Currently reading Joanna Trollope's latest [I think], Daughters In Law; good, but I feel her work is rather falling into a pattern: tho I suppose same could have been said of her famous ancestor - uncle 5 generations back Anthony], one of the greatest of Victorian novelists, all of whose works I read with great enjoyment when younger, & could embark on projects to read entire works of Dickens, Jane Austen [greatest of all for my money], Hardy, George Eliot, Conrad, Henry James etc. Nowadays I am less adventurous, & tend just to reread favourites like Dorothy L Sayers; tho do try to keep up with some contemps I admire, like above-mentioned J Trollope, Ben Elton - simultaneously just rereading his High Society, good novel about drug scene, & recently reread his Popcorn, which I highly recommend - Howard Jacobson, Stephen Fry.... Other C20-C21 I like are the Drabble sisters {Margaret D & her older sister A S Byatt}, Nancy Mitford, Forster ~~ not a chronological list, just as the names occurred to me. Dislike the other Bloomsburys (V Woolf &c) as rather rarefied; & could never abide the priggish self-satisfied D H Lawrence.

That's just novels ~~ have read much in verse & drama too over the years of a long life; but enough for now ...

~M~