What to Read When You're Not Reading Jane Austen

Bronte, Charlotte

• Jane Eyre
• Shirley

Cather, Willa

• My Antonia
• Song of the Lark

Daly, Maureen

• Seventeenth Summer - This lovely young-adult novel of first romance, originally published in 1942, allows readers to experience vicariously the slowness and quietness which epitomized small-town American life in the days before it was taken over by TV, video players, cell phones, and computers; a pleasurable escape from the noise and rush of the modern world.

Dickens, Charles

• Little Dorrit
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• Nickolas Nickleby
• Our Mutual Friend

Edgeworth, Maria

• Belinda

Eliot, George

• Adam Bede
• Felix Holt
• Middlemarch
• Silas Marner

Forster, E M

• Howard's End
• Room with a View

Gaskell, Elizabeth

• Cranford

Hardy, Thomas

• The Hand of Ethelberta
• A Laodicean

Kingsolver, Barbara

• Animal Dreams
• Bean Trees

Marryat, Frederick

• The King's Own
• Mr Midshipman Easy
• Percival Keene
• Peter Simple

Meredith, George

• The Egoist

Oliphant, Margaret (Chronicles of Carlingford series)

• Phoebe Jr
• Salem Chapel

Oliphant, Margaret (other)

• The Curate in Charge

Speare, Elizabeth George

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond  I first read this Newbery Medal winner in the sixth grade, and I still re-read it regularly. Outstanding historical fiction for any age - with an irresistible hero!

Thackeray, W M

• Vanity Fair

Trollope, Anthony

• The Belton Estate
• The Claverings
• Dr Wortle's School
• The Warden

Mary Augusta Ward

• Marcella

Charlotte Mary Yonge

• Dynevor Terrace - Now for Sale on Lulu!