4.09 avg rating — 932,967 ratings

"Ebenezer Scrooge really carries the day in this tale of second chances..."

3.61 avg rating — 7,383 ratings

""Remember you must die" is the message delivered by a series of insidious phone-calls to the elderly Dame Lettie Colston and her acquaintances who reflect on their past lives while trying to identify the culprit"

4.01 avg rating — 16,425 ratings

"The last in the quartet of Rabbit novels still manages to give poor old Rabbit Angstrom pathos as he confronts America going downhill along with his own declining health"

3.89 avg rating — 6,422 ratings

"Mattie Rigsbee, a 78 yr. old woman, helps a troubled, foul-mouthed orphan straighten up"

3.80 avg rating — 6,236 ratings

"An elderly priest ponders a deathbed confession while salmon fishing..."

3.85 avg rating — 124,130 ratings

"Loved the meditative voice of a man who knows he will not live long enough to see his son grow up "

3.70 avg rating — 5,858 ratings

"Terrific and exquisite tale inspired by a series of fish paintings made by a 19th-century convict and forger named William Gould who was sentenced to 49 years in a notorious prison on Tasmania "

3.95 avg rating — 4,284 ratings

"Narrated by an art historian based largely on Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt"

3.80 avg rating — 871,315 ratings

"Who can forget Miss Havisham, Charles Dickens's jilted bride... "

3.37 avg rating — 534 ratings

"A touching portrait of the man Darwin used to "obtain" specimens during his long 5 yr. voyage on the Beagle--the irascible sailor Syms Covington "

4.27 avg rating — 2,215 ratings

"He's the star of the show, and a tour de force in literary terms - pity it was GB Edwards' only book"

3.81 avg rating — 1,305,321 ratings

"Ah, the allegory of man's eternal struggle with life and death (guess who wins)"

3.66 avg rating — 383 ratings

"For the gray-bearded eccentric who visits the ward daily and becomes Hayes’s strongest advocate: Walt Whitman"