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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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3.87 avg rating — 251,472 ratings
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The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 96,029 ratings
score: 399,
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The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz #2)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 53,546 ratings
score: 392,
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The Sherlockian
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Graham Moore (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 14,925 ratings
score: 387,
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Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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4.03 avg rating — 45,175 ratings
score: 372,
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 47,682 ratings
score: 350,
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
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Therese Anne Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 58,343 ratings
score: 296,
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The Paris Wife
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 303,540 ratings
score: 293,
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The Hours
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Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 147,500 ratings
score: 262,
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Arthur & George
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3.73 avg rating — 18,695 ratings
score: 245,
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The Twelfth Enchantment
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David Liss (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 2,984 ratings
score: 245,
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The Fifth Heart
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3.48 avg rating — 4,242 ratings
score: 216,
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The Razor’s Edge
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4.19 avg rating — 52,955 ratings
score: 198,
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A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 43,491 ratings
score: 198,
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Hamnet
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 318,687 ratings
score: 197,
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The Christie Affair
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Nina de Gramont (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 96,321 ratings
score: 195,
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Beach Read
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Emily Henry (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,564,729 ratings
score: 194,
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Hide Me Among the Graves
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3.60 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
score: 191,
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue
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Melanie Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 36,984 ratings
score: 190,
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Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters
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3.73 avg rating — 845 ratings
score: 189,
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Mrs. Poe
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Lynn Cullen (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 12,503 ratings
score: 187,
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
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3.65 avg rating — 3,867 ratings
score: 186,
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Twain's End
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Lynn Cullen (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 1,561 ratings
score: 185,
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West of Sunset
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Stewart O'Nan (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 3,460 ratings
score: 181,
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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
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3.80 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
score: 178,
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The Blue Flower
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3.43 avg rating — 6,547 ratings
score: 177,
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Becoming George Sand
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3.39 avg rating — 163 ratings
score: 173,
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The Master
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3.84 avg rating — 11,710 ratings
score: 169,
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Daphne
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3.32 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
score: 167,
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Nothing Like the Sun
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3.77 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
score: 166,
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Drood
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3.54 avg rating — 17,426 ratings
score: 162,
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Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath
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Kate Moses (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
score: 158,
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The Wild Girl
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Kate Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
score: 158,
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The Dream Lover
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3.29 avg rating — 7,318 ratings
score: 157,
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The Anubis Gates
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3.90 avg rating — 17,531 ratings
score: 157,
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Hemingway's Girl
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Erika Robuck (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 5,774 ratings
score: 157,
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Farewell, Dorothy Parker
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Ellen Meister (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
score: 153,
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Pearl of China
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3.86 avg rating — 8,577 ratings
score: 147,
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The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)
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Gary L. Blackwood (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 7,338 ratings
score: 144,
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2 people voted
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The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
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Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 42,557 ratings
score: 143,
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Loving Will Shakespeare
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Carolyn Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
score: 139,
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A Country Road, A Tree
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Jo Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
score: 135,
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Love and Ruin
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 26,496 ratings
score: 133,
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An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)
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Nicola Upson (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 5,817 ratings
score: 129,
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The Pale Blue Eye
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3.80 avg rating — 10,218 ratings
score: 129,
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Another Side of Paradise
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Sally Koslow (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
score: 124,
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The Jane Austen Project
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Kathleen A. Flynn (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 10,654 ratings
score: 117,
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor (Jane Austen Mysteries, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 7,434 ratings
score: 100,
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Seduction (Reincarnationist, #5)
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M.J. Rose (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,666 ratings
score: 100,
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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
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Paul Malmont (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 910 ratings
score: 100,
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All the World's a Simulation
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Stephen Moles (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Marblehead: A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft
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3.35 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Christie Affair
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Nina de Gramont (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 96,321 ratings
score: 100,
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The Posing Playwright: Oscar Wilde's trial is the scandal of the century... (Esther & Jack Enright Mystery #5)
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David Field (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 250 ratings
score: 100,
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The Armor of Light
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Melissa Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 178 ratings
score: 100,
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1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 335,112 ratings
score: 100,
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Kill the Leprechaun
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3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bitter Texas Honey
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Ashley Whitaker (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 453 ratings
score: 100,
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
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Benjamin Stevenson (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 209,931 ratings
score: 100,
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Vanessa and Her Sister
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Priya Parmar (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
score: 99,
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Shakespeare's Scribe (Shakespeare Stealer, #2)
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Gary L. Blackwood (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
score: 99,
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Blood Red, Snow White
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3.61 avg rating — 2,193 ratings
score: 99,
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The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown
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Paul Malmont (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 337 ratings
score: 99,
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The Pale Blue Eye
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3.80 avg rating — 10,218 ratings
score: 99,
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Shakespeare's Spy (Shakespeare Stealer, #3)
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Gary L. Blackwood (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 980 ratings
score: 98,
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The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë
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3.37 avg rating — 226 ratings
score: 98,
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Mad Hatter Summer
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 98,
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When Nietzsche Wept
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4.36 avg rating — 81,674 ratings
score: 98,
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The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 36,535 ratings
score: 98,
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Aristotle Detective (Aristotle #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
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The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, #1)
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Susan Wittig Albert (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 4,344 ratings
score: 97,
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Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon
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3.34 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Jane in Love
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Rachel Givney (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 4,114 ratings
score: 97,
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The Princess Bride
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4.27 avg rating — 940,186 ratings
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Circling the Sun
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 81,294 ratings
score: 96,
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Love Disguised
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3.17 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense
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James Reese (Goodreads Author)
3.06 avg rating — 483 ratings
score: 96,
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Freud's Mistress
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Karen Mack (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 4,492 ratings
score: 96,
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Murder by Magic: A Charles Dickens short story
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J.C. Briggs (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 96,
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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
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Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 31,134 ratings
score: 96,
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Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery #1)
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Colleen Cambridge (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 7,464 ratings
score: 96,
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Under the Wide and Starry Sky
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3.61 avg rating — 18,846 ratings
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The Man Who Was Poe
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3.51 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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The Stress of Her Regard
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3.81 avg rating — 4,354 ratings
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On the Blue Train
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3.09 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Lusitania Murders
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Max Allan Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 418 ratings
score: 95,
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Always Emily
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Michaela MacColl (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
score: 94,
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The Crime Writer
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3.43 avg rating — 803 ratings
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The Redemption Murders (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones #6)
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J.C. Briggs (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 217 ratings
score: 94,
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What Dangers Deep: A Story of Sir Philip Sidney
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Almost Invincible
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3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #5)
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J.C. Briggs (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 93,
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Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2
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3.29 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Moon Rising
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Ann Victoria Roberts (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings
score: 92,
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The Titanic Murders
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Max Allan Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 858 ratings
score: 92,
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The Problem of the Missing Miss (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #1)
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Roberta Rogow (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 91,
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Monsters
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3.59 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Hindenburg Murders
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Max Allan Collins (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 532 ratings
score: 91,
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Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster
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Karen Lee Street (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 429 ratings
score: 90,
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The Problem of the Surly Servant (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #4)
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Roberta Rogow (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 90,
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Katherine
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