Big Books of 2026
Genres

Middlebrow


Middlebrow Books

A Winter Away
Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Buncle #1)
The Enchanted April
Cold Comfort Farm
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Lark
Bramton Wick
Guard Your Daughters
Miss Mole
I Capture the Castle
Excellent Women
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Babbacombe's
The Feast
Miss Plum and Miss Penny
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Lists

Wheels, 1918 by Edith SitwellThe Burning Glass by Marjorie BowenWilliam by Cicely Mary HamiltonThe Sword of Deborah, first-hand impressions of the British w... by F. Tennyson JesseA Lost Love, by Ashford Owen by Ashford Owen
Interwar British Vogue Recommends...
100 books — 1 voter
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsExcellent Women by Barbara Pym
A Middlebrow Syllabus
100 books — 73 voters

Lucy Carmichael by Margaret KennedyPenguin Fenny. by Lettice Ulpha CooperDown Among the Women by Fay WeldonThrough A Glass, Darkly by Helen McCloyAnswer in the Negative by Henrietta Hamilton
The Mermaid Collection
7 books — 1 voter