I share Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey with Lady Jean as comfort reading: even wrote entries on Dorothy L Sayers for two encyclopedias of literature. Gaudy Night my favourite, I think.

Others are P G Wodehouse, esp Jeeves & Wooster and Lord Emsworth; Richmal Crompton's William books: on more serious note, Jane Austen, esp Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, P&P; Dickens, Great Expectations; Twain, Huckleberry Finn; Broadway stories of Damon Runyon.

Julian Fellowes' Snobs has recently been adopted to this catalogue.

~Michael~