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Matilda by Roald Dahl

Matilda

Roald Dahl

240 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction classics fantasy middle grade funny lighthearted fast-paced
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Rats of NIMH #1

Robert C. O'Brien

240 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction childrens classics fantasy lighthearted medium-paced
Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe by Jonathan Stroud

Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe

Lockwood & Co. #1

Jonathan Stroud

432 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction fantasy mystery young adult adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Die Schattenhand by Agatha Christie

Die Schattenhand

Miss Marple #3

Agatha Christie

224 pages • first pub 1943 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

507 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Time Of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Time Of Contempt

The Witcher #4

Andrzej Sapkowski

331 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark medium-paced
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher

Bryony and Roses

T. Kingfisher

224 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction fantasy romance adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2 by Stephen Thompson, Clive Barker, Christopher Monfette

Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2

Clive Barker's Hellraiser (2011) #2

Stephen Thompson, Clive Barker, Christopher Monfette

128 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction comics horror adventurous dark slow-paced
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Wayward Children #2

Seanan McGuire

187 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark fast-paced
50 Great Short Stories by John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Shirley Jackson, Clarence Day, John Collier, Irwin Shaw, Arthur Schnitzler, Milton Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Guy de Maupassant, Robert M. Coates, H.H. Munro, Edmund Wilson, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, James Thurber, Edith Wharton, John O’Hara, Katherine Anne Porter, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, Frank O'Connor, V. S. Pritchett, James Joyce, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Vincent Benet, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, George Milburn, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Gideon Wells, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, William Saroryan, Lord Dunsany, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Carson McCullers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anatole France, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Francis Steegmuller

50 Great Short Stories

John Steinbeck, W. Somerset Maugham, Shirley Jackson, Clarence Day, John Collier, Irwin Shaw, Arthur Schnitzler, Milton Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Guy de Maupassant, Robert M. Coates, H.H. Munro, Edmund Wilson, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, James Thurber, Edith Wharton, John O’Hara, Katherine Anne Porter, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin, Frank O'Connor, V. S. Pritchett, James Joyce, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Vincent Benet, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, George Milburn, E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Gideon Wells, Max Beerbohm, Aldous Huxley, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, William Saroryan, Lord Dunsany, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Carson McCullers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anatole France, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Francis Steegmuller

571 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

5.0jersy's review
fiction classics short stories adventurous reflective medium-paced