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 — 78 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 Gitte JurssenDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonA Day Dead Old by Carmen MartucciThe Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
The Detective Club
56 books — 27 voters
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallSee Through Love by Rodd ThunderheartWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Best Literary Historical Fiction
736 books — 335 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
437 books — 998 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 MaurierNine Coaches Waiting by Mary  StewartMistress of Mellyn by Victoria HoltThe Shivering Sands by Victoria HoltDragonwyck by Anya Seton
20th Century Gothic Romances
256 books — 45 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 Seamus Heaney
Best Middle Ages Books
1,316 books — 1,919 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 — 349 voters


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