Or central protagonists. This is easy, because I can go by who’s listed first in their Character List section. (Oh, SparkNotes.) I was going to do it A-E, like my previous SparkNotes list, but the SparkNotes website is acting up, so I’m just doing these first two letters. Smaller groups!
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (with the titular Alice; this is about a child in the 1800s)
All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein (with, well, Gerda Weissmann Klein, who wrote it)
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare (well, they list Helena first, so whatever)
American Dream by Edward Albee (with, apparently, Grandma?)
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver (with, apparently, Codi)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (with the titular Anna; this is a romance of sorts from the 1800s)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (with the titular Anne; this is about a child in the 1800s)
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (with the titular Annie)
Antigone by Sophocles (with the titular Antigone)
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (with Thomasina Coverly)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (with Addie Bundren; I feel weird counting this, but she is first listed)
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (with Rosalind, hell yeah)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (with Dagny Taggart)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (with the titular Jane)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (with Edna Pontellier; this is about the 1800s)
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (with Taylor Greer)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (with Esther Greenwood)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (with Sethe; this is set in the 1800s)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (with, well, Anne Lamott, who wrote it)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (with Esther Summerson; this is from the 1800s)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (with Pecola Breedlove)
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan (with, well, Christine de Pizan, who wrote it)
The Book of Margery Kemp by Margery Kemp (with, well, Margery Kemp, who wrote it)
A Border Passage by Leila Ahmed (with, well, Leila Ahmed, who wrote it)
Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska (with Sara Smolinsky)
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (with Sophie)
26 titles. 4 of which are autobiographical. Several of which have appeared on analyzed lists previously. 15 of which have female authors.
–your fangirl heroine.
