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Susanna Clarke

Born

in Nottingham, England, The United Kingdom

November 01, 1959

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Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Alternate History

Influences

Jane Austen, Neil Gaiman

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Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.

She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

From 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cooke ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 826,732 ratings · 111,266 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	Piranesi 4.21 avg rating — 511,208 ratings — published 2020 — 103 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
	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 3.87 avg rating — 258,188 ratings — published 2004 — 248 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 Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating — 24,066 ratings — published 2006 — 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 Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke, Victoria Sawdon (Illustrator) 3.41 avg rating — 25,080 ratings — published 2024 — 16 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
	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Jilid II by Susanna Clarke, Femmy Syahrani (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 1,483 ratings — published 2004 — 8 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
	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Jilid I by Susanna Clarke, Femmy Syahrani (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,326 ratings — published 2004 — 9 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
	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Jilid III by Susanna Clarke, Femmy Syahrani (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2004	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
	英倫魔法師【上卷】 by Susanna Clarke, 蘇珊娜·克拉克, 彭倩文 (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	英倫魔法師【下卷】 by Susanna Clarke, 蘇珊娜·克拉克, 彭倩文 (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	The Cistern 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings	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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Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, 1838, 817 pages

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43 votes, 19.6%

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, 2000, 710 pages

35 votes, 16.0%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1000, 1182 pages

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Alaska by James A. Michener, 1988, 868 pages

16 votes, 7.3%

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, 2000, 639 pages

16 votes, 7.3%

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 1749, 975 pages

12 votes, 5.5%

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, 1977, 629 pages

10 votes, 4.6%

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