18 books like A Study in Scarlet

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Dracula Bram Stoker · 1897 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Na história, um casal e seus amigos são atormentados por Conde Drácula, uma entidade sobrenatural e hematófoga que, presa em uma maldição contagiosa, pretende se mudar de seu recluso castelo na Transilvânia para a efervescente Londres do século XIX. Com a ajuda do professor Van Helsing, o grupo de amigos pretende enfrentar o morto-vivo, mesmo com todos os perigos que a ofensiva trará. Shares: Classics

The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the planet, Anarres, to challenge… Shares: Community pick

Start with why Simon Sinek · 2009 · ★ 4.2 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The most important question for any organization There's a naturally occurring pattern shared by the people and organizations that achieve the greatest long-term success. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Steve Jobs, from the pioneers of aviation to the founders of Southwest Airlines, the most inspiring leaders think, act, and communicate the exact same way—and it's the complete opposite of everyone… Shares: Community pick

Great Short Stories Wilbur Lang Schramm · 1950 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte Open boat / Stephen Crane All-gold canon / Jack London Furnished room / O. Henry Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet Leader of the people /… Shares: Detective Fiction, Mystery, Children's fiction

A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas · 2013 · ★ 4.4 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings… Shares: Blessing and cursing, Children's fiction

Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones · 1986 · ★ 4.3 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate As the oldest daughter, willful, outspoken Sophie knew that her life could lead to nothing but mistakes. When her father dies, her stepmother sends her two sisters out to make their fortunes while Sophie continues to work in the family hattery. As she whispers her thoughts to the hats she trims, the shop begins to grow in popularity, until she offends the Wicked Witch of the Waste. The witch… Shares: Blessing and cursing, Children's fiction

The Faithful Friend Robert D. San Souci · 1995 · ★ 4.1 · 40p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique. Shares: Blessing and cursing, Children's fiction

Splintered A. G. Howard · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A gifted teenager whose ancestor inspired a literary classic descends into a mystical under-land in this romantic, dark fantasy series debut. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis… Shares: Blessing and cursing, Children's fiction

The Mystery of the Strange Messages Enid Blyton · 1969 · ★ 4.2 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve. Shares: Mystery, Children's fiction

Aru Shah And The End Of Time Roshani Chokshi · 2018 · ★ 4.3 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty,… Shares: Blessing and cursing, Children's fiction

Tiger's Voyage (Tiger's Curse #3) Colleen Houck · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them. Shares: Blessing and cursing, Children's fiction

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the… Shares: British and irish fiction, Classics, Children's fiction

The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An adventure novel, originally published in 1894, set in the fictitious European Kingdom of Ruritania. An English tourist is persuaded to impersonate the new king after he is abducted before he can be crowned. This act draws upon him the wrath of the Prince who has had the king abducted and his partner in crime the villainous Rupert of Hentzau. Shares: British and irish fiction, Classics, Children's fiction

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 1843 · ★ 4.1 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A retelling of the story about a miser whose life is changed by Christmas. Shares: British and irish fiction, Classics, Children's fiction

Short stories Oscar Wilde · 1910 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Nine tales include "The Remarkable Rocket," "The Nightingale and the Rose," and "The Selfish Giant." Shares: British and irish fiction, Children's fiction

Farmer Giles of Ham J.R.R. Tolkien · 1949 · ★ 3.9 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging In this fiftieth anniversary edition of the Tolkien classic, Farmer Giles, his mare, and his talking dog go into the valley of the Thames to fight the dragon Chrysophylax. Includes the author's previously unpublished notes for a sequel. Shares: British and irish fiction, Children's fiction

The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde · 1887 · ★ 3.9 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Challenging This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance. Shares: British and irish fiction, Children's fiction

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling · 1900 · ★ 3.8 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, … Shares: British and irish fiction, Children's fiction

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