these books? (Surname alone is acceptable.) Apologies if your favorite author or novel is not on the list.

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Year	Title	Author
1950	Strangers on a Train	Patricia Highsmith
1952	Giant	Edna Ferber
1956	Peyton Place	Grace Metalious
1956	The Nun's Story	Kathryn Hulme
1957	Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand
1958	The Best of Everything	Rona Jaffe
1959	The Haunting of Hill House	Shirley Jackson
1960	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
1961	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark
1962	Cover Her Face	P.D. James
1962	Ship of Fools	Katherine Anne Porter
1962	The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing
1963	I Am David	Anne Holm
1963	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
1963	The Group	Mary McCarthy
1964	The Keepers of the House	Shirley Ann Grau
1965	The Millstone	Margaret Drabble
1966	Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
1966	Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann
1967	The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton
1968	The World is Full of Married Men	Jackie Collins
1969	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou
1970	84, Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff
1972	The Optimist's Daughter	Eudora Welty
1973	Fear of Flying	Erica Jong
1975	Crocodile on the Sandbank	Elizabeth Peters
1975	Curtain	Agatha Christie
1975	Looking for Mr Goodbar	Judith Rossner
1976	Interview With the Vampire	Anne Rice
1976	Ordinary People	Judith Guest

Year	Title	Author
1977	A Judgment in Stone	Ruth Rendell
1977	Quiet as a Nun	Antonia Fraser
1977	The Thorn Birds	Colleen McCullough
1978	The Sea, the Sea	Iris Murdoch
1980	Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson
1980	Princess Daisy	Judith Krantz
1980	The Clan of the Cave Bear	Jean M. Auel
1982	A is for Alibi	Sue Grafton
1982	The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende
1983	The Color Purple	Alice Walker
1983	The Life and Loves of a She-Devil	Fay Weldon
1984	Foreign Affairs	Alison Lurie
1985	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
1985	The Accidental Tourist	Anne Tyler
1986	Beloved	Toni Morrison
1987	The Shell Seekers	Rosamunde Pilcher
1987	That Night	Alice McDermott
1989	The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan
1989	Like Water for Chocolate	Laura Esquivel
1991	A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley
1991	Scarlett	Alexandra Ripley
1993	The Shipping News	E. Annie Proulx
1993	The Stone Diaries	Carol Shields
1996	Bridget Jones' Diary	Helen Fielding
1997	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J.K. Rowling
1997	The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
1997	Sex and the City	Candace Bushnell
1998	The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
1999	Girl With a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier
1999	White Oleander	Janet Fitch