I Lost My Girlish Laughter
By: Jane Allen
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter, is a thinly veiled send-…
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1. The Music Shop
By: Rachel Joyce
3.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel ab… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
"...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
"Real love was a journey with many pitfalls and complications, and sometimes the place you ended up was not the one you hoped for."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
"Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day and love him back."-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop
2. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot)
By: Tennessee Williams
3.65
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow, recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting.… read more
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- novels
- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
3. Claudine at School
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the … read more
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- novels
- classics
- fiction
"Les beaux yeux qui ne demandent qu’à sourire !"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
"Je sais très bien, depuis longtemps, que j’ai un cœur déraisonnable, mais, de le savoir, ça ne m’arrête pas du tout."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
"I've known perfectly well, for a long time, that I have an irrational heart. But knowing it doesn't stop me in the least."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
"When does one stop writing? . . . I thought in the past that the work of writing was like other tasks; the tool is laid down and one cries out in delight: ‘Finished!’ and you clap your hands, from wh…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School
4. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
By: Winifred Watson
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more
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- classics
- humor
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- classics
6. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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- audiobook
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Brother of the More Famous Jack
By: Barbara Trapido
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Gol… read more
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- novels
- fiction
8. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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11. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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12. Swimming Lessons
By: Claire Fuller
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead o… read more
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13. The Pursuit of Love
By: Nancy Mitford
3.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more
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14. Wives and Daughters
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more
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15. 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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- novels
- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
16. A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories
By: Eva Ibbotson
3.97
Format: 68 pages,
Those who enjoy romantic fiction will enjoy these heartwarming stories, first published in Great Br… read more
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17. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
By: Anita Loos
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lor… read more
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18. Dark Matter
By: Michelle Paver
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more
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19. Where the Dead Wait
By: Ally Wilkes
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Why would I want to die last?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
20. The House Without A Key
By: Marin Montgomery
3.68
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
When 17-year-old Maddy Pruitt vanishes from her sleepy town, word on the street is that she ran awa… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
21. The Hollow Kind
By: Andy Davidson
3.59
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by a… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
22. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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- audiobook
23. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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- audiobook
24. The Devil Aspect
By: Craig Russell
4.03
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hr… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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- audiobook
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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- classics
- fiction
27. All This & More
By: Peng Shepherd
3.47
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
28. I Lost My Girlish Laughter
By: Jane Allen
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter, is a thinly veiled send-… read more
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- classics
- film
- humor
- media tie in
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- womens
- novels
- audiobook
29. The Seventh Veil of Salome
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
30. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
