Books-For-Young-At-Heart

This page has recommendations for authors and books from adult literature. Most of these are fiction, but there are a few non-fiction gems in here, too.

This is in no way an exhaustive list of each of the authors’ works – these are just what I read over time and liked. Please note that the entries in this page are in no particular order: they are just a random dump of my memory.

Keep coming back — I’ll continually tweak this page to add more interesting stuff.

For a more current list, please check out my  Goodreads page.

Classics/Vintage Books:

• Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Books by Jane Austen:

• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility
• Emma

Books by Charles Dickens:

• The Adventures of Oliver Twist
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations
• The Pickwick Papers
• A Christmas Carol
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Nicholas Nickelby

Books by Thomas Hardy:

• Tess of D’Urbervilles
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• The Woodlanders

Books by R.K.Narayan:

• Malgudi Days
• The Bachelor of Arts
• The Guide
• The Painter of Signs

Books by James Herriot:

• All Creatures Great and Small
• All Things Bright and Beautiful
• All Things Wise and Wonderful
• The Lord God Made Them All

Books by Pearl Buck:

• The Good Earth Trilogy
• The Imperial Woman
• Pavilion of Women
• Peony
• A House Divided
• The Mother
• Three Daughters of Madame Liang

Mysteries:

• The Vish Puri Files, Most Private Investigator by Tarquin Hall
• Rei Shimura Series by Sujata Massey
• Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn by Tony Hillerman
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series by Alexander McCall Smith
• San Ichiro Novels by Laura Joh Rowland
• Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arhthur Conan Doyle
• Mary Russell Novels by Laurie King
• Constable Evans Mysteries by Rhys Bowen
• A Royal Spyness Mysteries by Rhys Bowen
• Molly Murphy Mysteries by Rhys Bowen
• Mrs. Pollifax Series by Dorothy Gillman
• Madame Karitska Series by Dorothy Gillman
• China Bayles Mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert
• Beatrix Potter Mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert
• Victorian Mysteries by Robin Paige (Robin Paige is a pseudonym for the husband-wife author team of Bill Albert and Susan Wittig Albert)
• Miss Marple Mysteries by Agatha Christie
• Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Agatha Christie
• Goldy Culinary Mysteriesby Diane Mott Davidson
• Aunt Dimity Series by Nancy Atherton
• Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries by Tamar Myers
• Hamish Macbeth Series by M.C.Beaton
• Agatha Raisin Mysteries by M.C.Beaton
• Amelia Peabody Mysteries by Elizabeth Peters
• Southern Sisters Mysteries by Anne George
• Ellie Quicke Mysteries by Veronica Heley
• Lois Meade Mysteries by Ann Purser
• Benni Harper Mysteries by Earlene Fowler
• Melanie Travis Mysteries by Laurien Berenson
• Gaslight Mysteries by Victoria Thompson
• Lucy Stone Mysteries by Lelie Meier
• Savannah Reid Mysteries by G.A.McKevett
• Reykjavik Murder Mysteries by Arnaldur Indridason
• Run Jane Run Series by Maureen Tan
• Silhouette Bombshell Series by Maureen tan
• Ellie Haskell Mysteries by Dorothy Cannell
• Charlotte LaRue Mysteriesby Barbara Colley
• Jane Jeffries Mysteries by Jill Churchill
• Grace and Favor Mysteries by Jill Churchill
• Death on Demand Mysteries by Carolyn Hart
• Alaska Mystery Series by Sue Henry
• Various historical mysteries by Paul Doherty

Other Series:

• The Thrush Green Series by Miss Read
• The Fairacre Series by Miss Read
• The Caxley Chronicles by Miss Read
• The Mitford Series by Jan Karon
• All Souls Trilogy by Deborah E. Harkness

Authors and their Novels:

• Isabel Allende: Daughter of Fortune: A Novel, Portriat in Sepia: A Novel, Zorro: A Novel
• Heinrich Harrer: Seven Years in Tibet
• Asne Seierstad: The Bookseller of Kabul
• V.S.Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
• Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
• Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
• Indu Sundaresan: The Twentieth Wife, Feast of Roses, Shadow Princess
• John Shors: Beneath a Marble Sky
• Chitra Divakaruni: Sister of my Heart: A Novel, Queen of Dreams
• Ruskin Bond: The Best of Ruskin Bond
• Aimee E. Liu: Cold Mountain
• Kahled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy: A Novel
• Anita Amirrezvani: The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
• Amy Tan: The Hundred Secret Senses,The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Bonesetter’s Daughter
• Shashi Deshpande: The Intrusion and Other Stories
• Gail Tsukiyama: Women of Silk, The Language of Threads, The Samurai’s Garden: A Novel, Dreaming Water, Night of Many Dreams
• Robert Goddard: Caught in the Light, Never Go Back, Beyond Recall, Borrowed Time, Out of the Sun: A Novel
• Colleen McCullough: The Ladies of Missalonghi, Tim, An Indecent Obsession
• Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
• Tracy Chevalier: Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Lady and the Unicorn, The Falling Angels
• Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin: Three Cups of Tea
• Peter Mayle: A Year in Provence,Toujours Provence, A Dog’s Life, Chasing Cezanne: A Novel
• Sarah Lloyd: An Indian Attachment
• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea: Guests of the Sheikh: An Ethnography of an Iraqui Village
• Janette Oke
• Louis Lamour

Poets:

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Emily Dickinson
• Robert Frost
• John Keats
• W.B.Yeats
• Rudyard Kipling