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John Buchan

Born

in Perth, Scotland

August 26, 1875

Died

February 11, 1940

Website

http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Violet Jacob, Andrew ...more

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John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
As a youth, Buchan began writing poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, publishing his first novel in 1895 and ultimately writing over a hundred books of which the best known is The Thirty-Nine Steps. After attending Glasgow and Oxford universities, he practised as a barrister. In 1901, he served as a private secretary to Lord Milner in southern Africa towards the end of the Boer War. He returned to England in 1903, continued as a barrister and journalist. He left the Bar when he joined Thomas Nelson ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 73,924 ratings · 7,177 reviews · 1,665 distinct works • Similar authors

	The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 48,294 ratings — published 1915 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2) 3.73 avg rating — 5,335 ratings — published 1916 — 990 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr. Standfast (Richard Hannay, #3) 3.87 avg rating — 2,103 ratings — published 1919 — 700 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Three Hostages (Richard Hannay #4) 3.79 avg rating — 1,363 ratings — published 1924 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island of Sheep (Richard Hannay #5) 3.79 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 1936 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thirty-Nine Steps / Greenmantle 3.45 avg rating — 1,132 ratings — published 1915 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Huntingtower (Dickson McCunn, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 900 ratings — published 1922 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Macnab (Sir Edward Leithen, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 780 ratings — published 1925 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power House (Sir Edward Leithen, #1) 3.46 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 1916 — 379 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witch Wood 3.91 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 1927 — 189 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Richard Hannay (6 books)
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James Buchan (Introduction)

3.78 avg rating — 2,416 ratings

Dickson McCunn (3 books)
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3.84 avg rating — 1,426 ratings

The Battle of the Somme (3 books)
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The Battle of the Somme (3 books)
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“He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.”
― John Buchan

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“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
― John Buchan

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“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”
― John Buchan, The 39 Steps

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The 39 Steps by John Buchan, 100+- pages, 1915

42 votes, 20.5%

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, 120 pages, 1981

40 votes, 19.5%

The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benét, 48 pages, 1937

29 votes, 14.1%

The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 48 pages, 1920

23 votes, 11.2%

What I Believe by Bertrand Russell, 48 pages, 1925

20 votes, 9.8%

The Immortal by Jorge Luis Borges, ? pages, 1947

20 votes, 9.8%

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron, 84 pages, 1990

16 votes, 7.8%

The Verger by W. Somerset Maugham. 6+- pages, 1928

15 votes, 7.3%

205 total votes

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