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No Way to Treat a First Lady
Christopher Buckley
★★★★★· Published 2002· 288 pages
A First Lady goes on trial for murdering the philandering President. Buckley's satire is gleefully sharp.
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★ 5Persuasion
Jane Austen
Anne Elliot, older and wiser, gets a second chance at the love she was talked out of. Austen's most quietly romantic. That letter.
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
Narrated by 17-year-old Cassandra, writing from the crumbling castle her eccentric, broke family calls home. One of the most charming coming-of-age novels there is.
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
Elinor Lipman
A prickly, socially clueless surgical intern gets courted by a fast-talking charmer. Lipman is so good at awkward, funny people.