Only the Best Books

The books I'd stock if I could open a little bookstore and sell only the best books. Mostly subjective, of course, and including only books I've read.

Fiction

A-I

The Enchanted April -- Elizabeth von Arnim (1922)
Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen (1811)
Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen (1813)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- Muriel Barbery (2006)
Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Brontë (1847)

J-R

Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier (1938)
The Doll and Other Stories-- Daphne du Maurier (2011)
Anne of Green Gables -- L. M. Montgomery (1908)
Anne of Avonlea -- L. M. Montgomery (1909)
Anne of the Island -- L. M. Montgomery (1915)
Emily of New Moon -- L. M. Montgomery (1923)
Emily Climbs -- L. M. Montgomery (1925)
Emily's Quest -- L. M. Montgomery (1927)
Anne of Windy Poplars -- L. M. Montgomery (1936)

S-Z

I Capture the Castle -- Dodie Smith (1948)
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day -- Winifred Watson (1937)

Mystery

A-I

The Secret Adversary -- Agatha Christie (1922)
The Man in the Brown Suit -- Agatha Christie (1924)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -- Agatha Christie (1926)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? -- Agatha Christie (1934)
And Then There Were None -- Agatha Christie (1939)
N or M? -- Agatha Christie (1941)
Curtain -- Agatha Christie (1975)
Hamlet, Revenge -- Michael Innes (1937)

J-R

The Beekeeper's Apprentice -- Laurie R. King (1994)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women -- Laurie R. King (1995)
A Letter of Mary -- Laurie R. King (1997)
Locked Rooms -- Laurie R. King (2005)

S-Z

Whose Body? -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1923)
Clouds of Witness -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1926)
Unnatural Death -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1927)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1928)
Strong Poison -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1930)
Five Red Herrings -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1931)
Have His Carcase -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1932)
Murder Must Advertise -- Dorothy L. Sayers 1933)
Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)
Busman's Honeymoon -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1937)
Lord Peter -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1972)
The Franchise Affair -- Josephine Tey (1948)
To Love and Be Wise -- Josephine Tey (1950)

Speculative Fiction

A-I

The Eyre Affair -- Jasper Fforde (2001, science fiction)

J-R

The Wind's Twelve Quarters -- Ursula K. Le Guin (1975, science fiction)
Out of the Silent Planet -- C. S. Lewis (1938, science fiction)
Perelandra -- C. S. Lewis (1943, science fiction)
That Hideous Strength -- C. S. Lewis (1945, science fiction)

S-Z

The Fellowship of the Ring -- J. R. R. Tolkien (1954, fantasy)
The Two Towers -- J. R. R. Tolkien (1954, fantasy)
The Return of the King -- J. R. R. Tolkien (1955, fantasy)
All Clear -- Connie Willis (2010, science fiction)
Blackout -- Connie Willis (2010, science fiction)

Juvenile Fiction

A-I

An Old-Fashioned Girl -- Louisa May Alcott (1869)
Little Lord Fauntleroy -- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll (1865)
The Little White Horse -- Elizabeth Goudge (1946)
The Peterkin Papers -- Lucretia P. Hale (1880)

J-R

Howl's Moving Castle -- Diana Wynne Jones (1986)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -- C. S. Lewis (1950)
Prince Caspian -- C. S. Lewis (1951)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader -- C. S. Lewis (1952)
The Silver Chair -- C. S. Lewis (1953)
The Horse and His Boy -- C. S. Lewis (1954)
The Magician's Nephew -- C. S. Lewis (1955)
The Last Battle -- C. S. Lewis (1956)
Mara, Daughter of the Nile -- Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1953)
The Diamond Cave Mystery -- Troy Nesbit (1956)

S-Z

Non-Fiction

The Shield of Achilles -- W. H. Auden [poetry]
Ex Libris -- Anne Fadiman [books and reading]
The Four Loves -- C. S. Lewis [philosophy]
John Adams -- David McCullough [history]
The Apology of Socrates -- Plato [philosophy]