7 must-read 19th century books like Redburn by Herman Melville, Harold Beaver

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Redburn

By: Herman Melville , Harold Beaver

3.43

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run a…

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1. Disclosure

By: Michael Crichton

3.79

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman b… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Power is neither male or female."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"Friendships are nice. So is competence."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"Sometimes women scare the hell out of me."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

"The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you."

-Michael Crichton, Disclosure

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2. The Collected Stories

By: Lorrie Moore

4.38

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed a… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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3. The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

3.69

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitor… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
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  • novels
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4. Tortilla Flat

By: John Steinbeck

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
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5. Intruder in the Dust

By: William Faulkner

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in … read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
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6. Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga (Blackwater, #1-6)

By: John Langan , Michael McDowell

4.20

Format: 240 pages,

Michael McDowell was proclaimed "the finest writer of paperback originals in America" by Stephen Ki… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more

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  • 19th century
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9. The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)

By: Aeschylus

3.80

Format: 43 pages, None

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. Many years af… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Melville: His World and Work

By: Andrew Delbanco

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential Americ… read more

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  • literature
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11. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By: Horace McCoy

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
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12. Redburn

By: Herman Melville , Harold Beaver

3.43

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run a… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • novels
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13. Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot , Edmund White

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
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14. The Well-Beloved

By: Thomas Hardy

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set on the Isle of Slingers, this novel follows the exploits of Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor who fa… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
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15. The Painted Veil

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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16. Ruth

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

5.00

Format: None pages,

* Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle bo… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction

17. The Cosmic Puppets

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Yielding to a compulsion he can't explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the… read more

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18. Zazie in the Metro

By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Gilbert Adair

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All sh… read more

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19. Queen Lucia (Lucia, #1)

By: E.F. Benson

3.78

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Queen Lucia is the first book in the Mapp and Lucia series. Mrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, res… read more

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20. Miss Mapp (Lucia, #2)

By: E.F. Benson

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

E. F. Benson's strikingly original comic creation Miss Mapp is an arch-schemer and social climber f… read more

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21. Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful y… read more

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22. The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more

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23. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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24. John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

By: John Sutherland , Jack London

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

First published in 1913, John Barleycorn is the first intelligent literary treatise on alcohol in A… read more

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25. 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
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"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

26. The Odd Women

By: George Gissing

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

A novel of social realism, The Odd Womenreflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late n… read more

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27. The Town

By: William Faulkner

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the graspin… read more

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28. A Laodicean: A Story of Today

By: Thomas Hardy , J.H. Stape

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having accepted the suit of Captain, Paula discovers that his illegitimate son has hatched a plot a… read more

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29. The Hamlet

By: William Faulkner

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical trage… read more

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30. The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more

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31. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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3.79

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4.38

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3.69

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4.02

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