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The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,784 members

325 reviews

4.1

9 Members: KimarieBee, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, AndreaRu, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

33,644 members

539 reviews

4.1

7 Members: dara85, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, AndreaRu, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Winnie-the-Pooh

12,885 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, AndreaRu, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

4

27,663 members

522 reviews

4.2

5 Members: inge87, merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Somerset

5

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

23,503 members

503 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Charlotte Brontë

56,911 members

895 reviews

4.2

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, AndreaRu, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Yorkshire

7

Pride and Prejudice

77,674 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, AndreaRu, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Hertfordshire

8

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

24,520 members

288 reviews

4.1

6 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, AndreaRu, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Sword in the Stone

3,204 members

47 reviews

3.9

5 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, cej1027, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

10

by George Orwell

79,118 members

1,245 reviews

4.2

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: London

11

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,773 members

671 reviews

3.9

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, AndreaRu, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

12

24,310 members

575 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,813 members

471 reviews

4.2

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, AndreaRu, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,312 members

143 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: inge87, merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

43,356 members

1,307 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Sense and Sensibility

36,823 members

506 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

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36,581 members

495 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Surrey

18

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

3,944 members

68 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Five Children and It

4,454 members

68 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

52,204 members

749 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Daphne Du Maurier

19,842 members

588 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, AndreaRu, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Cornwall

22

The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh)

8,080 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

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21,777 members

352 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,720 members

287 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,185 members

219 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

26

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

20,136 members

515 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,072 members

105 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington

28

by P. L. Travers

6,076 members

155 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, AndreaRu, foropeza1

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33,429 members

778 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

30

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,472 members

285 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027

31

18,593 members

306 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

8,514 members

403 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

33

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,727 members

224 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: London

34

by Susan Cooper

5,697 members

83 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

35

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

10,843 members

215 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1

36

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,630 members

218 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Sussex.

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by Connie Willis

7,754 members

364 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by E. M. Forster

8,533 members

129 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Hertfordshire

39

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,040 members

614 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

40

12,666 members

285 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

41

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

6,874 members

465 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

42

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,218 members

50 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, foropeza1

43

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,231 members

199 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

44

A Month in the Country

2,180 members

117 reviews

4.2

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Perilous Gard

by Elizabeth Marie Pope

1,557 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

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2,365 members

155 reviews

4

Member: dara85

47

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,575 members

278 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

48

Notes from a Small Island

9,604 members

214 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

49

by Anthony Horowitz

3,533 members

224 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

50

Fire and Hemlock

by Diana Wynne Jones

2,093 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

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9,930 members

567 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

52

The War of the Worlds

17,634 members

301 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, foropeza1

53

I Capture the Castle

8,965 members

287 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,197 members

160 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Turn of the Screw

7,796 members

241 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Essex

56

An Instance of the Fingerpost

5,145 members

134 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee

57

by Anthony Trollope

4,239 members

123 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Secret Keeper

3,316 members

226 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

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Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,674 members

104 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

60

Clouds of Witness

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,534 members

100 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

61

The Man with a Load of Mischief

by Martha Grimes

1,535 members

26 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

62

by Connie Willis

3,088 members

211 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

63

by Sir Walter Scott

12,543 members

118 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

64

The Forgotten Garden

7,727 members

441 reviews

4

Member: dara85

65

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,786 members

104 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Connie Willis

2,205 members

149 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

67

A Morbid Taste for Bones

by Ellis Peters

3,824 members

101 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

68

by Anthony Trollope

2,029 members

62 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

by George Mackay Brown

188 members

7 reviews

4

Member: inge87

70

The Sea Detective

by Mark Douglas-Home

155 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

71

The Lark in the Morn

by Elfrida Vipont

110 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: inge87

72

Shadows and Images: A Novel

by Meriol Trevor

25 members

1 review

3.9

Member: inge87

73

England, England

by Julian Barnes

1,844 members

38 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: hipdeep

74

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

1,819 members

45 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

1,747 members

47 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Scold's Bridle

by Minette Walters

1,481 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

77

by Paul Burrell

549 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

78

by Hilary Mantel

13,099 members

638 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

79

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,287 members

57 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Mollie Panter-Downes

340 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: inge87

81

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

1,759 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Loo Sanction

450 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

83

by Georgette Heyer

2,109 members

93 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

84

He Knew He Was Right

by Anthony Trollope

962 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Sing the Sadness

by Reginald Hill

177 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

86

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

6,672 members

337 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

87

by Anthony Trollope

1,849 members

30 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

1,933 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Catherynne M. Valente

1,185 members

79 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

90

by Georgette Heyer

1,446 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

91

by Anthony Trollope

1,164 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Prime Minister

by Anthony Trollope

1,248 members

27 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

5,979 members

188 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

94

The Duke's Children

by Anthony Trollope

1,143 members

22 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

by Elisabeth Beresford

315 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

96

Tom's Midnight Garden

by Philippa Pearce

2,394 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

97

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,434 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

To Love and Be Wise

by Josephine Tey

1,252 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

99

Picture Miss Seeton

by Heron Carvic

288 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

100

Nightingale Wood

by Stella Gibbons

419 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

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