If you like Downton Abbey you might enjoy:
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 | Agee, Jonis | | The River Wife | | Hedie Rails arrives in Jacques Landing with her husband, Clement, in the 1930s. Worried about her marriage, she takes comfort in the tales of the strong women who shaped Clement’s ancestor, river pirate Jacque Ducharme. |
|  | Byatt, A.S. | | The Children’s Book | | Olive Wellwood, children’s book author, takes in a runaway who learns the family’s secrets in this tale set between the late Victorian era and First World War. |
|  | Dinesen, Isak | | Out of Africa | | Karen Blixen’s stories of the time she spent in Kenya (1914-1937) managing a coffee plantation – first with her husband and then, after their divorce, on her own. |
|  | Follet, Ken | | Fall of Giants | | The first book in the Century trilogy follows five families through WWI, women’s suffrage, and the Russian Revolution. |
|  | Forster, E.M. | | A Room with a View | | In this Edwardian social commentary, Lucy marries the man she met on holiday in Italy instead of the socially acceptable prospect chosen by her family. |
|  | Gernsheim, Allison | | Victorian & Edwardian Fashion : A Photographic Survey | | Did they really dress like that? See over 200 photos, taken between 1840 and 1914, of people from different walks of life. |
|  | Goodwin, Daisy | | The American Heiress | | Wealthy American Cora Cash marries a duke and encounters difficulty being accepted by his peers and servants. |
|  | Hammet, Dashiell | | The Thin Man | | Before Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist there was Nick and Nora’s witty repartee. Dashiell Hammet’s wealthy, sophisticated PI Nick Charles and his wife Nora sip martinis and solve crimes among the denizens of New York “society.” |
|  | Hemingway, Ernest | | A Farewell to Arms | | During WWI, an American ambulance driver falls in love with a British nurse in Italy. |
|  | Ishiguro, Kazuo | | Remains of the Day | | Stevens is a butler at Darlington Hall. As he travels to see a former colleague, Miss Kenton, he reminisces about his service from the 1920s to the 1950s. |
|  | Morton, Kate | | The House at Riverton | | Grace began working at Riverton House before WWI. When she is 98 years old, a filmmaker takes her back to the house to learn about the summer of 1924, when a young poet shot himself at a party at Riverton. |
|  | Nicolson, Juliet | | The Perfect Summer : England 1911, Just Before the Storm | | The summer of 1911 saw a new king, a suffrage movement, industrial strikes, and soaring temperatures. Then came the “storm” of World War I. |
|  | Remarque, Eric Maria | | All Quiet on the Western Front | | Paul Bäumer and his friends enlist in the German army, inspired by their teacher’s patriotic rhetoric. Fighting in France, they find not honor and glory but horror and death. |
|  | Thackeray, William Makepeace | | Vanity Fair : A Novel Without a Hero | | Well-bred Amelia and orphan Becky attempt to live their lives in Vanity Fair, where love and morals never interfere with social position and wealth. |
|  | The Countess of Carnarvon | | Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey : The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle | | The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Lady Almina, 5th Countess of Carnarvon, married the Earl of Carnarvon at 19. She oversaw many servants, some whose family had been in service at Highclere for generations. WWI changed Highclere, which she opened to the wounded. |
|  | Todd, Charles | | A Bitter Truth | | Returning to her home in London on leave from her nursing duties during World War I, Bess Crawford finds a woman taking shelter in her doorway. Bess accompanies the woman to Sussex and soon finds herself investigating a murder. |
|  | Trumbo, Dalton | | Johnny Got His Gun | | First published in 1939, this is the story of Joe Bonham, who wakes in a World War I hospital to find that his arms and legs have been amputated and he cannot see, hear, or speak. |
|  | Woolf, Virginia | | Mrs. Dalloway | | Follows a day in the lives of Clarissa Dalloway, a society woman preparing to host a party and reflecting on English life following WWI, and Septimus Smith, a shell shocked veteran convicted by himself of the crime of being unable to feel. |
|  | Young, Louisa | | My Dear I Wanted To Tell You | | While the marriage of the upper class Lockes disintegrates under the pressures of WWI, working class Riley and upper class Nadine find that the social changes following the war allow them the freedom to be in love. |
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