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Outlander by Diana GabaldonThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyDragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
1,359 books — 1,593 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1984 by George Orwell
Best British and Irish Literature
1,172 books — 1,112 voters

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,085 books — 974 voters
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. RitzOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedVictor's Blessing by Barbara SontheimerWicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan
Anything You Really Liked
2,563 books — 903 voters

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberFingersmith by Sarah WatersPossession by A.S. ByattTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersA Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Best Victorian Historical Fiction Set In Britain
302 books — 650 voters
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay PenmanHere Be Dragons by Sharon Kay PenmanKatherine by Anya SetonWhen Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay PenmanFalls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman
Historical Fiction: The House of Plantagenet
207 books — 477 voters

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Alternate England
387 books — 312 voters
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThree Men in a Boat by Jerome K. JeromeRight Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
British Wit and Humour
559 books — 303 voters

The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda SalisburyHalf Wild by Sally GreenThe Art of Being Normal by Lisa WilliamsonThe Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick NessFinding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
UKYA in 2015
147 books — 263 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselPattern of Shadows by Judith BarrowSchindler’s List by Thomas KeneallyUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
World War II Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once
344 books — 252 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
679 books — 239 voters
Shattered by Teri TerryTrouble by Non PrattSay Her Name by Juno DawsonBanished by Liz de JagerHalf Bad by Sally Green
UKYA in 2014
145 books — 222 voters

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Wars of the Roses by Alison WeirThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
British History
786 books — 203 voters
A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Far Pavilions by M.M. KayeThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire (fiction)
313 books — 200 voters

H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldWaterlog by Roger DeakinThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneThe Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneFindings by Kathleen Jamie
British and Irish Nature Writing
249 books — 167 voters
Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
420 books — 130 voters

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithCandide and Philosophical Letters by VoltaireCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
The Enlightenment and its Impact
271 books — 89 voters
Blackout by Connie WillisThe Raiders and the Cross by Patrick LarsimontLetters to the Lost by Iona GreyAll Clear by Connie WillisThe English Agent by Clare Harvey
The Blitz: Fiction & Non-Fiction
189 books — 82 voters

Mortal Engines by Philip ReeveDandy the Highway Lion by Stephanie SorrellThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Best of UKMG Fiction
124 books — 53 voters
Us in Ruins by Rachel MooreClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingClockwork Prince by Cassandra ClareAnna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
YA Books Set in Europe
80 books — 43 voters

The Body at Rookery Barn by Kate HardyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroDeath in Holy Orders by P.D. JamesDeath Abyss by Korban BlakeDevices and Desires by P.D. James
Norfolk
52 books — 42 voters
Under Milk Wood by Dylan ThomasThe Mabinogion by UnknownHow Green Was My Valley by Richard LlewellynThe Great God Pan by Arthur MachenA Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Wales: The Best Books
173 books — 42 voters

The Great Game by Peter HopkirkKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard KiplingWhite Mughals by William DalrympleRaj by Lawrence James
The "Great Game"
42 books — 41 voters
Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by Harpie2003 - Thanks for the Vodka by Harpie2004 - Thanks for the Vodka by HarpieShit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me! by Karl WigginsAll Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Alternate Anglophilia, Or, Brit Non-Lit
88 books — 38 voters

Noah Can't Even by Simon James GreenRadio Silence by Alice OsemanMore Than This by Patrick NessThe Traitor Game by B.R. CollinsRead Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler
UK YA LGBTQIA+ Titles
117 books — 38 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Novels Set in England
490 books — 34 voters

Brick Lane by Monica AliWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithSmall Island by Andrea LevyThe Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif KureishiThe Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Postcolonial Britain
78 books — 28 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienLord of the Flies by William GoldingGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
BBC Culture Worldwide 100 Greatest British Novels
100 books — 26 voters

Falling Angels by Tracy ChevalierNo Surrender by Constance Elizabeth MaudOpal Plumstead by Jacqueline WilsonThe Militant Suffragettes by Antonia RaeburnPatience & Esther by Sarah Winifred Searle
Suffragettes in the UK
37 books — 24 voters
The Rose Code by Kate QuinnThe Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKayThe Enigma Girls by Candace FlemingAlan Turing by Andrew HodgesThe Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop
Books set in Bletchley Park
42 books — 23 voters

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