Subject: English fiction 20th century

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (27,155 copies)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (24,288 copies)
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (14,729 copies)
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (10,930 copies)
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett (9,811 copies)
Eric by Terry Pratchett (8,602 copies)
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (7,433 copies)
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco (6,978 copies)
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (6,407 copies)
Excession by Iain M. Banks (4,587 copies)
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (4,350 copies)
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (4,169 copies)
H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian (4,080 copies)
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (3,974 copies)
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (3,673 copies)
Crooked House by Agatha Christie (3,500 copies)
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (3,488 copies)
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers (3,069 copies)
The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian (3,029 copies)
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (2,904 copies)
The Atlas of Middle-Earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad (2,878 copies)
Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie (2,829 copies)
The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie (2,785 copies)
Making History by Stephen Fry (2,433 copies)
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming (2,249 copies)
The Woman who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (2,193 copies)
The Information by Martin Amis (2,124 copies)
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher (1,854 copies)
The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid (1,838 copies)
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess (1,749 copies)
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas (1,633 copies)
Winter's Tales by Isak Dinesen (1,589 copies)
Thieves' World by Robert Asprin (1,501 copies)
The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer (1,419 copies)
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (1,402 copies)
Therapy by David Lodge (1,369 copies)
Utz by Bruce Chatwin (1,252 copies)
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh (1,182 copies)
Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn by Robert Asprin (1,118 copies)
The Memory Game by Nicci French (1,093 copies)
Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh (1,036 copies)
Time to Depart by Lindsey Davis (982 copies)
The Notebook; The Proof; The Third Lie by Ágota Kristóf (959 copies)
Flashman and the Dragon by George MacDonald Fraser (902 copies)
The Legend of Deathwalker by David Gemmell (877 copies)
Storm Season by Robert Asprin (866 copies)
Backwards by Rob Grant (835 copies)
Pollen by Jeff Noon (824 copies)
Pooh and the Philosophers : In Which It Is Shown That All… by John Tyerman Williams (821 copies)
The Face of Chaos by Robert Asprin (783 copies)
A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill (727 copies)
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson (674 copies)
Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron by Tom Holland (671 copies)
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (609 copies)
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest (604 copies)
Dina's Book by Herbjørg Wassmo (573 copies)
The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser (558 copies)
Running Wild by J. G. Ballard (541 copies)
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel (537 copies)
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive… by Angela Carter (515 copies)
Dead Beat by Val McDermid (497 copies)
Hood by Emma Donoghue (464 copies)
Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin (453 copies)
Black Plumes by Margery Allingham (447 copies)
The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble (439 copies)
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories by Malcolm Bradbury (418 copies)
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories by Patricia Craig (391 copies)
A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris… by Elaine Showalter (388 copies)
Milton in America by Peter Ackroyd (360 copies)
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and… by Iris Murdoch (355 copies)
Rumpole's Return by John Mortimer (352 copies)
The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors by Laura Miller (343 copies)
Year of the Tiger by Jack Higgins (332 copies)
Carriers by Patrick Lynch (316 copies)
Helliconia by Brian Aldiss (315 copies)
The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis (286 copies)
Bill the Conqueror, His Invasion of England in the… by P. G. Wodehouse (281 copies)
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since… by Carmen Callil (277 copies)
99 Novels by Anthony Burgess (275 copies)
Paint Your Dragon by Tom Holt (271 copies)
A Woman's Eye by Sara Paretsky (266 copies)
Terminal by Colin Forbes (209 copies)
The Scoop & Behind the Screen by Agatha Christie (206 copies)
A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 by Nicola Beauman (199 copies)
Cold Fall by John Gardner (197 copies)
The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to… by Edward Mendelson (184 copies)
The Candlemass Road by George MacDonald Fraser (182 copies)
Killing the Lawyers by Reginald Hill (160 copies)
Year of the Golden Ape by Colin Forbes (157 copies)
The Malcontenta by Barry Maitland (157 copies)
Bad Therapy by Matthew Jones (151 copies)
The War Amongst the Angels by Michael Moorcock (145 copies)
Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's… by Humphrey Carpenter (145 copies)
The Facts of Life by Patrick Gale (144 copies)
The Death of an Irish Sea Wolf: A Peter McGarr Mystery by Bartholomew Gill (142 copies)
Under My Skin by Sarah Dunant (142 copies)
Target 5 by Colin Forbes (136 copies)
Children of Albion Rovers by Kevin Williamson (133 copies)
Where Was Rebecca Shot? Puzzles, Curiosities, and… by John Sutherland (133 copies)
The Heights of Zervos by Colin Forbes (128 copies)
After Effects by Catherine Aird (113 copies)
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction by Dermot Bolger (104 copies)
A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel by Peter Parker (94 copies)
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sebastian Wolfe (85 copies)
The Secret Self: Short Stories by Women by Hermione Lee (85 copies)
In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science… by Sarah LeFanu (76 copies)
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from… by Peter Haining (75 copies)
Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters by Christine Park (73 copies)
The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories by Patricia Craig (68 copies)
The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence by Raymond Williams (67 copies)
The Sett by Sir Ranulph Fiennes (64 copies)
Modern English Short Stories: Second Series by Derek Hudson (62 copies)
Three Theban Plays by Patricia Craig (62 copies)
A Reader's Guide to The Classic British Mystery by Susan Oleksiw (60 copies)
Digital Dreams by David V. Barrett (60 copies)
Indiscreet Journeys: Stories of Women on the Road by Lisa St. Aubin de Terán (59 copies)
The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston (57 copies)
High Island Blues by Ann Cleeves (56 copies)
Passion Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (53 copies)
The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction by Sandra Kemp (53 copies)
A Long Walk in Wintertime by Libby Purves (52 copies)
Moments of Truth by Lorna Sage (51 copies)
The Knight on the Bridge by William Watson (51 copies)
Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (St James Guide… by John Reilly (51 copies)
Goodbye, Johnny Thunders by Tania Kindersley (50 copies)
Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature by Joseph Carroll (48 copies)
Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the… by Charles Butler (46 copies)
The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction by Malcolm Bradbury (45 copies)
Shadows of Imagination: The Fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R.… by Mark Robert Hillegas (43 copies)
Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish… by Louise Desalvo (38 copies)
The Novel and the Modern World by David Daiches (38 copies)
Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of… by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (38 copies)
Fullalove by Gordon Burn (37 copies)
Fate by Mary Corran (37 copies)
Bestseller: The Books That Everyone Read 1900-1939 by Claud Cockburn (37 copies)
Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall : Studies in a Male… by Claude J. Summers (36 copies)
Fools, Knaves and Heroes: Great Political Short Stories by Jeffrey Archer (35 copies)
Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works Ffrom the… by Anthony Slide (34 copies)
A readers guide to great twentieth-century English novels by Frederick R. Karl (33 copies)
The Vintage Book Of Contemporary Scottish Fiction by Peter Kravitz (32 copies)
Lands of Never: Anthology of Modern Fantasy by Maxim Jakubowski (32 copies)
Murder Impossible: An Extravaganza of Miraculous Murders… by Jack Adrian (31 copies)
The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary… by Suzanne Kamata (31 copies)
Murder at the Opera: Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense at… by Thomas Godfrey (30 copies)
Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers by Curtis C. Smith (29 copies)
In Defence of Fantasy: Study of the Genre in English and… by Ann Swinfen (29 copies)
The Seven Deadly Sins by Alison Fell (29 copies)
Kensington Court by Carol Smith (27 copies)
The situation of the novel by Bernard Bergonzi (26 copies)
Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British… by Nancy Armstrong (26 copies)
Clubland Heroes by Richard Usborne (26 copies)
Modernist Fiction: An Introduction by Randall Stevenson (26 copies)
Reading Series Fiction: From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp by Victor Watson (25 copies)
Frivolity Unbound: Six Masters of the Camp Novel, Thomas… by Robert F. Kiernan (25 copies)
Fairness by Ferdinand Mount (25 copies)
Writers Revealed by Rosemary Hartill (24 copies)
More Like Minds by Ben Goldstein (23 copies)
Listening for Small Sounds by Penelope Trevor (23 copies)
A Midsummer Night's Gene by Andrew Harman (22 copies)
Women and Children First: The Fiction of Two World Wars by Mary Cadogan (22 copies)
Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction by Jane Donawerth (22 copies)
Modern Fantasy by C. N. Manlove (22 copies)
Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville… by Susan J. Leonardi (21 copies)
Fiction of the First World War by George Parfitt (20 copies)
Afterwords: Novelists on Their Novels by Thomas McCormack (20 copies)
The Flower of Battle: How Britain Wrote the Great War by Hugh Cecil (20 copies)
Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children's… by Margaret Rustin (20 copies)
On Modern British Fiction by Zachary Leader (19 copies)
Cloak and Dagger: An Annotated Guide to Spy Thrillers by Myron J. Smith (19 copies)
From Alice to Harry Potter: Children's Fantasy in England by Colin Manlove (19 copies)
War stories by Hayden McAllister (19 copies)
Novels and Novelists by Katherine Mansfield (18 copies)
Deadlier than the male: Why are respectable English women… by Jessica Mann (18 copies)
Novelists in Interview by John Haffenden (18 copies)
Weird English by Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien (18 copies)
The British Novel Since the Thirties: An Introduction by Randall Stevenson (17 copies)
Irish Short Stories by David Marcus (17 copies)
Women and Fiction: Feminism and the Novel, 1880-1920… by Patricia Stubbs (17 copies)
Third Player (Dyason, Bk. 3) by Warren James Palmer (17 copies)
After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie by Michael Gorra (16 copies)
Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Post Modern by Patricia Waugh (16 copies)
Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the… by Ronald R. Thomas (16 copies)
Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race by Jane Marcus (15 copies)
The Long Run by Ted Allbeury (15 copies)
After the War: Novel and English Society Since 1945 by D. J. Taylor (15 copies)
A Feast of Stories by Clare Francis (14 copies)
African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in… by Kadiatu Kanneh (14 copies)
Short Stories from the Second World War by Dan Davin (14 copies)
Breaking the Sequence by Ellen G. Friedman (14 copies)
Eminent Domain by Carl Huberman (14 copies)
Sisters and Strangers: An Introduction to Contemporary… by Patricia Duncker (14 copies)
A Sort of Virtue by Julian Symons (14 copies)
Contemporary Novelists by Josh Lauer (13 copies)
Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction 1920-51 -… by John W. Aldridge (13 copies)
On not being good enough : writings of a working critic by Roger Sale (13 copies)
Seahorses by Bidisha (12 copies)
Language in Popular Fiction by Walter Nash (12 copies)
The Technique of Modern Fiction by Jonathan Raban (12 copies)
The self-conscious novel : artifice in fiction from Joyce… by Brian Stonehill (12 copies)
The Magic Code: The Use of Magical Patterns in Fantasy for… by Maria Nikolajeva (12 copies)
Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the… by Nancy A. Walker (10 copies)
Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from… by Philip Weinstein (9 copies)
Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis… by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (9 copies)
Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers (St James Guide… by Noelle Watson (9 copies)
Novels of everyday life : the series in English fiction,… by Laurie Langbauer (9 copies)
The Police Procedural by George N. Dove (9 copies)
Infernal Paradise: Mexico and the Modern English Novel by Ronald G. Walker (9 copies)
The contemporary English novel by Frederick R. Karl (9 copies)
Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction… by Ann F. Howey (9 copies)
Socialist Propaganda in the Twentieth Century British Novel by David Smith (9 copies)
Inspector Proby's Weekend by Freddie M. Stockdale (9 copies)
Culture, 1922: the emergence of a concept by Marc Manganaro (8 copies)
The Spy Story by John G. Cawelti (8 copies)
Writing the Colonial Adventure: Race, Gender and Nation in… by Robert Dixon (8 copies)
Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel by Shiv K. Kumar (8 copies)
Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in… by Thomas B. Gilmore (8 copies)
Classic Crime and Suspense Writers (Writers of English) by Harold Bloom (7 copies)
The return from Avalon : a study of the Arthurian legend in… by Raymond H. Thompson (6 copies)
The Will to Believe: Novelists of the Nineteen Thirties… by Richard Johnstone (6 copies)
The Postcolonial Novel by Richard J. Lane (6 copies)
Streets of Stone by Moira Burgess (6 copies)
Contemporary Women's Fiction: Feminist Theory and Narrative… by Paulina Palmer (6 copies)
Poker Face by Josie Barnard (6 copies)
Modern British Short Novels by Robert M. Davis (6 copies)
Heroines: A Bibliography of Women Series Characters… by Bernard A. Drew (5 copies)
Plotting Change: Contemporary Women's Fiction by Linda R. Anderson (5 copies)
Romance Treasury: The Spell of the Enchanter / When Birds… by Margery Hilton (5 copies)
Masters of Modern British Fiction by George Wickes (5 copies)
Their own worst enemies : women writers of women's fiction by Daphne Watson (5 copies)
Twentieth Century Romance And Gothic Writers by James Vinson (5 copies)
Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of… by Charlotte Spivack (5 copies)
Ending in Tears by Penny Kline (5 copies)
Popular fiction in England, 1914-1918 by Harold Orel (4 copies)
Contemporary British Novelists by Charles Shapiro (4 copies)
Fantasts: Studies of J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll,… by T. E. Little (4 copies)
The dime novel western by Daryl Jones (3 copies)
Out of the Closet and into the Classroom: Homosexuality in… by Laurel Clyde (3 copies)
Out of the Closet and into the Classroom: Homosexuality in… by Marjorie. Lobban (3 copies)
Man in the Modern Novel by John Edward Hardy (3 copies)
Edwardian Fiction by Jefferson Hunter (3 copies)
The politics of fantasy, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien by Lee D. Rossi (3 copies)
Beyond the Lighthouse: English women novelists in the… by Margaret Crosland (3 copies)
Out of the Attic: Some Neglected Children's Authors of the… by Pat Pinsent (3 copies)
English novel, Conrad to Woolf by Frank Northen Magill (2 copies)
The rural tradition in the English novel, 1900-1939 by Glen Cavaliero (2 copies)
The Twentieth-Century Novel in English: A Checklist by E. C. Bufkin (2 copies)
The Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary British Fiction by Martin Horstkotte (2 copies)
Four British women novelists : Anita Brookner, Margaret… by George Soule (2 copies)
Saga Short Stories, Volume 1: The Best of Saga Magazine… by Saga (1 copies)
Introduction to the Archaeology of Jersey by Ian Cornwall (1 copies)
The novel today, 1967-1975 by Ronald Hayman (1 copies)
Chapter one by Glenda Adams (1 copies)
Scottish short stories 1989 : the red hog of Colima (1 copies)
Best for Winter A Selection from Twenty Five Years of… by Alan Duart Maclean (1 copies)