Publisher SeriesPenguin Books

Ariel by André Maurois 275 copies, 9 reviews1
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 22,975 copies, 249 reviews2
Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater 139 copies, 3 reviews3
Madame Claire by Susan Ertz 66 copies, 1 review4
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers 3,135 copies, 90 reviews5
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 9,286 copies, 296 reviews6
Twenty-Five by Beverley Nichols 82 copies, 3 reviews7
William by E. H. Young 165 copies, 4 reviews8
Gone to Earth by Mary Webb 371 copies, 8 reviews9
Carnival by Compton Mackenzie 60 copies, 1 review10
South Wind by Norman Douglas 585 copies, 10 reviews11
The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson 243 copies, 4 reviews12
Patrol by Philip MacDonald 34 copies, 3 reviews13
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 4,348 copies, 142 reviews14
Four Frightened People by E. Arnot Robertson 97 copies, 4 reviews15
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West 793 copies, 25 reviews16
The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty 377 copies, 7 reviews17
DEBONAIR The Story of Persephone by G. B. Stern 8 copies18
The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg by Louis Bromfield 69 copies19
Erewhon by Samuel Butler 2,142 copies, 41 reviews20
Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis 75 copies, 5 reviews21
Doctor Serocold,: A page from his day-book, by Helen Ashton 18 copies22
Esther Waters by George Moore 408 copies, 4 reviews23
Hangman's House by Donn Byrne 37 copies24
Naval Occasions and Some Traits of the Sailor-man by Bartimeus 13 copies25
Odd Craft by W. W. Jacobs 38 copies26
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse 2,209 copies, 108 reviews27
Beyond the Headlines by Timothy Shy 6 copies, 1 review34
The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah 242 copies, 4 reviews39
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12,748 copies, 146 reviews48
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley 587 copies, 31 reviews58
The Dark Invader by Franz von Rintelen 33 copies60
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung 779 copies, 33 reviews63
The Law of the Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace 482 copies, 14 reviews64
Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Néel 745 copies, 5 reviews68
Some experiences of a New Guinea resident magistrate by C. A. W. Monckton 15 copies, 1 review70
Thunder on the Left by Christopher Morley 149 copies, 4 reviews74
Grey Wolf. Mustafa Kemal by H. C. Armstrong 64 copies77
Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley 958 copies, 35 reviews78
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers 1,600 copies, 26 reviews89
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. O. Somerville 248 copies, 8 reviews97
The Murders in Praed Street by John Rhode 28 copies98
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1,942 copies, 58 reviews100
A Tall Ship: On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus 21 copies, 1 review103
On England by Stanley Baldwin 29 copies116
While Rome Burns by Alexander Woollcott 196 copies, 3 reviews118
Billiards and Snooker for amateur players by Horace Lindrum 5 copies, 1 review119
It Walks By Night by John Dickson Carr 317 copies, 6 reviews124
Trader Horn by Alfred Aloysius Horn 118 copies, 2 reviews126
The Week-End Book by Francis Meynell 223 copies, 6 reviews130
Ten Minute Alibi by Anthony Armstrong 18 copies131
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh 3,560 copies, 63 reviews136
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 5,877 copies, 230 reviews140
Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh 1,058 copies, 26 reviews152
The House On Tollard Ridge by John Rhode 15 copies154
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne 1,670 copies, 83 reviews156
The Corpse in the Waxworks by John Dickson Carr 296 copies, 5 reviews158
The Unseemly Adventure by Ralph Straus 7 copies167
As We Were by E. F. Benson 170 copies, 1 review169
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,716 copies, 218 reviews173
Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah 342 copies, 3 reviews174
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh 1,421 copies, 26 reviews179
Tales from Tchehov by Anton Tchehov 28 copies180
Murder in the Maze by J. J. Connington 43 copies, 2 reviews188
Death of My Aunt by C. H. B. Kitchin 142 copies, 7 reviews190
Ordinary Families by E. Arnot Robertson 172 copies, 3 reviews191
Grey Steel by H. C. Armstrong 27 copies204
Frost in May by Antonia White 933 copies, 24 reviews206
The Verdict of You All by Henry Wade 41 copies216
Death at the Opera by Gladys Mitchell 183 copies, 3 reviews217
Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham 892 copies, 21 reviews219
An Oxford Tragedy by J. C. Masterman 151 copies, 3 reviews220
Two vagabonds in Serbia and Montenegro by Jan Gordon 16 copies, 1 review223
Stealthy Terror by John Ferguson 23 copies, 2 reviews239
Triple Fugue by Osbert Sitwell 49 copies248
Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh 865 copies, 24 reviews249
Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr 189 copies, 2 reviews250
Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr 390 copies, 10 reviews256
The Dying Alderman by Henry Wade 25 copies, 3 reviews266
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1,432 copies, 34 reviews279
Lawrence of Arabia, Zionism and Palestine by Sir Ronald Storrs 27 copies288
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons 600 copies, 10 reviews291
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 984 copies, 9 reviews296
The Life of Mary Kingsley by Stephen Gwynn 21 copies299
I, Claudius by Robert Graves 9,346 copies, 168 reviews318
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood 1,078 copies, 27 reviews321
The Penguin Herodotus by Herodotus 23 copies330
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 4,901 copies, 118 reviews332
Kipps by H. G. Wells 525 copies, 13 reviews335
Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley 158 copies, 10 reviews337
Famous Trials: Madeleine Smith, Oscar Slater, Dr.Crippen, Dr.Palmer v. 1 (Penguin crime) by Harry Hodge 36 copies, 2 reviews338
High Rising by Angela Thirkell 697 copies, 42 reviews339
Farewell Victoria by T. H. White 89 copies, 3 reviews342
The Brassbounder by David W. Bone 23 copies373
Profiles Selected from "The New Yorker" by The New Yorker 4 copies376
A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms 166 copies, 3 reviews377
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer 998 copies, 46 reviews378
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf 10,894 copies, 172 reviews381
Meet yourself as you really are by Prince Leopold of Loewenstein 19 copies382
The Bamboo Blonde by Dorothy B. Hughes 38 copies397
Fables by Ivan Krylov 96 copies, 1 review399
Claudius the God by Robert Graves 4,293 copies, 43 reviews421
The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer 852 copies, 27 reviews428
Why Shoot A Butler? by Georgette Heyer 1,033 copies, 42 reviews429
Fourth Leaders from the Times 1956 by Anonymous 17 copies, 1 review444
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 3,901 copies, 86 reviews455
Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham 737 copies, 13 reviews459
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw 1,770 copies, 16 reviews463
Tanker Derbent by Yuri Krimov 15 copies, 1 review466
The Russian Campaigns Of 1941 - 43 by W. E. D. Allen 10 copies, 1 review467
Profiles (II) Selected from "The New Yorker" 2 copies476
The Second Penguin Problems Book by W. T. Williams 6 copies, 1 review478
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 4,476 copies, 131 reviews495
Osbert Lancaster Cartoons by Osbert Lancaster 16 copies, 1 review500
The Mystery of Orcival by Émile Gaboriau 102 copies, 3 reviews508
The Widow Lerouge by Émile Gaboriau 199 copies, 7 reviews509
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,678 copies, 41 reviews511
The Pit-Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts 142 copies, 1 review512
Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy by Freeman Wills Crofts 103 copies, 3 reviews514
Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis 16 copies, 1 review515
Documents Marked "Secret" by John Gloag 12 copies516
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 142 copies, 1 review519
An Enemy of the People: Antisemitism by James Parkes 43 copies, 1 review521
A Cure of Flesh by James Gould Cozzens 12 copies522
Holy Terrors by Arthur Machen 40 copies, 1 review526
The Groote Park Murder by Freeman Wills Crofts 84 copies531
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 4,895 copies, 115 reviews536
Memoirs of a British Agent by R. H. Bruce Lockhart 330 copies, 7 reviews538
The Third Penguin Problems Book by W. T. Williams 9 copies540
Trent's Own Case by E. C. Bentley 148 copies, 3 reviews543
Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki 180 copies, 7 reviews546
The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki 280 copies, 11 reviews547
The Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw 351 copies, 7 reviews564
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton 1,158 copies, 16 reviews565
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw 2,353 copies, 27 reviews565
Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw 484 copies, 10 reviews566
The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story by Anna Katharine Green 513 copies, 16 reviews569
The King Against Anne Bickerton by Sydney Fowler 22 copies585
Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley 183 copies, 6 reviews590
Lobster Salad by Lynn Doyle 10 copies594
The Nuremberg Trial by R. W. Cooper 47 copies, 1 review598
The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves 89 copies, 1 review599
Hiroshima (original edition) by John Hersey 2,232 copies, 44 reviews603
England's Green and Pleasant Land by J. W Robertson Scott 22 copies608
The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr 389 copies, 9 reviews610
Labour's First Year by J. E. D. Hall 17 copies, 1 review612
Case for Three Detectives by Leo Bruce 131 copies, 13 reviews613
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 40,778 copies, 634 reviews616
Labour Marches On by John Parker 11 copies628
Scowle and Other Papers by Bernard Hollowood 18 copies631
Famous Trials 2: Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Field and Gray, George Joseph Smith, Ronald True by Harry Hodge 32 copies634
The Case for Conservatism by Quintin Hogg 27 copies635
Don Segundo Sombra by Ricardo Güiraldes 433 copies, 12 reviews638
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey 1,807 copies, 32 reviews649
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 10,533 copies, 286 reviews652
Nansen by E. E. Reynolds 30 copies661
The Suva Harbour Mystery (Who Killed Netta Maul?) by Frank Arthur 22 copies, 1 review664
Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham 648 copies, 17 reviews667
The Smith of Smiths by Hesketh Pearson 135 copies, 4 reviews669
Looking for a Bluebird by Joseph Wechsberg 46 copies673
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion 246 copies, 4 reviews674
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie 4,158 copies, 82 reviews682
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie 7,237 copies, 141 reviews683
Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie 3,785 copies, 75 reviews684
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 10,386 copies, 334 reviews684
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie 6,348 copies, 190 reviews686
The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie 2,956 copies, 66 reviews687
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie 4,283 copies, 78 reviews688
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 17,798 copies, 421 reviews689
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie 2,968 copies, 66 reviews690
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie 4,617 copies, 86 reviews691
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 4,233 copies, 49 reviews692
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 2,186 copies, 65 reviews694
The Ship by C. S. Forester 433 copies, 10 reviews698
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 4,597 copies, 105 reviews701
The Romantic Exiles by E. H. Carr 150 copies, 2 reviews707
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 1,996 copies, 69 reviews711
Don't, Mr. Disraeli! by Caryl Brahms 73 copies, 3 reviews715
The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis 175 copies, 5 reviews718
Sergeant Lamb's America by Robert Graves 198 copies, 1 review725
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing 666 copies, 29 reviews728
Evidence of Things Seen by Elizabeth Daly 179 copies, 7 reviews734
Edward Lear by Angus Davidson 47 copies747
Selected Essays by D. H. Lawrence 173 copies753
Etruscan Places by D. H. Lawrence 314 copies, 3 reviews756
Selected Letters by D. H. Lawrence 169 copies, 1 review759
Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham 947 copies, 34 reviews761
Mr. Campion and Others by Margery Allingham 378 copies, 6 reviews762
Four English Comedies: Valpone; The Way of the World; She Stoops to Conquer; The School for Scandal by J. M. Morrell 380 copies, 1 review763
Death Comes to Perigord by John Ferguson 36 copies764
Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham 941 copies, 21 reviews769
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham 1,248 copies, 43 reviews770
The Fashion In Shrouds by Margery Allingham 744 copies, 22 reviews771
Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham 829 copies, 18 reviews772
The Gyrth Chalice Mystery by Margery Allingham 765 copies, 24 reviews773
Heads You Lose by Christianna Brand 182 copies, 6 reviews779
Mariana by Monica Dickens 646 copies, 24 reviews781
Famous Trials 3 by James H. Hodge 28 copies787
Death and the Pleasant Voices by Mary Fitt 43 copies, 2 reviews795
The Brandons by Angela Thirkell 426 copies, 16 reviews796
Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier 488 copies, 15 reviews797
And So to Murder by Carter Dickson 175 copies, 3 reviews814
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,838 copies, 264 reviews821
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh 3,639 copies, 77 reviews823
Animal Farm by George Orwell 60,616 copies, 865 reviews838
Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith 154 copies, 1 review840
The Case of the Tudor Queen by Christopher Bush 41 copies, 1 review849
More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham 800 copies, 14 reviews864
The Cambridge Murders by Glyn Daniel 100 copies, 1 review865
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler 3,389 copies, 67 reviews867
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels by Freya Stark 537 copies, 13 reviews878
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm 1,717 copies, 38 reviews895
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 2,634 copies, 67 reviews905
The Case of the Substitute Face by Erle Stanley Gardner 278 copies, 6 reviews911
The Case of the Lame Canary by Erle Stanley Gardner 285 copies, 9 reviews912
Death of a Train by Freeman Wills Crofts 62 copies916
Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 108 copies, 2 reviews917
Inspector French's Greatest Case by Freeman Wills Crofts 186 copies, 8 reviews918
The Loss of the Jane Vosper by Freeman Wills Crofts 79 copies, 2 reviews919
The 12.30 from Croydon by Freeman Wills Crofts 216 copies, 9 reviews920
The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie 3,022 copies, 58 reviews928
The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie 3,442 copies, 72 reviews929
The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie 2,474 copies, 51 reviews931
Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie 2,173 copies, 37 reviews932
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop by Erle Stanley Gardner 354 copies, 7 reviews939
Comes the Blind Fury by Douglas Rutherford 16 copies944
The Emperor's Snuff-Box by John Dickson Carr 343 copies, 8 reviews949
Tom Brown's Body by Gladys Mitchell 173 copies, 5 reviews954
Selected essays and poems by Oscar Wilde 24 copies957
Six Curtains for Stroganova by Caryl Brahms 40 copies959
The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito by Erle Stanley Gardner 230 copies, 5 reviews965
As I Was Going Down Sackville Street by Oliver St. John Gogarty 127 copies, 2 reviews970
The Case of the Abominable Snowman by Nicholas Blake 211 copies, 4 reviews973
Famous Trials 4 by James H. Hodge 37 copies983
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford 1,723 copies, 45 reviews984
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 6,045 copies, 227 reviews990
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett 245 copies, 3 reviews996
The Thousand and One Nights: The Hunchback, Sindbad, and Other Tales by N. J. Dawood 47 copies1001
Come Away, Death by Gladys Mitchell 132 copies1003
The Tongue-Tied Canary by Nicolas Bentley 28 copies, 1 review1005
The Man with My Face by Samuel W. Taylor 33 copies, 1 review1006
With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare 229 copies, 7 reviews1007
The essential T.E. Lawrence by T. E. Lawrence 98 copies1015
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories [Project Gutenberg] by Oscar Wilde 1,262 copies, 20 reviews1021
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves 1,040 copies, 15 reviews1025
The Greek Myths: Volume 2 by Robert Graves 1,456 copies, 6 reviews1027
Collected Short Stories by E. M. Forster 393 copies, 3 reviews1031
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 39,504 copies, 438 reviews1041
Swan Song by Edmund Crispin 472 copies, 16 reviews1043
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley 2,641 copies, 26 reviews1047
Beyond the Mexique Bay by Aldous Huxley 140 copies, 3 reviews1048
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley 1,230 copies, 15 reviews1049
The Case of the Rolling Bones by Erle Stanley Gardner 266 copies, 10 reviews1054
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 11,418 copies, 225 reviews1059
Death is No Sportsman by Cyril Hare 153 copies, 4 reviews1060
Don Among the Dead Men by C. E. Vulliamy 29 copies, 1 review1073
Murdering Mr Velfrage by Roy Vickers 22 copies1077
Reputation for a Song by Edward Grierson 51 copies, 3 reviews1083
A Year of Grace by Victor Gollancz 84 copies, 3 reviews1091
Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases by Douglas G. Browne 84 copies, 2 reviews1092
Famous Trials 5 by James H. Hodge 30 copies, 3 reviews1094
Murder in Time by Elizabeth Ferrars 27 copies, 1 review1108
Flying Colours by C. S. Forester 1,670 copies, 24 reviews1113
John Macnab by John Buchan 387 copies, 11 reviews1135
Castle Gay by John Buchan 206 copies, 5 reviews1136
The House of the Four Winds by John Buchan 220 copies, 3 reviews1137
Prester John by John Buchan 607 copies, 9 reviews1138
War in Val d'Orcia by Iris Origo 369 copies, 7 reviews1145
Suicide Excepted by Cyril Hare 220 copies, 4 reviews1162
Below Suspicion by John Dickson Carr 218 copies, 1 review1164
Joy and Josephine by Monica Dickens 86 copies1168
Cork in Bottle by Macdonald Hastings 25 copies, 1 review1176
Selected Short Stories ("Q") by Arthur Quiller-Couch 19 copies1191
Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell 216 copies, 6 reviews1194
The Bad Seed by William March 896 copies, 30 reviews1210
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie 622 copies, 15 reviews1220
Chance Acquaintances and Julie de Carneilhan by Colette 93 copies1227
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 11,441 copies, 181 reviews1244
The Bafut Beagles by Gerald Durrell 689 copies, 13 reviews1266
Clochemerle-Babylon by Gabriel Chevallier 99 copies1275
The Case of the Buried Clock by Erle Stanley Gardner 255 copies, 5 reviews1293
Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin 636 copies, 18 reviews1303
The Long Divorce by Edmund Crispin 395 copies, 10 reviews1304
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin 1,470 copies, 64 reviews1315
Thirteen White Tulips by Frances Crane 31 copies, 1 review1330
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James 210 copies, 12 reviews1347
The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley 4,653 copies, 46 reviews1351
The Wooden Overcoat by Pamela Branch 121 copies, 9 reviews1354
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar 5,617 copies, 127 reviews1358
Hunting the Fairies by Compton Mackenzie 64 copies, 1 review1365
Deadly Duo by Margery Allingham 325 copies, 5 reviews1374
Crime at Guildford by Freeman Wills Crofts 80 copies, 2 reviews1378
Docken Dead by John Trench 31 copies1384
The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham 1,003 copies, 15 reviews1385
Patrick Butler for the Defense by John Dickson Carr 156 copies, 2 reviews1391
The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 100 copies, 3 reviews1395
Golden Ashes by Freeman Wills Crofts 69 copies, 1 review1396
Therese by François Mauriac 324 copies, 4 reviews1397
The Diaghilev ballet, 1909-1929 by S.L. Grigoriev 30 copies1411
No Love Lost by Margery Allingham 261 copies, 5 reviews1416
The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham 644 copies, 11 reviews1417
My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon 599 copies, 15 reviews1419
1066 and All That by W. C. Sellar 2,673 copies, 51 reviews1424
Voss by Patrick White 1,442 copies, 21 reviews1438
Village School by Miss Read 795 copies, 24 reviews1462
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov 564 copies, 2 reviews1493
Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nobokov 0 copies1493
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford 407 copies, 6 reviews1505
Dishonoured Bones by John Trench 18 copies1507
The Case of the Second Chance by Christopher Bush 21 copies1509
Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht 702 copies, 11 reviews1515
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford 282 copies, 5 reviews1532
Laurels Are Poison by Gladys Mitchell 96 copies, 1 review1533
Appleby on Ararat by Michael Innes 212 copies, 3 reviews1577
The Weight of the Evidence by Michael Innes 229 copies, 8 reviews1578
Mind You, I've Said Nothing! by Honor Tracy 29 copies, 2 reviews1586
The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates 487 copies, 14 reviews1602
Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes 521 copies, 21 reviews1640
Old Hall, New Hall by Michael Innes 101 copies, 1 review1641
The Twenty-Third Man by Gladys Mitchell 112 copies, 2 reviews1643
The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan 157 copies, 3 reviews1653
At Home by William Plomer 24 copies1655
This Sporting Life by David Storey 173 copies, 4 reviews1674
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett 878 copies, 17 reviews1691
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 3,029 copies, 55 reviews1698
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 6,351 copies, 108 reviews1699
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 3,563 copies, 49 reviews1700
Six Great Advocates by Lord Birkett 28 copies, 1 review1702
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley 1,082 copies, 16 reviews1715
Two-thirds of a Ghost by Helen McCloy 52 copies, 2 reviews1718
Sober as a Judge by Henry Cecil 57 copies, 1 review1748
Closed Circuit by William Haggard 28 copies1755
The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson 211 copies, 1 review1758
Famous Trials 6 by James H. Hodge 19 copies1775
The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert van Gulik 658 copies, 11 reviews1776
Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers 1,623 copies, 29 reviews1780
Supermanship ; or, how to continue to stay top without actually falling apart by Stephen Potter 83 copies, 1 review1829
The Penguin Charles Addams by Charles Addams 71 copies, 4 reviews1845
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde by H. Montgomery Hyde 208 copies1857
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell 1,295 copies, 9 reviews1877
Death in Covert by Colin Willock 15 copies, 1 review1934
Death Under Sail by C. P. Snow 188 copies, 4 reviews1953
The Free Fishers by John Buchan 188 copies, 6 reviews1954
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange 1,382 copies, 15 reviews1982
Miracle at Midway by Gordon W. Prange 787 copies, 4 reviews1983
Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham 1,454 copies, 35 reviews1986
Ways and Means by Henry Cecil 43 copies1993
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch 1,567 copies, 48 reviews2003
Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon 1,225 copies, 59 reviews2023
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon 482 copies, 16 reviews2024
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon 719 copies, 31 reviews2025
The Crime at Lock 14 by Georges Simenon 761 copies, 29 reviews2027
Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon 591 copies, 27 reviews2028
Corpse at the Carnival by George Bellairs 54 copies, 1 review2077
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford 496 copies, 14 reviews2106
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh 1,252 copies, 17 reviews2123
Penguin Famous Trials 9: Roger Casement by H. Montgomery Hyde 47 copies, 1 review2124
The Origins of the Second World War: 1919-1939 by A. J. P. Taylor 1,205 copies, 10 reviews2128
The Whipping Boys by Guy Cullingford 13 copies, 1 review2141
Sir Walter Raleigh by Norman Lloyd Williams 34 copies2147
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler 994 copies, 12 reviews2148
Max Carrados Mysteries by Ernest Bramah 53 copies, 4 reviews2158
Famous Trials 10 by James H. Hodge 16 copies, 1 review2160
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer 520 copies, 18 reviews2166
Dead Man Running by John Blackburn 19 copies2172
Operation Pax by Michael Innes 233 copies, 7 reviews2203
The Demoniacs by John Dickson Carr 159 copies, 2 reviews2220
Connoisseur's Science Fiction by Tom Boardman 148 copies, 1 review2223
Maigret in Society by Georges Simenon 315 copies, 13 reviews2247
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 3,364 copies, 63 reviews2289
Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays by George Orwell 347 copies, 5 reviews2297
Tutankhamen by Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt 805 copies, 8 reviews2351
The Law and the Profits by C. Northcote Parkinson 128 copies, 4 reviews2367
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 14,148 copies, 366 reviews2376
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway 2,205 copies, 26 reviews2421
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier 3,537 copies, 79 reviews2466
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse 1,964 copies, 40 reviews2479
Galahad at Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse 901 copies, 14 reviews2570
Calamity Town by Ellery Queen 337 copies, 8 reviews2583
Double-Barrel by Nicolas Freeling 119 copies, 1 review2585
My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski 233 copies, 2 reviews2641
What Happened at Hazelwood by Michael Innes 143 copies, 2 reviews2650
To Let by John Galsworthy 496 copies, 11 reviews2653
The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy 297 copies, 6 reviews2678
Polish Writing Today by Celina Wieniewska 9 copies2752
The Drought by J. G. Ballard 1,004 copies, 23 reviews2753
The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling 173 copies, 4 reviews2853
The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited by V. S. Naipaul 456 copies, 4 reviews2920
The Chinese Looking Glass by Dennis Bloodworth 172 copies, 2 reviews2921
Ulysses by James Joyce 24,697 copies, 344 reviews3000
State of Emergency by Dennis Guerrier 12 copies, 1 review3021
Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H. R. F. Keating 93 copies, 4 reviews3839
Misery by Stephen King 15,775 copies, 215 reviews

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