These are my all-time favorite books that I go back and reread every couple of years:

--the Betsy-Tacy children's book series (Maud Hart Lovelace): Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy & Tib, Betsy-Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Betsy-Tacy Go Downtown, Heaven to Betsy, Betsy in Spite of Herself, Betsy Was a Junior, Betsy and Joe, Betsy and the Great World, Betsy's Wedding

--Ordinary People (Judith Guest)

--Portrait of a Married Woman (Sally Mandel)

--Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away, children's (Elizabeth Enright)

--the Melendy books (Elizabeth Enright): The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spiderweb for Two

--the later novels of LaVyrle Spencer, who used to be considered a romance novelist

--Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

--A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

--Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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