to everyone for your help!
Five is my usual saturation point for prolonged reading of an author or series, so, from your recommendations, I came up with this order for the first five books:
- Rebecca
- Jamaica Inn
- My Cousin Rachel
- Julius
- The Birds and Other Stories
(I vaguely remember seeing
The Birds (the Alfred Hitchcock movie) as a child; don't remember much except there were lots and lots of birds and I was scared silly
)
I'm already 6 chapters into
Rebecca and, though I haven't stepped into Manderley yet (that's in the next chapter, yay!), the sense of place is amazing.
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Mary Anne and The Glass Blowers are non-fiction to the extent that they are about real people. Mary Anne was one of her ancestors and was the mistress of the Duke of York (who had 10,000 men etc). A very interesting woman! The other book is about some of her French ancestors during the time of the French Revolution. So you might want to leave those two until you have read her fiction. The King's General is also about a real person, but is fiction.
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I didn't know that! Thanks for the heads-up. I plan to divide up the books in batches of five (with one set of short stories for each batch), and I think I'll leave these for the last batch.