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The Pastures of Heaven

ByJohn Steinbeck

1932 • 27 Readers • 240 pages • 4

Moby-Dick

ByHerman Melville

1851 • 1,118 Readers • 822 pages • 3.6

#1 of 4 in Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Dealing with Dragons

ByPatricia C. Wrede

1990 • 218 Readers • 232 pages • 4.1

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

The Magician's Nephew

ByC. S. Lewis

1950 • 823 Readers • 208 pages • 3.9

The Survival of Princes in the Tower

The Survival of Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth

ByMatthew Lewis

1 Reader

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

ByMilan Kundera,Michael Henry Heim(Translator)

1980 • 809 Readers • 305 pages • 3.9

A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories

ByRobin McKinley

2 Readers

#2 of 5 in Plantagenets

Time and Chance

BySharon Kay Penman

2002 • 13 Readers • 496 pages • 3.7

A Pool in the Desert

1 Damar

A Pool in the Desert

ByRobin McKinley

2009 • 4 Readers • 3

The Reluctant King

The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952

BySarah Bradford

1 Reader

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

ByMargareta Magnusson

2018 • 77 Readers • 128 pages • 3.2

#3 of 4 in The Rat

A Wild Sheep Chase

ByHaruki Murakami,Alfred Birnbaum(Translator)

1982 • 324 Readers • 229 pages • 3.8

Edward VII's Children

ByJohn Van der Kiste

1980 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

ByMarc Morris

2008 • 23 Readers • 400 pages • 4.3

1066: The Year That Changed Everything

ByJennifer Paxton

2 Readers

Cloud Atlas

ByDavid Mitchell

2003 • 1,087 Readers • 509 pages • 3.9

Then the War

Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007-2020

ByCarl Phillips

4 Readers • 4

When God Was a Woman

ByMerlin Stone

1976 • 27 Readers • 265 pages • 4.7

The Lost Queen

ByAnne M. Stott

2020 • 5 Readers • 336 pages • 5

#2 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

Planet of Exile

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1966 • 92 Readers • 134 pages • 3.6

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

ByHaruki Murakami,Alfred Birnbaum(Translator)

1985 • 506 Readers • 416 pages • 3.9

The Out of Print Publications of J.D. Salinger

ByJ. D. Salinger

1 Reader

Winter's King

#4.5 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

Winter's King: A Story

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

2017 • 4 Readers • 3.5

Edward II

Edward II: The Unconventional King

ByKathryn Warner

1 Reader

Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England

ByAlison Weir

2005 • 4 Readers • 532 pages

Edward VIII

ByPiers Brendon

1 Reader

Victoria

ByJulia Baird

2016 • 32 Readers • 696 pages • 5

Vaster than Empires and More Slow

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

2017 • 2 Readers • 4

Shadow King

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

ByLauren Johnson

2 Readers

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

ByJ. D. Salinger

1948 • 30 Readers • 18 pages • 4.1

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

ByJunot Díaz

2007 • 500 Readers • 360 pages • 3.8

The Assembly of the Severed Head

ByHugh Lupton

4 Readers

King John

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

ByMarc Morris

1 Reader

Occult London

ByMerlin Coverley

1 Reader

The Bone People

ByKeri Hulme

1984 • 106 Readers • 553 pages • 4.4

The Imprisoned Princess

The Imprisoned Princess: The Scandalous Life of Sophia Dorothea of Celle

ByCatherine Curzon

2 Readers

#6 of 6 in Chrestomanci

The Pinhoe Egg

ByDiana Wynne Jones

2006 • 33 Readers • 532 pages • 4.1

Henrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant

ByTracy Borman

2007 • 3 Readers • 324 pages

#2 of 1 in Damar

The Hero and the Crown

ByRobin McKinley

1984 • 98 Readers • 219 pages • 4

Midnight's Children

BySalman Rushdie

1981 • 464 Readers • 640 pages • 4

Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from Willam the Conqueror to Elizabeth II

ByTracy Borman

2021 • 7 Readers • 576 pages • 4

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

ByLucy Worsley

3 Readers • 4

#1 of 3 in Ibis Trilogy

Sea of Poppies

ByAmitav Ghosh

2008 • 66 Readers • 528 pages • 4.1

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

ByMichael Chabon

2000 • 504 Readers • 706 pages • 4.2

The Blue Sword

ByRobin McKinley

172 Readers • 3.9

The White Ship

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream

ByCharles Spencer

3 Readers

#3 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

City Of Illusions

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1967 • 90 Readers • 7h 22m • 3.8

#4.5 of 6 in Chrestomanci

Stealer of Souls

ByDiana Wynne Jones

2000 • 5 Readers • 69 pages

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

Catch-22

ByJoseph Heller

1961 • 1,659 Readers • 466 pages • 4

Queen Victoria's Children

ByJohn Van Der Kiste

1 Reader

Henry II

ByRichard W. Barber

2015 • 2 Readers

The Sister Queens: Isabella and Catherine de Valois

ByMary McGrigor

2 Readers

Mountains Beyond Mountains

ByTracy Kidder

2003 • 95 Readers • 3.9

The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family

BySusan Higginbotham

2013 • 5 Readers • 224 pages • 3

Housekeeping

ByMarilynne Robinson

1980 • 150 Readers • 219 pages • 4

#3 of 5 in Plantagenets

Devil's Brood

BySharon Kay Penman

2008 • 13 Readers • 752 pages • 4

George II

George II: King and Elector

ByAndrew C. Thompson

1 Reader

Joan of Navarre

Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duchess, Queen, Witch?

ByElena Woodacre

1 Reader

Eleanor of Castile

BySara Cockerill

2014 • 2 Readers • 448 pages • 4

Ficciones

ByJorge Luis Borges,John Sturrock(Translator),+1 more

1944 • 329 Readers • 192 pages • 4.2

Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year

ByEleanor Parker

2022 • 17 Readers • 267 pages • 4.5

George V

George V: The Unexpected King

ByDavid Cannadine

1 Reader

#5 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

The Word for World is Forest

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1972 • 243 Readers • 178 pages • 4

Little, Big

ByJohn Crowley,Donatella Rizzati(Translator)

1981 • 146 Readers • 576 pages • 3.8

Sacred and Profane

Sacred and Profane: The Private Lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints

ByJanina Ramírez

1 Reader

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity

BySarah B. Pomeroy

1975 • 13 Readers • 304 pages • 5

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

ByJanice Hadlow

2014 • 3 Readers • 704 pages

The Sea, the Sea

ByIris Murdoch

2001 • 108 Readers • 528 pages • 4.1

The Stone Fey

ByRobin McKinley, John Clapp

1 Reader

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

ByGrace Paley

1974 • 8 Readers • 198 pages • 5

Ghosts of My Life

ByMark Fisher

2014 • 70 Readers • 245 pages • 4.1

#1 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

Rocannon's World

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1966 • 189 Readers • 122 pages • 3.7

Philippa of Hainault

Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation

ByKathryn Warner

1 Reader

A Gambling Man

A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

ByJenny Uglow

2 Readers

Matilda

Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England

ByTracy Borman

3 Readers • 4

Sometimes a Great Notion

ByKen Kesey

1964 • 68 Readers • 715 pages • 4.3

In Our Time

ByErnest Hemingway

1924 • 45 Readers • 156 pages • 3.6

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

A Wizard of Earthsea

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1968 • 1,522 Readers • 210 pages • 3.9

Orlando

ByVirginia Woolf

1919 • 355 Readers • 350 pages • 3.8

The Usurper King

The Usurper King: The Fall of Richard II and the Rise of Henry of Bolingbroke, 1366-99

ByMarie Louise Bruce

1986 • 2 Readers • 383 pages • 5

Baudolino

ByUmberto Eco,William Weaver(Translator)

2000 • 81 Readers • 527 pages • 3.8

Imaginary Lands

ByJames P. Blaylock, Robert Westall, Jane Yolen, P.C. Hodgell, Michael de Larrabeiti, Patricia A. McKillip, Robin McKinley, Joan D. Vinge, Peter Dickinson

1 Reader

The Fears of Henry IV

The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King

ByIan Mortimer

2 Readers

The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society

ByJohn Blair

1 Reader

Been down so long it looks like up to me

ByRichard Fariña

1966 • 29 Readers • 329 pages • 3.3

In the Reign of King John

In the Reign of King John: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England

ByDan Jones

2 Readers • 3

The Wayward Bus

ByJohn Steinbeck

1947 • 34 Readers • 254 pages • 3.6

A Russian Journal

ByJohn Steinbeck

1948 • 18 Readers • 257 pages • 3.8

#3 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

ByIan Mortimer

2017 • 6 Readers • 464 pages • 4

A Royal Passion

A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France

ByKatie Whitaker

2009 • 2 Readers

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

ByJohn Steinbeck

1951 • 23 Readers • 288 pages • 4

#2 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

ByIan Mortimer

2010 • 28 Readers • 3.5

Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor

ByEamon Duffy

2009 • 3 Readers

Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688

ByClare Jackson

2021 • 10 Readers • 684 pages • 4.5

The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories

ByJulian Barnes

1 Reader

The Trials of the King of Hampshire

The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

ByElizabeth Foyster

1 Reader

Journal of a Novel

ByJohn Steinbeck

1969 • 9 Readers • 200 pages

Working Days

Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath

ByRobert DeMott, John Steinbeck

1 Reader

#2 of 2 in Cannery Row

Sweet Thursday

ByJohn Steinbeck

1954 • 40 Readers • 205 pages • 4.1

Killers of the King

Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

ByCharles Spencer

5 Readers • 4

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