12 best-selling classics books like The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

4.07

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

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Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

Cover of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

2. 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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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
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3. The White Witch

By: Elizabeth Goudge

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Romantic tale set in 17th-century England, when Cavaliers struggle with Puritans to keep the throne… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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4. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

Cover of At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years, #1) by Jan Karon

5. At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years, #1)

By: Jan Karon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Enter the world of Mitford, and you won't want to leave. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

6. Ruth

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

5.00

Format: None pages,

* Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle bo… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone

7. Felix Holt: The Radical

By: George Eliot , Lynda Mugglestone

3.71

Format: 545 pages, Paperback

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortu… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished."

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life."

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry o…"

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

8. 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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Cover of All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1) by Sydney Taylor

9. All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1)

By: Sydney Taylor

4.24

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

10. Adam Bede

By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne

3.82

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

11. Summer of the Monkeys

By: Wilson Rawls

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree fu… read more

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12. Heaven to Betsy / Betsy in Spite of Herself (Betsy-Tacy #5-6)

By: Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Heaven to Betsy: Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High-with new and… read more

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13. A Light in the Window (Mitford Years, #2)

By: Jan Karon

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

- Readers will enjoy a story from the popular series-packaged bestseller! - Includes new Reader's G… read more

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14. The Lark Shall Sing (Waynes of Wood Mount, #1)

By: Elizabeth Cadell

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

The six Waynes, with no parents to guide them, are six violent individualists ranging in age from n… read more

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15. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

Cover of Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2) by L.M. Montgomery

16. Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.22

Format: 276 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone’s heart. Now, she’s fiv… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I've come home in love with loneliness"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

"Everything that's worth having is some trouble…"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

"I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

"She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)

Cover of Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1) by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

17. Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)

By: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

"Dad had enough gall to be divided into three parts." Dad was Frank B. Gilbreth, to the world a dis… read more

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  • classics
"Some simpleton with pimples in his voice wants to speak to Ernestine," he grumbled to Mother when he answered the phone."

-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)

"Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less."

-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)

"But it was Mother who spun the stories that made the things we studied really unforgettable. If Dad saw motion study and teamwork in an ant hill, Mother saw a highly complex civilization governed, pe…"

-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)

Cover of The Sisters of Sea View (On Devonshire Shores, #1) by Julie Klassen

18. The Sisters of Sea View (On Devonshire Shores, #1)

By: Julie Klassen

4.19

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers convinces her sisters to open the… read more

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  • fiction
"A solitary soul can do little. But together...what lasting beauty we create."

-Julie Klassen, The Sisters of Sea View (On Devonshire Shores, #1)

"Of course the disease was not your fault, " Mr. Hornbeam said more softly. "But we choose how we respond to life's misfortunes."

-Julie Klassen, The Sisters of Sea View (On Devonshire Shores, #1)

Cover of Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy by Jennifer Pepito

19. Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy

By: Jennifer Pepito

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Becoming a better, happier mom starts with the stories you tell your kids As a mom, you want to … read more

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Cover of Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1) by Christina Baehr

20. Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1)

By: Christina Baehr

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

As a Victorian clergyman’s daughter, Edith Worms has seen everything — until a mythical salamander … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte Mary Yonge

21. The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

4.07

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction

14 must-read fiction books like The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The White Witch

Elizabeth Goudge

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Silas Marner

George Eliot

3.68

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11 Top fiction books like Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

Transform Your Habits

Miss Mackenzie

Anthony Trollope , A.O.J. Cockshut , O.A.J. Cockshut

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Bleak House

Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Trumpet-Major

Thomas Hardy

3.69

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