Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain…
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1. Scoop
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- novels
- comedy
"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
2. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
3. The Assistant
By: Bernard Malamud , Jonathan Rosen
4.00
Format: 32 pages,
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a groce… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
4. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
By: Dominic Sandbrook
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more
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- british literature
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6. London Fields
By: Martin Amis
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searchi… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
7. Dead Babies
By: Martin Amis
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemb… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- british literature
8. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- novels
9. Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- novels
- comedy
10. The Information
By: Martin Amis
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. … read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
11. A Bend in the River
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. As he st… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
12. A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
13. The Rachel Papers
By: Martin Amis
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of … read more
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14. Experience: A Memoir
By: Martin Amis
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The son of the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father… read more
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15. Money
By: Martin Amis
3.69
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- humor
- fiction
- novels
"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."-Martin Amis, Money
"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"-Martin Amis, Money
16. The Diary of a Nobody
By: George Grossmith , Weedon Grossmith
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and … read more
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17. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
By: Alan Sillitoe
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with… read more
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18. The End of the Affair
By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"As long as one suffers one lives."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
19. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
20. The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
By: David Lodge
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The articles with which David Lodge entertained and delighted readers of the Independent on Sundaya… read more
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21. Herzog
By: Philip Roth , Saul Bellow
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life… read more
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22. The Sportswriter
By: Richard Ford
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more
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23. Murphy
By: Samuel Beckett
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more
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24. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Hallward
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agen… read more
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25. Zuleika Dobson
By: Max Beerbohm
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said … read more
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26. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- novels
27. Nice Work
By: David Lodge
3.94
Format: 313 pages,
Nice Work(1988) is a novel by British author David Lodge. It won the Sunday Express Book of the Yea… read more
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28. Small World
By: David Lodge
3.94
Format: 313 pages,
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academ… read more
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29. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses
By: David Lodge
3.94
Format: 313 pages,
Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this a… read more
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30. The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
By: Nancy Omeara
4.33
Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition
Tired of the "them or us" politics that the Democrats and Republicans are pushing down our throats?… read more
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- humor
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"It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn from history before it happens."-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"I wheeled and dealed with leaders from all over the world on behalf of the American people. In fact, my favorite headline from Washington Speaks magazine was “She Walks, She Talks, She Negotiates"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"Educate not Legislate Refusing to pass unnecessary laws requires a converse – encouraging education and understanding. We started by slashing the salaries of legislators (Dubbed “Bloodbath on the Bel…"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
31. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- fiction
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
