Books and videos to enjoy while waiting for the next season of Downton Abbey:
Fiction:
Dean, Rebecca. The Golden Prince.
Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong.
Fellowes, Julian. Past Imperfect; Snobs.
Follett, Ken. Fall of Giants.
Forster, E.M. Howards End.
Galsworthy, John. The Forsyte Saga
Goodwin, Daisy. An American Heiress.
Hollinghurst, Alan. The Stranger’s Child.
Ibbotson, Eva. A Countess Below Stairs.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Remains of the Day.
Jones, Sadie. Uninvited Guests.
Kindl, Patrice. Keeping the Castle.
Morton, Kate. The House at Riverton.
Nicolson, Juliet. Abdication.
Solomons, Natasha. The House at Tyneford.
Todd, Charles. A Duty to the Dead, and other books in the Bess Crawford series.
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence.
Winspear, Jacqueline. Maisie Dobbs and other books in the Maisie Dobbs series
Non-Fiction:
Carnarvon, Countess of. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey.
Davis, Wade. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest.
Fellowes, Jessica. The World of Downton Abbey.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
Harrison, Rosina. Rose: My Life in Service.
Hyams, Jacky. Real Life Downton Abbey.
MacColl, Gail. To Marry an English Lord.
Powell, Margaret. Below Stairs.
Videos:
The Forsyte Saga
Gosford Park
Howards End
Lark Rise to Candleford
Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate
Remains of the Day
The Shooting Party
Upstairs, Downstairs
Note: the Woodridge Public Library does not own all of these titles, but they are available for interlibrary loan from other SWAN libraries.
Brenda