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

[OrangeBlossomsinthesun]

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.

I also quite like Anthony Trollope - the way we live now is good. He also has two series - the palliser novels and the barchester series. They are quite long by comparison though.

The lost art of keeping secrets

I really enjoyed reading From Lark Rise to Candleford when I was younger . . .

If she likes strong female characters, what about the Sally Lockhart (detective/gothic) young adult novels by Philip Pullman?
www.goodreads.com/series/43941-sally-lockhart

Thomas Hardy and Daphne du Maurier next methinks.

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Apologies if you know it, but it's the story of the first Mrs. Rochester.
Definitely Dickens. Science Fiction? John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids. Etc

Alexandre Dumas

Cranford was very good when I was a teenager.

Valid comments about Hardy tbf. I would definitely avoid Jude the Obscure, Maybe Tess is a bit depressing too tho it is an A level text.

My suggestions for Hardy (apart from Tess) are a bit more chirpy. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Woodlanders are also reasonably happy. For some characters anyway.

I woudn't recommend Henry James tbh, always found his novels unreasonably heavy going. But that's quite personal for sure.

ETA just seen your comment @OrangeBlossomsinthesun about The Woman in White. Oh I loved that. Might see if I can dig it out as it is well worth a reread.

Cranford, George Eliot, Hardy - Tess of the d’Urbervilles, the Woodlanders, Mayor of Casterbridge

Longbourne is a great P&P spin off from the perspective of one of the maids. Unlike some of the Austen fanfic, it is really well written.

Yes, I had to read Tess for A Level and it was awful.

I love Georgette Heyer. Funny writer, and she was highly recommended by Stephen Fry when he was still active on Twitter. Brilliant.

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope?

Vilette
The Professor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Restoration

I would get her to start with The Pickwick Papers for Dickens, it is easily his most accessible and funniest novel - and I love many of them. The Victorians constantly wanted Dickens to write more stories like The Pickwick Papers and it really irritated him as he wanted write more stories with social commentary that weren't all about the laughs.

I enjoyed reading Villette after reading Jane Eyre.

Far from the Madding Crowd is fantastic and not as heart-breaking as Hardy's other novels. His others might be better read when she's a bit older.

Personally, I adored Persuasion and I read it when I was quite young, so it depends on the person doing the reading whether that one is saved to a later date.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Woman in White and The Moonstone are all great. The Moonstone is considered to be the first English detective novel in so worth reading for that alone. Any of the Sherlock Holmes books of course.

I loved a lot of the 18th Century novels at her age and would recommend Fielding's Tom Jones. I also loved Moll Flanders but my parents were quite liberal about what I read.

Wives and Daughters was one of my favourite Elizabeth Gaskell books.

I'm envious that she will be reading all these lovely books for the first time.

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

The Ladies Paradise and Nana - both Emile Zola

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

Oh yes I too loved Wives and Daughters, and North and South.

Good post from @WeAreNumpties agree with all that. With Hardy, check publication date as he and his books got more and more morose – anything including (IMHO) and after The Mayor of Casterbridge is very doomy.

I also wondered about The Picture of Dorian Gray but be aware it's quite savage and sexy. Edith Wharton is another good shout tho – The Hous eof Mirth is also brilliant.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

The Chrysallids by John Wyndham.

I remember reading Testament of Youth at that age and finding it very moving. Not fiction though obviously.

I don't think anyone has suggested E M Forster ....
A Room with a View
A Passage to India
Howards End
Where Angels Fear to Tread

All good stories

But she's only read two Jane Austen novels; why are you even considering other authors?! She just needs to read everything else by Jane Austen. And then re-read them all

Would it be easier going for her to listen to audiobooks in English (as opposed to reading in English)? It must get somewhat lost in translation. Although better to read in Spanish than not at all.

It's very different from Austen, of course, but I enjoyed John Steinbeck - has she read 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

Anne of Green Gables is a fantastic book for all ages, definitely recommend. It's funny too, often in a wry observational sort of way like Austen. The later books in the series maintain the standard, and are beautifully human.

I agree Rebecca could be a great next one, particularly if she likes the period setting more than the romance angle. Also second the suggestion for Lorna Doone, that is fantastic.

To continue the sci-fi suggestions, as well as HG Wells, how about John Wyndham? The Day of the Triffids is brilliant.

At that sort of age I was reading Brighton Rock, A Clockwork Orange, Animal Farm, 1984, and Lord of the Flies, as well as most of the novels by all three Brontë sisters, and Jane Austen. And Jack London! The Call of the Wild has the most gorgeous use of language, as does the Sea Wolf. Highly recommend them all!

The Moonstone and the woman in white are great.

I also really loved North and South and wish I had read it sooner

How about slightly more modern classics too ? Brighton Rock, 1984, Brideshead Revisited

I think everyone should read 1984 and also Fahrenheit 451

There are many books in the Anne of Green gables collection , all the way up to Anne having children of her own . I’m sure she’d love them !