5 Top 20th century books like How the Vote Was Won by Cicely Hamilton

How the Vote Was Won

By: Cicely Hamilton

3.72

Format: None pages, None

'How the Vote Was Won' is set in the living room of Horace and Ethel Cole in Brixton, London, on th…

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Cover of Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1) by Laini Taylor

1. Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

By: Laini Taylor

3.99

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers w… read more

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"Alas. I am not an option."

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

"My tiny scary friend is coming"

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

"We dreamed together of the world remade."

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

"To take from the universe, you must give."

-Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

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2. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • 20th century
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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3. The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Tim… read more

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4. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • plays
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5. The Gilda Stories

By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more

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6. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • plays
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7. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)

By: Jeff Lindsay

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in… read more

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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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9. The Comforters

By: Muriel Spark

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

Caroline Rose is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and the strange, detached narration of h… read more

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  • 20th century
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10. If Beale Street Could Talk

By: James Baldwin

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more

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11. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more

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12. Mother Courage and Her Children

By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more

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  • plays
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13. Ruth

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

5.00

Format: None pages,

* Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle bo… read more

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14. The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

4.05

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either y… read more

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"Above him, the stars were brutal and clear."

-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

"Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied."

-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

"If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human."

-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."

-Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

15. Artful

By: Ali Smith

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The incomparable Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of prais… read more

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16. Riders to the Sea

By: J.M. Synge

3.56

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. Although from a middle-class Protestant background, Synge's writings… read more

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  • 20th century
  • plays
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17. 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

18. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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19. The War of the Worlds

By: H.G. Wells , Arthur C. Clarke

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the a… read more

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"We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one"

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

"That's what we are now—just ants. Only——" "Yes," I said. "We're eatable ants."

-H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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20. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • plays
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

21. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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22. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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23. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

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24. The Dumb Waiter

By: Harold Pinter

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

One of his most recognized and acclaimed plays, Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” is a humorous and… read more

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  • 20th century
  • plays

25. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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26. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

By: Walter Mosley

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more

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27. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

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"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

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28. Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story

By: Amelia B. Edwards

3.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

What had become of him? And what lad was that going up the path by which I had just come-that tall … read more

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29. The Open Door

By: Charlotte Riddell

3.60

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906) who also wrote under the pseudonym F. G. Tafford, was one of the most… read more

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30. The Author of Beltraffio

By: Henry James

3.60

Format: None pages, Library Binding

The Author of Beltraffio is a short story by Henry James, first published in the English Illustrate… read more

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31. How the Vote Was Won

By: Cicely Hamilton

3.72

Format: None pages, None

'How the Vote Was Won' is set in the living room of Horace and Ethel Cole in Brixton, London, on th… read more

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  • history
  • 20th century
  • plays

8 must-read plays books like How the Vote Was Won by Cicely Hamilton

Transform Your Habits

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Mother Courage and Her Children

David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

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14 must-read fiction books like The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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