More cheerful reading

Addenda to the list of books at https://margaret-cooter.blogspot.com/2020/03/cheerful-reading-mostly.html

South Riding - Winifred Holtby

The Owl Service - Alan Garner

Lucy Boston's Green Knowe books

Alexander McCall Smith's Corduroy Mansions series, and the Bertie books

The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith

Three men in a boat - Jerome K Jerome

The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford

The William books by Richmal Crompton

Heidi - Joanna Spyri

For those of more serious intent, Middlemarch (George Eliot); Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky); Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall series; Innocence by Ian McEwan and Pachinko by Jin Min Lee

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Barbara Trapido

Bill Bryson "tongue in cheek observations of people generally on his travels.. nostalgia mixed with humour from an Ozzy point of view"

"I would like to put in a word for my favourite book as a football fan that should really be read by anyone with a heart and soul and sense of humour. It’s all about people, wonderful people, and football is just the lens. It is by J. L. Carr (he of A Month in the Country) and is called How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup."

The Rosie Project (Graham Simsion) is very funny and heartening, likewise The Humans (Matt Haig)

The Persian Pickle Club – by Sandra Dallas About a quilting circle in the time of the American depression

Death comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

The Shipping News - Annie Proulx

Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs Molesworth

Jane Harper is brilliant at catching the ‘Australian’ aspects of the settings she puts her crime stories into. The environment makes up an entire agent in the plot.

(Thanks to Old Owl, Judy, Linda, Liane, Jan, Sue, Ruth, Jean, Jackie, Lesley, Ruth, Miriam, Jane, Sally, Erika)