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
7,035 members
248 reviews
3.9
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2
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
25,145 members
464 reviews
3.8
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3
Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett
10,892 members
128 reviews
4.1
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4
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
5,031 members
195 reviews
½ 3.6
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5
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
by Sue Townsend
3,944 members
73 reviews
3.8
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6
The Inimitable Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
3,876 members
94 reviews
4
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7
The Diary of a Nobody
by George Grossmith
3,622 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
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8
Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym
3,122 members
137 reviews
4
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9
What a Carve Up!
by Jonathan Coe
2,508 members
59 reviews
3.9
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10
Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
2,225 members
89 reviews
½ 3.6
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11
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
2,050 members
102 reviews
3.9
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12
The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macaulay
1,364 members
38 reviews
3.8
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13
Queen Lucia
by E. F. Benson
1,215 members
51 reviews
3.9
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14
Razor Girl
by Carl Hiaasen
1,089 members
60 reviews
½ 3.7
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15
Unreliable Memoirs
by Clive James
1,059 members
14 reviews
3.9
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16
Paradise News
by David Lodge
991 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
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17
The Pisces
by Melissa Broder
773 members
49 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
445 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
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20
Alan Partridge: Nomad
by Steve Coogan
197 members
7 reviews
3.9
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