5 Best classics books like Paddington Turns Detective and Other Funny Stories by Michael Bond

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Paddington Turns Detective and Other Funny Stories

By: Michael Bond

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Three classic Paddington Bear stories, by beloved author Michael Bond, are brought together for the…

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1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed

By: Jon Ronson

3.93

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more

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"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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2. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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3. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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4. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

By: E.L. Konigsburg

3.76

Format: None pages,

When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from some… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction
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5. The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3)

By: Scott Lynch

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and hi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After! (Dork Diaries, #8) by Rachel Renée Russell

6. Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After! (Dork Diaries, #8)

By: Rachel Renée Russell

4.33

Format: 25 pages,

It's Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls in this hilarious novel! After a bump on the head in gym class … read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. Happily ​Ever After (Cinder & Ella, #2)

By: Kelly Oram

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The end of one story is often the beginning of another. Hollywood heartthrob Brian Oliver and his C… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Bed and Breakfast Star

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.25

Format: None pages,

Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I'm Elsa, and that's one of my jokes (I tell LOTS of jokes a… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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9. The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1)

By: Jill Murphy

3.96

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches - she's always getting her s… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction

10. The Small Miracle

By: Paul Gallico

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Violetta, the donkey falls ill and the small miracle is that Pepino fights the might of the Catholi… read more

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11. Prodigal Summer

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more

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12. The Cat Mummy

By: Jacqueline Wilson , Nick Sharratt

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Verity's old tabby cat Mabel might not be quite as lively as she used to be and yes, she smells a b… read more

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13. The Christmas Pact

By: Vi Keeland

3.65

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Eggnog. Check. Roaring fire. Check. Hot romance audiobook. Check! Riley Kennedy’s emails keep ge… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan

14. The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

By: Faith Hogan

4.17

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again. 'Up… read more

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  • fiction
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15. The Mantis

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive new t… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Stepping Up

By: Sarah Turner

4.33

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Beth has never stuck at anything. She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember a… read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Bench

By: Meghan Markle

3.47

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex's first children's book, The Bench, beautifully captures the special … read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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18. Olympus, Texas

By: Stacey Swann

3.74

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

A bighearted debut with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot… read more

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  • fiction
"Being family just means we don't have the safety of fences between us."

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

"...those absent can feel more present, do more damage, than any warm body in the room."

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

"It's much easier to break a thing that has already been broken once. Mending rarely makes it stronger."

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

"Our reactions to most things are muddier than we admit. Yours don't have to be all good or all evil. They just are what they are. [Cole Doherty, to June Briscoe]"

-Stacey Swann, Olympus, Texas

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19. Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter

By: Richard Harries

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From Yehuda Amichai and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry inv… read more

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20. Paddington Turns Detective and Other Funny Stories

By: Michael Bond

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Three classic Paddington Bear stories, by beloved author Michael Bond, are brought together for the… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • fiction

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3.76

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