Books with Authors as Characters

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 3.87 avg rating — 249,821 ratings
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The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 94,126 ratings
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The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz #2)
The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz #2) 3.98 avg rating — 52,430 ratings
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The Sherlockian
The Sherlockian 3.66 avg rating — 14,891 ratings
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Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer 4.03 avg rating — 45,116 ratings
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie 3.74 avg rating — 46,998 ratings
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald 3.86 avg rating — 58,100 ratings
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The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife 3.82 avg rating — 302,768 ratings
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The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,849 ratings
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Arthur & George
Arthur & George 3.72 avg rating — 18,622 ratings
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The Twelfth Enchantment
The Twelfth Enchantment 3.48 avg rating — 2,977 ratings
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The Fifth Heart
The Fifth Heart 3.48 avg rating — 4,214 ratings
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The Razor’s Edge
The Razor’s Edge 4.19 avg rating — 52,470 ratings
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A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)
A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3) 3.94 avg rating — 42,448 ratings
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The Christie Affair
The Christie Affair 3.71 avg rating — 95,060 ratings
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Beach Read
Beach Read 3.98 avg rating — 1,518,254 ratings
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Hide Me Among the Graves
Hide Me Among the Graves 3.60 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue
The Swans of Fifth Avenue 3.63 avg rating — 36,820 ratings
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Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters
Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Brontë Sisters 3.73 avg rating — 843 ratings
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Mrs. Poe
Mrs. Poe 3.67 avg rating — 12,466 ratings
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance 3.64 avg rating — 3,829 ratings
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Twain's End
Twain's End 3.56 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
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West of Sunset
West of Sunset 3.57 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath 3.80 avg rating — 1,446 ratings
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The Blue Flower
The Blue Flower 3.43 avg rating — 6,492 ratings
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Becoming George Sand
Becoming George Sand 3.39 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Master
The Master 3.84 avg rating — 11,580 ratings
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Daphne
Daphne 3.32 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Nothing Like the Sun
Nothing Like the Sun 3.77 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Drood
Drood 3.54 avg rating — 17,353 ratings
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Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath
Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath 3.78 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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The Wild Girl
The Wild Girl 3.93 avg rating — 4,231 ratings
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The Dream Lover
The Dream Lover 3.29 avg rating — 7,297 ratings
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The Anubis Gates
The Anubis Gates 3.90 avg rating — 17,433 ratings
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Hemingway's Girl
Hemingway's Girl 3.89 avg rating — 5,741 ratings
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Farewell, Dorothy Parker
Farewell, Dorothy Parker 3.49 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
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Pearl of China
Pearl of China 3.86 avg rating — 8,562 ratings
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The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)
The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 7,311 ratings
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The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1)
The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1) 3.42 avg rating — 42,426 ratings
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Loving Will Shakespeare
Loving Will Shakespeare 3.49 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
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A Country Road, A Tree
A Country Road, A Tree
by: Jo Baker
3.66 avg rating — 1,655 ratings
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Love and Ruin
Love and Ruin 3.86 avg rating — 26,392 ratings
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An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)
An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 5,768 ratings
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The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye 3.80 avg rating — 10,132 ratings
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Another Side of Paradise
Another Side of Paradise 3.76 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
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The Jane Austen Project
The Jane Austen Project 3.67 avg rating — 10,574 ratings
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor (Jane Austen Mysteries, #1)
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor (Jane Austen Mysteries, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 7,398 ratings
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Seduction (Reincarnationist, #5)
Seduction (Reincarnationist, #5)
by: M.J. Rose
3.79 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril 3.79 avg rating — 907 ratings
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All the World's a Simulation
All the World's a Simulation 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Marblehead: A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft
Marblehead: A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft 3.35 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Christie Affair
The Christie Affair 3.71 avg rating — 95,060 ratings
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The Posing Playwright: Oscar Wilde's trial is the scandal of the century... (Esther & Jack Enright Mystery #5)
The Posing Playwright: Oscar Wilde's trial is the scandal of the century... (Esther & Jack Enright Mystery #5) 3.92 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Armor of Light
The Armor of Light 3.74 avg rating — 178 ratings
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1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)
1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 333,029 ratings
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Kill the Leprechaun
Kill the Leprechaun 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Bitter Texas Honey
Bitter Texas Honey 3.31 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 200,043 ratings
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Vanessa and Her Sister
Vanessa and Her Sister 3.77 avg rating — 6,178 ratings
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Shakespeare's Scribe (Shakespeare Stealer, #2)
Shakespeare's Scribe (Shakespeare Stealer, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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Blood Red, Snow White
Blood Red, Snow White 3.61 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown
The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown 3.63 avg rating — 336 ratings
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The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye 3.80 avg rating — 10,132 ratings
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Shakespeare's Spy (Shakespeare Stealer, #3)
Shakespeare's Spy (Shakespeare Stealer, #3) 3.77 avg rating — 976 ratings
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The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë
The World Within: A Novel of Emily Brontë 3.36 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Mad Hatter Summer
Mad Hatter Summer liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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When Nietzsche Wept
When Nietzsche Wept 4.36 avg rating — 80,654 ratings
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The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4)
The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4) 4.09 avg rating — 35,516 ratings
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Aristotle Detective (Aristotle #1)
Aristotle Detective (Aristotle #1) 3.48 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, #1)
The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 4,323 ratings
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Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon 3.35 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Jane in Love
Jane in Love 3.66 avg rating — 4,056 ratings
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The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride 4.27 avg rating — 936,522 ratings
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Hamnet
Hamnet 4.19 avg rating — 310,874 ratings
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Circling the Sun
Circling the Sun 3.94 avg rating — 81,016 ratings
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Love Disguised
Love Disguised 3.17 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense
The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense 3.06 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Freud's Mistress
Freud's Mistress 3.48 avg rating — 4,481 ratings
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Murder by Magic: A Charles Dickens short story
Murder by Magic: A Charles Dickens short story 4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) 4.12 avg rating — 29,730 ratings
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Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Under the Wide and Starry Sky 3.61 avg rating — 18,807 ratings
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The Man Who Was Poe
The Man Who Was Poe
by: Avi
3.51 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
81.
The Stress of Her Regard
The Stress of Her Regard 3.80 avg rating — 4,341 ratings
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On the Blue Train
On the Blue Train 3.08 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Lusitania Murders
The Lusitania Murders 3.80 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Always Emily
Always Emily 3.64 avg rating — 1,161 ratings
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The Crime Writer
The Crime Writer 3.43 avg rating — 802 ratings
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The Redemption Murders (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones #6)
The Redemption Murders (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Jones #6) 4.41 avg rating — 217 ratings
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What Dangers Deep: A Story of Sir Philip Sidney
What Dangers Deep: A Story of Sir Philip Sidney 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Almost Invincible
Almost Invincible 3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #5)
At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #5) 4.32 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2
Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2 3.29 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Moon Rising
Moon Rising 3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Titanic Murders
The Titanic Murders 3.76 avg rating — 852 ratings
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The Problem of the Missing Miss (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #1)
The Problem of the Missing Miss (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #1) 3.42 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Monsters
Monsters 3.59 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Hindenburg Murders
The Hindenburg Murders 3.82 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster
Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster 3.51 avg rating — 429 ratings
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The Problem of the Surly Servant (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #4)
The Problem of the Surly Servant (Charles Dodgson & Arthur Conan Doyle, #4) 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Adeline
Adeline 3.42 avg rating — 433 ratings
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