 | Excellent Women (Penguin Classics) by Barbara Pym
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.35 Reading Barbara Pym is like spending a rainy afternoon drinking endless cups of tea and engaging in mild gossip with your girl friends!
|
 | The Professor's House (Virago Modern Classics) by Willa Cather
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $4.17 Interesting, but not quite brilliant.
|
 | The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel by Georges Bernanos
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $6.36 |
 | Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.66 |
 | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $2.69 |
 | The Eighth Day: A Novel by Thornton Wilder
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $1.59 |
 | The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries) by John Wyndham
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $6.70 |
 | The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.90 |
 | Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 An ripping good yarn!
|
 | Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $2.85 |
 | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.95 |
 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $6.98 |
 | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Buy used from: $7.65 |
 | Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: $2.35 |
 | The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $10.98 |
 | Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.42 |
 | Norah of Billabong (Bluegum Classics) by Mary Grant Bruce
Buy used from: $1.55 These were my favourite books as a child. They are great for Australian girls 10/12+.
|
 | The Forsyte Saga: "White Monkey", "Silver Spoon", "Swan Song" v. 2 (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Galsworthy
Buy new: $21.41 / Used from: $4.73 The Forsyte Saga is brilliant! Galsworthy is highly overrated. Some questionable themes. Recommended for readers 15+.
|
 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $5.09 |
 | They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $2.17 |
 | A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Buy new: $8.71 / Used from: $4.00 |
 | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $4.60 |
 | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Buy used from: $12.98 |
 | Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Lord of the Rings (Illustrated Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $44.10 / Used from: $11.00 |
 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.18 |
 | Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Sigrid Undset
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $13.04 |
 | Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics) by Winifred Watson
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $4.14 This is an absolute delight! Heart-warming, inspiring, funny! Recommended for adults and girls 15+
|
 | The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Buy used from: $4.44 This is possibly the most beautiful novel I have ever read. It is a very real tale of spiritual growth, betrayal, forgiveness, love and hope. I recommend it for readers, particularly girls, 16+.
|
 | Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Stella Gibbons
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.25 Hilarious, quirky, clever.
|
 | Mariana (Persephone Classics) by Monica Dickens
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $5.86 5 stars!!! The perfect novel for older female teens about finding one's way in life, crazy families, heartbreak, love and romance. I couldn't recommend it enough.
|
 | Someone at a Distance (Persephone Classics) by Dorothy Whipple
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $5.46 Brilliant reflection on love, families, infidelity and childhood. Whipple has amazing insight.5 stars!!!
|
 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) by Mary Ann Shaffer
Buy new: $8.40 / Used from: $7.10 Heartwarming story of the power of literature to give people hope and faith in times of strife. Some mild sexual references, including mild references to homosexuality. Recommended for older teens and adults, especially girls.
|
 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Buy used from: $9.41 If you can put up with the pretentiousness of this novel, it actually turns out to be quite good. It's a story of finding meaning in life through beauty, and through forming relationships with unexpected soulmates. Some mild to medium sexual references and some mild vulgarity.
|
 | The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
Buy used from: $80.95 5 stars!!!
|
 | They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
Buy new: $19.66 / Used from: $30.39 Heartbreaking but full of faith and hope.
|
 | Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel by Leif Enger
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $0.81 |
Listmania!
