Tea or Books? #16: series vs standalones and Winnie the Pooh vs The Wind in the Willows

  Winnie-the-Pooh vs Wind in the Willows is perhaps the most animal-strewn debate we’ve had so far, as well as being more or less inevitable that we’d get to this one eventually – especially given my tendencies to shoe-horn A.A.

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Winnie-the-Pooh vs Wind in the Willows is perhaps the most animal-strewn debate we’ve had so far, as well as being more or less inevitable that we’d get to this one eventually – especially given my tendencies to shoe-horn A.A. Milne into any discussion.

But before we get to that, we tackle the less-animal-strewn battle between series of books and books that are standalones (or ‘one-and-done’; thank you Jennys for that piece of terminology). I rather suspect we’ve missed out lots of classics.

Do let us know which you’d choose from each pairing – and let us know any topics you’d like us to cover, of course! Check us out on iTunes or via your podcast app of choice or, indeed, above.

Here are the books we chat about in this episode:

The Children Who Lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham

The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Case of the Constant Suicides by John Dickson Carr

The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards

Young Man With a Horn by Dorothy Baker

Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling

William series by Richmal Crompton

Sweet Valley High ‘by’ Francine Pascal

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Grey by E.L. James (!)

Agatha Christie

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth in Rugen by Elizabeth von Arnim

Mapp and Lucia series by E.F. Benson

Miss Mapp by E.F. Benson

Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson

Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle

Waverley novels by Walter Scott

The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope

Marcel Proust

Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson

The Lark by E. Nesbit

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Provincial Lady series by E.M. Delafield

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Not That It Matters by A.A. Milne

Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame

Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame

Toad of Toad Hall by A.A. Milne

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde