21 must-read fiction books like The Four Million by O. Henry

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The Four Million

By: O. Henry

4.05

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

The Four Million (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by h…

"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry."

-O. Henry, The Four Million

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1. The Four Million

By: O. Henry

4.05

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

The Four Million (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by h… read more

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  • american
  • americana
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry."

-O. Henry, The Four Million

Cover of Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) by P.G. Wodehouse

2. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

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3. Dawn Wind

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In the sixth century A.D. the Saxons ruled Southern England. After the great battle of Aquae Sulis,… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Life's Little Ironies

By: Thomas Hardy , Norman Page , Alan Manford

3.83

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

The phrase `life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Hardy as the title for t… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Little Eyolf

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.82

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)

By: L. Frank Baum

3.96

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved chara… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Only I never wish to get up in the morning" ~ Dorthy"

-L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)

"That was yesterday, you know, and a Princess cannot be expected to remember today what she did yesterday."

-L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)

"You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them."

-L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)

"Is this a trial of thoughts, or of kittens?' demanded the Woggle-Bug. 'It's a trial of one kitten,' replied the Scarecrow; 'but your manner is a trial to us all."

-L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)

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7. Rosmersholm

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.73

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

A portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism, cons… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Live, work, act. Don’t sit here and brood."

-Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

"Your reading has introduced you to a hotch-potch of new ideas and opinions; you have made a certain acquaintance with researches that are going on in various directions— researches that seem to you t…"

-Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

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8. Meet Mr. Mulliner

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.05

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A Mulliner collection In the Angler's Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"How true it is that in this world we can never tell behind what corner Fate may not be lurking with the brass knuckles."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Meet Mr. Mulliner

"Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Meet Mr. Mulliner

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9. The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.20

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into th… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"The kid is a pest, a wart, and a pot of poison, and should be strangled!"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

"I thought Eustace *was* a horrible accident, and Claude about the same, but I didn't say so."

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)

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10. Men Without Women

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.60

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short ficti… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
"The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning."

-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

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11. Double Indemnity

By: James M. Cain

4.06

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

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12. The Captain and the Enemy (Penguin Classics)

By: Graham Greene , John Auchard

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” takes him from… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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13. Beowulf: Dragon Slayer

By: Rosemary Sutcliff , Charles Keeping

3.66

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life. So swift was his attack t… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Les petites filles modèles

By: Comtesse de Ségur

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Les grands classiques de la Littérature adaptés pour une lecture facile ! Madeleine et Camille de F… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3) by P.G. Wodehouse

15. Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.25

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

The titles of the first story in this collection—'Jeeves Takes Charge'— and the last—'Bertie Change… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Employers are like horses — they require management."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

"You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"

-P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)

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16. La hojarasca

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

El primer libro de Gabriel García Márquez —de 1955— contiene el germen estilístico y de las ideas q… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice."

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"When something moves you can tell that time has passed. Not till then. Until something moves time is eternal ... That's why time doesn't pass for the hanged man: because even if the child's hand move…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"Mientras se abanica con el sombrero el rostro trastornado por la sofocación y el aguardiente, mirando hacia la soga, calculando su fuerza, él dice: `Es imposible que una soga tan delgada haya sosteni…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los insectos cesa en ese instante preciso; el curso de la naturaleza se detiene; la creación tambalea al b…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

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17. The Father

By: August Strindberg

3.61

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Many experiences in the personal life of dramatist August Strindberg involved duels between the sex… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father"

-August Strindberg, The Father

"Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs, senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by …"

-August Strindberg, The Father

Cover of Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4) by P.G. Wodehouse

18. Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster's consternation — Bobbie Wickham gives away fierce Aunt Agatha… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)

"The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)

"Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)

"As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! (Jeeves, #4)

Cover of The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz, Garrison Keillor, David Michaelis

19. The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

By: Charles M. Schulz , Garrison Keillor , David Michaelis

4.40

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular f… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

"Patty: I'll be the good guy. Shermy: I'll be the bad guy. Patty: What are you going to be, Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown: I'll be sort of in-between; I'll be a hypocrite!"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

"Shermy: Men are better than women! Patty: They are not!! Shermy: Washington was a man! Jefferson was a man! Lincoln was a man! Patty: Your mother is a woman!! Shermy: You got me!"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

"Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated* Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Wh…"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

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20. At Sixes and Sevens

By: Rosie Harris

4.07

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

This captivating and compelling Welsh saga from much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harr… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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3.96

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