Recommended Reads

Childhood Favorites that I re-read at least once every few years

The Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Betsy-Tacy series, by Maud Hart Lovelace

The Anne of Green Gables series, by L.M. Montgomery

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling (although technically speaking the last book in the series was only published recently, when I was well out of childhood).

General Favorites (listed roughly by date of publication)

Persuasion, by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

Life with Father, by Clarence Day

Jeeves Takes Charge (and all the rest of the Bertie Wooster books) by P.G. Wodehouse

Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries

Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mystery series

Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael series

Laurie R. King's Mary Russell mystery series

The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books

Here Be Dragons, by Sharon Kay Penman

Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon

The Memoirs of Cleopatra, by Margaret George

The Constant Princess, by Philippa Gregory

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith

gods in Alabama and the girl who stopped swimming, by Joshilyn Jackson

A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray

An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green

Book of a Thousand Days, by Shannon Hale