The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.66
Format: None pages,
When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poe…
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1. A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
By: Charles Dickens , Michael Slater
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. 'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes abo… read more
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- fantasy
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"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself."-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
"Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
"... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!"-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
"The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever."-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
2. Green Hills of Africa
By: Ernest Hemingway , Edward Shenton
3.54
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game … read more
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- fiction
"The earth gets tired of being exploited."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
"Also I wanted the whisky for itself, because I loved the taste of it and because, being as happy as I could be, it made me feel even better."-Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
3. A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of…"-Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
4. 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
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"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
5. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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- fiction
"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
6. Complete Ghost Stories
By: Charles Dickens
3.69
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a… read more
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- gothic
- fantasy
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"Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one, A few feet of cold earth, when life is done; A stone at the head, a stone at the feet, A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat; Rank grass over head, a…"-Charles Dickens, Complete Ghost Stories
7. The Pickwick Papers
By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more
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- fiction
8. Martyr (John Shakespeare, #1)
By: Rory Clements
4.36
Format: 224 pages,
1587. An assassin stalks the streets of London and tensions in Elizabeth's government are at breaki… read more
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- historical
- fiction
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9. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.66
Format: None pages,
When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poe… read more
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- gothic
- historical
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- horror
- science fiction
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- fantasy
10. The Railway Viaduct
By: Edward Marston
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. I… read more
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- historical
- fiction
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11. Volpone
By: Ben Jonson
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more
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- fiction
12. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more
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- fiction
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13. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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- fiction
14. Black Order (Sigma Force, #3)
By: James Rollins
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson a… read more
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15. Mister Pip
By: Lloyd Jones
3.11
Format: 216 pages,
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent sto… read more
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16. A Highland Christmas (Hamish Macbeth, #15.5)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In dark Lochdubh highlands, holiday spirit is absent - no pudding, carols, or whisky. Constable Ham… read more
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17. Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more
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18. Carmilla
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more
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- gothic
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
19. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.90
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
20. Amulet
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more
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21. This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, #1)
By: Kenneth Oppel
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein and inseparable until Konrad falls gravely ill… read more
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22. Chocky
By: John Wyndham
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more
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23. Prester John
By: John Buchan
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On… read more
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24. Judge & Jury
By: Andrew Gross , James Patterson
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom, is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismis… read more
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25. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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26. The Western Wind
By: Samantha Harvey
3.41
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she'd strayed from the point."-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
"But it’s our nature to deny what frightens us, and it’s not wicked or dull. Isn’t there always a bright, willing part of us that keeps hoping that what we know isn’t true?"-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
"Why can't time go backwards as well as forward? If time's not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can't it go this way and …"-Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind
27. The Passenger
By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
3.95
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing a… read more
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- fiction
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28. 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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29. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: The Original Screenplay (Fantastic Beasts: The Original Screenplay, #3)
By: J.K. Rowling
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The official complete screenplay of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling & S… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
30. Let Him In
By: William Friend
3.36
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
William Friend’s haunting debut Let Him In is a creeping, gothic psychological suspense about a you… read more
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- gothic
- fiction
- horror
"They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts."-William Friend, Let Him In
31. My Imaginary Mary (Mary, #2)
By: Cynthia Hand
3.80
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
It’s aliiiiiiiive! The bestselling authors of My Lady Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and … read more
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