High Rising by Angela Thirkell. I know this isn't a usual top pick, and I got some blowback when I put Woman in White on the list a few years ago, but 1933 novel is so charming, if you're in the mood for cozy British fiction, please consider it. It was out of print for many years, but Virago Modern Classics has republished it. Like other British provincial novels, it is simultaneously about very little and absolutely everything. This is one of her Barsetshire series, which take place in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county, Barsetshire. "High Rising is everything a cozy British novel should be. Thirkell has created a small village of wonderful characters including a strong widowed heroine who supports herself writing pot boilers and can still afford staff and a son at Eton. Light, charming, quaint, funny - the kind of book you read when you just want to feel good in a safe world where the biggest concern is whether or not the neighbor is going to marry his secretary."
