Jane Austen 
Northanger Abbey 

Notable as the first of Austens work to be completed (although she had started Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice before, ) Northanger Abbey was not actually published until after her death. Most easily described as a coming of age story, it is also a lovely romance. Seventeen year old Catherine Morland is invited to go to Bath to visit family friends. Inquisitive and imaginative, Catherine is a huge reader of Gothic novels and is thrilled to be visiting Northanger Abbey, a place she expects to be full of the romance and mystery she has read about. When she meets the Tilney and Thorpe families, Catherine is thrust into a love triangle when Henry Tilney and John Thorpe vie for her affections.