6.  Evangeline, by H.W. Longfellow.  This long poem was written in the mid 1800s about events in the mid 1700s.  It was once standard ninth grade curriculum material, and it's easy to forget the beautiful writing or the historical events on which it was based.  The English weren't the good guys.

7 & 8.  Quietly In Their Sleep, and A Noble Radiance, both by Donna Leon.  I like these, and they are quick reads.  They are like the Louise Penney books in that they are murder mysteries with an inspector who has integrity when many around him do not.  Both detectives have satisfying home lives.  The wives have full-time jobs (until one of  them retires) and yet are also masterful cooks.  We never hear about house cleaning (except the kids in this series wash dishes), so this reader assumes the wives do all the housework too. Noble had a pretty unlikely story, but that won't keep me from reading another.