Anne Brontë Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century
By: Adelle Hay
4.17
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Anne Brontë: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this…
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason
4.15
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more
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"Never,"-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"You are human and fallible."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Conventionality is not morality."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
3. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
4. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. Jane Austen at Home
By: Lucy Worsley
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
6. Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more
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7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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8. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
9. Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
By: Nicola Tallis
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the hea… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
10. The Blue Castle
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.94
Format: 255 pages,
Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more
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11. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
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13. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more
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14. The Brontës
By: Juliet Barker
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Brontes is an engrossing and intimate chronicle of an astonishingly creative family. "Anyone fa… read more
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15. Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life
By: Samantha Ellis
4.30
Format: 543 pages,
Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings -- virtuous, success… read more
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16. Wives and Daughters
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more
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17. Persuasion
By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch
4.15
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co… read more
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"Time will explain."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
"He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody."-Jane Austen, Persuasion
18. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
19. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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20. 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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"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
21. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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22. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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- nonfiction
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
23. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
24. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
25. Book Love
By: Debbie Tung
4.29
Format: 137 pages, Hardcover
Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels f… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
27. Emily Brontë Reappraised
By: Claire O'Callaghan
3.82
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Emily Bronte's incomparable Wuthering Heights is, for many of us, one of our most cherished novels,… read more
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- biography
- literary criticism
28. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
By: Pat Barker
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more
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"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
29. The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick
By: Sharon Wright
4.03
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
They were from different lands, different classes, different worlds almost. The chances of Corni… read more
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- biography
30. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
31. Anne Brontë Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century
By: Adelle Hay
4.17
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Anne Brontë: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this… read more
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