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August 2002
Compiled by Shannon Surly, of Evansdale (IA) Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Austen, Jane -- Emma
Barker, Raffaela -- Hens Dancing
Battle, Lois -- Bed and Breakfast
Benson, E.F. -- Mapp and Lucia, Miss Mapp, Queen Lucia, Dpdp series
Binchy, Maeve -- Silver Wedding, Circle of Friends, Tara Road.
Bodett, Tom -- The Free Fall of Webster Cummings.
Brown, Carrie -- Rose's Garden, Lamb in Love
Burns, Olive Ann -- Cold Sassy Tree
Chiaverini, Jennifer -- The Quilter's Apprentice
Dallas, Sandra -- Alice's Tulips, The Persian Pickle Club
De La Roche, Mazo -- Jalna series
Delafield, E.M. -- Diary of a Provincial Lady
Dickens, Monica -- One Pair of Hands
Earley, Tony -- Jim the Boy
Edgerton, Clive -- Walking Across Egypt
Ellison, Brooke -- Miracles Happen--nonfiction
Ferris, Jean -- Love Among the Walnuts
Fforde, Katie -- Life Skills, Stately Pursuits
Fletcher, Grace Nies -- Preacher's Kids, In My Father's House
Gaskell, Elizabeth -- Cranford
Gibbons, Stella -- Cold Comfort Farm
Gould, John -- No Other Place
Greene, Bob -- Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte--nonfiction
Gulley, Phillip -- Home to Harmony
Hannah, Kristin -- Summer Island
Haruf, Kent -- Plainsong
Herriot, James -- All Things Bright and Beautiful--nonfiction
Hill, Weldon -- Lonesome Traveler
Hinton, J. Lynn -- Friendship Cake
Howard, Elizabeth Jane -- The Beautiful Visit
Hurston, Zora Neale -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ishiguro, Kazuo -- When We Were Orphans
Karon, Jan -- At Home in Mitford, These High Green Hills, A Common Life
Kay, Terry -- The Year the Lights Came On
Keillor, Garrison -- Lake Wobegone Days
Kimmel, Haven -- Girl named Zippy--nonfiction
Lasswell, Mary -- One on the House
MacLachlan, Patricia -- Sarah, Plain and Tall
MacDonald, Betty -- Onions in the Stew, The Egg and I, The Plague and I
McCullough, Colleen -- The Ladies of Missalonghi
McManus, Patrick -- Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
McMurtry, Larry -- Boone's Lick
Magorian, Michelle -- Good Night, Mr. Tom
Maxtone-Graham, Joyce -- Mrs. Miniver
Medlicott, Joan -- The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love
Mitford, Mary -- Our Village
Montgomery, L.M. -- Anne of Green Gables
Mullen, Jim -- It Takes a Village Idiot--nonfiction
Murphey, Sallyann -- Bean Blossom Dreams--nonfiction
Pilcher, Rosamunde -- The Shell Seekers, Winter Solstice
Plain, Belva -- Wintergreen
Pym, Barbara -- Some Tame Gazelle
Ray, Jeanne -- Julie and Romeo, Step-Ball-Change
Read, Miss -- Miss Clare Remembers, Village School
Richardson, Bill --The Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast
Ross, Ann B. -- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
Ryan, Terry --The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio-- nonfiction
Salinger, J.D. -- For Esme, With Love and Squalor
Santmyer, Helen Hooven -- And Ladies of the Club
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg -- Autobiography of Foudini M Cat
Sharp, Margery -- Rhododendron Pie
Shaw, Rebecca -- The New Rector
Smith, Dodie -- I Capture the Castle
Spencer, Lavyrle -- That Camden Summer
Stephens, C. -- Stories from Old Squire's Farm
Stevenson, D.E. -- Celia's House
Streeter, Edward -- Father of the Bride
Thirkell, Angela -- County Chronicle, Barsetshire series
Trigiani, Adriana -- Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler
Tsukiyama, Gail -- The Samurai's Garden
White, Bailey -- Quite a Year for Plums
Wodehouse, P.G. -- The Code of the Woosters
Wright, Harold Bell -- Shepherd of the Hills

Anything by these authors recommended:

Aldrich, Bess Streeter
Atherton, Nancy
Baldwin, Faith
Bates, H.E.
Binchy, Maeve
Bristow, Gwen
Buck, Pearl S.
Cadell, Elizabeth
Caldwell, Taylor
Cartland, Barbara (Romances)
Christie, Agatha (Mystery)
Cookson, Catherine
Corbett, Elizabeth
Dallas, Sandra
Delafield, E.M.
Eden, Dorothy
Evans, Richard Paul
Fforde, Katie
Gaskin, Catherine
Godden, Rumer
Goudge, Elizabeth
Gulley, Phillip
Heyer, Georgette (Regency Romance)
Hill, Grace Livingston
Hinton, Lynne
Hodge, Joan Aiken
Holmes, Marjorie
Holt, Victoria
Ibbotson, Eva
Kaye, M.M.
Lewis, Beverly
Lindbergh, Reeve
Lofts, Nora
Marshall, Catherine
Medlicott, Joan
Mitford, Nancy
Norris, Katherine
Plaidy, Jean (Historical)
Porter, Eleanor H.
Porter, Gene Stratton
Pratt, James Michael
Price, Eugenia (Historical)
Read, Miss
Ross, Ann B.
Sayers, Dorothy L (Mystery)
Shute, Nevil
Sparks, Nicholas
Stevenson, D.E.
Taber, Gladys
Thane, Elswyth
Turnbull, Agnes Sligh
Whitney, Phyllis A.
Wilder, Effie
Wright, Harold Bell

 
 
      
   
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