Lovely Books

I just thought I'd list my favorite authors.  This is a very incomplete list, which will always need updating.

First, the women:

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Jo's Boys
Little Men

I want to read other books by her such as Rose in Bloom, Work, etc.

Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Emma
Susan (incomplete novel)
The Watsons (incomplete)

Brontes (I kind of love to hate these books):
Jane Eyre
Villette
Wuthering Heights
Agnes Grey

I still need to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Shirley.

Willa Cather:
My Antonia
Shadows on the Rock
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
O Pioneers
Death Comes for the Archbishop
One of Ours

Agatha Christie:
Murder on the Orient Express
Collection of her stories on audio (which contained many well known stories)
And Then There were None
Elephants Can Remember

George Eliot:
Middlemarch
Adam Bede
Silas Marner

Elizabeth Gaskell:
North and South (I read it BEFORE the miniseries).
Mary Barton
Ruth
Cranford
Wives and Daughters
The Life of Charlotte Bronte

I still need to read Silvia's Lovers.

Rumer Godden:
Two Under the Indian Sun (with her sister)
In this House of Brede
The Story of Holly and Ivy
The Doll House
An Episode of Sparrows


Elizabeth Goudge:
The Little White Horse
Linnets and Valerians
Green Dolphin Street
The Scent of Water
The Bird in the Tree
The Herb of Grace
The Heart of the Family

Nathaniel Hawthorne:
The Scarlet Letter
The House of Seven Gables
The Blithedale Romance
Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
Tanglewood Tales

Georgette Heyer:
So many!

Rose MacCaulay:
Crewe Train
The Towers of Trezibond

I would like to read more from her.

L.M. Montgomery:
Anne of Green Gables
The Blue Castle

Mary O'Hara
My Friend, Flicka
Thunderhead
The Green Hills of Wyoming

Barbara Pym:

Mary Roberts Rinehart
So many by her!
Bab:  Sub Deb (love this one).


Somerville and Ross:
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

I read the first book and want to read more.

Dorothy L. Sayers
All the Lord Peter Wimsey books

Want to read her radio play:  The Man Born to be King

Dodie Smith:
I Capture the Castle



Gene Stratton-Porter
The Girl of the Limberlost
Laddie

Want to read more from her.

Elizabeth Taylor:
Mrs. Palefry at the Claremont.
The Soul of Kindness

Anne Tyler:
A Slipping Down Life (read this back in high school)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Searching for Caleb
Morgan's Passing
The Accidental Tourist
Saint Maybe (my favorite)

Elisabeth von Arnim:
Enchanted April
Elizabeth's Garden

Mary Webb:
Precious Bane

Laura Ingalls Wilder:
All the Little House Books

Women Spiritual Writers:

Heather King
The Secret Diary of Elizabeth LeSeur
Kathleen Norris
Elizabeth Scalia

Favorite Male Authors:

I don't seem to often go one jags of reading one male author.  Well maybe I do, but they are less likely to fit into the category of lovely books maybe?  This one has more of a mix of fiction and nonfiction.

G. K. Chesterton:
Orthodoxy
The Ever Lasting Man
St. Francis
Dumb Ox
The Man Who Was Thursday
Father Brown stories

Wilkie Collins:
The Woman in White
The Moonstone

Charles Dickens:
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol

I always tell myself I should read more Dickens but I can't seem to stick with his other books.  I should try harder!

C.S. Forester:
All the Hornblower books
Winston Graham:
Poldark series
The Walking Stick

Graham Greene:
Our Man in Havana
The Confidential Agent
The Comediennes
The Power and the Glory

 C.S. Lewis:
Surprised by Joy
The Abolition of Man
Til We Have Faces (my favorite)
The Great Divorce (almost favorite)
The Psalms
Lion, Witch and Wardrobe
The Magician's Nephew
The Horse and his Boy
Prince Caspian
The Four Loves

I have never made it through The Screwtape Letters.

David McCullough:
1776
Mornings on Horseback

Shakespeare:
Romeo and Juliet
MacBeth
Hamlet
The Tempest
The Taming of the Shrew
Julius Caesar
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Henry V

I've seen more than these but I've actually read these.

Anthony Trollope:
The Warden
Barchester Towers
He Knew He was Right

I should read more Trollope.  He was my mother's favorite writer.

Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn (I hate the ending though)
Joan of Arc (my favorite by far)
The Prince and the Pauper

I have tried reading Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and couldn't finish it.  I'd like read Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It.

P.G. Wodehouse
So many!