7 Top espionage books like The Complete Richard Hannay by John Buchan

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The Complete Richard Hannay

By: John Buchan

4.04

Format: 1140 pages, Paperback

This edition consists of five novels : The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mister Standfast, Th…

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1. The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)

By: Andrew Taylor

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historic… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark."

-Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)

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2. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

By: John Le Carré

3.99

Format: 589 pages, Paperback

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
"Let's die of it before we're too old."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

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3. Fortunata and Jacinta

By: Benito Pérez Galdós , Agnes Moncy Gullón

4.25

Format: 818 pages, Paperback

Capturing a ninteenth-century Spanish world of political tumult and personal obsession, Benito Pére… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"La falta de educación es para el pobre una desventaja mayor que la pobreza."

-Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata and Jacinta

"Pero tiene que haber olvido, como tiene que haber muerte. Sin olvido, no habría hueco para las ideas y los sentimientos nuevos. Si no olvidáramos no podríamos vivir, porque en el trabajo digestivo de…"

-Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata and Jacinta

"Tratando de medir el cariño que sentía por su amiga, Maximiliano hallaba pálida e inexpresiva la palabra querer, teniendo que recurrir a las novelas y a la poesía en busca del verbo amar, tan usado e…"

-Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata and Jacinta

"Cuando se quedaron solos los Delfines, Jacinta se despachó a su gusto con su marido, y tan cargada de razón estaba y tan firme y valerosa, que apenas pudo él contestarle, y sus triquiñuelas fueron ar…"

-Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata and Jacinta

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4. The Riddle of the Sands

By: Erskine Childers , Milton Bearden

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret Germ… read more

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  • espionage
  • classics
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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5. Dance Dance Dance

By: Haruki Murakami

4.05

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition here. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old … read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
"I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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6. The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

3.60

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Don’t you feel it?"

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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7. Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Black Swan

By: Rafael Sabatini

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she ha… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • adventure
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9. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer,… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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10. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
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11. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

13. At Risk (Liz Carlyle, #1)

By: Stella Rimington

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it's an "invisible"--someone traveling … read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. Smiley's People

By: John Le Carré

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction

15. Notes from a Small Island

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more

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16. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

17. More Than This

By: Patrick Ness

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised a… read more

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18. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

19. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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20. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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21. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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22. A Perfect Spy

By: John Le Carré

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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23. The Constant Gardener

By: John Le Carré

3.82

Format: 482 pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included."

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

"Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set."

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

"You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days."

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

"I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatter…"

-John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

24. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more

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25. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa

4.17

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more

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  • classics
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

26. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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27. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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28. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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29. The Fire Court (Marwood and Lovett, #2)

By: Andrew Taylor

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashe… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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30. The Complete Richard Hannay

By: John Buchan

4.04

Format: 1140 pages, Paperback

This edition consists of five novels : The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mister Standfast, Th… read more

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  • espionage
  • world war i
  • classics
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

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3.75

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The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

John Le Carré

3.99

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Fortunata and Jacinta

Benito Pérez Galdós , Agnes Moncy Gullón

4.25

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The Riddle of the Sands

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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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David Mitchell

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