8 must-read 20th century books like Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson

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Spam Tomorrow

By: Verily Anderson

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

When I asked the local chemist for lint and disinfectant, he felt it was only fair to allow the fir…

If you liked the 20th century plot in Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Headmistress

By: Angela Thirkell

3.93

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

In the midst of World War Two, the Beltons of Harefield Park find themselves "living on overdrafts … read more

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  • world war ii
  • humor
  • british literature
"Captain Hornby thought this a very sensible idea. He knew, and Elsa knew, that the unspoken thought underlying her suggestion was, “If you are killed your lawyers will know what is here"

-Angela Thirkell, The Headmistress

"Your great-uncle the bishop, Oriel, married some time in the ’sixties one of Squire Gresham’s daughters whose name for the moment escapes me. His wife’s brother, Frank Gresham, the present man’s grea…"

-Angela Thirkell, The Headmistress

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2. The Feast

By: Margaret Kennedy

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more

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  • 20th century
  • british literature
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"

-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast

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3. Miss Plum and Miss Penny

By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith

3.83

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of her 40th birthday, Alison Penny believes that from now on her life should be noth… read more

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  • humor
  • british literature
"Love isn't safe. Love is a blinding flash in the dark. It is a leap over a cliff. It is a breathless dive to the bottom of the ocean..."

-Dorothy Evelyn Smith, Miss Plum and Miss Penny

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4. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

By: Winifred Watson

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly Englis… read more

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  • humor
  • british literature
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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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  • 20th century
  • british literature
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6. 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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7. The Chinese Shawl (Miss Silver, #5)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.94

Format: 256 pages,

Miss Silver must intervene when an age-old family feud returns with fatal effect All London loves T… read more

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8. Miss Bunting

By: Angela Thirkell

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Miss Bunting, governess to the County, fulfils her final days during a summer devoted to tutoring d… read more

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9. August Folly

By: Angela Thirkell

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

The village of Worsted is staging Hippolytus under the aegis of the indefatigable Mrs. Palmer. Give… read more

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10. Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

By: Angela Thirkell

3.69

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of R… read more

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  • humor
  • 20th century
  • british literature
"What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie. 'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes. 'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians o…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"...And of course they'll get their milk from us, because Gooch's milk in the village really can't be trusted. I do hope, Henry, the vicarage drains are all right if Martin is to go there, because the…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"Perhaps as one gets older one takes one's joys altruistically,"said John, in turn thinking aloud. "I must say though I sometimes wish I could get it selfishly, just for myself, as Gay used to give me…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it w…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

11. Letters from the Lighthouse

By: Emma Carroll

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, no… read more

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12. High Rising

By: Angela Thirkell

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in… read more

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13. The Lost Gallows (Henri Bencolin, #3)

By: John Dickson Carr

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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14. The Greengage Summer

By: Rumer Godden

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more

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15. In the Balance (Miss Silver, #4)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.77

Format: None pages,

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16. Murder After Christmas

By: Rupert Latimer

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An ingenious lost Christmas mystery returns to print for the first time since 1944 'Did you say … read more

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  • british literature
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17. 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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  • british literature
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18. Spam Tomorrow

By: Verily Anderson

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

When I asked the local chemist for lint and disinfectant, he felt it was only fair to allow the fir… read more

Similar categories in Verily Anderson's Spam Tomorrow book and Verily Anderson's Spam Tomorrow

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • humor
  • world war ii
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
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19. Under the Rainbow

By: Susan Scarlett

4.11

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

To those who saw Saltings first on a hot day in summer-when heat shimmered in the hollows-that chur… read more

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  • british literature
Cover of The Blue Sapphire by D.E. Stevenson

20. The Blue Sapphire

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.15

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

The blue sapphire is the gem which the Ancients called the hyacinthus and which Solinus described a… read more

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  • 20th century
  • british literature
Cover of Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Agatha Christie and other Masters of the Golden Age by Agatha Christie

21. Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Agatha Christie and other Masters of the Golden Age

By: Agatha Christie

3.72

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Bodies from the Library 2 Bodies from the Library 3 Bodies from the Library 4 _____________… read more

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  • 20th century
"Quite simply, before anyone did anything Poe did everything. Or almost everything."

-Agatha Christie, Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Agatha Christie and other Masters of the Golden Age

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22. Apricot Sky

By: Ruby Ferguson

4.30

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

"I'm haunted by an awful dread," said Raine. "It was a wedding Mysie once went to. The bridegroom n… read more

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  • humor
  • 20th century
  • british literature
Cover of A Certain Darkness (Verity Kent, #6) by Anna Lee Huber

23. A Certain Darkness (Verity Kent, #6)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Set in Downton Abbey-era post-World War I England, this action-packed series from the USA Today bes… read more

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  • british literature
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24. Touch Not the Nettle

By: Molly Clavering

4.08

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Susan Armstrong is savouring a quiet evening at home with husband Jed, but her peace is fleeting. A… read more

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Cover of Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1) by A.J. Pearce

25. Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)

By: A.J. Pearce

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young w… read more

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  • world war ii
  • british literature
"Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key."

-A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)

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26. A Pink Front Door

By: Stella Gibbons

3.85

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

James's gesture with the key was cautious because he was not always sure of who or what he would fi… read more

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  • british literature
Cover of Wartime House: Home Life in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Mike  Brown

27. Wartime House: Home Life in Wartime Britain 1939-1945

By: Mike Brown

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A thematic look at a typical British household during World War II. The book describes everyday lif… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Somewhere in England

By: Carola Oman

3.91

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

“At any rate,” ended Philippa-Dawn, staring up at the garland of silver monsters gently swaying abo… read more

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  • world war ii
  • british literature

7 must-read humor books like Spam Tomorrow by Verily Anderson

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The Headmistress

Angela Thirkell

3.93

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Miss Plum and Miss Penny

Dorothy Evelyn Smith

3.83

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Barbara Pym

None

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Winifred Watson

4.29

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17 best-selling fiction books like Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac

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Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

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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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