9 best-selling classics books like Roll Call (The Collected Works of Arnold Bennett) by Arnold Bennett

Roll Call (The Collected Works of Arnold Bennett)

By: Arnold Bennett

3.77

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

The Roll-Call: Large Print by Arnold Bennett Follows the career of George Cannon, Hilda Lessway's s…

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Cover of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet

1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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  • british literature
"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Cover of New Grub Street by George Gissing

2. New Grub Street

By: George Gissing

3.78

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had exp… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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"Walker's a fool and Quarmby's an ass,' remarked her father."

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

"Well, Maud made a mistake, let us say. Dolomore is a clown, and now she knows it."

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

"Confound it! It's just because nobody does anything that things have come to this pass!"

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

"The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain."

-George Gissing, New Grub Street

Cover of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

3. The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more

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  • classics
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"Bad world for poor people."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

"To the destruction of what is."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."

-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

Cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

4. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Cover of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

5. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

Cover of Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

6. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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Cover of Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

7. Palliser Novels

By: Anthony Trollope

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
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  • british literature
Cover of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Patricia Ingham

8. Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of City of Friends by Joanna Trollope

9. City of Friends

By: Joanna Trollope

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She glanced at her phone again. There were appeals from the girls, from her colleagues, a text from… read more

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Cover of The Go-Between by Colm Tóibín, L.P. Hartley

10. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

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  • classics
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

11. The Way We Live Now

By: Anthony Trollope

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more

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12. Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more

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13. John Caldigate

By: Anthony Trollope , N. John Hall

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

John Caldigate (1879) possesses in abundance the virtues of Trollope's writing: an engrossing story… read more

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14. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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15. The Touchstone

By: Edith Wharton

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

Glennard had never thought himself a hero; but he had been certain that he was incapable of basenes… read more

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16. Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

By: Christopher Hitchens , Aldous Huxley

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's visio… read more

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17. Sons and Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more

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18. Ayala's Angel

By: Anthony Trollope , None

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is Trollope's eightieth tale. Though it is the work of an older man, it is perhaps the brighte… read more

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19. Sanctuary

By: Edith Wharton , William Fiennes

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

"It is good, ethically and artistically, to read and read again a book with such a lift." -- "New Y… read more

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20. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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  • british literature

21. Roll Call (The Collected Works of Arnold Bennett)

By: Arnold Bennett

3.77

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

The Roll-Call: Large Print by Arnold Bennett Follows the career of George Cannon, Hilda Lessway's s… read more

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11 must-read fiction books like Roll Call (The Collected Works of Arnold Bennett) by Arnold Bennett

Transform Your Habits

New Grub Street

George Gissing

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

3.59

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

4.09

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21 Top fiction books like The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10) by Ann Cleeves

Transform Your Habits

Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

Transform Your Habits

A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

Deborah Crombie

4.25

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

Ian Rankin

4.20

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