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

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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.

they will like little women by louisa may alcott! i loved it growing up too

The problem with Dickens is that people read him as a conventional/realist novelist. He isn't. Martin Amis once said that he wrote dark fairy tales, and that's probably the best way to approach him – as someone who blends fairy tale and realism. No other writer does what he does.

Lark Rise to Candleford

Wuthering Heights.

Definitely👏. I worship at Wodehouse's feet. His language is so extraordinary I think of him more as a prose poet. He is the greatest writer of poetic prose in the English language – maybe in any language.

I enjoyed The Time Traveller’s Wife at that age when I was a bit Brontë fan. Obviously Wuthering Heights and any other Brontë stuff too. Oh and I loved Crime and Punishment, which isn’t really the same wheelhouse but is a classic.

Sounds like you have a very intelligent daughter OP.

No doubt these have already been mentioned, but I'd recommend:

Oscar Wilde: Dorian Gray
Jane Austen: Emma
Douglas Adams: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
George Eliot: Silas Marner
Hardy: Tess
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Aldous Huxley: Chrome Yellow
D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
P. G. Wodehouse: Right Ho Jeeves

I really love this book !
Anne of green gables is perfect for any age.
If she likes J.Austen she may like Georgette Heyer , i actually prefer her to J.A.

Mrs Gaskell and Georgette Heyer and the rest of Jane Austen and Fanny Burney's Evelina would all be good follow ons to Austen. Maybe Vanity Fair by Thackeray?

If she likes the historical settings then she could consider some of Jean Plaidy's novels (she researched them pretty well - I busked a university finals question on the back of them...). Quite a lot are available in Spanish. I'd suggest the Medici trilogy as a good one to start with or The Young Victoria

Yes, she's read Little Women.

most of my would-be-suggestions have already been mentioned.

But re Anne of GG, LM Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon is delightful!!! I read them at 14/15 and again recently.

Yes, 'Little Women' is the first, then comes 'Good Wives', then 'Little Men' and then 'Jo's Boys', following them all through. I loved those when I was young. Still do but it's a while since I looked at one.

Edith Wharton novels.
Hardy, particularly “Tess” and Eliot “Adam Bede”.

Hmm interesting.

Which Dickens would this be or all of them? My issue is the multitude of characters which appear once then never again :)

Also found him a bit preachy. Must admit this is David C and Oliver T. Many people have told me I need to read Bleak House.

The Moonstone
Cold Comfort Farm
Wise Children
The Secret History
Possession
North and South
Mary Barton
Wide Sargasso Sea

I loved Willa Cather in my teens, The Song of a Lark and O Pioneers. Also anything by Colette.
I ploughed through the whole saga of “Jalna” by Mazo de la Roche, now forgotten, but a great writer.
I found Henry James and Dickens heavy going.

Edith Wharton is wonderful but at 15 she needs a happy ending - House of Mirth would ruin things for her!

I loved Rebecca and The Go Between at that age!

Bleak House and Great Expectations. GE in particular is a good place to start if you’re not keen on DC or OT — much more tightly written and spare.

Ah Great Expectations is another one I have read and not liked. :D maybe CD just not for me. Can't get beyond how he treated women (somewhat irrational I know).

Good point about House of Mirth being a bit downbeat tbf.

YY to The Go-Between tho I love that book it is elegaic.

Love in a Cold Climate

In fairness, if you’re going to only read writers who behaved well in their personal lives, you’re cutting down the canon!

Completely agree with North and South, The Woman in White, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Moonstone - all wonderful. Middlemarch is also great.

Slightly leftfield suggestion: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy. Much more modern, but I think it has quite similar themes to Austen and is a lovely read (albeit that it weighs about the same as an elephant!)

Middlemarch I braced myself but really enjoyed it and found it quite accessible.

Edith Wharton is really good too.

Dd is 17 doing Eng lit A levels and devours more modern stuff. She has enjoyed all of Sally Rooneys books, Coco Mellors and also Sylvia Plath. She has to read Grapes of Wrath for school I read that a few years ago gruelling but excellent and accessible.

Yes indeed, that's why I said it was a bit irrational.

Janey was a good girl tho. As is Maggie O'Farrell.

I read The Invisible Woman many years ago and it made a big impression.