8 must-read british literature books like Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker…

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Cover of The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

1. The Finkler Question

By: Howard Jacobson

2.83

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a pop… read more

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"It's never over till it's over with a friend."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

"So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

"At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

"At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more."

-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question

Cover of Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

2. Oscar and Lucinda

By: Peter Carey

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more

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  • romance
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  • classics
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Cover of The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie

3. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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Cover of Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

4. Offshore

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found  On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more

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5. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • classics
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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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Cover of Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

6. 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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  • classics
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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

Cover of The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

7. The Conservationist

By: Nadine Gordimer

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his … read more

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8. The Hotel

By: Elizabeth Bowen

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, r… read more

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9. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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10. The Elected Member

By: Bernice Rubens

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; b… read more

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11. Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)

By: William Golding

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to enterta… read more

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12. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 200 pages,

Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more

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13. The Old Devils

By: Kingsley Amis

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wa… read more

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14. Staying On

By: Paul Scott

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a C… read more

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15. Last Orders

By: Graham Swift

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more

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16. Life & Times of Michael K

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more

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"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."

-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

17. Heat and Dust

By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, H… read more

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18. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Cover of The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

19. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Cover of All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield

20. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more

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Howard Jacobson

2.83

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4.75

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Howard Jacobson

2.83

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Penelope Lively

3.38

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John Banville , J.G. Farrell

3.83

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