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Sue Selects Gentle Reads

Sue selects:
Gentle Reads

Look at this list for "feel-good" books that contain no strong language, sex or violence. They reflect conventional values, end happily, and take the reader back to a gentler, less hurried time. They project a comfortable sense of well being. Look for all of these authors in the adult fiction section of the library under the author's last name.


Timeless Classics

Alcott, Louisa May
Austen, Jane
Cadell, Elizabeth
Cather, Willa
Heyer, Georgette
Smith, Betty

Books in a Series
Karon, Jan (Mitford Series)
Medlicott, Joan A. (Covington Series)
Read, Miss (Thrush Green Series)
Stevenson, D.E. (Mrs. Tim Christie Series)

Family Sagas
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Bristow, Gwen
Dailey, Janet
McCullough, Colleen
Michaels, Fern
Plain, Belva
Price, Eugenia
Siddons, Anne Rivers

If you like Jan Karon, you might like:
Aldrich, Bess
Baldwin, Faith
Bristow, Gwen
Hill, Grace L.
Hodge, Jane Aiken
Marshall, Catherine
Wodehouse, P.G.
Wubbels, Lance

If you like Janette Oke, you might like:
Dallas, Sandra
Eden, Dorothy
Gilbert, Anna
Hunt, Angela E.
Kaye, M.M.

If you like Anne Tyler, you might like:
Girzone, Joseph
Gulley, Phillip
Hassler, Jon
Hoff, B.J.
Holmes, Marjorie
Price, Eugenia
Thoene, Bodie

If you like innocent romance, you might like:
Binchy, Maeve
Brookner, Anita
Fielding, Joy
Howatch, Susan
Johansen, Iris
Macomber, Debbie
Pilcher, Rosamunde
Trigiani, Adriana
Trollope, Joanna
Wingate, Lisa

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