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Recommendations for 15 year old girl who has enjoyed Jane Austen and Jane Eyre

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OrangeBlossomsinthesun · 22/03/2026 17:23

Can you suggest some books for my 15 yo DD? She has read Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and is now about to start Jane Eyre.

Sense and Sensibility? Other authors?
Is Anne of Green Gables too young for her?

She would be reading them in translation in Spanish so nothing too obscure.

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BeaAndBen · 22/03/2026 17:40

She's a great age for Anne - there are about 8 of them.

Elizabeth Gaskell, North And South is a good one. The Mill On The Floss or Silas Marner by Eliot are good as well. I assume she's read To Kill A Mockingbird, that's a big hit at that age.

Sense And Sensibity for Austen, but I'd leave Persuasion until she's had a little more life experience. It lands better then. (It's my favourite now but not when I was a teenager)

SockPlant · 22/03/2026 17:39

If it's regency she loves, Georgette Heyer can be good. Venetian, The Toll Booth and An Infamous Army are my favourites.

HeathcliffvsMrDarcy · 22/03/2026 17:38

North and South.

Cherrycola4 · 22/03/2026 17:36

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

clary · 22/03/2026 17:36

Sitwithit · 22/03/2026 17:34

She might enjoy I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith.

Ooh great shout, I read this relatively recently and really liked it.

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OrangeBlossomsinthesun · 22/03/2026 17:36

She´s read Emma as well, should have said.

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clary · 22/03/2026 17:35

Yeaaaahh I am so not a fan of Dickens but for sure she should give them a go.

I have been told before I have read the wrong ones (!) and should read Bleak House and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are both very long tho. Shorter ones may appeal more in which case perhaps Oliver Twist and David Copperfield.

GloomyWednesday · 22/03/2026 17:35

Cold Comfort Farm?

Sitwithit · 22/03/2026 17:34

She might enjoy I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith.

GoodOnPaper · 22/03/2026 17:33

She might enjoy Dickens too if she hasn't read them yet.

clary · 22/03/2026 17:31

Any Jane Austen would be great if she liked P&P (I love Emma and Persuasion so much as well).

Anne of Green Gables might be a bit young but worth a look.

Other good classics I would recommend would be (children's): Little Women and What Katy Did (at School/Next as well); (adults'): Eliot's Silas Marner, Hardy's Tess, Madding Crowd, Trumpet Major, Collins' The Woman in White and The Moonstone, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories.