Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miss Read’s Country Cooking, Or, to Cut a Cabbage-Leaf | 1969 | Miss Read | Buy |
| 2 | Fortunate Grandchild | 1982 | Miss Read | Buy |
| 3 | The English Vicarage Garden | 1988 | Miss Read | Buy |
| 4 | Early Days | 1988 | Miss Read | Buy |
| 5 | Mrs. Griffin Sends Her Love and Other Writings | 2013 | Miss Read | Buy |
Miss Read’s non-fiction offers a more personal view than her village novels. Country Cooking covers rural recipes and kitchen traditions, while Fortunate Grandchild and Early Days are memoirs that draw on her own childhood and family history. The English Vicarage Garden explores a subject close to the heart of the rural English world she wrote about in her fiction.
Mrs. Griffin Sends Her Love and Other Writings, published posthumously in 2013, gathers various pieces that span her career. These non-fiction works reveal the real experiences and observations that fed into her fictional villages, giving readers a look at the woman behind the pen name.