Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: Discover your next great read
By: Nick Rennison
3.80
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task.…
Want to Read"The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense."-Nick Rennison, Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: Discover your next great read
"The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense."-Nick Rennison, Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: Discover your next great read
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1. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
By: Charles Dickens , David Paroissien
3.66
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers si… read more
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"For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away."-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds."-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to t…"-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carryin…"-Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
By: Misha Glenny
4.09
Format: 752 pages, Paperback
This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
4. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
5. The War of the Worlds
By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more
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"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
6. Herland
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more
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7. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)
By: E. Nesbit
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more
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8. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
4.32
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? New York Times bestselling auth… read more
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10. Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: Discover your next great read
By: Nick Rennison
3.80
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task.… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- books about books
- reference
"The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense."-Nick Rennison, Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide: Discover your next great read
