Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/3710655-susan-kavanagh">Susan Kavanagh</a> (12 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Susan Kavanagh (12 Lists)

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

Favorite Virago Modern Classics

270 books — 211 voters

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald

Backlisted Podcast

132 books — 19 voters

The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden

Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden

GET THEE TO A NUNNERY

196 books — 126 voters

The Lark by E. Nesbit

Tom Tiddler's Ground by Ursula Orange

A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair

Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck

Seaview House by Elizabeth Fair

Furrowed Middlebrow

99 books — 32 voters

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

How It All Began by Penelope Lively

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Books About Old People

550 books — 199 voters

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Favorite British Literature Reads

120 books — 5 voters

The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright

Hawthornden Prize Winners

73 books — 6 voters

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Someone by Alice McDermott

We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

Historical Fiction - New York

179 books — 87 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Someone by Alice McDermott

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2013 (fiction and nonfiction)

105 books — 819 voters

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Best Irish Literature

651 books — 730 voters

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott

We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

Fly Away Peter by David Malouf

Irish-American Experience (fiction)

71 books — 48 voters

The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller

Best World War I Fiction

153 books — 185 voters