15 best-selling fiction books like Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta by Charles Dickens

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Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta

By: Charles Dickens

3.37

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

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1. Et In Sempiternum Pereant

By: Charles Williams

3.53

Format: 7 pages, ebook

First published in 1986, "Et in Sempiternum Pereant" is a short story by British writer Charles W. … read more

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2. Remembering

By: Wendell Berry

4.02

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depress… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"They were not going to live again in a time like that."

-Wendell Berry, Remembering

"There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot."

-Wendell Berry, Remembering

"It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve."

-Wendell Berry, Remembering

"We stood and looked and knowed it was all the time we had and from now on we must remember. We must look now forever."

-Wendell Berry, Remembering

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3. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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4. The Dark Horse

By: Rumer Godden

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dark Invader is a beautifully bred racehorse, but after a disappointing first season he is sold in … read more

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  • fiction
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5. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Cover of A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, Kevin Blahut, None, Helen Vlcnovska

6. A Hunger Artist

By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None , Helen Vlcnovska

3.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist(1924) explores many of the themes … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Miss Mole

By: E.H. Young

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"

-E.H. Young, Miss Mole

8. The Burgess Boys

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the pub… read more

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9. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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10. Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)

By: John Updike

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has com… read more

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11. A Group of Noble Dames

By: Thomas Hardy

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. The Bottle Imp

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Offering an engrossing spin on a time-honored theme--the risky business of making a pact with the d… read more

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13. The Door in the Wall

By: H.G. Wells

4.06

Format: 368 pages,

The Door in the Wall, considered by both readers and critics, to be Wells's finest tale, examines a… read more

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14. The Eyes

By: Edith Wharton

3.40

Format: None pages,

Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?' Fren… read more

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15. The Dollmaker

By: Harriette Simpson Arnow

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills is devastated by th… read more

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16. Comment Wang Fô Fut Sauvé

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

4.20

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Voici l'histoire d'un vieux peintre chinois tres pauvre du nom de Wang-Fo. Il a un pouvoir magique … read more

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17. The Frozen Deep

By: Wilkie Collins

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Exchanging vows of love with sailor Frank Aldersley the night before his departure, Clara Burnham i… read more

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18. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion

By: Thomas Hardy

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

It was nearly ninety years ago. The British uniform of the period, with its immense epaulettes, que… read more

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19. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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20. On Agate Hill

By: Lee Smith

3.68

Format: 208 pages,

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21. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • fiction
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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22. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • fiction
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23. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Cover of The King Must Die (Theseus, #1) by Mary Renault

25. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

By: Mary Renault

3.98

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not prete… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

"A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it."

-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

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26. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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  • fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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27. Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta

By: Charles Dickens

3.37

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

28. The Son's Veto

By: Thomas Hardy

3.41

Format: 8 pages, None

As the strains proceeded many of the listeners observed the chaired lady, whose back hair, by reaso… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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29. Lambs of Men

By: Charles Dodd White

4.40

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Reeling from his memories from the battlefields of Europe in World War I, Marine Corps Sergeant Hir… read more

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  • fiction
"Men were doomed to repeat the sins of not only their fathers, but all their ancient forbears on back to Cain. That was the true mark upon man, scripted in his very blood."

-Charles Dodd White, Lambs of Men

30. The Friends

By: Silvina Ocampo

3.38

Format: None pages, None

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31. What the Shepherd Saw

By: Thomas Hardy

3.68

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

It might have been about eleven o'clock when he awoke. He was so surprised at awaking without, appa… read more

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Wendell Berry

4.02

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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

3.87

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A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None , Helen Vlcnovska

3.74

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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Tommy Orange

3.89

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Rachel Khong

4.04

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