In honor of my upcoming birthday, here are 30 books (and series) that got me to 30. These are in no particular order; they’re favorites, loved ones, re-readables, and more.*
- the Harry Potter series
- Bridget Jones’s Diary series
- the Outlander series
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- The China Garden by Liz Berry
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Beauty by Robin McKinley
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
- The Julia Grey series by Deanna Raybourn
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Tithe by Holly Black
- The mill on the floss by George Eliot
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Fire by Kristin Cashore
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
- Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- The Princess Diaries series
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal snogging by Louise Rennison
- the Talking to Dragons series by Patricia Wrede
- the Song of Ice and Fire series
- the Miss Marple books
- The Garden by Elsie V. Aidinoff
- Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost
- Little House on the Prairie: the Rose years by Roger Lea MacBride
*this came about because the boy demanded a list of my favorites for some secret reason.