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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: 4 participating members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, hipdeep, merrystar

Rank Title Author Added

1

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

23,770 members

507 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,786 members

225 reviews

4

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12,250 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,480 members

163 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Pride and Prejudice

78,341 members

1,347 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

27,898 members

522 reviews

4.2

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Notes from a Small Island

9,659 members

214 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

8

Sense and Sensibility

37,143 members

513 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

36,926 members

497 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by William Shakespeare

25,310 members

220 reviews

4

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Once and Future King

14,971 members

197 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

26,572 members

755 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

35,690 members

444 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

14

by William Shakespeare

5,832 members

53 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

15

Lassie Come-Home

2,110 members

19 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

by William Shakespeare

14,673 members

143 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

17

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,771 members

311 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,389 members

168 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Charlotte Brontë

57,406 members

902 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Charles Dickens

13,393 members

242 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Beowulf poet

24,714 members

326 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

8,304 members

98 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,394 members

423 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

50,331 members

676 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Time Machine

17,219 members

330 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

14,849 members

196 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Around the World in Eighty Days

16,502 members

258 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,034 members

373 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)

by William Wordsworth

707 members

2 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

by George Eliot

17,261 members

325 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Robert Louis Stevenson

10,460 members

117 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,489 members

118 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

21,934 members

353 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

18,815 members

307 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda

35

Northanger Abbey

21,043 members

408 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

9,608 members

307 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

12,727 members

285 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,529 members

110 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,396 members

190 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,047 members

594 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Virginia Woolf

20,063 members

323 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,484 members

618 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,312 members

263 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,330 members

215 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,926 members

461 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,957 members

323 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

by Hilary Mantel

13,261 members

638 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

48

Rumpole and the Golden Thread

by John Mortimer

412 members

6 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

49

9,728 members

136 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

50

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

6,723 members

339 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

51

The New English Kitchen: Changing the Way You Shop, Cook and Eat

104 members

3.9

Member: hipdeep

52

by Tom Stoppard

2,667 members

53 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: hipdeep

53

by Gail Carriger

5,641 members

511 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

54

The Dangerous Book for Boys

by Conn Iggulden

3,858 members

51 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

55

Pillars of the Earth

26,668 members

746 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

56

England, England

by Julian Barnes

1,856 members

38 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: hipdeep

57

3,174 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

58

The ABC Murders

by Agatha Christie

6,723 members

130 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

59

by Gail Carriger

2,744 members

184 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

60

by Gail Carriger

3,108 members

253 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

61

The System of the World

by Neal Stephenson

5,782 members

70 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

62

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

by Samuel Richardson

1,469 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

63

The French Lieutenant's Woman

6,454 members

108 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

64

by George Bernard Shaw

6,539 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

65

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

8,271 members

143 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

66

Bridget Jones's Diary

by Helen Fielding

16,701 members

256 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

67

Sons And Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,346 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

68

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

5,136 members

167 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

69

by Kingsley Amis

5,726 members

152 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

70

25,978 members

614 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

71

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G. K. Chesterton

6,866 members

166 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

72

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

18,740 members

242 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

73

The War of the Worlds

17,849 members

301 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

74

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,433 members

380 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

75

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

20,149 members

262 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

76

by Daniel Defoe

7,527 members

101 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

77

by Charles Dickens

10,282 members

127 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

78

The Wasp Factory

6,957 members

199 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

79

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

by Sally Bedell Smith

917 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

80

All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

7,621 members

132 reviews

½ 4.3

81

A history of Britain

by Simon Schama

201 members

1 review

3.9

82

Sorry!: The English and Their Manners

by Henry Hitchings

109 members

1 review

2.9

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