25 Top fiction books like County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell

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County Chronicle

By: Angela Thirkell

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

As readers of Angela Thirkell's enticing chronicles of Barsetshire are well aware, the county itsel…

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Cover of The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

1. The Hand That First Held Mine

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.04

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, an… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"There on the landing sits the typewriter. It is clogged with dust, the ribbon dried and flimsy. Looking at it gives Felix a feeling close to vertigo. He realises he can replicate in his head the exac…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

"The women we become after children, she typed, then stopped to adjust the angle of the paper....We change shape, she continued, we buy low-heeled shoes, we cut off our long hair, We begin to carry in…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

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2. They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home – but someone else dies… Miss Marple senses danger wh… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"His eyes now were bright and beady with pleasurable anticipation."

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

"Into the Gothic gloom of the library, Gina brought an exotic glow."

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

"Her eyes were shining, and her long thin mouth was curved in a triumphant smile."

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

"Toată lumea se așteaptă ca educația să fie un drept fundamental și nu pun mare preț pe ea când o primesc!"

-Agatha Christie, They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)

Cover of Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2) by Agatha Christie

3. Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt'… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence."

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

"You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence."

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

"Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot."

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

"As the visitor left the office, Tuppence grabbed the violin and putting it in the cupboard turned the key in the lock. "If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syri…"

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

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4. My Lover's Lover

By: Maggie O'Farrell

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Lily slips on the sidewalk outside a London gallery and literally falls at the feet of a stran… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of China Court: The Hours of a Country House by Rumer Godden

5. China Court: The Hours of a Country House

By: Rumer Godden

3.98

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

For more than half a century, Rumer Godden has been known as one of the finest and subtlest writers… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence, #5) by Agatha Christie

6. Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of susp… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

7. Summer Pudding

By: Noel Streatfeild , Susan Scarlett

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. Ballet Shoes (Shoes, #1)

By: Noel Streatfeild , Diane Goode

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Pauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their new family by joining the Childr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

9. The Blue Castle

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.94

Format: 255 pages,

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Winter Solstice

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Her captivating bestseller of loss and the healing power of love now re-issued with a stunning new … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell

11. County Chronicle

By: Angela Thirkell

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

As readers of Angela Thirkell's enticing chronicles of Barsetshire are well aware, the county itsel… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature
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12. Village Diary (Chronicles of Fairacre, #2)

By: Miss Read

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

The enchanting follow-up to Village School, Miss Read's beloved first novel, Village Diary once aga… read more

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  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature

13. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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14. The Expendable Man

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more

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15. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The long winter is finally over, and with spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and more … read more

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16. Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.88

Format: None pages,

Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on… read more

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17. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

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  • fiction
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

Cover of The Corner Shop by Elizabeth Cadell

18. The Corner Shop

By: Elizabeth Cadell

3.99

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Available for the first time on Kindle! Lucille Abbey runs her London secretarial agency with utmo… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast

19. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

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  • humor
Cover of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

20. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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  • fiction
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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21. Babbacombe's

By: Susan Scarlett

4.00

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

"I thought we were allowed to sit. I mean I thought it was the Shop Act or something that we had to… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Foundling by Ann Leary

22. The Foundling

By: Ann Leary

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House , the story of two friends, raised in … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

23. The Fortnight in September

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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24. Clothes-Pegs

By: Susan Scarlett

3.86

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her fa… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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25. The Hopkins Manuscript

By: R.C. Sherriff

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

For fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered sp… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Fletchers End (Bel Lamington #2) by D.E. Stevenson

26. Fletchers End (Bel Lamington #2)

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.25

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

The joys and contentment of newly-wedded life, set against the tranquil beauty of the English count… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
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27. The Cold Millions

By: Jess Walter

3.96

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another “literary miracle” … read more

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  • fiction
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28. Peter and Paul

By: Susan Scarlett

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

It is not fun being the plain one of the family. But being the plain one of twins is a wretched pos… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
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29. The Marble Staircase

By: Elizabeth Fair

3.83

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Looking back she could not remember when she had settled down to mere existence, no longer expectin… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Ten Way Street by Susan Scarlett

30. Ten Way Street

By: Susan Scarlett

3.77

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

"This is our new governess," said Meggie. "She's a nice sort of governess. She called us little hor… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature

13 Best classics books like County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell

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Agatha Christie

3.78

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3.78

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China Court: The Hours of a Country House

Rumer Godden

3.98

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D.E. Stevenson

4.33

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D.E. Stevenson

3.91

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Elizabeth Cadell

3.99

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4.02

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