Top 10 Classic English Language Authors

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  • The Alice Network: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0062654195
    • ISBN: 0062654195
    • Brand: MORROW
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLEROne of NPR's Best Books of the Year!One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the ... [Read More]

  • Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

    • ASIN: B0054LJGWS
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Churchill: Walking with Destiny

    • ASIN: 1101980990
    • ISBN: 1101980990
    • Manufacturer: Viking

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had a... [Read More]

  • Things Fall Apart

    • ASIN: 0385474547
    • ISBN: 0385474547
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • And Then There Were None

    • ASIN: 0062073486
    • ISBN: 0062073486
    • Brand: Harper
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine . . ."At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a ... [Read More]

  • Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

    • ASIN: 0812994760
    • ISBN: 0812994760
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island“Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to... [Read More]

  • The Girl with Seven Names

    • ASIN: 0007554850
    • ISBN: 0007554850
    • Brand: William Collins
    • Manufacturer: William Collins

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal... [Read More]

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    • ASIN: 0385341008
    • ISBN: 9780385341004
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. “Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? ... [Read More]

  • Never Let Me Go

    • ASIN: 1400078776
    • ISBN: 9781400078776
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.   As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques an... [Read More]

  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    • ASIN: 0465062881
    • ISBN: 0465062881
    • Brand: DA CAPO PRESS
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling ... [Read More]

  • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    • ASIN: 1101904194
    • ISBN: 1101904194
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉThe celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian ... [Read More]

  • Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

    • ASIN: 0785224505
    • ISBN: 9780785224501
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

    Now a USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestseller!“Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahan’s expert hands, reveali... [Read More]

  • Sea of Memories

    • ASIN: B06Y5PSTB5
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

    When Kendra first visits her ailing grandmother, Ella has only one request: that Kendra write her story down, before she forgets…In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella’s life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the beautiful Île de Ré and meets the charismatic, creative Christophe. They spend the summer together, exploring the i... [Read More]

  • The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

    • ASIN: B007978NPG
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Women and Children First: Bravery, love and fate: the untold story of the doomed Titanic

    • ASIN: B006I1CDKK
    • Manufacturer: Avon

    Praise for Gill Paul: ‘A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story… A triumph.’ DINAH JEFFERIES ‘Gripping, romantic and evocative of its time.’ LULU TAYLOR It is 1912. Against all odds, the Titanic is sinking.As desperate hands emerge from the icy water, a few lucky row boats float in the darkness. On the boats are four survivors.R... [Read More]

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    • ASIN: 1101912375
    • ISBN: 1101912375
    • Brand: VINTAGE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South ... [Read More]

  • Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

    • ASIN: 0062693662
    • ISBN: 0062693662
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIMENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX RELEASING NOVEMBER 10, 2017DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dea... [Read More]

  • The Color of Magic: A Novel of Discworld

    • ASIN: B000W9399S
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • 1984

    • ASIN: 1328869334
    • ISBN: 1328869334
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker   In 1984... [Read More]

  • The Remains of the Day

    • ASIN: 0679731725
    • ISBN: 0679731725
    • Brand: Vintage International
    • Manufacturer: Vintage International

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