Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility: The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
By: Marian Veevers
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in a world torn between heady r…
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1. Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
By: Susan Hill
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is a year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors. Early one autu… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- biography
2. Jane Austen at Home
By: Lucy Worsley
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
3. What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
By: John Mullan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters c… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- history
4. Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
By: Arthur Ransome
4.01
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for… read more
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- british literature
"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
"But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforti…"-Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)
5. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
By: Jenna Lamia , Beth Hoffman
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Audio CD
Twelve-year-old CeeCee is in trouble. For years she's been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, C… read more
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6. Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
By: Anne Bogel
4.00
Format: None pages,
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7. Angle of Repose
By: Wallace Stegner
3.56
Format: None pages,
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more
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8. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- literature
- british literature
9. Payment in Blood (Inspector Lynley, #2)
By: Elizabeth George
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish … read more
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10. 44 Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street, #1)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 1 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinb… read more
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11. Longbourn
By: Jo Baker
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own pe… read more
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- british literature
"...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"If Elizabeth had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
12. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
13. The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs
By: Laura Tremaine
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Offering a path for a new way to think about friendships, The Life Council will inspire and equip y… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
14. Godmersham Park
By: Gill Hornby
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more
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- british literature
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park
15. The Bookshop of Second Chances
By: Jackie Fraser
3.58
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of… read more
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16. Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens, #4)
By: Alison Weir
4.05
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s… read more
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- british literature
"Never reveal your hand, Anna," he advised. "If my cap knew my mind, I would throw it into the fire." It was one of the most revealing things he had ever said to her."-Alison Weir, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens, #4)
17. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
18. The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
By: Susan Wiggs
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this thought-provoking, wise and emotionally rich novel, New York Times bestselling author Susan… read more
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"Sometimes you have to let the right book find you"-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
"You’ll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you’ve got."-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
"Autumn was San Francisco's summer. The days were bright and warm, scented with drying leaves and fading flowers and the ever-present salt air."-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
"Seeing him amid the yellow leaves and berry-colored hips of the spent roses, and the fading hollyhocks gone to seed along the garden wall, filled her heart."-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
19. The Fifth Avenue Story Society
By: Rachel Hauck
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An invitation to join The Fifth Avenue Story Society gives five New York strangers a chance to rewr… read more
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"She didn’t resist the rush of tears. If there was no sadness about leaving New York, then her time here would’ve meant nothing."-Rachel Hauck, The Fifth Avenue Story Society
20. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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- womens
- british literature
"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
21. The Jane Austen Society
By: Natalie Jenner
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel! Just after the S… read more
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- british literature
"Saved by Jane Austen"-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"But one can always read Austen."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"You read too much. You read her to much."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"Reading, she now understood, had been her own choice of rebellion."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
22. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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23. Miss Austen
By: Gill Hornby
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the… read more
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- british literature
"To surrender one's books, well: it is to surrender part of one's soul."-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Oh, marriage!' Jane retorted. 'Marriage! Always the excuse for all failures of character. One does so long for it to bring some improvements, but more often it appears the root cause of all poor beha…"-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Well ...' Cassie thought for a moment, and found she could not disagree. 'I suppose she is very happy to be married to James. And, perhaps, for the moment, yes, a little ... bumptious with it.' Jane …"-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Was I terribly rude?' It was almost as if she might care a jot. 'Yes! You were frightful!' Cassy tugged at her locks playfully. 'As rude as I was to Mr Blackall?' 'No,' Cassy conceded, laughing. 'Nob…"-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
24. Katheryn Howard: the Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5)
By: Alison Weir
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth… read more
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- british literature
25. Wild and Distant Seas
By: Tara Karr Roberts
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more
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26. The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1)
By: Jessica Bull
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a… read more
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27. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.84
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"When Washington became president of the United States, he was still wrestling with the meaning of the American Revolution. He'd entered the conflict an unrepentant Virginia slaveholder. By the end of…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
28. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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- womens
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
29. The Codebreaker's Secret
By: Sara Ackerman
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret missi… read more
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30. The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
By: Sara Ackerman
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark … read more
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- womens
31. Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility: The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
By: Marian Veevers
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in a world torn between heady r… read more
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- biography
- british literature
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- nonfiction
- womens
