Midwinter
By: John Buchan
3.61
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set in 1745, as Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebel army marches south into England, "Midwinter" tells th…
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1. The Riddle of the Sands
By: Erskine Childers , Milton Bearden
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret Germ… read more
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2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- scotland
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- historical fiction
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3. Consider the Lilies
By: Isobel Murray , Iain Crichton Smith
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Highland Clearances, the eviction of crofters from their homes between 1792 and the 1850s, was … read more
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- scotland
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4. The Mandelbaum Gate
By: Muriel Spark
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
To rendezvous with her archeologist fiance in Jordan, Barbara Vaughn must first pass through the Ma… read more
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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6. Moonfleet
By: John Meade Falkner
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
"Moonfleet" (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cl… read more
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- classics
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7. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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- classics
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
8. Phantastes
By: George MacDonald
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. Cider With Rosie
By: Laurie Lee
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more
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- british literature
10. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- classics
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11. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
12. The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
By: Max Adams
3.68
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
Oswald Whiteblade lived one of the most influential and colourful lives in early English history. B… read more
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13. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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14. Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman
3.65
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more
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- classics
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- british literature
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
15. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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- classics
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"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
16. Sweeney Todd; or, The String of Pearls
By: Anonymous , James Malcolm Rymer , Thomas Peckett Prest , Dick Collins
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A distraught Johanna Oakley wanders the streets of London seeking news of the missing fiance, Mark … read more
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17. Gallows Thief
By: Bernard Cornwell
3.91
Format: 373 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rider Sandman, having fought Napoleon in the French wars, expected to lead the life of an English c… read more
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- adventure
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
18. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.37
Format: 414 pages,
Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more
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19. An Instance of the Fingerpost
By: Iain Pears
5.00
Format: 224 pages,
An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and tu… read more
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20. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
21. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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22. Lilith
By: George MacDonald
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. After he followed the old ma… read more
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23. Under the Greenwood Tree
By: Thomas Hardy
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under the Greenwood Treeis the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dew… read more
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24. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
25. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
26. The Dark Remains
By: William McIlvanney
3.84
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
In this scorching crime prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-w… read more
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- fiction
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"The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice."-William McIlvanney, The Dark Remains
27. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
By: Dawnie Walton
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their… read more
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- historical fiction
"Disclosure: My father, a drummer named Jimmy Curtis, fell in love with Opal Jewel in the summer of 1970."-Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
28. Midwinter
By: John Buchan
3.61
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set in 1745, as Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebel army marches south into England, "Midwinter" tells th… read more
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- classics
- adventure
- british literature
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- historical fiction
29. Early in Orcadia
By: Naomi Mitchison
3.39
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Early in Orcadia was first published in 1987, and consists of five stories, set hundreds of years a… read more
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30. The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science (Synthesis)
By: Jan Golinski
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answ… read more
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