Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsExcellent Women by Barbara Pym
A Middlebrow Syllabus
100 books — 76 voters
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. JamesThe Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. SayersI Am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude HoughtonStill She Wished for Company by Margaret IrwinLolly Willowes  by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Penguin Books by number 1-100
100 books — 7 voters

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieTatort Dangast by Unknown AuthorDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonThe Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund CrispinThe Big Four by Agatha Christie
The Detective Club
56 books — 25 voters
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Best Literary Historical Fiction
721 books — 256 voters

The Great Alone by Kristin HannahMy Dear Hamilton by Stephanie DrayThe Romanov Empress by C.W. GortnerThe Blue by Nancy BilyeauCirce by Madeline Miller
Historical Fiction 2018
431 books — 993 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Vintage Authors Series
87 books — 8 voters
Selected Stories of Morley Roberts by Morley RobertsHester by Mrs. OliphantMiss Marjoribanks by Mrs. OliphantThe American Senator by Anthony TrollopePhoebe Junior by Mrs. Oliphant
Victorian Obscure
112 books — 40 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierSecrets of Rose Briar Hall by Kelsey JamesNine Coaches Waiting by Mary  StewartMistress of Mellyn by Victoria HoltThe Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt
20th Century Gothic Romances
262 books — 58 voters

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerWorld Without End by Ken FollettBeowulf by Unknown
Best Middle Ages Books
1,272 books — 1,752 voters
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Historical Fiction - France
515 books — 346 voters


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