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Ariel by André Maurois 266 copies, 9 reviews1
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 21,881 copies, 238 reviews2
Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater 133 copies, 3 reviews3
Madame Claire by Susan Ertz 64 copies, 1 review4
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers 2,986 copies, 86 reviews5
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 8,539 copies, 273 reviews6
Twenty-Five by Beverley Nichols 80 copies, 3 reviews7
William by E. H. Young 159 copies, 4 reviews8
Gone to Earth by Mary Webb 358 copies, 8 reviews9
Carnival by Compton Mackenzie 60 copies10
South Wind by Norman Douglas 550 copies, 10 reviews11
The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson 229 copies, 3 reviews12
Patrol by Philip MacDonald 34 copies, 3 reviews13
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 4,181 copies, 141 reviews14
Four Frightened People by E. Arnot Robertson 94 copies, 4 reviews15
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West 754 copies, 26 reviews16
The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty 360 copies, 5 reviews17
DEBONAIR The Story of Persephone by G. B. Stern 8 copies18
The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg by Louis Bromfield 65 copies19
Erewhon by Samuel Butler 2,060 copies, 38 reviews20
Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis 69 copies, 5 reviews21
Doctor Serocold,: A page from his day-book, by Helen Ashton 17 copies22
Esther Waters by George Moore 392 copies, 4 reviews23
Hangman's House by Donn Byrne 35 copies24
Naval Occasions and Some Traits of the Sailor-man by Bartimeus 13 copies25
Odd Craft by W. W. Jacobs 37 copies26
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse 2,083 copies, 105 reviews27
Beyond the Headlines by Timothy Shy 6 copies, 1 review34
The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah 236 copies, 4 reviews39
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12,198 copies, 139 reviews48
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley 553 copies, 27 reviews58
The Dark Invader by Captain von. Rintelen 32 copies60
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung 743 copies, 33 reviews63
The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace 402 copies, 12 reviews64
Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Néel 706 copies, 5 reviews68
Some experiences of a New Guinea resident magistrate by C. A. W. Monckton 13 copies, 1 review70
Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley 139 copies, 4 reviews74
Grey Wolf. Mustafa Kemal by H. C. Armstrong 61 copies77
Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley 920 copies, 35 reviews78
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers 1,543 copies, 25 reviews89
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. O. Somerville 237 copies, 9 reviews97
The Murders in Praed Street by John Rhode 25 copies98
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1,855 copies, 55 reviews100
A Tall Ship: On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus 21 copies, 1 review103
On England by Stanley Baldwin 29 copies116
While Rome Burns by Alexander Woollcott 189 copies, 3 reviews118
Billiards and Snooker for amateur players by Horace Lindrum 5 copies, 1 review119
It Walks By Night by John Dickson Carr 297 copies, 5 reviews124
Trader Horn by Alfred Aloysius Horn 113 copies, 2 reviews126
The Week-End Book by Francis Meynell 211 copies, 6 reviews130
Ten Minute Alibi; A Mystery Play in Three Acts by Anthony Armstrong 16 copies131
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh 3,427 copies, 59 reviews136
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 5,663 copies, 219 reviews140
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh 1,010 copies, 25 reviews152
The House On Tollard Ridge by John Rhode 15 copies154
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne 1,531 copies, 72 reviews156
The Corpse in the Waxworks by John Dickson Carr 272 copies, 4 reviews158
The Unseemly Adventure by Ralph Straus 7 copies167
As We Were by E. F. Benson 166 copies, 1 review169
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,325 copies, 209 reviews173
Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah 331 copies, 3 reviews174
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh 1,367 copies, 26 reviews179
Tales from Tchehov by Anton Tchehov 27 copies180
Murder in the Maze by J. J. Connington 41 copies, 2 reviews188
Death of My Aunt by C. H. B. Kitchin 136 copies, 7 reviews190
Ordinary Families by E. Arnot Robertson 170 copies, 3 reviews191
Grey Steel by H. C. Armstrong 27 copies204
Frost in May by Antonia White 909 copies, 23 reviews206
The Verdict of You All by Henry Wade 39 copies216
Death at the Opera by Gladys Mitchell 178 copies, 3 reviews217
Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham 862 copies, 19 reviews219
An Oxford Tragedy by J. C. Masterman 146 copies, 3 reviews220
Two vagabonds in Serbia and Montenegro by Jan Gordon 16 copies, 1 review223
Stealthy Terror by John Ferguson 23 copies, 2 reviews239
Triple Fugue by Osbert Sitwell 49 copies248
Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh 840 copies, 24 reviews249
Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr 186 copies, 2 reviews250
Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr 370 copies, 9 reviews256
The Dying Alderman by Henry Wade 25 copies, 3 reviews266
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1,380 copies, 35 reviews279
Lawrence of Arabia, Zionism and Palestine by Sir Ronald Storrs 27 copies288
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons 578 copies, 10 reviews291
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 936 copies, 9 reviews296
The Life of Mary Kingsley by Stephen Gwynn 21 copies299
I, Claudius by Robert Graves 8,996 copies, 164 reviews318
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood 1,026 copies, 26 reviews321
The Penguin Herodotus by Herodotus 23 copies330
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 4,661 copies, 118 reviews332
Kipps by H. G. Wells 496 copies, 13 reviews335
Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley 135 copies, 8 reviews337
Famous Trials: Madeleine Smith, Oscar Slater, Dr.Crippen, Dr.Palmer v. 1 (Penguin crime) by Harry Hodge 35 copies, 2 reviews338
High Rising by Angela Thirkell 669 copies, 42 reviews339
Farewell Victoria by T. H. White 85 copies, 3 reviews342
The Brassbounder by David W. Bone 23 copies373
Profiles Selected from "The New Yorker" by The New Yorker 4 copies376
A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms 160 copies, 3 reviews377
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer 958 copies, 44 reviews378
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf 10,332 copies, 167 reviews381
Meet yourself as you really are by Prince Leopold of Loewenstein 18 copies382
The Bamboo Blonde by Dorothy B. Hughes 37 copies397
Fables by Ivan Krylov 91 copies, 1 review399
Claudius the God by Robert Graves 4,147 copies, 44 reviews421
The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer 824 copies, 27 reviews428
Why Shoot A Butler? by Georgette Heyer 1,007 copies, 42 reviews429
Fourth Leaders from the Times 1956 by Anonymous 17 copies, 1 review444
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 3,717 copies, 81 reviews455
Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham 700 copies, 12 reviews459
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw 1,710 copies, 16 reviews463
Het tankschip Derbent by Yuri Krimov 7 copies, 1 review466
The Russian Campaigns Of 1941 - 43 by W. E. D. Allen 10 copies, 1 review467
Profiles (II) Selected from "The New Yorker" 2 copies476
The Second Penguin Problems Book by W. T. Williams 6 copies, 1 review478
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 4,267 copies, 124 reviews495
Osbert Lancaster Cartoons by Osbert Lancaster 16 copies, 1 review500
The Mystery of Orcival by Émile Gaboriau 98 copies, 3 reviews508
The Widow Lerouge by Émile Gaboriau 188 copies, 7 reviews509
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,512 copies, 40 reviews511
The Pit-Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts 133 copies, 1 review512
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy by Freeman Wills Crofts 95 copies, 2 reviews514
Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis 16 copies, 1 review515
Documents Marked "Secret" by John Gloag 12 copies516
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 135 copies, 1 review519
An Enemy of the People: Antisemitism by James Parkes 42 copies, 1 review521
A Cure of Flesh by James Gould Cozzens 12 copies522
The Groote Park Murder by Freeman Wills Crofts 81 copies531
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 4,689 copies, 110 reviews536
Memoirs of a British Agent by Sir Robert Bruce Lockart 315 copies, 7 reviews538
The Third Penguin Problems Book by W. T. Williams 9 copies540
Trent's Own Case by E. C. Bentley 144 copies, 3 reviews543
Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki 169 copies, 7 reviews546
The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki 266 copies, 11 reviews547
Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson 108 copies, 4 reviews548
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton 1,103 copies, 16 reviews565
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw 2,246 copies, 26 reviews565
Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw 450 copies, 9 reviews566
The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story by Anna Katharine Green 488 copies, 16 reviews569
The King Against Anne Bickerton by Sydney Fowler 21 copies585
Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley 174 copies, 6 reviews590
Lobster Salad by Lynn Doyle 10 copies594
The Nuremberg Trial by R. W. Cooper 46 copies, 1 review598
The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves 84 copies, 1 review599
Hiroshima (Expanded edition) by John Hersey 1,932 copies, 36 reviews603
England's Green and Pleasant Land by J. W Robertson Scott 22 copies608
The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr 366 copies, 8 reviews610
Labour's First Year by J. E. D. Hall 17 copies, 1 review612
Case for Three Detectives by Leo Bruce 122 copies, 12 reviews613
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 38,494 copies, 618 reviews616
Labour Marches On by John Parker 10 copies628
Scowle and Other Papers by Bernard Hollowood 17 copies631
Famous Trials 2: Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Field and Gray, George Joseph Smith, Ronald True by Harry Hodge 32 copies634
The Case for Conservatism by Quintin Hogg 26 copies635
Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Güiraldes 404 copies, 10 reviews638
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey 1,722 copies, 30 reviews649
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 10,045 copies, 277 reviews652
Nansen by E. E. Reynolds 29 copies661
The Suva Harbour Mystery (Who Killed Netta Maul?) by Frank Arthur 22 copies, 1 review664
Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham 615 copies, 16 reviews667
The Smith of Smiths by Hesketh Pearson 128 copies, 4 reviews669
Looking for a Bluebird by Joseph Wechsberg 43 copies673
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion 232 copies, 3 reviews674
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie 3,887 copies, 80 reviews682
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie 6,727 copies, 130 reviews683
Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie 3,508 copies, 71 reviews684
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 9,616 copies, 307 reviews684
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie 6,000 copies, 187 reviews686
The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie 2,790 copies, 65 reviews687
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie 4,014 copies, 72 reviews688
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 16,381 copies, 404 reviews689
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie 2,790 copies, 63 reviews690
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie 4,222 copies, 78 reviews691
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 4,065 copies, 47 reviews692
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 2,079 copies, 65 reviews694
The Ship by C. S. Forester 411 copies, 10 reviews698
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie 4,346 copies, 111 reviews6a
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 4,440 copies, 101 reviews701
The Romantic Exiles by E. H. Carr 144 copies, 2 reviews707
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 1,868 copies, 68 reviews711
Don't, Mr. Disraeli! by Caryl Brahms 71 copies, 3 reviews715
The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis 159 copies, 4 reviews718
Sergeant Lamb's America by Robert Graves 191 copies, 1 review725
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing 633 copies, 28 reviews728
Evidence of Things Seen by Elizabeth Daly 168 copies, 7 reviews734
Edward Lear by Angus Davidson 46 copies747
Selected Essays by D. H. Lawrence 167 copies753
Etruscan Places by D. H. Lawrence 302 copies, 3 reviews756
Selected Letters by D. H. Lawrence 164 copies, 1 review759
Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham 916 copies, 31 reviews761
Mr. Campion and Others by Margery Allingham 362 copies, 6 reviews762
Four English Comedies: Valpone; The Way of the World; She Stoops to Conquer; The School for Scandal by J. M. Morrell 354 copies, 1 review763
Death Comes to Perigord by John Ferguson 35 copies764
Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham 892 copies, 18 reviews769
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham 1,186 copies, 43 reviews770
The Fashion In Shrouds by Margery Allingham 702 copies, 21 reviews771
Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham 798 copies, 17 reviews772
The Gyrth Chalice Mystery by Margery Allingham 734 copies, 23 reviews773
Heads You Lose by Christianna Brand 171 copies, 5 reviews779
Mariana by Monica Dickens 619 copies, 24 reviews781
Famous Trials 3 by James H. Hodge 28 copies787
Death and the Pleasant Voices by Mary Fitt 39 copies, 2 reviews795
The Brandons by Angela Thirkell 412 copies, 16 reviews796
Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier 467 copies, 15 reviews797
And So to Murder by Carter Dickson 168 copies, 3 reviews814
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,283 copies, 263 reviews821
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh 3,495 copies, 74 reviews823
Animal Farm by George Orwell 58,470 copies, 854 reviews838
Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith 151 copies, 1 review840
The Case of the Tudor Queen by Christopher Bush 38 copies, 1 review849
More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham 767 copies, 13 reviews864
The Cambridge Murders by Glyn Daniel 95 copies, 1 review865
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 3,272 copies, 67 reviews867
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels by Freya Stark 509 copies, 13 reviews878
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm 1,651 copies, 37 reviews895
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 2,541 copies, 68 reviews905
The Case of the Substitute Face by Erle Stanley Gardner 262 copies, 6 reviews911
The Case of the Lame Canary by Erle Stanley Gardner 268 copies, 9 reviews912
Death of a Train by Freeman Wills Crofts 61 copies916
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 100 copies, 1 review917
Inspector French's Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts 176 copies, 7 reviews918
The Loss of the Jane Vosper by Freeman Wills Crofts 75 copies, 2 reviews919
The 12.30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts 200 copies, 9 reviews920
The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie 2,823 copies, 54 reviews928
The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie 3,257 copies, 66 reviews929
The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie 2,304 copies, 48 reviews931
Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie 2,049 copies, 36 reviews932
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop by Erle Stanley Gardner 337 copies, 6 reviews939
Comes the Blind Fury by Douglas Rutherford 15 copies944
The Emperor's Snuff-Box by John Dickson Carr 332 copies, 8 reviews949
Tom Brown's Body by Gladys Mitchell 166 copies, 5 reviews954
Selected essays and poems by Oscar Wilde 23 copies957
Six Curtains for Stroganova by Caryl Brahms 39 copies959
The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito by Erle Stanley Gardner 217 copies, 5 reviews965
As I Was Going Down Sackville Street by Oliver St. John Gogarty 122 copies, 2 reviews970
The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake 197 copies, 4 reviews973
Famous Trials 4 by James H. Hodge 35 copies983
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford 1,655 copies, 44 reviews984
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 5,787 copies, 225 reviews990
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett 235 copies, 3 reviews996
The Thousand and One Nights: The Hunchback, Sindbad, and Other Tales by N. J. Dawood 45 copies1001
Come Away, Death by Gladys Mitchell 126 copies1003
The Tongue-Tied Canary by Nicolas Bentley 27 copies, 1 review1005
The Man with My Face by Samuel W. Taylor 32 copies, 1 review1006
With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare 216 copies, 6 reviews1007
The essential T.E. Lawrence by T. E. Lawrence 94 copies1015
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde 1,188 copies, 19 reviews1021
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves 1,000 copies, 15 reviews1025
The Greek Myths: Volume 2 by Robert Graves 1,398 copies, 5 reviews1027
Collected Short Stories by E. M. Forster 377 copies, 3 reviews1031
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 37,407 copies, 424 reviews1041
Swan Song by Edmund Crispin 449 copies, 13 reviews1043
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley 2,538 copies, 25 reviews1047
Beyond the Mexique Bay by Aldous Huxley 131 copies, 3 reviews1048
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley 1,177 copies, 15 reviews1049
The Case of the Rolling Bones by Erle Stanley Gardner 246 copies, 10 reviews1054
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 10,910 copies, 218 reviews1059
Death is No Sportsman by Cyril Hare 150 copies, 4 reviews1060
Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy 27 copies, 1 review1073
Murdering Mr Velfrage by Roy Vickers 19 copies1077
Reputation for a Song by Edward Grierson 50 copies, 3 reviews1083
A Year of Grace by Victor Gollancz 78 copies, 3 reviews1091
Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases by Douglas G. Browne 81 copies, 2 reviews1092
Famous Trials 5 by James H. Hodge 31 copies, 3 reviews1094
Murder in Time by Elizabeth Ferrars 25 copies, 1 review1108
Flying Colours by C. S. Forester 1,586 copies, 23 reviews1113
John Macnab by John Buchan 371 copies, 12 reviews1135
Castle Gay by John Buchan 191 copies, 5 reviews1136
The House of the Four Winds by John Buchan 205 copies, 3 reviews1137
Prester John by John Buchan 574 copies, 8 reviews1138
War in Val d'Orcia by Iris Origo 338 copies, 6 reviews1145
Suicide Excepted by Cyril Hare 211 copies, 3 reviews1162
Below Suspicion by John Dickson Carr 212 copies, 1 review1164
Joy and Josephine by Monica Dickens 83 copies1168
Cork in Bottle by Macdonald Hastings 24 copies, 1 review1176
Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell 206 copies, 5 reviews1194
The Bad Seed by William March 837 copies, 29 reviews1210
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie 591 copies, 15 reviews1220
Chance Acquaintances and Julie de Carneilhan by Colette 86 copies1227
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 10,841 copies, 176 reviews1244
The Bafut Beagles by Gerald Durrell 671 copies, 13 reviews1266
Clochemerle-Babylon by Gabriel Chevallier 95 copies1275
The Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner 241 copies, 4 reviews1293
Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin 603 copies, 16 reviews1303
The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin 381 copies, 9 reviews1304
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin 1,410 copies, 62 reviews1315
Thirteen White Tulips by Frances Crane 25 copies, 1 review1330
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James 203 copies, 12 reviews1347
The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley 4,426 copies, 45 reviews1351
The Wooden Overcoat by Pamela Branch 115 copies, 9 reviews1354
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar 5,321 copies, 125 reviews1358
Hunting the Fairies by Compton Mackenzie 62 copies, 1 review1365
Deadly Duo by Margery Allingham 313 copies, 5 reviews1374
Crime at Guildford by Freeman Wills Crofts 78 copies, 2 reviews1378
Docken Dead by John Trench 28 copies1384
The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham 955 copies, 14 reviews1385
Patrick Butler for the Defense by John Dickson Carr 152 copies, 2 reviews1391
The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 93 copies, 2 reviews1395
Golden Ashes by Freeman Wills Crofts 67 copies, 1 review1396
Therese by François Mauriac 304 copies, 4 reviews1397
The Diaghilev ballet, 1909-1929 by S.L. Grigoriev 28 copies1411
No Love Lost by Margery Allingham 253 copies, 5 reviews1416
The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham 611 copies, 11 reviews1417
My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon 561 copies, 13 reviews1419
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember Including One Hundred and Three Good Things, Five Bad Kings, and Two Genuine Dates by W.C. Sellar 2,553 copies, 51 reviews1424
Voss by Patrick White 1,384 copies, 21 reviews1438
Village School by Miss Read 743 copies, 22 reviews1462
Lord of the Flies by William Golding 48,526 copies, 735 reviews1471
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov 529 copies, 2 reviews1493
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nobokov 0 copies1493
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford 383 copies, 6 reviews1505
Dishonoured Bones by John Trench 18 copies1507
The Case of the Second Chance by Christopher Bush 18 copies1509
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht 673 copies, 9 reviews1515
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford 271 copies, 5 reviews1532
Laurels Are Poison by Gladys Mitchell 92 copies, 1 review1533
Appleby on Ararat by Michael Innes 208 copies, 3 reviews1577
The Weight of the Evidence by Michael Innes 218 copies, 8 reviews1578
Mind You, I've Said Nothing! by Honor Tracy 29 copies, 2 reviews1586
The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates 471 copies, 13 reviews1602
Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes 501 copies, 20 reviews1640
Old Hall, New Hall by Michael Innes 101 copies, 1 review1641
The Twenty-Third Man by Gladys Mitchell 106 copies, 2 reviews1643
The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan 144 copies, 3 reviews1653
At Home by William Plomer 23 copies1655
This Sporting Life by David Storey 161 copies, 4 reviews1674
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett 844 copies, 17 reviews1691
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 2,882 copies, 57 reviews1698
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 6,008 copies, 101 reviews1699
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 3,374 copies, 48 reviews1700
Six Great Advocates by Lord Birkett 28 copies, 1 review1702
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley 1,040 copies, 16 reviews1715
Two-thirds of a Ghost by Helen McCloy 50 copies, 2 reviews1718
Sober as a Judge by Henry Cecil 57 copies, 1 review1748
Closed Circuit by William Haggard 27 copies1755
The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson 200 copies1758
Famous Trials 6 by James H. Hodge 19 copies1775
The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert van Gulik 625 copies, 11 reviews1776
Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers 1,554 copies, 29 reviews1780
Supermanship ; or, how to continue to stay top without actually falling apart by Stephen Potter 80 copies, 1 review1829
The Penguin Charles Addams by Charles Addams 67 copies, 4 reviews1845
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde by H. Montgomery Hyde 206 copies1857
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell 1,211 copies, 9 reviews1877
Death in Covert by Colin Willock 15 copies, 1 review1934
Death Under Sail by C.P. Snow 178 copies, 4 reviews1953
The Free Fishers by John Buchan 176 copies, 6 reviews1954
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange 1,303 copies, 14 reviews1982
Miracle at Midway by Gordon W. Prange 734 copies, 4 reviews1983
Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham 1,385 copies, 31 reviews1986
Ways and Means by Henry Cecil 41 copies1993
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch 1,503 copies, 47 reviews2003
Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon 1,126 copies, 56 reviews2023
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon 446 copies, 15 reviews2024
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon 663 copies, 27 reviews2025
The Crime at Lock 14 by Georges Simenon 711 copies, 29 reviews2027
Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon 546 copies, 25 reviews2028
Corpse at the Carnival by George Bellairs 48 copies, 1 review2077
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford 465 copies, 13 reviews2106
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh 1,192 copies, 17 reviews2123
Penguin Famous Trials 9: Roger Casement by H. Montgomery Hyde 46 copies, 1 review2124
The Origins of the Second World War: 1919-1939 by A. J. P. Taylor 1,140 copies, 8 reviews2128
The Whipping Boys by Guy Cullingford 13 copies, 1 review2141
Sir Walter Raleigh by Norman Lloyd Williams 34 copies2147
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler 956 copies, 11 reviews2148
Max Carrados Mysteries by Ernest Bramah 52 copies, 4 reviews2158
Famous Trials 10 by James H. Hodge 15 copies, 1 review2160
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer 497 copies, 19 reviews2166
Dead Man Running by John Blackburn 17 copies2172
Operation Pax by Michael Innes 226 copies, 7 reviews2203
The Demoniacs by John Dickson Carr 154 copies, 1 review2220
Connoisseur's Science Fiction by Tom Boardman 140 copies, 1 review2223
Maigret In Society by Georges Simenon 289 copies, 13 reviews2247
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 3,181 copies, 61 reviews2289
Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays by George Orwell 330 copies, 5 reviews2297
Tutankhamen by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt 769 copies, 7 reviews2351
The Law and the Profits by C. Northcote Parkinson 118 copies, 4 reviews2367
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 13,417 copies, 348 reviews2376
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway 2,101 copies, 25 reviews2421
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier 3,358 copies, 79 reviews2466
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse 1,880 copies, 38 reviews2479
Galahad at Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse 860 copies, 14 reviews2570
Calamity Town by Ellery Queen 315 copies, 8 reviews2583
Double-Barrel by Nicolas Freeling 112 copies, 1 review2585
My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski 226 copies, 2 reviews2641
What Happened at Hazelwood by Michael Innes 139 copies, 2 reviews2650
To Let by John Galsworthy 472 copies, 12 reviews2653
The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy 283 copies, 7 reviews2678
Polish Writing Today by Celina Wieniewska 9 copies2752
The Drought by J. G. Ballard 965 copies, 23 reviews2753
The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling 168 copies, 4 reviews2853
The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited by V. S. Naipaul 440 copies, 4 reviews2920
The Chinese Looking Glass by Dennis Bloodworth 165 copies, 2 reviews2921
Ulysses by James Joyce 21,403 copies, 334 reviews3000
State of Emergency by Dennis Guerrier 12 copies, 1 review3021
Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H. R. F. Keating 91 copies, 4 reviews3839
Misery by Stephen King 14,828 copies, 197 reviews

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