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Description: Books about the UK, also its history. Even if the UK is only described in a major part. You can add everything, let's make it a long list. Some Polish books are included because I'm in Poland.

Members: 5 participating members (show all)

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1
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
19,652 members, 417 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), merrystar (1), hipdeep (3), asurbanipal (130)

Score: 12.22

2
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
5,034 members, 200 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), merrystar (2), hipdeep (15), asurbanipal (88)

Score: 10.07

3
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10,213 members, 88 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), hipdeep (5), merrystar (7), asurbanipal (104)

Score: 9.43

4
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
8,825 members, 190 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), ahef1963 (4), asurbanipal (19)

Score: 8.74

5
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
67,473 members, 1,205 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), ahef1963 (5), asurbanipal (22)

Score: 7.56

6
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
18,553 members, 150 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), ahef1963 (6), asurbanipal (97)

Score: 7.19

7
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
23,942 members, 458 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), ahef1963 (7), asurbanipal (27)

Score: 7.04

8
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
32,095 members, 445 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), ahef1963 (8), asurbanipal (23)

Score: 6.88

9
Emma
by Jane Austen
31,670 members, 430 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), hipdeep (10), asurbanipal (25)

Score: 6.35

10
About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
9,153 members, 132 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (1), ahef1963 (10)

Score: 6.25

11
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
30,541 members, 398 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (6), ahef1963 (11), asurbanipal (106)

Score: 6

12
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
4,887 members, 46 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (12), asurbanipal (83)

Score: 5.93

13
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
21,574 members, 185 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), ahef1963 (13), asurbanipal (99)

Score: 5.68

14
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
12,716 members, 118 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (11), ahef1963 (14), asurbanipal (100)

Score: 5.53

15
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
13,014 members, 174 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (13), ahef1963 (15), asurbanipal (136)

Score: 5.31

16
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
24,027 members, 710 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), hipdeep (20), asurbanipal (139)

Score: 5.06

17
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
13,688 members, 180 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (3), ahef1963 (17)

Score: 5.01

18
The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Wordsworth
608 members, 1 review
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (5), ahef1963 (18)

Score: 4.62

19
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
23,713 members, 694 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (7), ahef1963 (19)

Score: 4.38

20
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
14,974 members, 286 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (9), ahef1963 (20)

Score: 4.2

21
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
7,437 members, 103 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (10), ahef1963 (21)

Score: 4.12

22
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
11,241 members, 605 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4), asurbanipal (132)

Score: 4.01

23
The A.B.C. Murders
by Agatha Christie
5,401 members, 105 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (12), ahef1963 (22)

Score: 4

24
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
7,667 members, 251 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (13), ahef1963 (23)

Score: 3.93

25
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,733 members, 264 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (15), ahef1963 (24)

Score: 3.84

26
Rumpole and the Golden Thread
by John Mortimer
374 members, 5 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6), asurbanipal (133)

Score: 3.73

27
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
18,168 members, 369 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (24), ahef1963 (25)

Score: 3.6

28
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
5,675 members, 151 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8), asurbanipal (134)

Score: 3.55

29
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
19,118 members, 315 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26), asurbanipal (26)

Score: 3.54

30
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
1,285 members, 25 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27), asurbanipal (31)

Score: 3.45

31
England, England
by Julian Barnes
1,691 members, 37 reviews
3.26 stars (3.26 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (19), asurbanipal (50)

Score: 3.42

32
Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby
4,279 members, 53 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (2)

Score: 3.36

33
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
12,707 members, 173 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28), asurbanipal (40)

Score: 3.33

34
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
5,594 members, 315 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12), asurbanipal (135)

Score: 3.32

35
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
5,845 members, 95 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29), asurbanipal (41)

Score: 3.3

36
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
17,395 members, 291 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30), asurbanipal (42)

Score: 3.28

37
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
5,681 members, 67 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31), asurbanipal (48)

Score: 3.22

38
The New English Kitchen: Changing the Way You Shop, Cook and Eat
by Rose Prince
99 members, 0 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (14), asurbanipal (152)

Score: 3.21

39
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,848 members, 229 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32), asurbanipal (51)

Score: 3.18

40
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
2,375 members, 46 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (16), asurbanipal (137)

Score: 3.17

41
Soulless
by Gail Carriger
5,058 members, 473 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (17), asurbanipal (138)

Score: 3.14

42
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
7,364 members, 121 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33), asurbanipal (59)

Score: 3.11

43
The Dangerous Book for Boys
by Conn Iggulden
3,440 members, 48 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (18), asurbanipal (153)

Score: 3.08

44
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
32,243 members, 539 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34), asurbanipal (63)

Score: 3.08

45
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
6,764 members, 100 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35), asurbanipal (69)

Score: 3.03

46
The Liar
by Stephen Fry
2,980 members, 41 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (21), asurbanipal (140)

Score: 3.03

47
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
15,633 members, 241 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36), asurbanipal (70)

Score: 3.02

48
The BFG
by Roald Dahl
15,000 members, 291 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (22), asurbanipal (141)

Score: 3.01

49
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,420 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37), asurbanipal (73)

Score: 2.99

50
Blameless
by Gail Carriger
2,491 members, 171 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (23), asurbanipal (142)

Score: 2.99

51
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,522 members, 144 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38), asurbanipal (75)

Score: 2.97

52
Changeless
by Gail Carriger
2,818 members, 237 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (24), asurbanipal (143)

Score: 2.96

53
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
5,122 members, 135 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39), asurbanipal (76)

Score: 2.96

54
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
23,767 members, 587 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40), asurbanipal (77)

Score: 2.94

55
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
11,779 members, 181 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41), asurbanipal (78)

Score: 2.93

56
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
17,055 members, 519 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42), asurbanipal (80)

Score: 2.91

57
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
8,700 members, 102 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43), asurbanipal (84)

Score: 2.88

58
The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
5,976 members, 145 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44), asurbanipal (85)

Score: 2.87

59
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
20,094 members, 319 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45), asurbanipal (87)

Score: 2.85

60
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
16,540 members, 220 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46), asurbanipal (89)

Score: 2.84

61
How to Be a Brit
by George Mikes
212 members, 4 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (4)

Score: 2.83

62
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
13,534 members, 224 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47), asurbanipal (90)

Score: 2.83

63
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
15,210 members, 302 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48), asurbanipal (91)

Score: 2.82

64
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
14,924 members, 270 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (49), asurbanipal (92)

Score: 2.8

65
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
42,313 members, 591 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50), asurbanipal (93)

Score: 2.79

66
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
32,073 members, 373 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (51), asurbanipal (94)

Score: 2.78

67
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
6,935 members, 75 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52), asurbanipal (95)

Score: 2.77

68
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
20,183 members, 279 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53), asurbanipal (96)

Score: 2.76

69
A Clockwork Orange [novel]
by Anthony Burgess
22,338 members, 348 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54), asurbanipal (98)

Score: 2.75

70
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
49,519 members, 795 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (55), asurbanipal (102)

Score: 2.73

71
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
14,349 members, 276 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56), asurbanipal (103)

Score: 2.72

72
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
17,612 members, 224 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57), asurbanipal (105)

Score: 2.71

73
Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
6,628 members, 92 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58), asurbanipal (107)

Score: 2.69

74
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
9,378 members, 123 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (59), asurbanipal (111)

Score: 2.68

75
Lassie Come-Home
by Eric Knight
1,621 members, 18 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (60), asurbanipal (127)

Score: 2.63

76
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
6,222 members, 184 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (61), asurbanipal (129)

Score: 2.62

77
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
by Sally Bedell Smith
732 members, 48 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (62), asurbanipal (149)

Score: 2.57

79
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
by Sarah Lyall
505 members, 29 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (8)

Score: 2.38

80
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
7,739 members, 115 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (11)

Score: 2.2

82
The Isles: A History
by Norman Davies
948 members, 11 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (16)

Score: 2

83
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
2,288 members, 38 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (17)

Score: 1.97

84
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe
1,423 members, 28 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (18)

Score: 1.94

85
Na plebanii w Haworth
by Anna Przedpełska-Trzeciakowska
1 member, 0 reviews

Lists: asurbanipal (20)

Score: 1.89

86
Stalky & Co.
by Rudyard Kipling
773 members, 14 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (21)

Score: 1.87

87
The System of the World
by Neal Stephenson
5,419 members, 70 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (25)

Score: 1.79

88
London Perceived
by V. S. Pritchett
153 members, 1 review
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (28)

Score: 1.74

90
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
by Samuel Richardson
2,172 members, 40 reviews
2.9 stars (2.9 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (30)

Score: 1.71

91
In Search of England
by H. V. Morton
447 members, 4 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (32)

Score: 1.68

92
Three Men in a Boat—To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome
6,556 members, 241 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (33)

Score: 1.67

93
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
by Kate Fox
2,083 members, 55 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (34)

Score: 1.66

94
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
12,265 members, 216 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (35)

Score: 1.65

95
England: 1000 Things You Need to Know
by Nicholas Hobbes
60 members, 2 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (36)

Score: 1.63

96
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
8,866 members, 121 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (37)

Score: 1.62

97
Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837
by Linda Colley
560 members, 4 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (38)

Score: 1.61

98
Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North
by Stuart Maconie
513 members, 23 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (39)

Score: 1.6

99
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
15,449 members, 238 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (43)

Score: 1.56

100
Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
8,876 members, 147 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (44)

Score: 1.55

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