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ManWithAnAgenda, ahef1963, sturlington, dara85, KimarieBee

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1

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

16,735 members

1,082 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: dara85, KimarieBee, ahef1963,sturlington

2

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,155 members

934 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

4,989 members

339 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

7,961 members

574 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

5

by Richard Adams

24,080 members

462 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Babel, Or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

3,162 members

67 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North

2,909 members

166 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

8

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

26,433 members

753 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

by Candice Carty-Williams

1,422 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

36,669 members

494 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Paula Hawkins

4,200 members

206 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963,sturlington

12

by Elizabeth Gaskell

4,402 members

129 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by Anne Brontë

4,939 members

161 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,923 members

669 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

by Charlotte Brontë

57,052 members

895 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Before I Go to Sleep

by S. J. Watson

6,021 members

465 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963,sturlington

17

by George Eliot

4,105 members

71 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Warden / Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

350 members

1 review

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

14,766 members

288 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Connie Willis

7,775 members

364 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

12,685 members

286 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Michael Cunningham

12,486 members

225 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

A Bear Called Paddington

by Michael Bond

3,965 members

67 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Virginia Woolf

19,941 members

322 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Charles Dickens

13,376 members

242 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,893 members

585 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

20,688 members

208 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,534 members

26 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

5,637 members

220 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

9,489 members

304 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Anne Enright

3,992 members

205 reviews

3.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

by W. Somerset Maugham

1,895 members

40 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Henry Fielding

7,944 members

96 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Invisible Man

10,558 members

246 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

by Wilkie Collins

10,485 members

246 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

21,823 members

352 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

37

The Picture of Dorian Gray

38,181 members

614 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

38

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,847 members

459 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

39

by William Makepeace Thackeray

14,322 members

190 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

13,273 members

213 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

16,679 members

310 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

42

The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

8,136 members

112 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,216 members

161 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

44

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,136 members

421 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

45

Pride and Prejudice

77,831 members

1,336 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

46

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

12,438 members

332 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

47

by George Eliot

17,151 members

324 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

7,441 members

297 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Once and Future King

14,917 members

197 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

50

Northanger Abbey

20,955 members

409 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Hunting Party

1,992 members

86 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

52

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

by Dexter Palmer

172 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

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579 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

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2,632 members

188 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

55

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

882 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

56

by Stuart Neville

775 members

54 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

57

by Louise Candlish

697 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

58

2,413 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

59

by Diana Wynne Jones

1,447 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

The Essex Serpent

2,958 members

161 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

61

The Forsyte Saga

by John Galsworthy

2,456 members

41 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

by E. M. Forster

8,528 members

128 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

8,453 members

118 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

Orlando: A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

10,246 members

166 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

65

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

1,362 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

66

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

by George Meredith

474 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

67

The Turn of the Screw

7,819 members

242 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

A Month in the Country

2,183 members

117 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,027 members

257 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Geoffrey Household

1,078 members

43 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Girls of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

1,281 members

56 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

6,377 members

101 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

The Girl in a Swing

by Richard Adams

819 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

by Irvine Welsh

7,598 members

79 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

Death of an Ordinary Man

329 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

XX: A Novel, Graphic

178 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

by Natasha Pulley

413 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

196 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

876 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Robert Westall

119 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

The Owl Service

1,892 members

46 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

The Silent Companions

by Laura Purcell

939 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Small House at Allington

by Anthony Trollope

1,746 members

47 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

11,023 members

188 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Muriel Spark

1,693 members

64 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

3,523 members

59 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

Can You Forgive Her?

by Anthony Trollope

2,288 members

58 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

At Swim, Two Boys

by Jamie O'Neill

2,068 members

55 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

1,820 members

45 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

by Robert Louis Stevenson

860 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

by Ford Madox Ford

1,699 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,631 members

563 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

by Candice Carty-Williams

168 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

by Anthony Trollope

2,032 members

63 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

95

La Belle Sauvage

by Philip Pullman

4,081 members

128 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

96

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

6,350 members

168 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

97

In a Dark, Dark Wood

4,237 members

238 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

98

by David Santos Donaldson

57 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

99

by China Miéville

3,468 members

174 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

100

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1,442 members

67 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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July 2013
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