14 Best british literature books like Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

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Mr. Scarborough's Family

By: Anthony Trollope

3.91

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborough…

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1. A Town Like Alice

By: Nevil Shute

4.15

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the… read more

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"It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"Men's souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, God is well acquainted with what ye do."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"It was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mo…"

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

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2. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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3. Ormond

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.00

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

When Harry Ormond--an orphan--is involved in a near-fatal shooting, he is sent away to live with hi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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4. No Fond Return of Love

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more

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5. Clayhanger

By: Arnold Bennett , Frank Swinnerton

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British writer. He went to work for his father but was unhappy wor… read more

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6. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more

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"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

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7. Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war break… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. 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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  • british literature
  • victorian
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9. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)

By: Connie Willis

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at h… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

By: Samuel Richardson , Angus Ross

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe… read more

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11. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more

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

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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13. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more

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"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

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14. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more

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15. All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her … read more

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16. The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more

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17. X (Kinsey Millhone, #24)

By: Sue Grafton

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When a glamorous red head wishes to locate the son she put up for adoption thirty-two years ago, it… read more

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18. Hilda Lessways

By: Arnold Bennett

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the second volume of the trilogy, events in Clayhanger are retold from the perspective of Hilda … read more

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19. Passenger to Frankfurt

By: Agatha Christie

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a bored diplomat is approached in a bleak airport by a woman whose life is in danger, his inte… read more

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20. Seveneves

By: Neal Stephenson

4.50

Format: None pages,

What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time b… read more

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21. A Girl in Winter

By: Philip Larkin

3.62

Format: None pages,

This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and… read more

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22. The Female Detective

By: Alexander McCall Smith , Mike Ashley , Andrew Forrester

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware (1832-c.1909), under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester,… read more

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23. The Doctor's Wife

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon , Lyn Pykett

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

When The Doctor's Wifewas first published in 1864, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was well known for her sc… read more

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24. The Perpetual Curate (Chronicles of Carlingford, #4)

By: Mrs. Oliphant

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

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25. 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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26. Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.02

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Pe… read more

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"Just because a cow stands in a field all day doesn’t make it a philosopher"

-Vaseem Khan, Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

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27. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

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28. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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29. The Eighth Detective

By: Alex Pavesi

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is j… read more

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30. These Twain

By: Arnold Bennett

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The third in a trilogy of books following Edwin Clayhanger from leaving school, through the next 25… read more

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31. Mr. Scarborough's Family

By: Anthony Trollope

3.91

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborough… read more

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22 Best fiction books like Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

Transform Your Habits

A Town Like Alice

Nevil Shute

4.15

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Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Ormond

Maria Edgeworth

3.00

Transform Your Habits

No Fond Return of Love

Barbara Pym

3.70

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11 best-selling fiction books like Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, Angus Ross

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The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6)

Anthony Trollope , Dinah Birch

4.09

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The Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice

3.83

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The Man of Feeling

Henry MacKenzie , Brian Vickers , Stephen Bending

3.01

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The Vicar of Wakefield

Robert L. Mack , Oliver Goldsmith , Arthur Friedman

3.11

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