25 must-read fiction books like The Call by Edith Ayrton Zangwill

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The Call

By: Edith Ayrton Zangwill

3.96

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

The Call is a 1924 novel about a female scientist who abandons her research work (in chemistry) to …

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1. The New Magdalen

By: Wilkie Collins

3.78

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Interred with Their Bones (Kate Stanley, #1)

By: Jennifer Lee Carrell

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “A feverishly paced action adventure” ( The New York Times ) about a long… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Right, then."

-Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones (Kate Stanley, #1)

"If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it."

-Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones (Kate Stanley, #1)

"An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -…"

-Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones (Kate Stanley, #1)

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3. The Riddle of the Third Mile (Inspector Morse, #6)

By: Colin Dexter

3.24

Format: None pages,

Inspector Morse isn't sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal. He … read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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4. A Dubious Legacy

By: Mary Wesley

3.75

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

On the threshold of their new life together, Margaret gave Henry a black eye and went straight to b… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature

5. Blowback (Enzo Files, #5)

By: Peter May

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement,… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Coffin Trail (Lake District Mystery #1)

By: Martin Edwards

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

What is meant as a fresh start in the English Lakes District begins to reek of buried secrets.... O… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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7. They Were Sisters

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Three sisters marry very different men and the choices they make determine whether they will flouri… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. Little Boy Lost

By: Marghanita Laski

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished Franc… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Long View

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'The Long View', a revealing portrait of a marriage, is the ingenious construction of a couple's st… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Resistance

By: Anita Shreve

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Now available in mass market paperback for the first time, this novel by the #1 New York Times best… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Canne al vento

By: Grazia Deledda , Angela Cerinotti

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Unica donna insignita dal Nobel nell'ambito della letteratura italiana e autrice di più di cinquant… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"...siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento."

-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento

"Little by little they all gathered around him, entering through the cracks like moonbeams...[b]ut once the wind of misfortune blows, people disperse like little clouds around the moon when the wind b…"

-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento

"The feast lasted nine days, the last three becoming a continuous circle dance accompanied by songs and music. Noemi always stayed on the belvedere among the banquet remains. ... No, she didn't dance,…"

-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento

"Eccola dunque col pensiero laggiù. Le par d’essere ancora fanciulla, arrampicata sul belvedere del prete, in una sera di maggio. Una grande luna di rame sorge dal mare, e tutto il mondo pare d’oro e …"

-Grazia Deledda, Canne al vento

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12. Miss Mole

By: E.H. Young

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"

-E.H. Young, Miss Mole

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13. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

14. Stenhuggaren (Patrik Hedström, #3)

By: Camilla Läckberg

3.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Nar en av Fjallbackas hummerfiskare hittar en liten flicka drunknad, tror man forst att hon dott av… read more

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15. Just One Evil Act (Inspector Lynley, #18)

By: Elizabeth George

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Hardcover

Sergeant Barbara Havers is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by … read more

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16. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

By: Thornton Wilder

5.00

Format: 36 pages,

Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more

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17. The Pilot's Wife

By: Anita Shreve

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyon… read more

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18. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

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19. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

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20. La libreria dei gatti neri

By: Piergiorgio Pulixi

3.90

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Grande appassionato di gialli, Marzio Montecristo ha aperto da qualche anno nel centro di Cagliari … read more

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  • fiction
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21. Una ragazza d'altri tempi

By: Felicia Kingsley

4.40

Format: 575 pages, Kindle Edition

A chi non piacerebbe vivere nella Londra di inizio ’800, tra balli, feste e inviti a corte? Di cert… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Resto qui

By: Marco Balzano

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Quando arriva la guerra o l'inondazione, la gente scappa. La gente, non Trina. Caparbia come il pae… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Nessuno può capire cosa c'è sotto le cose."

-Marco Balzano, Resto qui

"Ti fa sentire una ladra certe volte l'amore."

-Marco Balzano, Resto qui

"Die einzige Möglichkeit weiterzuleben ist vielleicht, sich zu verändern und nicht zu erstarren."

-Marco Balzano, Resto qui

"Seguir adelante, como decía madre, es la única dirección permitida. De no ser así, Dios nos habría puesto los ojos a los lados. Como los peces."

-Marco Balzano, Resto qui

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23. Le aquile della notte

By: Alice Basso

4.22

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Langhe, 1935. La fuliggine delle fabbriche lascia il posto al dolce profilo delle colline infiammat… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Daughters of Madurai

By: Rajasree Variyar

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the s… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. La signora in tweed

By: Charles Exbrayat

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Londra, anni Cinquanta. L’Ammiragliato è un mondo di soli uomini, che indossano sobrie uniformi scu… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day

26. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

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27. La Papeterie Tsubaki

By: Ito Ogawa

4.17

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Hatoko a vingt-cinq ans et la voici de retour à Kamakura, dans la petite papeterie que lui a léguée… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Mourir, c’était peut-être vivre éternellement."

-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki

"Elle s'est levée. Elle était sublime. Elle était l'incarnation personnifiée de cette vieille expression qui dit qu'une femme debout a la grâce de la pivoine de Chine, celle de la pivoine arbustive qu…"

-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki

"- C'est la formule secrète du bonheur, que j'ai appliquée toute ma vie, a-t-elle dit en riant. - Apprenez-la moi ! - Eh bien, il faut se dire à l'intérieur : « Brille, brille. » Tu fermes les yeux et…"

-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki

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28. Il primo sole dell'estate (Italian Edition)

By: Daniela Raimondi

4.07

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

È una casa fredda, quella in cui cresce Norma, in cui i genitori non si separano per quieto vivere … read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Margot Affair

By: Sanaë Lemoine

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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30. The Call

By: Edith Ayrton Zangwill

3.96

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

The Call is a 1924 novel about a female scientist who abandons her research work (in chemistry) to … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels

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The New Magdalen

Wilkie Collins

3.78

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Mary Wesley

3.75

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Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.81

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Canne al vento

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3.80

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Lisa See

4.36

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Abraham Verghese

4.45

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

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