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1

The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,962 members

330 reviews

4.1

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

2

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,677 members

561 reviews

4.1

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

3

Winnie-the-Pooh

13,576 members

207 reviews

½ 4.3

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

4

28,882 members

535 reviews

4.2

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

5

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

24,923 members

528 reviews

4.1

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

6

by Charlotte Brontë

59,382 members

924 reviews

4.2

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

7

Pride and Prejudice

81,210 members

1,372 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

25,714 members

294 reviews

4.1

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

9

The Sword in the Stone

3,370 members

48 reviews

3.9

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

10

by George Orwell

82,466 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

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

11

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,342 members

708 reviews

3.9

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

12

25,039 members

580 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,469 members

480 reviews

4.2

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

14

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,481 members

150 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: inge87, merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,516 members

1,334 reviews

3.9

4 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Sense and Sensibility

38,387 members

530 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

17

38,264 members

506 reviews

4.1

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

18

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

4,158 members

70 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

19

Five Children and It

4,717 members

75 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

54,187 members

774 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,864 members

616 reviews

4.2

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

22

The House at Pooh Corner

8,533 members

78 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

23

22,658 members

360 reviews

3.8

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

15,439 members

303 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

8,513 members

228 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

26

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

21,413 members

539 reviews

4.2

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

27

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,161 members

109 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington

28

by P. L. Travers

6,432 members

164 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, AndreaRu, foropeza1

29

by Terry Pratchett

34,981 members

794 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

7,726 members

290 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, cej1027

31

19,628 members

320 reviews

4.1

3 Members: hipdeep, foropeza1, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

8,755 members

416 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

33

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,933 members

227 reviews

3.9

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

34

by Susan Cooper

5,892 members

89 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

35

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

11,231 members

224 reviews

3.9

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, foropeza1

36

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,801 members

225 reviews

4

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

37

by Connie Willis

7,999 members

376 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

38

by E. M. Forster

8,820 members

133 reviews

4

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

39

The Picture of Dorian Gray

39,804 members

638 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

40

13,017 members

289 reviews

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

41

Her Fearful Symmetry

by Audrey Niffenegger

7,025 members

471 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

42

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,323 members

51 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, foropeza1

43

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham

7,510 members

207 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

44

A Month in the Country

2,330 members

120 reviews

4.2

2 Members: inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

45

The Perilous Gard

by Elizabeth Marie Pope

1,599 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, cej1027

46

2,522 members

161 reviews

4

Member: dara85

47

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,772 members

287 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

48

Notes from a Small Island

9,853 members

218 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, sturlington

49

by Anthony Horowitz

3,882 members

236 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

50

Fire and Hemlock

by Diana Wynne Jones

2,145 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

51

10,331 members

583 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

52

The War of the Worlds

18,517 members

310 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, foropeza1

53

I Capture the Castle

9,241 members

295 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,614 members

169 reviews

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Turn of the Screw

8,173 members

249 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: sturlington: Essex

56

An Instance of the Fingerpost

5,260 members

138 reviews

3.9

Member: KimarieBee

57

by Anthony Trollope

4,391 members

131 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Secret Keeper

3,441 members

229 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

59

Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,799 members

106 reviews

4.2

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

60

Clouds of Witness

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,675 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

61

The Man with a Load of Mischief

by Martha Grimes

1,591 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

62

by Connie Willis

3,215 members

220 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

63

by Sir Walter Scott

13,108 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

64

The Forgotten Garden

7,929 members

447 reviews

4

Member: dara85

65

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

4,939 members

107 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

by Connie Willis

2,297 members

151 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

67

A Morbid Taste for Bones

by Ellis Peters

3,953 members

105 reviews

3.8

2 Members: merrystar, sturlington

68

by Anthony Trollope

2,098 members

64 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

by George Mackay Brown

193 members

7 reviews

4

Member: inge87

70

The Sea Detective

by Mark Douglas-Home

160 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87

71

The Lark in the Morn

by Elfrida Vipont

116 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: inge87

72

Shadows and Images: A Novel

by Meriol Trevor

27 members

3.9

Member: inge87

73

England, England

by Julian Barnes

1,885 members

38 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: hipdeep

74

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

1,860 members

45 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

1,790 members

49 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

The Scold's Bridle

by Minette Walters

1,504 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

77

by Paul Burrell

578 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

78

by Hilary Mantel

13,576 members

655 reviews

4

Member: hipdeep

79

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,362 members

59 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Mollie Panter-Downes

355 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: inge87

81

The Last Chronicle of Barset

by Anthony Trollope

1,812 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Loo Sanction

456 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

83

by Georgette Heyer

2,170 members

95 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

84

He Knew He Was Right

by Anthony Trollope

990 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Sing the Sadness

by Reginald Hill

178 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

86

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

6,982 members

347 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

87

by Anthony Trollope

1,900 members

31 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

1,985 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

by Catherynne M. Valente

1,275 members

82 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

90

by Georgette Heyer

1,466 members

47 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

91

by Anthony Trollope

1,206 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Prime Minister

by Anthony Trollope

1,297 members

27 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

6,236 members

192 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

94

The Duke's Children

by Anthony Trollope

1,181 members

22 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

by Elisabeth Beresford

332 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

96

Tom's Midnight Garden

by Philippa Pearce

2,492 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: merrystar

97

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,546 members

71 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

To Love and Be Wise

by Josephine Tey

1,313 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

99

Picture Miss Seeton

by Heron Carvic

295 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: merrystar

100

Nightingale Wood

by Stella Gibbons

433 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

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