Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

1949 ★ 4.3

Fantastic Mr Fox

Roald Dahl

1974 ★ 4.0

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

1963 ★ 4.0

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

1997 ★ 4.1

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

1678 ★ 4.3

Boy

Roald Dahl

1984 ★ 4.0

Going Solo

Roald Dahl

1986 ★ 4.2

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

1938 ★ 4.2

The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe

Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West

1985 ★ 4.3

Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee

1959 ★ 4.2

Far away and long ago

W. H. Hudson

1918 ★ 3.6

Surprised by Joy

C. S. Lewis

1956 ★ 3.5

Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling

1897 ★ 4.7

Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

1980

Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1797 ★ 3.3

Heretics

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1905 ★ 3.2

H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

2014 ★ 3.8

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

2011 ★ 4.2

Testament of youth

Vera Brittain

1933 ★ 3.0

The Magician

William Somerset Maugham

1908 ★ 3.8

De profundis

Oscar Wilde

1905 ★ 4.0

Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

1793 ★ 4.2

Moments of vision

Thomas Hardy

1899

Come, tell me how you live

Agatha Christie

1946

A Coffin for Dimitrios

Eric Ambler

1976 ★ 4.0

Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

1930 ★ 4.3

The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter

1981 ★ 3.7

The confessions of Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

1989

Letters to his son

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

1786

An Autobiography

Agatha Christie

1977