12 must-read classics books like The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

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The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p…

"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

If you liked the classics plot in The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • classic literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
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"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

Cover of The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3) by Edmund Crispin

2. The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)

By: Edmund Crispin

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Richard Cadogan's Oxford holiday turns into a mystery solving adventure full of dangerous twists an… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"What are you going to do with your self now?'... 'I? said Fen. 'I shall pursue my orderly and dignified progress towards the grave."

-Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop (Gervase Fen, #3)

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3. Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

By: Christianna Brand

3.55

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

At a medieval pageant, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death Ever since she drove her… read more

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  • audiobook
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roun…"

-Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Cover of The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3) by Tiina Nunnally, Sigrid Undset, Sherrill Harbison

4. The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kristin Lavransdatterinterweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud, Thomas Teal, Sophia Jansson

6. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

7. Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall

4.00

Format: 1021 pages, Paperback

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more

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  • british literature
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  • classic literature
  • 19th century
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

8. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescr… read more

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9. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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10. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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11. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

12. The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Mar… read more

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13. Dombey and Son

By: Jonathan Lethem , Charles Dickens

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family trigg… read more

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14. Summer Lightning

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir--a tell-all that could destroy po… read more

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Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

15. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) book and Anthony Trollope's The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

16. Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under the Greenwood Treeis the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dew… read more

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Cover of Howards End by E.M. Forster

17. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

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"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

Cover of Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

18. Post After Post-Mortem

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.00

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Crook o' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac

19. Crook o' Lune

By: E.C.R. Lorac

4.15

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more

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  • british literature
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  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Reading for the Love of God by Jessica Hooten Wilson

20. Reading for the Love of God

By: Jessica Hooten Wilson

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual … read more

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  • literature
"We read because without books our world shrinks our empathy thins and our liberty wanes. We read for the same reason that people have read and shared poems or stories for thousands of years, because …"

-Jessica Hooten Wilson, Reading for the Love of God

12 best-selling fiction books like The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

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Edmund Crispin

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3)

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4.12

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Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

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3.55

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

Transform Your Habits

Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)

Anthony Berkeley

3.77

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