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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
★★★★· Published 1813· 279 pages
My favorite Austen, obviously. I reread it whenever I want to feel better about everything.
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★ 5A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe loses everything and holds onto her kindness anyway. I loved it fiercely as a kid, and it still gets me.
★ 5Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
One of my favorites, forever. Small, fierce Jane refuses to be anything but herself.
Truth & Beauty
Ann Patchett
Patchett's memoir of her fierce, complicated friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy. One of the great books about platonic love.
★ 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.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Austen on sisters — one all feeling, one all restraint. Not my top Austen, but still a delight.