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
