20 best-selling fiction books like Florence Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series) by Ella Carr

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Florence Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

By: Ella Carr

4.15

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This stunning hardcover collection brings alive the magnificent Italian city of Florence through th…

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1. The Beauty and the Beast (MinaLima Edition)

By: Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve , MinaLima , James Robinson Planché

3.72

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise a… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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  • fiction
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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3. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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  • fiction
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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4. Claudia and Mean Janine: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #4)

By: Ann M. Martin , Raina Telgemeier

4.37

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. Claudia, who pays more a… read more

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  • fiction
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5. 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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  • fiction
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6. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more

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  • fiction
"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

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9. The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • fiction

11. Under the Tuscan Sun

By: Frances Mayes

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spir… read more

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12. Something Wicked This Way Comes

By: Ray Bradbury

None

Format: None pages, None

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Up at the Villa

By: W. Somerset Maugham

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself co… read more

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  • fiction

14. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more

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15. Eloise

By: Hilary Knight , Kay Thompson

4.01

Format: 204 pages,

"I am Eloise, I am six." So begins the well-loved story of Eloise, the garrulous little girl who li… read more

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16. The Sheltering Sky

By: Paul Bowles

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more

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  • fiction
"When I was young"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"The soul is the weariest part of the body."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"

-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

17. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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18. A Hero of Our Time

By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more

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19. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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20. The Birth of Venus

By: Sarah Dunant

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young… read more

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21. The Razor's Edge

By: W. Somerset Maugham

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Intimate acquaintances but less than friends, they meet and part in postwar London and Paris: Ellio… read more

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22. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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23. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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  • fiction
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24. The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

4.02

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more

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  • fiction
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."

-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts

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25. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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26. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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27. Night Boat to Tangier

By: Kevin Barry

3.62

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more

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  • fiction
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

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28. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

By: Kiersten White

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from he… read more

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  • fiction
"death is never allowed to touch you"

-Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

"Mary Shelley changed the whole world."

-Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

"I allowed myself to smile for no one. For myself."

-Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

"They had stripped us of everything we were taught made us women and then told us we were mad."

-Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

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29. Prague Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

By: Richard Bassett

3.32

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of stories set in Prague, by an international array of br… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Florence Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

By: Ella Carr

4.15

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

This stunning hardcover collection brings alive the magnificent Italian city of Florence through th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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31. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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  • fiction
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

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