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The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

17,738 members

1,114 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963,sturlington

2

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,861 members

962 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,084 members

343 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

8,248 members

589 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

5

by Richard Adams

24,883 members

471 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

4,563 members

105 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North

3,046 members

179 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

8

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

26,948 members

775 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Candice Carty-Williams

1,540 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

37,961 members

505 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Paula Hawkins

4,629 members

216 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963,sturlington

12

by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,536 members

132 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Anne Brontë

5,116 members

169 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

51,973 members

704 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Charlotte Brontë

58,971 members

917 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Before I Go to Sleep

by S. J. Watson

6,176 members

475 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963,sturlington

17

by George Eliot

4,211 members

70 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Warden / Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

350 members

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,331 members

300 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Connie Willis

7,963 members

374 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

12,960 members

289 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Michael Cunningham

12,710 members

232 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,101 members

70 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Virginia Woolf

20,629 members

330 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Charles Dickens

13,698 members

248 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,717 members

612 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

21,207 members

217 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,556 members

25 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,773 members

222 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

9,992 members

324 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Anne Enright

4,055 members

204 reviews

3.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by W. Somerset Maugham

1,953 members

41 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Henry Fielding

8,119 members

96 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Invisible Man

10,912 members

254 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Wilkie Collins

10,822 members

251 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

22,486 members

357 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,478 members

633 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,362 members

475 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,682 members

190 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,630 members

222 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

17,140 members

315 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,314 members

113 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,497 members

168 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,471 members

435 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Pride and Prejudice

80,619 members

1,369 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,803 members

336 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

by George Eliot

17,715 members

330 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

7,799 members

313 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Once and Future King

15,335 members

205 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Northanger Abbey

21,632 members

419 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Hunting Party

2,274 members

97 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

52

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

by Dexter Palmer

179 members

13 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

53

595 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

54

2,725 members

192 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

55

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

900 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

56

The Ghosts of Belfast

by Stuart Neville

796 members

56 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

57

by Louise Candlish

740 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

58

2,460 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

59

by Diana Wynne Jones

1,468 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Essex Serpent

3,137 members

173 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,518 members

41 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

by E. M. Forster

8,773 members

131 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,709 members

119 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,609 members

175 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

1,404 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

by George Meredith

491 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Turn of the Screw

8,107 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

A Month in the Country

2,304 members

118 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,577 members

270 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Geoffrey Household

1,115 members

42 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Girls of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

1,322 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,563 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Girl in a Swing

by Richard Adams

837 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Irvine Welsh

7,751 members

79 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

Death of an Ordinary Man

333 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

XX: A Novel, Graphic

204 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

by Natasha Pulley

466 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

217 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

965 members

42 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Robert Westall

125 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Owl Service

1,952 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Silent Companions

by Laura Purcell

1,037 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

1,781 members

49 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,393 members

197 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Muriel Spark

1,730 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

3,623 members

59 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,343 members

59 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

At Swim, Two Boys

by Jamie O'Neill

2,112 members

55 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

1,852 members

45 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Robert Louis Stevenson

903 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

by Ford Madox Ford

1,754 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,744 members

569 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

by Candice Carty-Williams

210 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

by Anthony Trollope

2,084 members

64 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

La Belle Sauvage

by Philip Pullman

4,339 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,522 members

171 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

In a Dark, Dark Wood

4,382 members

247 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by David Santos Donaldson

72 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

by China Miéville

3,558 members

176 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,532 members

69 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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