15 must-read fiction books like These Twain by Arnold Bennett

Cover of These Twain by Arnold Bennett

These Twain

By: Arnold Bennett

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The third in a trilogy of books following Edwin Clayhanger from leaving school, through the next 25…

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Cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

1. 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
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"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 Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) by Dorothy L. Sayers

2. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Cover of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

3. Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

3.83

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • novels
"Always wanting another man than your own."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"But no one came. Because no one ever does."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Cover of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

4. Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall

4.00

Format: 1021 pages, Paperback

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • novels
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

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5. My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolute… read more

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

6. 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
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"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

7. The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more

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8. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • novels
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

9. On the Eve

By: Ivan Turgenev

3.84

Format: 464 pages,

First published in 1859, On the Eve(of the Russian revolution) is another of Turgenev's lyrical ide… read more

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Cover of Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

10. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

11. 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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12. A Laodicean: A Story of Today

By: Thomas Hardy , J.H. Stape

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having accepted the suit of Captain, Paula discovers that his illegitimate son has hatched a plot a… read more

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Cover of Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

13. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3) by Hilary Mantel

14. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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15. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

Cover of The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7) by Dorothy L. Sayers

16. The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.78

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

During a painting retreat, a killer takes a creative approach to the ancient art of murder... Th… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"One of these days you’ll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn’t be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

"What's that, mister?" "That's the green for the gentleman's coat. No--don't pinch it, or you'll get it all over you. Yes, you can put the cap on. Yes, that's to keep it from drying up. Yes, put it ba…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

Cover of The Tenant (Kørner and Werner, #1) by Katrine Engberg

17. The Tenant (Kørner and Werner, #1)

By: Katrine Engberg

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of These Twain by Arnold Bennett

18. These Twain

By: Arnold Bennett

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The third in a trilogy of books following Edwin Clayhanger from leaving school, through the next 25… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

19. Mr. Scarborough's Family

By: Anthony Trollope

3.91

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborough… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • novels

9 Best novels books like These Twain by Arnold Bennett

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

3.83

None

Barbara Pym

None

Transform Your Habits

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall

4.00

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11 must-read fiction books like Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

None

Anthony Trollope

None

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