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United Kingdom

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 (show all)

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1
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
20,823 members, 441 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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

Score: 11.04

2
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
5,331 members, 212 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 8.76

3
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11,223 members, 97 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

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

Score: 8.17

4
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
9,148 members, 202 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), ahef1963 (4)

Score: 6.83

5
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
19,636 members, 154 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (2), ahef1963 (6)

Score: 5.92

6
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
71,026 members, 1,254 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), ahef1963 (5)

Score: 5.71

7
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
25,294 members, 477 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: merrystar (4), ahef1963 (7)

Score: 5.29

8
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
33,858 members, 476 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), ahef1963 (8)

Score: 5.05

9
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,509 members, 421 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: merrystar (6), ahef1963 (11)

Score: 4.75

10
Henry V
by William Shakespeare
5,252 members, 50 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (7), ahef1963 (12)

Score: 4.61

11
Emma
by Jane Austen
33,426 members, 464 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), hipdeep (10)

Score: 4.56

12
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
22,910 members, 199 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (9), ahef1963 (13)

Score: 4.42

13
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
13,442 members, 130 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (11), ahef1963 (14)

Score: 4.26

14
The Once and Future King
by T. H. White
13,740 members, 186 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (13), ahef1963 (15)

Score: 4.14

15
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
24,981 members, 729 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), hipdeep (20)

Score: 3.89

16
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
12,087 members, 619 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (4)

Score: 2.83

17
Rumpole and the Golden Thread
by John Mortimer
386 members, 6 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (6)

Score: 2.56

18
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
5,972 members, 160 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (8)

Score: 2.38

19
About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
9,382 members, 133 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10)

Score: 2.25

20
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
6,142 members, 327 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (12)

Score: 2.15

21
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)

Score: 2.07

22
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
2,487 members, 50 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (16)

Score: 2

23
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
14,034 members, 189 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17)

Score: 1.97

24
Soulless
by Gail Carriger
5,390 members, 494 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (17)

Score: 1.97

25
The Dangerous Book for Boys
by Conn Iggulden
3,688 members, 51 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (18)

Score: 1.94

26
The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Wordsworth
654 members, 1 review
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18)

Score: 1.94

27
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
24,895 members, 714 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19)

Score: 1.92

28
England, England
by Julian Barnes
1,755 members, 37 reviews
3.26 stars (3.26 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (19)

Score: 1.92

29
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
15,791 members, 297 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20)

Score: 1.89

30
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
7,867 members, 108 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21)

Score: 1.87

31
The Liar
by Stephen Fry
3,068 members, 40 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (21)

Score: 1.87

32
The BFG
by Roald Dahl
16,151 members, 297 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (22)

Score: 1.85

33
The A.B.C. Murders
by Agatha Christie
5,874 members, 114 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22)

Score: 1.85

34
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
8,366 members, 271 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (23)

Score: 1.83

35
Blameless
by Gail Carriger
2,593 members, 179 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (23)

Score: 1.83

36
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,157 members, 272 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (24)

Score: 1.81

37
Changeless
by Gail Carriger
2,928 members, 245 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (24)

Score: 1.81

38
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
19,165 members, 390 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (25)

Score: 1.79

39
The System of the World
by Neal Stephenson
5,560 members, 69 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (25)

Score: 1.79

40
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
20,105 members, 334 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (26)

Score: 1.77

41
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
by Samuel Richardson
1,349 members, 28 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (27)

Score: 1.76

42
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
13,338 members, 183 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (28)

Score: 1.74

43
The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
6,092 members, 98 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (29)

Score: 1.72

44
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
18,306 members, 306 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30)

Score: 1.71

45
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
6,034 members, 73 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (31)

Score: 1.7

46
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
11,389 members, 240 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (32)

Score: 1.68

47
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
7,726 members, 131 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (33)

Score: 1.67

48
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,286 members, 572 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34)

Score: 1.66

49
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne
7,062 members, 105 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35)

Score: 1.65

50
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
16,090 members, 246 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (36)

Score: 1.63

51
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,743 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (37)

Score: 1.62

52
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,802 members, 153 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (38)

Score: 1.61

53
Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
5,371 members, 140 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (39)

Score: 1.6

54
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
24,568 members, 597 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40)

Score: 1.59

55
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
12,346 members, 196 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (41)

Score: 1.58

56
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
18,158 members, 550 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42)

Score: 1.57

57
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
9,388 members, 110 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43)

Score: 1.56

58
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G. K. Chesterton
6,289 members, 159 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44)

Score: 1.55

59
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21,125 members, 340 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (45)

Score: 1.54

60
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
17,325 members, 232 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (46)

Score: 1.54

61
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
14,752 members, 240 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47)

Score: 1.53

62
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
16,225 members, 318 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (48)

Score: 1.52

63
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
15,934 members, 286 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (49)

Score: 1.51

64
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
45,042 members, 621 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50)

Score: 1.5

65
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
33,939 members, 391 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (51)

Score: 1.5

66
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Gawain Poet
7,430 members, 90 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52)

Score: 1.49

67
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
21,610 members, 308 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53)

Score: 1.48

68
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
23,519 members, 363 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54)

Score: 1.48

69
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
52,233 members, 837 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (55)

Score: 1.47

70
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
15,400 members, 296 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56)

Score: 1.46

71
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
18,636 members, 230 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (57)

Score: 1.46

72
Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
6,997 members, 99 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58)

Score: 1.45

73
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
9,931 members, 127 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (59)

Score: 1.44

74
Lassie Come-Home
by Eric Knight
1,792 members, 18 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (60)

Score: 1.44

75
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
6,516 members, 193 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (61)

Score: 1.43

76
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
by Sally Bedell Smith
798 members, 49 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (62)

Score: 1.43

77
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
20,307 members, 304 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Score: 0

78
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
14,537 members, 427 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Score: 0

79
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
12,370 members, 229 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Score: 0

80
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
6,918 members, 119 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Score: 0

81
A history of Britain
by Simon Schama
181 members, 0 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Score: 0

82
Sorry!: The English and Their Manners
by Henry Hitchings
98 members, 1 review
2.94 stars (2.94 stars)

Score: 0

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Started by: asurbanipal (November 2017)

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