"Downton Abbey" will not return for its next season until 2016. But for those who are experiencing some D.A. withdrawal, we got some juicy spoilers to make you even more excited for season six.

The upcoming season will be the last for the Crawley family and their loyal household staff. International Business Times reported that the final season of the PBS melodrama has already started filming.

One of the major characters in the series, the homosexual underbutler, Thomas Barrow  will be back in the show's final run. Rob James-Collier, who plays Barrow in the series, hints that his character might be getting his long-sought after happy ending with a new love interest.

"Obviously, you want to see him happy, and the only way he can be happy is to fall in love," the actor said. "So that'd be nice to see, and they'd have to keep it on the down low, but that would be a nice ending for Thomas."

However, after failed relationships and a fake homosexuality treatment in the past, it might be difficult for Thomas to seek a new relationship, especially in the 1920s, when being gay is unacceptable.

"Downton Abbey" season 6 might also end on a yuletide note with a Christmas special, reports Mirror. Furthermore, the upcoming season will be set in 1925, after Lady Rose's honeymoon and her big move to America. Some characters that audiences met at the end of season five may also return on the show.

While season 6 may be gone until next year, fans of the show can indulge in some literary gems that can make waiting for the next season more bearable.  

1. "Diary of a Chambermaid" by Octave Mirbeau

"Downton Abbey" meets "Fifty Shades of Grey" in this juicy and sensual French novel set in the 1930s. The book details the lives of the upper class Parisian society and how they (mis)behave through the eyes of an equally-controversial housemaid.

2. "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

If erotic novels do not quite excite you, then you might fancy some murder-drama courtesy of master storyteller Agatha Christie. In this classic novel, ten people were enticed to go to an isolated mansion on an island. One by one, the people were mysteriously being killed in the same manner of the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians". The fans may find the intriguing and conniving characters very "Downton-esque".

3. "Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero" by William Thackeray

Strong-willed female leads? Check. Plot twists? Check. Love affairs and seduction? Check and check. Good girl Amelia and ambitious Becky, together with their love interests and other intriguing characters, make this novel a sure-fire hit for "Downton Abbey" fans. Not fan of the book? Watch one of its many adaptations instead. One big screen version stars Reese Witherspoon as Becky.

4. "The Forsyte Saga" by John Galsworthy

Fans of the TV show will find parallels between the Crawley family and the Forsyte clan. Both families are rich and powerful members of upper class England, and equally dysfunctional as well. The novels centers on family drama that is full of lies and deceit, in a society that cloaked in aristocrat air.

5. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by E.M. Foster

Members of upper class England society were shaken with the news that widow Lilia Herriton falls in love with an ordinary Italian named Gino and refused to leave Italy after her trip with a friend. Upon hearing the news, her brother-in-law Philip went to Italy to prevent the marriage, but was too late. When Lilia gave birth and unexpectedly dies, her family and her husband's family wanted the her son in order to save face and their family name.

6. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

This classic Civil War love story will most certainly tug familiar heartstrings of "Downton Abbey" fans, with both fiction works set during wartime. Though the novel is set in America, TV fans will also have a taste of family drama, romance, and coping with war. Fans may also want to watch the 1939 classic movie adaptation of the novel starring Clark Gable.

7. "Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest" by Wade Davis

If you want to reserve upper class family politics for the TV show, this book can give you a realistic dose of the real-life heroes during World War I. The book follows two extraordinary men, a war veteran named George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, a young Oxford scholar in their quest to climb Mount Everest.