10 Top literature books like The Idea of North (Topographics) by Peter Davidson

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The Idea of North (Topographics)

By: Peter Davidson

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone has their own idea of North and what it means. This book considers the mythologies and rep…

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1. 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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  • literature
  • historical
"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

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2. David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Format: 882 pages, Paperback

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • british literature
"Trifles make the sum of life. "

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

3. Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more

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  • literature
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4. The Woman in Black

By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more

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5. Think Like an Anthropologist

By: Matthew Engelke

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science

6. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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7. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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8. The Witches: Salem, 1692

By: Stacy Schiff

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more

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9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • literature
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

10. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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11. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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12. Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more

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13. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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14. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • literature
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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15. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life

By: Clare Carlisle

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who ex… read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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16. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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17. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • british literature
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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18. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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  • literature
  • british literature
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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19. BOX 88 (BOX 88, #1)

By: Charles Cumming

4.07

Format: 482 pages, Paperback

An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught. 1989: The fall of the Berlin … read more

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20. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • british literature
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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21. Judas 62 (BOX 88, #2)

By: Charles Cumming

4.23

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

The second book in Charles Cumming’s gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 – a covert int… read more

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22. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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23. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

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24. Summerwater

By: Sarah Moss

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

No dia mais longo do verão, a chuva cai fortemente sobre uma pequena aldeia rural nas Terras Altas … read more

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  • british literature
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25. Diary of a Void

By: Emi Yagi

3.51

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more

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"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

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26. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

By: Jia Tolentino

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more

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  • nonfiction
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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27. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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28. The Fell

By: Sarah Moss

3.63

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. K… read more

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  • british literature
"Life, then, to be lived, somehow."

-Sarah Moss, The Fell

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29. The Manningtree Witches

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more

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  • historical
  • british literature
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-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

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30. Fifteen Wild Decembers

By: Karen Powell

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more

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  • historical
Cover of The Idea of North (Topographics) by Peter Davidson

31. The Idea of North (Topographics)

By: Peter Davidson

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone has their own idea of North and what it means. This book considers the mythologies and rep… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

7 Top historical books like The Idea of North (Topographics) by Peter Davidson

Transform Your Habits

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

3.59

Transform Your Habits

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

Hilary Mantel

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Lessons

Ian McEwan

4.00

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15 must-read fiction books like The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

Transform Your Habits

Poor Things

Alasdair Gray

3.94

Transform Your Habits

L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

Transform Your Habits

L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

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Cuore nero

Silvia Avallone

4.25

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