British Literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was born in Poland, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In academia, the term often labels ...more

The Day I Lost You
Whispers at Painswick Court
Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot (Winner Bakes All, #3)
Under Gorse and Stone
Miss Ashbury and the Anatomy of Mending a Heart (Love from London, #4)
The Merge
The Burning Library
And Then There Was You
The Bookshop Below
The Marriage Method (The Crinoline Academy, #2)
The Queen Who Came in From the Cold (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #5)
The Devil in Oxford (Ruby Vaughn, #3)
Last Call at the Savoy
Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters
Through Each Tomorrow (Timeless, #6)
The Heir Apparent
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
Her Last Christmas
The New Year's Party
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
The Psychopath Next Door
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
Raising Hare: A Memoir
The Woman in the Cabin
A Family Matter
And Then There Was You
The Rest of Our Lives
The New Neighbours
What a Way to Go
I've Got Your Number by Sophie KinsellaCan You Keep a Secret? by Sophie KinsellaTall, Dark and Kilted by Lizzie LambBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingRemember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
The Best British Chick Lit
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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedVictor's Blessing by Barbara SontheimerWicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
Anything You Really Liked
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The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Best Books About Tudor England
609 books — 1,628 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,519 books — 3,524 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddThe Circle by Dave EggersThe Bone Clocks by David  Mitchell
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
164 books — 694 voters
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens1984 by George Orwell84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
London Calling
1,230 books — 645 voters

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Wuthering Heights
1984
Animal Farm
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)

John  Adams
We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny, or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by f ...more
John Adams, The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams

Ian Mortimer
‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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