5 must-read classics books like Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8) by John Galsworthy

Cover of Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8) by John Galsworthy

Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

By: John Galsworthy

4.13

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles - one of the most popular and enduring works o…

"Isn’t this a nice clean place? Loo! What d’you like best in all the world?"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

"Isn’t this a nice clean place? Loo! What d’you like best in all the world?"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

"She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

"She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

If you liked the classics plot in Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8) by John Galsworthy , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7) by Jeffrey Archer

1. This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

'This Was a Man' opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who d… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Archer's This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7) book and John Galsworthy's Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Men often fall in love at first sight"

-Jeffrey Archer, This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7)

Cover of Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

2. Vinegar Girl

By: Anne Tyler

3.38

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Rotters' Club

By: Jonathan Coe

3.96

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescen… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

"ja niin elämässäni kaikki tuntuu tänään muuttuneen, jopa kaupunki muuttaa muotoaan ympärilläni, minä istun Paradise Placella ja katson Muistojen saliin päin ja yhtäkkiä kaikki viittaa minuun ja Cicel…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

"They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

"Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face an…"

-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

Cover of Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, None, John       Bowen

4. Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen

3.72

Format: None pages,

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspe… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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5. Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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6. The Insulted and Humiliated

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshado… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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8. My Reading Life

By: Pat Conroy

3.50

Format: None pages,

Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profou… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. Breathing Lessons

By: Anne Tyler

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Breathing Lessonsis the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impe… read more

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  • fiction

10. Cometh the Hour (The Clifton Chronicles, #6)

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.36

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Cometh the Houropens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Har… read more

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11. Inocenții

By: Ioana Pârvulescu

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parerea editorului:Poate ca inocenta e varsta la care ar fi trebuit sa ramanem pentru a da un dram … read more

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12. Be Careful What You Wish For (The Clifton Chronicles, #4)

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.48

Format: 208 pages,

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish Foropens with Harry Clifton and his wi… read more

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13. Mightier Than the Sword (The Clifton Chronicles, #5)

By: Jeffrey Archer

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find … read more

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14. An Unkindness of Ravens (Inspector Wexford, #13)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man … read more

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15. The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Alison Weir

4.50

Format: None pages,

'At last we have the truth about Henry VIII's wives. This book is as reliable and scholarly as it i… read more

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16. The Ash-Born Boy (The Near Witch, #0.5)

By: Victoria Schwab

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Before he came to Near... Before he met Lexi... Before they faced the witch... Who was the boy name… read more

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17. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan

18. Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

By: Sam Heughan

4.05

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Two Men. One Country. And a lot of whisky. As stars of "Outlander", Sam and Graham eat, sleep an… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg

19. Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

By: Klara Hveberg

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK A remarkable and hea… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Andre folk har et liv. De glemmer. De ligger ikke under dynen som henne og samler på øyeblikk. Enda en gang er hun bare en liten flik av en annens liv. Mens han er nesten hele hennes verden."

-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

"Hun sukker. "Vi kunne blitt en fin kjærlighetsroman, tror du ikke?" Han lar blikket hvile på henne. Lenge. De kloke Sankt Bernhardshund-øynene. "Vi passer nok bedre i en ensomhetsroman, du og jeg." s…"

-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

"Fraktalene er også fulle av hull i ulike størrelser, og dette gjør at de kan ha en dimensjon som ikke er et helt tall. Et klassisk eksempel på en fraktal er Sierpinski-trekanten. Da starter man med e…"

-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

"Może tak naprawdę on istnieje w wyższym wymiarze. Jeśli tak jest, to Bóg, projektowany do naszego wymiaru, mógłby wyglądać inaczej w zależności od tego, gdzie znajduje się patrzący. A różne na jego t…"

-Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

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20. The Last Dress from Paris

By: Jade Beer

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses... London, 2017. There's no one Lucille… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8) by John Galsworthy

21. Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

By: John Galsworthy

4.13

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles - one of the most popular and enduring works o… read more

Similar categories in John Galsworthy's Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8) book and John Galsworthy's Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

  • nobel prize
  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • 20th century
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Isn’t this a nice clean place? Loo! What d’you like best in all the world?"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

"She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

"Most of our caste in this country, if they only knew it, are Confucian rather than Christian. Belief in ancestors, and tradition, respect for parents, honesty, moderation of conduct, kind treatment o…"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

"Smoke! Did all human passion burn away and drift in a blue film over the fields, obscure for a moment the sight of the sun and the shapes of the crops and the trees, then fade into air and leave the …"

-John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness (The Forsyte Chronicles, #8)

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