7 Best 20th century books like The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford

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The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court

By: Ford Madox Ford

3.38

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Now back in print, Ford's highly acclaimed portrait of Henry VIII's controversial fifth QueenThis m…

If you liked the 20th century plot in The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by None, H.T. Willetts, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • historical fiction
"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Cover of The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library) by Virginia Woolf

2. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • british literature
"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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3. Song of Solomon

By: Toni Morrison

4.14

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Her passions were narrow but deep."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"He can't value you more than you value yourself."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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

4. 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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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. The Inheritors

By: Joseph Conrad , Ford Madox Ford

4.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Book jacket/back: This novel was conceived in the heated and controversial politics of Britain at t… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • british literature
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6. Offshore

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature

7. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • british literature
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8. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Cover of The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks, None

9. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) by Jane Gardam

10. 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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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

11. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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Cover of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

12. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.50

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its ce… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • british literature
"We fucked a flame into being."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

-D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

13. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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14. And Quiet Flows the Don

By: Mikhail Sholokhov

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Tikhii Don, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epi… read more

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15. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

16. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

By: Margaret Atwood

2.35

Format: 62 pages, Hardcover

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vinta… read more

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17. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.29

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Stra… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There have,"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"Where is your warrant?"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"I have taken to living by my wits."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

"Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)

18. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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19. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

By: J.M. Barrie , Arthur Rackham

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London,… read more

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20. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

21. The Shipping News

By: Annie Proulx

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more

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22. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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23. 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
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24. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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25. Forever Home

By: Graham Norton

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) by Richard  Coles

26. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of My Contrary Mary (Mary, #1) by Cynthia Hand

27. My Contrary Mary (Mary, #1)

By: Cynthia Hand

3.91

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . .… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Genesis (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #12) by Robin Cook

28. Genesis (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #12)

By: Robin Cook

3.85

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnes… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

29. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

30. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court

By: Ford Madox Ford

3.38

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Now back in print, Ford's highly acclaimed portrait of Henry VIII's controversial fifth QueenThis m… read more

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  • british literature
  • tudor period
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • 16th century

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3.75

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4.14

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Howard Jacobson

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