9 must-read classics books like Guys and Dolls and Other Writings by Damon Runyon

Cover of Guys and Dolls and Other Writings by Damon Runyon

Guys and Dolls and Other Writings

By: Damon Runyon

4.21

Format: 654 pages, Kindle Edition

From Dave the Dude to Al a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up…

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Cover of The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1) by Andrew  Taylor

1. The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)

By: Andrew Taylor

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historic… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark."

-Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)

Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

2. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

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  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran

3. How to Build a Girl

By: Caitlin Moran

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

The New York Timesbestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and L… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
Cover of The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

4. The Thin Man

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more

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  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

5. Brave New World Revisited

By: Aldous Huxley

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

When the novel Brave New Worldfirst appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictato… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. The Passion

By: Jeanette Winterson

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Lucky Jim

By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
Cover of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 by Alan             Moore, Kevin O'Neill

8. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more

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  • fiction

9. All Families are Psychotic

By: Douglas Coupland

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction. The Drummond family, reunited for the… read more

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10. A Decent Ride (Terry Lawson, #3)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction A rampaging force of … read more

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11. Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World

By: Donald Antrim

4.08

Format: None pages,

Pete Robinson never meant to suggest the drawing-and-quartering of Mayor Kunkel, although he did me… read more

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12. Absent in the Spring

By: Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A striking novel of truth and soul-searching. Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Jo… read more

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  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Better to wear out than to rust out!"

-Agatha Christie, Absent in the Spring

"... during every conversation, sooner or later somebody says, “Nobody knows what I went through at that time!"

-Agatha Christie, Absent in the Spring

13. Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #11)

By: Anne Rice

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

The vampire world is in crisis - their kind have been proliferating out of control and, thanks to t… read more

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14. The Complete Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more

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15. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.37

Format: 414 pages,

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more

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16. Savrola: A Tale Of Revolution In Laurania

By: Winston S. Churchill , None , None

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Churchill's only novel. A melodramatic tale of intrigue and daring escapades, it may shed some ligh… read more

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17. Harvey

By: Mary Chase

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2) by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott

18. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott

4.11

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

19. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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20. A Death in the Family

By: James Agee , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published … read more

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21. The Makioka Sisters

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a wa… read more

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22. Ofrenda a la tormenta (Trilogía del Baztán, #3)

By: Dolores Redondo

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Izminal e samo mesets ot prikliuchvaneto na vtoriia sluchai, pri koito inspektor Amaia Salasar uspi… read more

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23. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • literature
  • american
  • fiction
  • the united states of america
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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24. The Fawn

By: Magda Szabó

4.18

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

25. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • humor
Cover of The Foundling by Ann Leary

26. The Foundling

By: Ann Leary

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House , the story of two friends, raised in … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul

27. Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

By: Alan Paul

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narra… read more

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  • american
Cover of God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent by Andy McGrath

28. God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent

By: Andy McGrath

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by Willia… read more

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Cover of Guys and Dolls and Other Writings by Damon Runyon

29. Guys and Dolls and Other Writings

By: Damon Runyon

4.21

Format: 654 pages, Kindle Edition

From Dave the Dude to Al a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up… read more

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  • new york
  • classics
  • american
  • the united states of america
  • literature
  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • crime
Cover of Collected Short Stories: Volume 4 by W. Somerset Maugham

30. Collected Short Stories: Volume 4

By: W. Somerset Maugham

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

These thirty short stories show an acknowledged master of the genre at the peak of his power. Most … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefacto…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4

"Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, pla…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4

"Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lame…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 4

Cover of No Paw to Stand On (A Bookmobile Cat Mystery Book 12) by Laurie Cass

31. No Paw to Stand On (A Bookmobile Cat Mystery Book 12)

By: Laurie Cass

4.31

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s no rest for the whiskered as librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, have to i… read more

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3.75

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3.99

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Caitlin Moran

4.20

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3.94

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