8 must-read fiction books like The Lively Dead by Peter Dickinson

Cover of The Lively Dead by Peter Dickinson

The Lively Dead

By: Peter Dickinson

3.77

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Omni-competent Lydia Timms owns a large house in a once-grand Notting Hill terrace, living in the b…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Lively Dead by Peter Dickinson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

1. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, Philip Horne

2. Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne

3.88

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more

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  • fiction
"Meat, ma'am, meat."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"Please, sir, I want some more."

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"

-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Cover of Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35) by Agatha Christie

3. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced s… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

By: David Mitchell

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In 1799, Jacob de Zoet disembarks on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company's remo… read more

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  • fiction

5. Wolf in White Van

By: John Darnielle

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolat… read more

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6. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

7. Case for Three Detectives

By: Leo Bruce

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Possibly the most unusual mystery ever written. A murder is committed, behind closed doors, in biza… read more

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8. Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries (Lord Peter Wimsey, #9)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Pet… read more

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9. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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10. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

By: Stanisław Lem , Christine Rose

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet… read more

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Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

11. 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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  • fiction
"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)

12. Elizabeth Costello

By: J.M. Coetzee

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, a… read more

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Cover of The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1) by C.K. McDonnell

13. The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stra… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Lively Dead by Peter Dickinson

14. The Lively Dead

By: Peter Dickinson

3.77

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Omni-competent Lydia Timms owns a large house in a once-grand Notting Hill terrace, living in the b… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

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