lirazel: An outdoor scene from the 1993 film The Secret Garden ([film] the whole world is a garden)
lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote2026-09-18 07:20 pm

(Mostly) Friends Only





Books/Writers:



+ Jane Austen: I do enjoy all her books, but mostly Emma

+ Leigh Bardugho: Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom

+
Joanna Bourne: Spymaster series

Beth Brower: the Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

+ Steve Brust and Emma Bull: Freedom and Necessity

+ Octavia Butler: Kindred

+ Brontes: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

+
A.S. Byatt: Possession

+
Mike, Linda, and Louise Carey: The Steel Seraglio

+
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Piranesi

+ Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

+ Pamela Dean: Tam Lin

+ Daphne DuMaurier: My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca

+ William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury, The Unvanquished

+
Tana French: The Dublin Murder Squad series

+ Golden age mysteries of all kinds

+ Tracy/Teresa Grant: The Rannoch/Fraser novels

+ Barbara Hambly: Benjamin January books (!!!!) and James Asher books

+ Frances Hardinge: all her books

+ Rachel Hartman: Seraphina/Shadow Scale and Tess of the Road

+ Eva Ibbotson: A Company of Swans, The Morning Gift, A Song for Summer, Countess Below Stairs, The Star of Kazan

+ M.M. Kaye: The Shadow of the Moon

+
Ursula Le Guin: pretty much everything she ever wrote

+ Madeleine L'Engle: all her nonfiction, A Ring of Endless Light, The Other Side of the Sun

+ Joan Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock

+ Maud Hart Lovelace: the Betsy/Tacy books and Emily of Deep Valley

+ Eloise Jarvis McGraw: Mara: Daughter of the Nile

+ Robin McKinley: Everything except Pegasus and Dragonhaven. I’m not really into those.

+ L.M. Montgomery: Everything. All of it.

+ Naomi Novik: Spinning Silver and Uprooted

+
Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun

+ Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Sherwood Ring and The Perilous Gard

+
Chaim Potok: Davita's Harp

+
Dorothy L. Sayers: the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries

+ Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow

+ Mary Stewart: The Merlin trilogy, The Wicked Day, The Moon-Spinners

+
Rosemary Sutcliffe: Sword at Sunset

Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes

+ Megan Whalen Turner: the Queen’s Thief books

+ Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

+ Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity

 


Movies:

+ ‘30’s screwball comedies of any kind

+ 1776!

+ All About Eve

+ Almost Famous

+ Anastasia (1997)

+ The Bad and the Beautiful

+ Bright Star

+ Challengers

+ Conclave

+ Emma (2020)

+ The Fall (2006)

+ The Favourite

+ The Great Escape

+ It’s a Wonderful Life

+ Knives Out

+ The Lion in Winter

+ Little Women (1994)

+ The Man from UNCLE

+ The Manchurian Candidate

+ The Mummy/The Mummy Returns

+ Noir of any kind

+ Pride (2014)

+ The Secret Garden (1993)

+ the original Star Wars trilogy

+ Sunset Boulevard

+ The Thin Man movies

+ To Walk Invisible

+ The Vast of Night

+ West Side Story

 


Television and Miniseries:

+ Age of Youth

+ Andor

+ Anne of Green Gables

+ Being Human

+ Big Fat Quiz(zes)

+ Black Sails

+ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

+ City Hunter

+ Coffee Prince

+ Crash Landing on You

+ Designing Women

+ Emma (2009)

+ Endeavour

+ The Expanse

+ Flower Boy Next Door

+ Friday Night Lights

+ The Good Place

+ The Great British Bakeoff

+ The Guest

+ Happy Endings

+ Healer

+ The Hour

+ It's Okay to Not Be Okay

+ Jane Eyre (2006)

+ Killing Eve

+ Leverage

+ Mawang

+ Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

+ The Musketeers

+ Mythic Quest

+ New Girl

+ North and South (2004)

+ Penny Dreadful (ish)

+ Picnic at Hanging Rock

+ Press Gang

+ Queen In-Hyun’s Man

+ The Queen's Gambit

+ Severance

+ Shut Up! Flower Boy Band

+ various Star Treks

+ The Umbrella Academy

+ The Untamed

+ Veronica Mars

+ We Are Lady Parts

+ The West Wing

+ White Christmas

+ The X-files


Podcasts:


+ BBC History Extra podcast

+ Decoder Ring

+ The Ezra Klein Show

+ Hyperfixed

+ In Bed with the Right

+ Know Your Enemy

+ Maintenance Phase

+ Mobituaries

+ Radiolab

+ Reply All

+ Rock That Doesn't Roll


+ Search Engine

+ Straight White American Jesus


+ Why Are Dads?/You Are Good

+ You Must Remember This

+ You're Wrong About



Kpop:

+ Brown Eyed Girls*

+ Chung Ha

+ CLC

+ Dreamcatcher*

+ exid

+ f(x)

+ Hyuna

+ Infinite*

+ IU

+ KARA

+ Loona

+ Lim Kim

+ miss A

+ 9Muses*

+ Oh My Girl

+ Orange Caramel

+ Red Velvet

+ Rocket Punch

+ Sistar

+ Spica*

+ Sunmi

+ Weki Meki

+ Wonder Girls








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New friend \o/