Best Books Set in London

3
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
15,421 members
274 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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5
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,182 members
491 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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6
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
23,370 members
379 reviews
3.8
8 Members
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7
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
15,066 members
268 reviews
½ 3.7
9 Members
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8
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,433 members
749 reviews
4
9 Members
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9
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
5,678 members
133 reviews
½ 3.4
8 Members
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10
Dark Fire
by C. J. Sansom
2,880 members
121 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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11
84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
6,687 members
389 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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12
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
29,597 members
601 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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13
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
44,040 members
481 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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14
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
14,311 members
316 reviews
4
8 Members
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15
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
94,688 members
1,451 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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16
Rivers of London
by Ben Aaronovitch
7,246 members
423 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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17
Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
7,474 members
475 reviews
½ 3.4
6 Members
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18
The Ruby in the Smoke
by Philip Pullman
4,441 members
102 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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19
The Crimson Petal and the White
by Michel Faber
7,105 members
212 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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20
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
17,959 members
296 reviews
½ 3.6
7 Members
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21
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
10,939 members
232 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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22
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
28,562 members
274 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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23
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
by Barbara Comyns
873 members
31 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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24
The Road Home
by Rose Tremain
1,537 members
88 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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25
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
20,332 members
387 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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26
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
8,445 members
240 reviews
4
6 Members
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27
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,498 members
624 reviews
4
6 Members
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28
Murder Must Advertise
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,143 members
113 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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29
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
13,640 members
243 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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30
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
61,755 members
872 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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31
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,957 members
56 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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32
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
7,740 members
95 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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33
Spider
by Patrick McGrath
711 members
4 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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34
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
15,811 members
206 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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35
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
18,432 members
232 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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36
Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
8,618 members
112 reviews
½ 3.5
5 Members
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37
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
16,360 members
202 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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38
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
6,584 members
113 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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39
Small Island
by Andrea Levy
4,278 members
146 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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40
Ballet Shoes
by Noel Streatfeild
4,013 members
80 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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41
The Swimming-Pool Library
by Alan Hollinghurst
2,229 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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42
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
7,267 members
193 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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43
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
4,662 members
158 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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44
A Bear Called Paddington
by Michael Bond
5,091 members
83 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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45
The Buddha of Suburbia
by Hanif Kureishi
3,231 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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46
Whose Body?
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,580 members
223 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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47
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
6,707 members
252 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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48
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
24,207 members
326 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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49
Memento Mori
by Muriel Spark
1,992 members
75 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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50
The Tiger in the Smoke
by Margery Allingham
1,586 members
53 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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51
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
7,278 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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52
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
by Eve Harris
374 members
22 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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53
Before I Go to Sleep
by S. J. Watson
6,849 members
490 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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54
The Hand That First Held Mine
by Maggie O'Farrell
1,341 members
78 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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55
Hearts and Minds
by Amanda Craig
217 members
11 reviews
4
3 Members
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56
Slade House
by David Mitchell
3,771 members
274 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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57
The Cuckoo's Calling
by Robert Galbraith
11,532 members
627 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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58
A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
9,088 members
200 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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59
A Far Cry from Kensington
by Muriel Spark
1,430 members
61 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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60
The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
21,971 members
1,191 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963, kara.shamy
61
NW
by Zadie Smith
2,803 members
100 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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62
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
9,434 members
166 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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63
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
8,040 members
115 reviews
3.1
3 Members
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64
A Cupboard Full of Coats
by Yvvette Edwards
307 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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65
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
by Winifred Watson
2,471 members
174 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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66
Frost in May
by Antonia White
989 members
24 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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67
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
by Elizabeth Taylor
1,529 members
68 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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68
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
by Helen Fielding
8,959 members
113 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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69
The Diaries of Jane Somers
by Doris Lessing
542 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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70
A Week in December
by Sebastian Faulks
1,439 members
71 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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71
At Bertram's Hotel
by Agatha Christie
4,446 members
95 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
merrystar, ahef1963
72
The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
3,369 members
197 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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73
Mary Poppins
by P. L. Travers
7,724 members
187 reviews
3.8
3 Members
merrystar, elkiedee, alex68
74
An Empty Death
by Laura Wilson
118 members
4 reviews
3.9
2 Members
elkiedee, RiversideReader
75
Blackout
by Connie Willis
3,542 members
238 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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76
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
8,707 members
311 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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77
What a Carve Up!
by Jonathan Coe
2,508 members
59 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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78
The British Museum is Falling Down
by David Lodge
1,001 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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79
Career of Evil
by Robert Galbraith
5,200 members
263 reviews
4
2 Members
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80
Bombs on Aunt Dainty
by Judith Kerr
373 members
7 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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81
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
by Helene Hanff
1,295 members
49 reviews
4
2 Members
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82
Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
6,330 members
101 reviews
4
2 Members
souloftherose, drakeg
83
Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
9,477 members
176 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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84
Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
5,559 members
158 reviews
4
2 Members
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85
Un Lun Dun
by China Miéville
3,726 members
205 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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86
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
by Chris Wooding
802 members
20 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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87
Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald
1,483 members
65 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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88
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
9,698 members
144 reviews
4
2 Members
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89
The Book of Fires
by Jane Borodale
514 members
42 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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90
From Hell
by Alan Moore
4,279 members
92 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
91
About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
10,368 members
142 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
92
The Death List
by Paul Johnston
273 members
14 reviews
3
Member
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93
A Long Walk to Wimbledon
by H. R. F. Keating
40 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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94
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
22,838 members
365 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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aulsmith : Main setting is Never-Never Land
95
Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,995 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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96
Notes on a Scandal
by Zoë Heller
3,270 members
108 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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97
An Experiment in Love
by Hilary Mantel
624 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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98
The Wombles
by Elisabeth Beresford
379 members
7 reviews
3.9
2 Members
merrystar, elkiedee
99
The Millstone
by Margaret Drabble
998 members
26 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Nickelini, ahef1963
100
White Boots
by Noel Streatfeild
1,095 members
16 reviews
4
2 Members
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