In January 2021, Masterpiece Theatre began its 50th anniversary season on PBS, cementing its enduring popularity on American television. Judging by the films and television shows that we see going in and out at the library, many of you are enjoying the wide range of entertainment offered by Masterpiece over the years. The award-winning drama series continues to feature new shows that quickly become beloved, and we have a few of the new highly anticipated DVDs freshly stocked on our library shelves for you to check out soon! We're celebrating Masterpiece's 50th anniversary with this reading and viewing list to help you discover Masterpiece programs from the last fifty years, as well as the books on which many of them were based. Whether you want to curl up with a novel or relax in front of the screen, keep scrolling to find a good way to while away the hours. All of these DVDs and books (and more Masterpiece titles) can be requested for curbside pickup. Immerse yourself in a world of British productions, classic adaptations, and exciting original dramas!
All Creatures Great and Small (Book, DVD coming soon)
The Durrells in Corfu (Book: My Family and Other Animals, DVD)
Grantchester (Book: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, DVD)
The Long Song (Book, DVD coming soon)
Miss Marple (Book: The Murder at the Vicarage, DVD)
Poirot (Book: Peril at End House, DVD)
Poldark (Book: Ross Poldark, DVD)
Wallander (Book: Firewall, DVD)
Miss Scarlet and the Duke (coming soon)
Emma, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Cousin Bette, Honoré de Balzac
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
Sharpe’s Triumph, Bernard Cornwell
To Serve Them All My Days, R.F. Delderfield
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
The Man of Property (The Forsyte Saga), John Galsworthy
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth is Missing, Emma Healey
The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley
The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
Small Island, Andrea Levy
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellynl
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy L. Sayers
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Downton Abbey: a celebration, Jessica Fellowes