Books for daughter.

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Any recommendations for my 19 year old daughte please? She's quite old fashioned, borderline aspergic.She hates things like Twilight and just straight forward girls copping off with boys type books. As a younger teen she loved Harry Potter and James Herriott. Anything but more grown up? She read Brave New World recently which is unlike her but it's more than I've done.

Asimov - I Robot etc
Saki's short stories
Try Monica Dickens - One pair of feet, one pair of hands, the Happy Prisoner, Mariana etc

Thanks - just passed it on to her.

Ben Aaronovitch has a series about a wizard policeman, (sort of a grown up Harry Potter :)
Raymond Feist magican series is quite good.
Has she tried Terry Pratchett, the Discworld series

Call the midwife and the workhouse books by the same author.

Terry Pratchett and start the the diggers / truckers/ wings bromeliad trilogy. The nomes are just the best!

Oh brilliant, loads of choice, thanks!

PS she loves comedy, Python and Fonejacker etc.

Miss read, has gone out of fashion now but she is still a fabulous writer.
Mary Wesley, compromise between chick lit and something more highbrow.
Maeve Binchey - see above

The hero and the crown by robin McKinley
Game of thrones

I wonder if she'd like Agatha Raisin? Crime novels set in the Cotswolds!

I liked Brave New World and James Herriot as a teen as well. I hated Twilight too I think she has excellent taste. Other things I remember really liking at that time were Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and the Anne of Green Gables books. Has she ever read Jodi Picoult or Diane Chamberlain? They might be good for a reader moving from teen fiction to more adult themed books.

Thanks everyone! I started to read Agatha Christie when I was a teen. (I thought I was very grown up) but she thinks reading about murder is weird but I persist in trying to persuade her. She loved Anne of Green Gables as she has red hair!

Ps I will suggest all of these.

Angela Carter. My dd is 19 and loves magic realism.

Fionavar series by Guy Gabriel Kay is very good.

Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials. 3 books, strong female heroine (girl of about 12) - the next step up from Harry Potter.

Northern Lights
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

They are wonderful!

Thanks again all. You're spot on with Phillip Pullman - she's already read them!

PS I might have a go myself.

She might be interested in and identify with Consequences by E. M. Delafield published by Persephone - the main character is probably what today would be recognised as aspertic, but lives in different times.

Another vote for Terry Pratchett. Very funny if that's your sense of humour (DH hates them but I just don't think he gets them!).

I was mad for the fionavar tapestry at that age, I wonder if it's bit dated though?
Yes to Pratchett and Neil gaiman too.
What about Tom Holt? They are funny and clever.
Bill bryson writes funny travel books which she might enjoy.
A recent find is Scarlett Thomas, also Jasper Fforde xx

Ffs kisses sorry about that; I was chatting and posting at the same time.

Would Roald Dahl's adult stories (some are rather macarbre) be a good place?

A gentle story series is the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

The Help
The Five People you meet in heaven- Mitch Albin( and others if his)
Cecelia Ahern

Still more thanks! Lol the kisses hugo.

The Jill Kismet books starting with Night Shift might appeal. Written by a woman who had to end up writing fantasy Lilith Saintcrow.