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The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter · 1900 · ★ 4.2 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging One of the best known and loved children's stories is the story of naughty Peter Rabbit and his misadventures as he is chased around a garden. Shares: Community pick

Murdo's War Alan Temperley · 1990 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Murdo and Hector are involved with whiskey smuggling during World War II. Their recklessness soon puts them and their country in danger. Shares: Community pick

A Rare Interest In Corpses Ann Granger · 2006 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A classic mystery from "an accomplished veteran . . . [ who] knows her history and relates it with charm in this peek at Victorian morals and foibles" (Kirkus Reviews).   It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of lady's companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor as companion had disappeared, supposedly… Shares: Social conditions, London

Drood Dan Simmons · 2009 · ★ 3.6 · 969p · ≈ 32h · Moderate On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the… Shares: Social conditions, London

Heartless Gail Carriger · 2011 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault in the fourth book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical… Shares: London, Werewolves

The Immorality Engine George Mann · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate On the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven't stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium. His addiction is fueled in part by his… Shares: London, Werewolves

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 Daniel Defoe · 1722 · ★ 3.5 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Demanding This account of the Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes the horrifying daily events in London city as it was besieged by bubonic plague. Shares: Social conditions, London

The Turn of the Screw Henry James · 1898 · ★ 3.4 The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover. Shares: Social conditions, London

Soulless Gail Carriger · 2010 · ★ 4.1 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Condemned by society and her werewolf husband due to a pregnancy she cannot explain, Alexia Maccon-- preternatural, tea aficionado-- seeks an explanation for this 'infant inconvenience' so as to cleanse her sullied reputation and prove her fool of a husband wrong. Preternaturals are a rare breed and the only history of their kind lies in Italy with the Templars, a group that once partnered with… Shares: London, Werewolves

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