Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors
By: Jan Bondeson
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to de…
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1. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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- historical
"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
2. The Man in the High Castle
By: Philip K. Dick
3.60
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more
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"Don’t you feel it?"-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
3. The Thirteenth Tale
By: Diane Setterfield
3.98
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's col… read more
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- historical
"Life is compost."-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"Reading can be dangerous."-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"Of course I loved books more than people."-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"What better place to kill time than a library?"-Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
4. Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #2)
By: Natasha Pulley
3.30
Format: 208 pages,
The author has said in an interview: The next book follows on from Watchmaker. Thaniel and Mori go … read more
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- historical
5. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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6. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
By: Mary Roach
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In ?Bonk,?the best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most al… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Anansi Boys
By: Neil Gaiman
4.30
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
God is dead. Meet the kids. Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dea… read more
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8. Bound for Glory
By: Woody Guthrie , Pete Seeger
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years… read more
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9. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
10. The Sandman: Overture
By: None , Neil Gaiman , J.H. Williams III , Todd Klein
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years since 's legendary series is back in a deluxe hardcover edition! The Sandman: Ov… read more
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11. Bruges-La-Morte
By: Georges Rodenbach , Will Stone
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal lo… read more
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12. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- historical
- history
- nonfiction
13. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
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- historical
"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
14. The Familiars
By: Stacey Halls
3.88
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more
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- historical
"Respect is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
15. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.86
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more
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"Dread works best in complete silence."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
16. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Stone Blind
By: Natalie Haynes
3.82
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. They will fear you and flee y… read more
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- historical
"Then look."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"The sea gods keep their secrets deep; they always have."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?"-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
"And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone cannot be saved."-Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind
18. The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
By: Kate Summerscale
3.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. Dawnlands (The Fairmile #3)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.07
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many famili… read more
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- historical
21. The Doll Factory
By: Elizabeth Macneal
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more
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- historical
- victorian
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory
22. After Alice Fell
By: Kim Taylor Blakemore
3.59
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
Until she discovers the truth of her sister’s death, no one will rest in peace. New Hampshire, 1… read more
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- historical
23. Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.83
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and Engl… read more
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- historical
24. The Kingdoms
By: Natasha Pulley
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more
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- historical
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
25. The Asylum
By: Karen Coles
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
1906: Being a woman is dangerous, being different is deadly. Maud Lovell has been at Angelton Lu… read more
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- historical
26. The Half Life of Valery K
By: Natasha Pulley
4.20
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more
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- historical
"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K
27. Nicole Angemi's Anatomy Book: A Catalog of Familiar, Rare, and Unusual Pathologies
By: Nicole Angemi
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Anatomy for all by “the Internet’s Most Famous Coroner” (Vice) From “A is for Abdomen” to “W is for… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors
By: Jan Bondeson
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to de… read more
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- historical
- history
- victorian
- nonfiction
