20 books to cheer you up now.

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Compiled by James Marriott in The Times (of London), twenty books to cheer you up in the English November COVID lockdown.
1
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
7,002 members
246 reviews
3.9
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2
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
24,893 members
460 reviews
3.8
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3
Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett
10,908 members
127 reviews
4.1
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4
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
4,864 members
195 reviews
½ 3.6
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5
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
by Sue Townsend
3,925 members
71 reviews
3.8
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6
The Inimitable Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,852 members
93 reviews
4
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7
The Diary of a Nobody
by George Grossmith
3,603 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
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8
Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym
3,098 members
136 reviews
4
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9
What a Carve Up!
by Jonathan Coe
2,500 members
59 reviews
3.9
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10
Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
2,211 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
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11
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
1,999 members
100 reviews
3.9
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12
The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macaulay
1,355 members
37 reviews
3.8
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13
Queen Lucia
by E. F. Benson
1,210 members
50 reviews
3.9
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14
Razor Girl
by Carl Hiaasen
1,082 members
60 reviews
½ 3.7
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15
Unreliable Memoirs
by Clive James
1,057 members
14 reviews
3.9
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16
Paradise News
by David Lodge
989 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
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17
The Pisces
by Melissa Broder
761 members
50 reviews
3.2
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18
Take a Girl Like You
by Kingsley Amis
563 members
11 reviews
3.2
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19
Towards the End of the Morning
by Michael Frayn
443 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
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20
Alan Partridge: Nomad
by Steve Coogan
193 members
7 reviews
3.9
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