17 Top fiction books like Cheerful: A Picture Story by Palmer Brown

Cover of Cheerful: A Picture Story by Palmer Brown

Cheerful: A Picture Story

By: Palmer Brown

4.34

Format: 58 pages, Hardcover

Cheerful is a mouse who longs to live in the country described in a song his mother sings.

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Cover of Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1) by Kate Milford

1. Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

By: Kate Milford

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, … read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"I want that T-shirt" Sirin muttered. " I should have that T-shirt."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

"Never overlook folklore if you want to really know about the place it came from."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

"But Milo had a shiny gold present to open, and presents trumped sad trees any day of the week."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

"But when things were passed to you, you were supposed to pass them on to someone else eventually too."

-Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)

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2. The Little Grey Men

By: B.B.

4.12

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The last four gnomes in Britain live by a Warwickshire brook. But when one of them decides to go a… read more

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  • animals
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

3. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • fiction
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4. Owl at Home

By: Arnold Lobel

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Owl's house! Owl lives all by himself in a cozy little house. But whether he's inviting … read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
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5. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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  • fiction

6. Rechenka's Eggs

By: Patricia Polacco

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A warm tale of love and and the unexpected from the bestselling author of The Keeping Quilt. Old Ba… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

7. The Graveyard Book

By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean

4.16

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly n… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Leave no path untaken."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"You are almost never cool to your children."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself wih you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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8. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

By: Josephine Tey

3.95

Format: None pages,

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Mousewife

By: Rumer Godden , Heidi Holder Godden

3.66

Format: None pages,

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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10. Dandelion Wine

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawn… read more

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"No,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"And the sea moved her back down the shore."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"Those women like to see their tongues dance."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

11. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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12. Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

4.09

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more

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  • picture books
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

13. A Child's Christmas in Wales

By: Trina Schart Hyman , Dylan Thomas

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Originally emerging from a piece written for radio, the poem was recorded by Thomas in 1952. The st… read more

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14. The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2)

By: Rick Riordan

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--th… read more

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15. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more

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16. Jenny's Moonlight Adventure

By: Esther Averill

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At nine o'clock The Cat Club will convene to celebrate this wondrous Halloween night inJenny's Moon… read more

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17. The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #3)

By: Rick Riordan

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Magnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin's chosen wa… read more

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18. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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19. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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20. The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus, #2.5)

By: Rick Riordan , Haley Riordan

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy an… read more

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21. The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)

By: Rick Riordan

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone … read more

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Cover of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Jane Carruth, Rene Cloke

22. Alice in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll , Jane Carruth , Rene Cloke

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

This is an adaptation. For the editions of the original book, see here. Alice's Adventures in Wo… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Intendo dire"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"Who ARE You?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"Curiouser and curiouser!"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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23. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

24. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more

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25. The Seed Keeper

By: Diane Wilson

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more

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  • fiction
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

Cover of All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16) by Louise Penny

26. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

By: Louise Penny

4.43

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more

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  • fiction
"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

Cover of A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15) by Louise Penny

27. A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

By: Louise Penny

4.30

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet… read more

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  • fiction
"Consequences,"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Civility. How can we expect it if we don't give it?"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"It was, he knew, a sign of End of Days. Ruth refusing booze."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Chief Inspector Gamache’s says there are ‘four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was wrong."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

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28. Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

By: Louise Penny

4.33

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head o… read more

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  • fiction
"I don’t know. I need help. I was wrong. I’m sorry."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

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29. The Queen: Her Life

By: Andrew Morton

4.03

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive, most comprehensive … read more

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Cover of Richard Scarry’s The Animals' Merry Christmas: A Little Golden Book Classic by Richard Scarry

30. Richard Scarry’s The Animals' Merry Christmas: A Little Golden Book Classic

By: Richard Scarry

3.80

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Today’s kids will love this holiday story collection, brought to life by Richard Scarry, of animals… read more

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  • picture books
Cover of Cheerful: A Picture Story by Palmer Brown

31. Cheerful: A Picture Story

By: Palmer Brown

4.34

Format: 58 pages, Hardcover

Cheerful is a mouse who longs to live in the country described in a song his mother sings. read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
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