Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.

Liz says:

“This is one of my all time favorites. It can be read from young adulthood and on. Moms who have not yet read this or who read it so long ago they don’t remember much will want to reread this along with their teens. I just reread it and I love it more than ever.”