7 best-selling humor books like Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection by John Mortimer

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Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection

By: John Mortimer

3.95

Format: 27 pages, Audible Audio

An collection of stories featuring John Mortimer's comic creation. Horace Rumpole is the most er…

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Cover of Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicola Bradbury

1. Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

Format: 1017 pages, Paperback

The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more

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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."

-Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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2. The Gods of War (Emperor, #4)

By: Conn Iggulden

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across … read more

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3. Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

By: M.R. James

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Professor Parkins finds an old whistle, his stay at Globe Inn takes a turn for the eerie. read more

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4. The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more

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  • humor
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5. Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)

By: Kate Atkinson

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tracy, a retired police detective, rescues a small child; Jackson Brodie, a detective, rescues an a… read more

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6. A Meditation on Murder

By: Robert Thorogood

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: Leader of a Spiritual Retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one o… read more

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7. Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced s… read more

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8. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Bertie is in it up to his neck when a perfectly harmless visit to … read more

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9. Death Comes to Pemberley

By: None

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more

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10. Thrilling Cities

By: Ian Fleming

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Join the creator of James Bond on an adventure-charged visit to the world's most exciting, exotic, … read more

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11. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

By: Kate Atkinson

3.80

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:… read more

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"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

12. Christmas Crumble

By: M.C. Beaton

3.99

Format: 284 pages, ebook

Christmas tale that's holly, jolly--and deadly, by golly... At home alone for the holidays, Agatha … read more

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13. Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.80

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER: A Hamish Macbeth … read more

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  • humor
"Husbands are always angry, that's their nature. And the nature of us women, is not to pay a blind bit of notice."

-M.C. Beaton, Death of a Scriptwriter (Hamish Macbeth, #14)

14. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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15. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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16. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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17. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

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"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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18. Into the Uncanny

By: Danny Robins

4.27

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

'A contemporary Van Helsing...' Sunday Times'King of true-life scary tales' Observer'A wonderfully … read more

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"the older I'd got, the more ghost had become an abstract concept, something impossibly fictional on a par with Hobbits, Jedi or getting a GP appointment"

-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny

"Science itself can be quite negative because you essentially can never really prove a theory is correct, you can only prove it's wrong, so scientists are by definition sceptical because they spend a …"

-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny

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19. A Keeper

By: Graham Norton

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying good… read more

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"I've always found there are far fewer answers than there are questions."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

"The dead don't vanish, they leave a negative of themselves stamped on the world."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

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20. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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21. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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22. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

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23. A Shot in the Dark (Mydworth Mysteries #1)

By: Neil Richards

3.91

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Sussex, England, 1929. Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But thin… read more

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24. The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.79

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years … read more

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25. Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer (Agatha Raisin, #29)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.42

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

The latest Agatha Raisin mystery from bestselling author M. C. Beaton The team of bells at St. E… read more

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26. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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27. Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

By: Michael Benson

4.40

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, this is the definitive story of the mak… read more

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"If you can describe it, I can film it."

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

"In a 1972 story titled “The Big Space Fuck,"

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

"What we want is a smashing theme of mythic grandeur."

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

"As for HAL singing “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two),"

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

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28. Number 13

By: M.R. James

3.59

Format: None pages, ebook

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not p… read more

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29. Rivers of London Vol. 11: Here Be Dragons

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.14

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say a dangerous monster is at large above the streets of London. A monster red in tooth and cl… read more

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30. Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection

By: John Mortimer

3.95

Format: 27 pages, Audible Audio

An collection of stories featuring John Mortimer's comic creation. Horace Rumpole is the most er… read more

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12 best-selling fiction books like Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicola Bradbury

Transform Your Habits

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Bleak House

Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

Transform Your Habits

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

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