18 books like Lost in a Good Book
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular seriesBeloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Since the no-nonsense literary…
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Well of Lost Plots
The third novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series is “great fun—especially for those with a literary turn of mind and a taste for offbeat comedy” (The Washington Post Book World). “Delightful . . . the well of Fforde’s imagination is bottomless.”—People “Fforde creates a literary reality that is somewhere amid a triangulation of Douglas Adams, Monty Python, and Miss…
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.The quaint village of St Mary Mead has been glamourized by the presence of screen queen Marina Gregg, who has taken up residence in preparation for her comeback. But when a local fan is…
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The Thin Man
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
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Sleeping Murder
"Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by twenty-one-year-old New Zealander Gwenda Reed, who has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country, she buys a house for them and starts recalling memories which make her start to think that perhaps she had lived in the…
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The Moving Finger
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected…
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Ghost in the Gallery
A ghostly figure, a walking suit of armor, and a gargoyle in the prompter's box confront Jean and Louise Dana and their Starhurst classmates as they rehearse for a musical at Mozart Hall.
The owner, a retired singer, and the watchman assure the performers there is nothing to worry about. The students wonder whether their imaginations are playing tricks on them. Or are spooky things actually…
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Killing Time
Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory of her popular novels Dream Man and Son of the Morning, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard has written a sizzling new novel that is her most daring, exciting, and original yet. In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years…
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Fangirl
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan...
But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the…
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The magical worlds of Harry Potter
Fans of epic undersea adventures will love the world and style of this brand new story from Disney's Atlantis. Taking place after the movie, Milo and Kida team together to protect the world of Atlantis. This original graphic novel brings a classic tale for fans of the movie, and it's also a classic adventure for anyone coming to this world and characters for the first time!A brand-new adventure…
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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.
The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s…
Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction
Fragile Things
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
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Ancient Sorceries
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows,"…
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Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
On the stage, a rehearsal is in progress when actors and director are interrupted by six mysterious figures who demand to be put into a play.
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In the Presence of the Enemy (Inspector Lynley Mystery)
Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at his tabloid The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well.
He learns from this letter that ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford…
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The Devil Doctor
"The insidious doctor returns to Great Britain with his league of assassins, the dreaded Si-Fan. He seeks to subvert the realm at the highest levels, but Fu-Manchu has his own secrets--which he will protect by any means."--P. [4] of cover.
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Inherit the Bones
In this mystery series debut, the circus visits a Colorado mountain town—and murder follows soon after.
In the summer, campers flock to Cedar Valley's meadows and fields. In the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. But those who live there know that dark secrets are buried beneath the town's natural splendor.
When a clown from a traveling circus is murdered, Detective Gemma…
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Fifty-one tales
A Wildside Fantasy Classic. Contains 51 of Dunsany's choice fantasy short stories.
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