Book recs for 17 year old dd

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Would like to get dd1 some books for Christmas, as she loves reading and hasn't had much chance recently as she's been working so hard for school. She hopes to read English at uni. She's read a lot of the classics already and particularly loves Austen, Plath and Madame Bovary.

I'd like to get her some lovely copies of classics, or modern classics, but want it to be something that she hasn't already read or that we haven't already got.

Help please!

I like the Everyman ones but tbh I suspect she'd like 'pretty' rather than 'classic styling.' :)

Maybe these cloth bound Penguin classics, then? Or there's always Folio, but they are very £££.

The cloth ones are gorgeous, aren't they? I was drooling over them in Waterstones today.

The Forsythe Saga?

Yes, I am tempted by the cloth-bound Penguins too - though it's a shame it's a very limited range compared to the Everyman ones. And, as I keep reminding myself while looking at my overloaded bookshelves, I really don't need any more books for a while. I though getting a kindle might help, but it doesn't seem to have put me off buying physical books too.

Can I just say this is a lovely thread. I want to go back and re-read lots of these myself.

I think your main problem will be finding a truck big enough to deliver all these fantastic reads!

Adds truck to Amazon order...

It IS a lovely thread, isn't it?

Which series is it where a girl seems to fancy a couple of brothers and the gardener or something? I read the first one but not any of the others and have completely forgotten what it is.

I'm 21, so not much older. I'm currently rereading Lady Chatterley's Lover, which is such a wonderful book. If you're looking for nice copies of classics, either old fashioned bookstores, or WHSmiths have some stunning pocket sized classics, with gold edged pages and everything. They're beautiful. I have several.

Aside from that, some I reread over and over aged 17, and still do now:

• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Les Miserables
• The Age Of Innocence
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
• Anything by Jodi Picoult for easy reading
• Canterbury Tales

If you're on The Book People at all, they have several great book sets.

I think the one with the brothers is the Flambards series - one nice brother, one not so nice but more sexy brother, she marries one, he dies in WW1, she marries the other. Can't actually remember the gardener but it's all set in the sort of house that would have one. There are horses in it. It's by KM Peyton. I think it's one I might re-read on the kindle because I did love the soaring emotion/tragedy etc as a teen. Younger than 17, though, I think.

Will look at WH Smith now, thanks.

No to Jodie Picoult though - she's read a few of hers for light reading but I want to get her good stuff (book snob!).

Flambards - that's it. Might buy that for me.

Just looking at what the Folio Society have, there's also things like The Arabian Nights, First Love by Turgenev, The Master and Margarita. They also have Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, and other poetry.

Or if she doesn't have it, maybe the Oxford Book of English Verse?

I have the Folio edition of The Name of the Rose, which is stunningly beautiful.