The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th-Century to the Present Day
By: Bella Bathurst
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Bella Bathurst's first book, the acclaimed The Lighthouse Stevensons,told the story of Scottish lig…
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1. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.19
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more
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- crime
"To say goodbye is to die a little."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
2. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
By: Hilary Mantel
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
3. The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England
By: Janina Ramírez
4.12
Format: 176 pages, ebook
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saintsoffers an original and fa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. 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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- british literature
5. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.41
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
"[O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a master… read more
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- audiobook
"You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack."-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
"They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop ab…"-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
6. The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.41
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidl… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
"At one time Stephen had been marooned on a bare rock in the South Atlantic, and his only drink was the warm rainwater that remained in the guano-filled hollows. It had been more disagreeable than Mrs…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jac…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, 'but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw - do this, do that, gluppit the prawling stra…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
"Stephen Maturin sipped his scalding coffee, the right Mocha berry, brought back from Arabia Felix in the pilgrim dhows, and considered. He was naturally a reserved and even a secretive man: his illeg…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
7. Coming Through Slaughter
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.54
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2,000 prostitutes, 70 p… read more
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8. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
9. 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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- 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
10. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)
By: Caimh McDonnell
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more
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11. The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.40
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor m… read more
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- audiobook
"(She) threw Stephen a quick, apologetic glance and ran into the house. She might be in a strange hurry of spirits, but she moved with the perfect, unconscious grace that had always touched him, and h…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
12. The Mauritius Command
By: Patrick O'Brian
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
"O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should ha… read more
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13. Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
By: Rory MacLean
3.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teena… read more
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14. The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)
By: Edna O'Brien
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they … read more
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15. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
16. 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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- audiobook
- 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)
17. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
18. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- audiobook
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
19. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- crime
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- audiobook
20. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
By: Daniel Stashower
3.50
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more
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- crime
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21. Warlight
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.60
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a … read more
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"A memoir is the lost inheritance."-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"we order our lives with barely held stories"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
22. The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
By: James M Zimmerman
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they pai… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
23. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- history
- audiobook
24. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
25. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
By: Rebecca Boggs Roberts
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a… read more
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- history
- audiobook
26. The Fleet That Had To Die
By: Richard Hough
4.09
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
By autumn 1904, the Russo-Japanese war had been raging for six months. Routed in Manchuria, the Rus… read more
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- history
27. Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, The Golden Age of Aviation and the rise of Fascism
By: David Hanna
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
By: Jack J. Hersch
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him… read more
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29. The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th-Century to the Present Day
By: Bella Bathurst
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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- history
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30. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
