16 best-selling classics books like Twice Lost by Phyllis Paul

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Twice Lost

By: Phyllis Paul

3.61

Format: None pages, Paperback

Novel of suspense in Gothic tradition. "Subtly told, it concerns the disappearance of a little g…

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1. The Oppermanns

By: Lion Feuchtwanger , Ruth Gruber , James Cleugh

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Opper… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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2. The Feast

By: Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

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3. Rhapsody (Library of Wales)

By: Dorothy Edwards , Christopher Meredith

3.84

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

This edition contains the original (1927) collection of ten short stories plus three previously unc… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"Are you very fond of music?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' said Antonia. 'My father played the violin in an orchestra. He played very well, but he was without ambition.' 'And you are not without ambition?' I re…"

-Dorothy Edwards, Rhapsody (Library of Wales)

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4. The Unconsoled

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

Format: 535 pages, Paperback

Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he c… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Leave us, you were always on the outside of our love."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

"One should not, in any case, attempt to make a virtue out of one's limitations."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

"It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

"It had occurred to me to follow her through into the next room, visitors or no visitors, and bring her back for a talk. But in the end I had decided in favour of waiting where I was for her return. S…"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

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5. Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

By: Barbara Comyns

3.85

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • novels
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6. Ex-wife

By: Ursula Parrott

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

8. Great Granny Webster

By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more

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  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels

10. The Mystery Guest

By: Lorin Stein , Grégoire Bouillier

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

When the phone rang on a gloomy fall afternoon in 1990, Gregoire Bouillier had no way of knowing th… read more

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11. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton , Laszlo Kubinyi

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the tradi… read more

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12. The Girls

By: John Bowen

4.02

Format: 288 pages, paperback

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13. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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14. Operation Heartbreak

By: Max Arthur , Duff Cooper

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Willie Maryngton always wanted to go to war. But he was born just too late to see action in the fir… read more

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15. Sword & Citadel (The Book of the New Sun #3-4)

By: Gene Wolfe

2.00

Format: 28 pages,

The Book of the New Sunis unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a … read more

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16. Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more

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17. The Nenoquich

By: Henry Bean

3.72

Format: 208 pages, ebook

An unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seduce… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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18. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • novels
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19. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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20. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • adult
Cover of The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda

21. The Aosawa Murders

By: Riku Onda

3.60

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

The novel starts in the 1960s when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owner… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Green that verges on darkness."

-Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders

"Every person spoke in the sincere belief that what they said was the absolute truth, but if one thinks about it, it's difficult to describe an actual event in words exactly as one sees it. More like …"

-Riku Onda, The Aosawa Murders

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22. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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23. Last Acts

By: Alexander Sammartino

3.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Twice Lost by Phyllis Paul

24. Twice Lost

By: Phyllis Paul

3.61

Format: None pages, Paperback

Novel of suspense in Gothic tradition. "Subtly told, it concerns the disappearance of a little g… read more

Similar categories in Phyllis Paul's Twice Lost book and Phyllis Paul's Twice Lost

  • gothic
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Lord Jim at Home (McNally Editions) by Dinah Brooke

25. Lord Jim at Home (McNally Editions)

By: Dinah Brooke

3.77

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • novels
Cover of The Goodby People (McNally Editions) by Gavin Lambert

26. The Goodby People (McNally Editions)

By: Gavin Lambert

3.87

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Ma… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
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27. Reproduction

By: Louisa Hall

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
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28. A Green Equinox

By: Elizabeth Mavor

3.54

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, A Green Equinox is a beguilingly Rococo “study of love, cons… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • novels
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29. Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes

By: Henry Van Dyke

4.11

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Dust jacket design by Ronald Clyne. His first novel. The story of two elderly widows who have devel… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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30. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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31. Troy Chimneys

By: Margaret Kennedy

3.97

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he unc… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction

22 Top fiction books like Twice Lost by Phyllis Paul

Transform Your Habits

The Oppermanns

Lion Feuchtwanger , Ruth Gruber , James Cleugh

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Rhapsody (Library of Wales)

Dorothy Edwards , Christopher Meredith

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Unconsoled

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

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22 best-selling fiction books like The Goodby People (McNally Editions) by Gavin Lambert

Transform Your Habits

Democracy

Joan Didion

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Feast

Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Country Life

Rachel Cusk

3.73

Transform Your Habits

A Way of Life, Like Any Other

Seamus Heaney , Darcy O'Brien

3.88

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