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Books set in London:
Title Author Year Written Time Period Genre
1The 8:55 to Baghdad

A fascinating trip across Europe to the Middle East via train, ferry across the Bosporus, and bus on the trail of Agatha...

Eames, Andrew20051920s/2003Travelogue
2About a Boy

A comedy set in London in the early 1990s. Hornby's book gives a sense of the place in the same way as Fielding's Bridge...

Hornby, Nick1997early 1990sNovel - Humour
3Accelerando

Accelerando is a collection of short stories; these stories were published over the course of about 5 years, and are now...

Stross, Charles20052005-far futureShort Stories
4Admiring Silence

This novel is about an unnamed man who has lived in London most of his adult life in exile from Zanzibar. Now he has tie...

Gurnah, Abdulrazak19961990sNovel
5Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

The Cappuccino Years gives a shrewd overview of life in England. Most of the novel takes place in Soho, where Adrian is ...

Townsend, Sue1999Late 1990'sNovel - Humour
6Adventures of a Scottish Heiress

In 1816, Irishman Ian Campion uses his fists to earn money to support his two widowed sisters, two nephews, and niec...

Maxwell, Cathy20031816Romance
7Aftermath

Subtitled Travels in a Post-War World. Mowat fought in WWII, and he returned in the early 1950s to travel some of the sa...

Mowat, Farley19951952-1953Travelogue
8Agincourt

This excellent historical novel by Cornwell follows a young English archer named Nicholas Hook in the early 1400s - Nook...

Cornwell, Bernard20081410sNovel - Historical
9The Alchemist's Daughter

The Alchemist's Daughter is a mix of genres: fantasy, historical novel, and young adult work. It follows the story of a ...

Kernaghan, Eileen20041587-1589Young Adult
10Almost a Gentleman

In 1819, Lady Kate Beverredge consoles her distraught best friend Phoebe Claringworth over the death of her three-ye...

Rosenthal, Pam20031819Romance
11Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man

A memoir of an impoverished childhood in London, extending to a successful literary career in Totonto...

Wright, Eric19991930 - 1990Memoir or Biography
12American on Purpose

American on Purpose is an autobiography by Craig Ferguson, the Scot who is now a fixture of American late night TV. He w...

Ferguson, Craig20091960s-2009Memoir or Biography
13The Amulet of Samarkand

I quite enjoyed this book, an adventure set in a magical London that is not quite like the one in our own world but has ...

Stroud, Jonathan2003Magical present-dayFantasy
14Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys is the latest novel by author Neil Gaiman; his previous book, American Gods, was on many bestseller and awar...

Gaiman, Neil20052005Fantasy
15Architect's Guide to London

This book is precisely what its title says it is: an architectural guide to London. The book begins with an interesting ...

Salvadori, Renzo1990100-1990History
16Around The World In Eighty Days

This was a great adventure story, with very interesting characters. Phileas Fogg who is a very eccentric gentleman, and ...

Verne, Jules187219th CenturyNovel
17Ask For It

"I loved the atmosphere within Ask For It. From the bedrooms and ballrooms of Georgian London to the beaches of E...

Day, Sylvia2006GeorgianRomance
18Atonement

I really disliked this book - it felt incredibly pretentious, and the characters were far more annoying than anyone we s...

McEwan, Ian20011935-1940sNovel - Historical
19The Atrocity Archive

The Atrocity Archive is a horror/spy/bureaucratic novel that is divided into a short novel, eponymously titled, and a sh...

Stross, Charles20042001Horror
20Bad Boys Ahoy!

Three loosely connected romance novellas, starting with pirates on the Caribbean, to London, to Derbyshire in the winter...

Day, Sylvia2006RegencyRomance

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Page 2 - Bad Company - Cold is the Grave
Page 3 - The Coming Storm - The Deeds of the Disturber
Page 4 - Dickens: His work and his world - Fast Food Nation
Page 5 - Fifth Business - Ha'penny
Page 6 - Halting State - Jennifer Government
Page 7 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Love With a Scandalous Lord
Page 8 - Man Descending - The Night I Got Lucky
Page 9 - The Night Watch - Preserving the World's Great Cities
Page 10 - The Pretender - Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a day
Page 11 - The Shocking Miss Shaw - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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