The View from Pompey's Head: A Novel (Voices of the South)
By: Hamilton Basso
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Sweet, sleepy—beautiful—old Pompey’s Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he’d ground it out of…
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1. Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed… read more
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"Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
2. Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureat… read more
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3. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more
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4. The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kristin Lavransdatterinterweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of… read more
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5. My Ántonia
By: Willa Cather
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more
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6. The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
By: Margery Allingham
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some ver… read more
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"George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her."-Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
7. By Love Possessed
By: James Gould Cozzens , Mira Mihelič
3.83
Format: None pages,
During 49 hours in the life of Arthur Winner, the leading lawyer in a small Pennsylvania town in th… read more
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8. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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9. The Girls
By: Emma Cline
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more
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10. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more
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11. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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12. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
4.27
Format: 67 pages,
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more
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13. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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14. Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
By: Stella Gibbons
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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15. Plum Island (John Corey, #1)
By: Nelson DeMille
3.97
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vint… read more
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16. O Pioneers!
By: Willa Cather
3.90
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more
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"Things away from home often look better than they are."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
17. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
18. The Language of Flowers
By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weave… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. Empire Falls
By: Richard Russo
3.57
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo--from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man--has demonstrated a p… read more
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21. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.05
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bests… read more
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"Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope."-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
"The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]"-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
22. The View from Pompey's Head: A Novel (Voices of the South)
By: Hamilton Basso
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Sweet, sleepy—beautiful—old Pompey’s Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought he’d ground it out of… read more
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