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The Remains of the Day
by
Kazuo Ishiguro
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 55,444 ratings
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The House At Riverton
by
Kate Morton
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 36,244 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
by
Evelyn Waugh
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 33,834 ratings
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A Room with a View
by
E.M. Forster
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 64,298 ratings
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Howards End
by
E.M. Forster
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 27,610 ratings
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Emma
by
Jane Austen
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 237,774 ratings
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The Help
by
Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 771,751 ratings
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The World of Downton Abbey
by
Jessica Fellowes
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 3,617 ratings
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
by
Fiona Carnarvon
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 5,256 ratings
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The Forsyte Saga
by
John Galsworthy
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7,022 ratings
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The House of Mirth
by
Edith Wharton
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 34,225 ratings
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Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"
by
Margaret Powell
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 4,603 ratings
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The American Heiress
by
Daisy Goodwin (Goodreads Author)
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 10,075 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women #1)
by
Louisa May Alcott
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 742,111 ratings
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The House at Tyneford
by
Natasha Solomons
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 6,410 ratings
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
by
Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 19,956 ratings
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays
by
Oscar Wilde
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 24,160 ratings
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The Last Summer
by
Judith Kinghorn
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 382 ratings
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The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
by
Agatha Christie
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 52,938 ratings
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The Pursuit of Love
by
Nancy Mitford
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
by
Henry James
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 30,366 ratings
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Carry on, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
by
P.G. Wodehouse
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 7,761 ratings
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To Marry an English Lord: Or How Anglomania Really Got Started
by
Gail MacColl
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 929 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
by
Sue Monk Kidd
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 587,496 ratings
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Persuasion
by
Jane Austen
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 187,612 ratings
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A Countess Below Stairs
by
Eva Ibbotson
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 9,972 ratings
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| 27 |
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1)
by
Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 57,820 ratings
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| 28 |
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by
Agatha Christie
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 68,691 ratings
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| 29 |
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The Buccaneers
by
Edith Wharton
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 2,397 ratings
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| 30 |
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by
Sebastian Faulks
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 24,027 ratings
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| 31 |
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Upstairs Downstairs
by
John Hawkesworth
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 166 ratings
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An Ideal Husband
by
Oscar Wilde
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 15,973 ratings
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Wentworth Hall
by
Abby Grahame
2.86 of 5 stars 2.86 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Beyond Downton Abbey
by
Deb Hosey White
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Lady Windermere's Fan
by
Oscar Wilde
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 6,656 ratings
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Falling Angels
by
Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 12,755 ratings
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| 37 |
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Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels
by
Nancy Mitford
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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| 38 |
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My Fair Lady
by
Alan Jay Lerner
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 5,323 ratings
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The Go-Between
by
L.P. Hartley
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,209 ratings
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A Duty To The Dead (Bess Crawford, #1)
by
Charles Todd (Goodreads Author)
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 3,566 ratings
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| 41 |
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They Do It with Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6)
by
Agatha Christie
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 7,463 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914
by
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 2,592 ratings
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot #20)
by
Agatha Christie
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 8,887 ratings
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The Edwardians
by
Vita Sackville-West
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 311 ratings
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| 45 |
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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #2)
by
Dorothy L. Sayers
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 6,343 ratings
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
by
Mary S. Lovell
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
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Flambards (Flambards, #1)
by
K.M. Peyton
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 560 ratings
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The Dressmaker
by
Kate Alcott
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 8,994 ratings
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Angela's Ashes
by
Frank McCourt
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 219,992 ratings
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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
by
George Bernard Shaw
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 8,581 ratings
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The Age of Innocence
by
Edith Wharton
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 55,418 ratings
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)
by
Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 24,473 ratings
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The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era
by
Jessica Fellowes
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
by
P.G. Wodehouse
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 8,560 ratings
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Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
by
Rosina Harrison
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854–1909): A Portrait with Husbands
by
Sally E. Svenson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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| 57 |
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Pride and Prejudice
by
Jane Austen
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 997,445 ratings
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| 58 |
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A Bitter Truth (Bess Crawford #3)
by
Charles Todd (Goodreads Author)
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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The Glitter And The Gold
by
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 250 ratings
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| 60 |
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An Unmarked Grave (Bess Crawford #4)
by
Charles Todd (Goodreads Author)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook
by
Emily Ansara Baines (Goodreads Author)
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Shooting Party
by
Isabel Colegate
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7)
by
Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 6,390 ratings
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Rose: My Life In Service
by
Rosina Harrison
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
by
Kate Summerscale
3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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Cinders & Sapphires (At Somerton, #1)
by
Leila Rasheed
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 499 ratings
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| 67 |
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Summerset Abbey (Summerset Abbey, #1)
by
T.J. Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Loving
by
Henry Green
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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Maid to Match
by
Deeanne Gist (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 4,916 ratings
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She Walks In Beauty
by
Siri Mitchell
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 2,769 ratings
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The Churchills: In Love and War
by
Mary S. Lovell
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Orchid House
by
Lucinda Riley
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 3,070 ratings
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Maurice
by
E.M. Forster
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 8,658 ratings
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Complete Barchester Chronicles
by
Anthony Trollope
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant
by
Jeremy Musson
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
by
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle, #2)
by
Agatha Christie
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 5,543 ratings
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The War Poems
by
Siegfried Sassoon
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 612 ratings
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| 79 |
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The Return of Captain John Emmett
by
Elizabeth Speller
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17)
by
Agatha Christie
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 34,255 ratings
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The Light Years
by
Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 720 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
by
David Cannadine
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Flambards in Summer (Flambards, #3)
by
K.M. Peyton
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 218 ratings
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| 84 |
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Life at Blandings
by
P.G. Wodehouse
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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| 85 |
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The English Country House Party
by
Phillida Barstow
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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| 86 |
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The Blandings Omnibus
by
P.G. Wodehouse
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 80 ratings
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| 87 |
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot #33)
by
Agatha Christie
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,800 ratings
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| 88 |
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After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot #29)
by
Agatha Christie
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 7,196 ratings
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| 88 |
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The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
by
P.G. Wodehouse
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 8,682 ratings
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| 90 |
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One Pair Of Hands
by
Monica Dickens
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 285 ratings
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| 91 |
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Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot #21)
by
Agatha Christie
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 6,405 ratings
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| 92 |
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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
by
Isabella Beeton
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 242 ratings
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| 93 |
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The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga
by
John Galsworthy
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 943 ratings
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| 93 |
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Past Imperfect
by
Julian Fellowes
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
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| 95 |
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Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)
by
Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 7,719 ratings
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| 96 |
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My Prison Without Bars: The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal
by
Taylor Evan Fulks (Goodreads Author)
4.51 of 5 stars 4.51 avg rating — 53 ratings
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| 97 |
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The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago
by
Jacky Hyams (Goodreads Author)
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 99 ratings
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| 98 |
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Debutantes
by
Cora Harrison
3.06 of 5 stars 3.06 avg rating — 207 ratings
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| 98 |
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The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)
by
Agatha Christie
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 4,559 ratings
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| 100 |
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Habits of the House
by
Fay Weldon
3.12 of 5 stars 3.12 avg rating — 572 ratings
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