8 must-read classics books like The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

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The Millstone

By: Margaret Drabble

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an …

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1. The Stone Angel

By: Margaret Laurence , Adele Wiseman

3.77

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The Stone Angel , The Diviners , and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret La… read more

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  • classics
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"Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'…"

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

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2. Poor Cow

By: Nell Dunn

3.60

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

First published in 1967, this novel tells the story of Joy living amongst the shiftless poor in Lon… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
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  • british literature
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3. The Pumpkin Eater

By: Penelope Mortimer

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This… read more

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  • classics
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4. Quartet

By: Jean Rhys

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

Aperitifs in smoky Montparnasse cafes, cheap hotel rooms, and Marya Zelli, trying to make of her li… read more

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  • classics
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5. Blow Your House Down

By: Pat Barker

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out pr… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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6. Angel

By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more

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  • classics
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7. Up the Junction

By: Nell Dunn

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Nell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of … read more

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8. The Millstone

By: Margaret Drabble

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • novels

9. Loitering with Intent

By: Muriel Spark

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happil… read more

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10. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

By: Barbara Comyns

3.40

Format: None pages,

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11. Now in November

By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more

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12. The Debut

By: Anita Brookner

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions… read more

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13. An Ice-Cream War

By: William Boyd

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

1914. In a hotel room in German East Africa, American farmer Walter Smith dreams of Theodore Roosev… read more

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Cover of The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6) by Anthony Powell

14. 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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15. The L-Shaped Room (Jane Graham, #1)

By: Lynne Reid Banks

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this bestselling classic novel which became a famous film, Jane Graham, alone and pregnant, retr… read more

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16. The Mother's Recompense

By: Edith Wharton

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recomp… read more

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17. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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18. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

By: Paula Byrne

4.05

Format: 686 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym. She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym … read more

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  • british literature
Cover of The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith

19. The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating … read more

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Cover of Clickbait by L.C. North

20. Clickbait

By: L.C. North

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

'We're not famous anymore. We're notorious.'For over a decade, the Lancasters were celebrity royalt… read more

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21. Ancestry

By: Simon Mawer

4.02

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts thro… read more

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12 must-read fiction books like The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

Transform Your Habits

The Stone Angel

Margaret Laurence , Adele Wiseman

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Poor Cow

Nell Dunn

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Pumpkin Eater

Penelope Mortimer

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Quartet

Jean Rhys

3.95

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29 Top fiction books like The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith

Transform Your Habits

Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)

Anne Hillerman

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

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