Book recommendations please! Period novels especially

[StillNo]

Hello! Merry Christmas!
I’m looking for something new to read and I need help please. If any clever person has a moment.

I don’t do modern books. I try but I haven’t found one I like since the Time Traveller’s Wife.

Looking for some period novels I haven’t read yet. Things I like:

All Jane Austen
The Turn of the Screw
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Jane Eyre
Agatha Christie
Cold Comfort Farm
Anything by MR James
Return of the Native
Rebecca

Would really appreciate some recommendations please. Thank you!

Gone with the wind

Catherine Gavin
Jane Aiken Hodge
MM Kaye
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Phillipa Carr
Stella Riley
Diana Norman

Yes to I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

I also like Dracula

Not sure if earlier 20th century stuff is too modern for what you like? If not, any Steinbeck. My favourite is the Grapes of Wrath. Also The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

But oh god oh god you MUST read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. It’s just magnificent, I cannot urge you enough. Best book I’ve ever read.

The American Boy - Andrew Taylor.

Georgette Heyer, you have to read Georgette Heyer. Funny, well observed and brilliant- don't read the detective novels but her historical fiction is excellent

@Notonthestairs

The American Boy - Andrew Taylor.

I loved this.

Also The Woman in White, and The Moonstone, both by Wilkie Collins.

Definitely some E M Forster. I love A Room With a View and Maurice.

P G Woodhouse, George Eliot.

I love all the ones on your list.

Sorry if already mentioned. The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, anything by Sarah Waters, a Spell of Winter or Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore, Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, the Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse, the Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry.

If you like Agatha Christie, try the other big Golden Age detective novelists - Dorothy L Sayers and Ngaio Marsh in particular. I haven’t read much Margery Allingham but she’s another of that era.

Georgette Heyer is amazing.
Wilkie Collins (any of his more frivolous ones, not No Name or the other serious ones).
E Nesbit’s fiction for adults
Noel Streatfeild fiction for adults
Frances Hodgson Burnett - particularly The Making of a Marchioness. Her other adult works are a bit peculiar (although I like them, I have a high tolerance for saintly heroines in melodramatic situations).
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day.

Lots of great suggestions here.

I would second Georgette Heyer, the Cazaly Chronicles, Sharon Penman and E M Forster.

If you like the medieval period then do try Elizabeth Chadwick - very readable.

R F Delderfied
Abir Mukherjee
Ann Granger
Laura Wilson
Kathleen tessaro
Rebecca Dean
Rachel hope

Don't forget Anthony Trollope, Barchester Chronicles and the Pallisers

All my recommendations were modern-ish so here are period recommendations

Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone and The Woman in White (I really quite liked No Name as well, which was mentioned upthread as a no)
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South, and Mary Barton (not Cranford)
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence and The Buccaneers (although it was unfinished when she died so the end is written by someone else). The House of Mirth is amazing but so bleak - not one for Christmastime!
E M Delafield - Diary of a Country Lady
Walter Scott - Rob Roy, Ivanhoe (better than I expected!)
George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her?
Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Willa Cather - My Antonia, Frost in May
Angela Carter - all of them, but especially Wise Children
Elizabeth Von Arnim - The Enchanted April (then anything you can get your hands on - it becomes an obsession)

I'm always wary of recommending Possession by A S Byatt, which is my favourite book of all time, because a lot of people don't like it. I once didn't get a job (English teacher) because the Head of Dept said he couldn't work with someone who liked it. He was joking...I think.

Placemarkinh

The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman and her other historical novels.

Excellent reads.

I really disliked Possession @ElizabethinherGermanGarden.

I really enjoyed the Kingsbridge trilogy by Ken Follett.

@vampirestockingfiller

I really love The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber.

Yes this is one I was coming to recommend

I also like Henry James

Definitely Georgette Heyer.

No Name is my favourite Willie Collins, and I've read most of not all of them.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day for totally joyous escapism for a couple of hours.

A Town Like Alice for WW2

All Quiet on the Western Front for WW1

I couldn't get on with the Cazalet Chronicles at all, but they're pretty much universally loved on here

Noel Streatfeild, especially the one about an aunt who may or may not be called Clara. This one isn't a children's book. Will try to find the title.

@RampantIvy

I really disliked Possession *@ElizabethinherGermanGarden*.

I really enjoyed the Kingsbridge trilogy by Ken Follett.

Yep, I get that a lot! I do love it though. I read it when I was about 16 and it has stayed with me since then.

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Emma Brown by Charlotte Bronte and Clare Boylan. This was an incomplete manuscript when Bronte died, finished by Boylan in modern times, which was interesting.

The shardlake series by C J Sansom starting with Dissolution. Crime novel set in Tudor period very well written, clever storytelling, evocative and enlightening of the period.

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield is a really hilarious read - strongly recommend that one.

Yes to Shardlake, although I wouldn't bother with the last one.

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Silas Marner by George Elliot
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde