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The Wind in the Willows
English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated
Mansfield Park
1814 novel by Jane Austen
The Invisible Man
1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells
To the Lighthouse
1927 novel by Virginia Woolf
Mortal Engines
2001 novel by Philip Reeve
Vanity Fair
1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
His Dark Materials
novel series by Philip Pullman
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis
Mrs Dalloway
1925 novel by Virginia Woolf
Death on the Nile
1937 novel by Agatha Christie
The Pickwick Papers
1837 novel by Charles Dickens
The Valley of Fear
novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Remains of the Day
1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Lord Jim
1900 novel by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Garden
1912 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Casino Royale
novel by Ian Fleming
King Solomon's Mines
novel by Henry Rider Haggard (1885)
Matilda
1988 children's book by Roald Dahl
Paddington Bear
children's book character created by Michael Bond
The A.B.C. Murders
1936 novel by Agatha Christie
Discworld
Discworld is a collection of fantasy comedy novels, graphic novels, short stories, and associated works conceived and primarily written by the English author Terry Pratchett. They are united by their being set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The novel series consists of forty-one books, the first being The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, and the last ''The Shepherd's Crown'', published posthumously in 2015. Pratchett also wrote eleven short stories related to the Discworld. The novels often satirise
Never Let Me Go
2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Bleak House
novel by Charles Dickens (1853)
The Murder at the Vicarage
1930 novel by Agatha Christie
Black Beauty
1877 novel by Anna Sewell
The Island of Dr Moreau
1896 novel by Herbert George Wells
Kim
picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1891 novel by Thomas Hardy
Things Fall Apart
1958 novel by Chinua Achebe
Northanger Abbey
1817 novel by Jane Austen
Watership Down
1972 novel by Richard Adams
The Big Sleep
novel by Raymond Chandler
The Mystery of the Blue Train
novel by Agatha Christie
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749 novel by Henry Fielding
Flatland
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
The Lost World
novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Murder Is Announced
1950 novel by Agatha Christie
Peter Pan
play and novel by James Matthew Barrie
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
novel by Laurence Sterne
Elephants Can Remember
1972 novel by Agatha Christie
The Body in the Library
1942 novel by Agatha Christie
Coraline
Coraline () is a 2002 British fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.
Rebecca
novel by Daphne du Maurier
Lord Edgware Dies
1933 novel by Agatha Christie
The Castle of Otranto
novel by Horace Walpole
The Colour of Magic
1983 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett
Northern Lights
1995 novel by Philip Pullman
Fanny Hill
1748 novel by John Cleland
The Big Four
1927 novel by Agatha Christie
Atonement
2001 novel by Ian McEwan
Evil Under the Sun
1941 novel by Agatha Christie
Nicholas Nickleby
monthly serial; novel by Charles Dickens; published 1838–1839
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1963 novel by John le Carré
The Witches
1983 children's book by Roald Dahl
Dr. No
1958 novel by Ian Fleming
After the Funeral
1953 novel by Agatha Christie
Sleeping Murder
1976 novel by Agatha Christie
Crooked House
1949 novel by Agatha Christie
From Russia, with Love
1957 novel by Ian Fleming
Little Lord Fauntleroy
novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett