The most popular books in English
from 16201 to 16400

What books are currently the most popular and which are the all time classics? Here we present you with a mixture of those two criteria. We update this list once a month.

16201. Fangirl

Rainbow Rowell

In Rainbow Rowell's 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 …

16202. Runaway Horse

Ulrich (Hg.) Khuon

The accidental reunion of two men, former schoolmates, and their wives in a lakeside resort leads to a comparison of memories, an awkward intimacy, and a moment of terrible, yet exhilarating liberation

16203. The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories (Dover …

Oscar Wilde

Renowned for his poetry, plays, essays, and conversational skills, Oscar Wilde also wrote delightfully entertaining works of short fiction. This volume includes four of his finest. Most celebrated is The Canterville Ghost, an engaging, comical tale centering around the ghost of …

16204. Teleny

Oscar Wilde

Teleny, or, The Reverse of the Medal, is a pornographic novel, first published in London in 1893. The authorship of the work is unknown. There is a general consensus that it was an ensemble effort, but it has often been attributed to Oscar Wilde. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, its …

16205. Nomad: From Islam to America

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

"This woman is a major hero of our time." —Richard Dawkins Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to …

16206. How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

Stan Lee

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is a book by Stan Lee and John Buscema. The book teaches the aspiring comic book artist how to draw and create comic books. The examples are from Marvel comics and Buscema artwork. It was first published in 1978 by Marvel Fireside Books and has …

16208. Spellsinger, Volume 5: The Paths of the Perambulator

Alan Dean Foster

The Paths of the Perambulator is a fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the fifth book in the Spellsinger series.

16210. Deryni Magic (A Grimoire)

Katherine Kurtz

Deryni Magic: A Grimoire is a book published in 1990 that was written by Katherine Kurtz.

16211. Death's Master (DAW #324)

Tanith Lee

Death's Master is the second novel in Tanith Lee's fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth. It won the British Fantasy Award for best novel of 1979.

16212. The Nurture Assumption : Why Children Turn Out the …

Judith Rich Harris

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a book by Judith Rich Harris, with a foreword by Steven Pinker, originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2009. It has been published in at least 20 languages. The book was a …

16215. Strands of Starlight

Gael Baudino

Strands of Starlight is a novel written by Gael Baudino and published in 1989. It is the first in the Strands of Starlight tetralogy. The other novels are Maze of Moonlight, Shroud of Shadow, and Strands of Sunlight.

16216. The canning season

Polly Horvath

The Canning Season is a young adult novel by American-Canadian author Polly Horvath. It was first published in 2003 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

16217. The Very Thought of You

Rosie Alison

The Very Thought of You is a 2009 novel by film producer Rosie Alison. Set on the brink of World War II, the novel centres on eight-year-old Anna Sands, a child relocated to a Yorkshire estate. She is quickly drawn into the lives of the couple who have set up their estate as a …

16218. The Dragon Knight

Gordon R. Dickson

The Dragon Knight is the second book of Gordon R. Dickson's Dragon Knight series. The novel begins five months after the battle at Loathly Tower which took place in The Dragon and The George.

16220. Hammer's Slammers

Drake

Hammer's Slammers is a 1979 collection of military science fiction short stories by author David Drake. It follows the career of a future mercenary tank regiment called Hammer's Slammers, after their leader, Colonel Alois Hammer. This collection, and other novels and stories in …

16222. The Zero Stone

Andre Norton

The Zero Stone is a book published in 1968 that was written by Andre Norton.

16223. Conan #3 - Conan the Freebooter

Robert E. Howard

Conan the Freebooter is a 1968 collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the …

16224. The Spirit of Dorsai (Childe Cycle - Book 5 of 11))

Gordon R. Dickson

The Spirit of Dorsai is a collection of two science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Ace Books in 1979. The collection includes linking material and the stories are part of Dickson's Childe Cycle. The first story, "Amanda Morgan", is original to …

16226. Battleground (The Corps book IV)

W. E. B. Griffin

Battleground is a book published in 1991 that was written by W. E. B. Griffin.

16228. Demon Apocalypse

Darren Shan

Demon Apocalypse is the sixth book in Darren Shan's The Demonata series. Darren Shan released the title of the book September 29, 2007 at the Baeth Festival of Children's Literature. Darren Shan wished that nothing about this book, not even the title, be known to the public …

16229. Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Foresterr

Margaret Forster

Diary of an Ordinary Woman is a novel framed as an 'edited' diary of fictional woman Millicent King, written by Margaret Forster.

16230. Leepike Ridge

Nathan Wilson

Leepike Ridge is N.D. Wilson's debut novel, published in 2007. It is an adventure novel written for children.

16233. The View From the Mirror, Book 3 :Dark Is the Moon

Ian Irvine

Dark is the Moon is the third novel in The View from the Mirror quartet, by Ian Irvine.

16234. The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness, pioneered by 20th-century European novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Published in …

16236. Snuff

Terry Pratchett

Snuff is the 39th novel in the Discworld series, written by Terry Pratchett. It was published on 11 October 2011 in the United States, and 13 October 2011 in the United Kingdom. The book is the third fastest selling novel in the United Kingdom since records began, having sold …

16237. Wonderstruck

Brian Selznick

In this groundbreaking tour de force, Caldecott Medalist and bookmaking pioneer Brian Selznick sails into uncharted territory and takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey. Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose …

16238. Cold Vengeance

Douglas Preston

Cold Vengeance is a thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was released on August 2, 2011 by Grand Central Publishing. This is the eleventh installment in the Special Agent Pendergast series and also the second novel in the Helen trilogy. The preceding novel is …

16239. The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy …

16240. The Girl with All the Gifts

M. R. Carey

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING Melanie is a very special girl Dr Caldwell calls her our little genius Every morning Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class When they come for her Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the …

16241. Danton's Death

Georg Büchner

Set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, the play takes place from March 24 to April 4, 1794, when Maximilien Robespierre was in charge of the Committee of Public Safety that, along with the Revolutionary Tribunal, condemned people to the guillotine. Guillotine …

16242. The Languages Of Pao

Jack Vance

The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in 1958, in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is a central theme. A shorter version was published in Satellite Science Fiction in late 1957. After the Avalon Books hardcover appeared the next year, it …

16243. The ides of March

Thornton Wilder

The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. It is, in the author's words, 'a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic... Historical reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work'. The …

16245. Almost dead

Assaf Gavron

Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle EastA thirtysomething Tel Aviv businessman, Eitan "Croc" Einoch's life is turned upside down when he narrowly escapes a suicide …

16246. Dracula's Guest and Other Stories (Wordsworth …

Bram Stoker

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and …

16247. Too Many Women

Rex Stout

Too Many Women is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published in 1947 by the Viking Press. The novel was also collected in the omnibus volume All Aces.

16248. What Mad Universe

Fredric Brown

What Mad Universe is a science fiction novel, written in 1949 by the American author, Fredric Brown.

16250. The Plumed Serpent

D. H. Lawrence

The Plumed Serpent is a 1926 novel by D. H. Lawrence. Set in Mexico, it was begun when the author was living at what is now the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924, accompanied by his wife Frieda and artist Dorothy Brett. Lawrence wanted to call …

16251. Wodehouse: Lord Emsworth and Others (The Collector's …

P. G. Wodehouse

Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 19, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London; it was not published in the United States. The Crime Wave at Blandings, which was published on 25 June 1937 by …

16252. The translator

Leila Aboulela

The Translator is Egyptian-born Sudanese and British educated writer Leila Aboulela's first novel, published in 1999. The Translator is a story about a young Sudanese widow living in Scotland and her sprouting relationship with Islamic scholar Rae Isles.

16253. The forty rules of love: a novel of Rumi

Elif Shafak

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling …

16254. Never End: A Chief Inspector Erik Winter Novel

Åke Edwadson

Never End is a crime novel by Swedish writer Åke Edwardson. It features his protagonist Inspector Erik Winter, who bucks the trend for Swedish detectives, being happily married, a new father, and supposedly the youngest Detective Inspector on the Swedish force. The novel was …

16255. The Healer's Keep (Seer and the Sword, 2)

Victoria Hanley

The Healer's Keep is the second novel in the Seer and the Sword series, by Victoria Hanley.

16259. The American senator

Anthony Trollope

The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine, Arabella Trefoil, it presents a …

16261. The Book and the Brotherhood: A Story about Love and …

Iris Murdoch

The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, is the story of a group of close friends living in England in the 1980s. The book of the title is a theoretical work on Marxism, …

16262. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the …

Robert Leckie

Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic …

16263. The Sweetest Dream

Doris Lessing

The Sweetest Dream is a 2001 novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. The novel begins in the 1960s leading up to the 1980s and is set in London and the fictional African nation, Zimlia, a thinly veiled reference to Zimbabwe.

16264. The Collected Stories

Grace Paley

The Collected Stories of Grace Paley brings together selected stories from the author's previous volumes of fiction: The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in …

16265. Riders in the Chariot

Patrick White

Riders in the Chariot is the sixth published novel by Australian Author Patrick White, Nobel Prize winner of 1973. It was published in 1961 and won the Miles Franklin Award in that year. It also won the 1965 Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society.

16266. The World as Will and Representation

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published …

16267. The Lime Works

Thomas Bernhard

The Lime Works is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, first published in German in 1970. It’s a complex surrealist work, where the creativity and resourcefulness of a destructive personality is marshalled against itself in a nightmarish narration.

16269. Europa

Tim Parks

Europa is a stream of consciousness novel by Tim Parks, first published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in that year, losing out to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. Jerry Marlow is a neurotic obsessive whose first-person narration describes a coach trip …

16270. Days of Infamy (Pearl Harbor)

Harry Turtledove

Days of Infamy is a two-novel alternate history of the initial stages of the Pacific War by Harry Turtledove. The major difference is that the Empire of Japan not only attacks Pearl Harbor, but follows it up with the landing and occupation of Hawaii.

16271. The Last English King

Julian Rathbone

The Last English King is a historical novel by English writer Julian Rathbone. The novel covers the time of the Battle of Hastings. It revolves around Walt Edwinson, a housecarl of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The story starts with Walt returning to …

16272. Mrs. Bridge

Evan S. Connell

Mrs. Bridge is the debut novel of American author Evan S. Connell, first published in 1959. In 117 brief episodes, it tells the story of an upper middle-class, bourgeois family in Kansas City in the period between the First and Second World War, mostly from the perspective of …

16273. The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father …

David Gerrold

The Martian Child: A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son is a novel by David Gerrold.

16275. Summer Moonshine (Penguin)

P. G. Wodehouse

Summer Moonshine is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on October 8, 1937 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on February 11, 1938 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It was previously serialised in The Saturday Evening Post from 24 …

16276. The girl in blue

P. G. Wodehouse

The Girl in Blue is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 29 October 1970 by Barrie & Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 22 February 1971 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.

16277. The Machine Gunners

Robert Westall

The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall, published by Macmillan in 1975. Set in northeastern England shortly after the Battle of Britain, it features children who find a crashed German aircraft with a machine gun and ammunition; they build a …

16278. Fourth K, The

Mario Puzo

The Fourth K is a novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1990. It is set during the Presidency of fictional "Francis Xavier Kennedy," nephew of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.

16279. Putting On The Ritz

Joe Keenan

Putting on the Ritz is the second book by novelist Joe Keenan. It is a gay-themed comedy about three friends who become involved in the New York City magazine publishing industry.

16280. Murder And Magic

Randall Garrett

Murder and Magic is a collection of short stories by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback in 1979 by Ace Books, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was later gathered together with Too Many …

16281. Good Behaviour

Molly Keane

This Booker Prize-short listed dark satire of 20th-century Irish society is back in print. Is it possible to kill with kindness? As Molly Keane’s Booker Prize–short-listed dark comedy suggests, not only can kindness be deadly, it just may be the best form of revenge. The novel …

16284. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

Carl Sandburg

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years is a book written by Carl Sandburg.

16285. Babyji

Abha Dawesar

Babyji is a novel by Abha Dawesar first published in 2005. Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the coming of age and the sexual adventures and fantasies of a 16-year-old bespectacled schoolgirl, the only child of a Brahmin family. The three simultaneous "affairs" she has in …

16287. The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Trilogy (The Voyage …

Terry Brooks

The New York Times bestselling author of the classic Shannara epic, Terry Brooks, has proven himself one of the modern masters of fantasy, brilliantly creating breathtaking worlds of magic, adventure, and intrigue. Now, for the first time in one marvelous collector’s edition …

16288. A RETURN TO MODESTY: Discovering the Lost Virtue

Wendy Shalit

Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue is a 1999 non-fiction debut book by Wendy Shalit.

16290. The birth of tragedy and other writings

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism. The later edition contained a prefatory essay, An Attempt at …

16292. The Demon Spirit (DemonWars, Book 2)

R. A. Salvatore

The Demon Spirit is the second book in the first DemonWars Saga trilogy by R. A. Salvatore. The book is also the second out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga.

16293. The Big Blowdown (Five star)

George Pelecanos

The Big Blowdown is a 1996 crime novel written by George Pelecanos. It is set in Washington DC and focuses on Peter Karras. It is the first of four books comprising the D.C. Quartet. The other books in this series are King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever and Shame the Devil.

16294. Cauldron

Larry Bond

Cauldron is a technothriller novel by Larry Bond.

16295. Metropolitan

Walter Jon Williams

Metropolitan is an arcanepunk novel by Walter Jon Williams, first published in 1995 and nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in the same year. A sequel, City on Fire, was published in 1997.

16296. The Army of the Republic

Stuart Archer Cohen

In an America stretched by crisis to the breaking point, billionaire entrepreneur and government insider James Sands is riding high. Over the protests of civic groups and the increasing alienation of his wife, Anne, Sands is poised on the brink of an immensely risky and …

16298. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies …

Bryan Caplan

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies is a 2007 book written by Bryan Caplan challenging the notion that voters are reasonable people that society can trust to make laws. Rather, Caplan contends that voters are irrational in the political sphere and …

16299. Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible

Troy Denning

Invincible is the ninth and final book in the Legacy of the Force series. It is a novel by Troy Denning and was released on May 13, 2008.

16300. Phenomenal Woman

Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman", "Still I Rise", and "Our Grandmothers" had appeared in And Still I …

16301. Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park is the third novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a …

16302. Everfree (Idlewild, Book 3)

Nick Sagan

Everfree is a novel by Nick Sagan. It is the sequel to Edenborn and the final installment of this trilogy.

16303. The Ramayana

R. K. Narayan

The Ramayana is a mythological book by R. K. Narayan. It was first published by Chatto and Windus, London in 1973. The book is a shortened, prose adaptation of the Tamil Kamba Ramayanam. In 1938, Narayan made a promise to his dying uncle that he would translate the Kamba …

16305. The Ponder heart

Eudora Welty

The Ponder Heart is a novella written by Eudora Welty and illustrated by Joe Krush, originally published in The New Yorker in 1953, and republished by Harcourt Brace in 1954. The plot of The Ponder Heart follows Daniel Ponder, a wealthy heir, and is told through the narration of …

16306. Icelander

Dustin Long

Icelander is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy romp steeped equally in Nordic lore and pulpy intrigue. When Shirley MacGuffin is found murdered one day prior to the annual town celebration in remembrance of Our Heroine’s mother the legendary …

16307. The Conscious Mind

David Chalmers

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory is a 1996 book by David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher specializing in the area of philosophy of mind.

16309. The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Richard Feynman

The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a physics textbook based on some lectures by Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called “The Great Explainer”. The lectures were given to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology, during …

16311. The Cestus Deception (Star Wars: A Clone Wars Novel)

Steven Barnes

Ord Cestus, a planet mostly barren and inhospitable to life, was first colonized as a prison world—until a handful of hardy pioneers discovered its rich ore deposits and managed to build up a successful droid-manufacturing industry. But when the Clone Wars erupted, bringing …

16313. Welcome to Hard Times

E. L. Doctorow

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de …

16314. An Advancement of Learning (Dalziel & Pascoe #2)

Reginald Hill

An Advancement of Learning is a crime novel by Reginald Hill, the second novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. In this novel, the detectives investigate a murder at the fictional Holm Coultram College. More bodies are found after their arrival on campus. In this novel, …

16315. The importance of living

Lin Yutang

The importance of living is a book by Lin Yutang.

16317. A beautiful place to die

Malla Nunn

A Beautiful Place to Die is the debut novel of award-winning filmmaker Malla Nunn.

16318. The Drunken Forest

Gerald Durrell

First published in 1956 The Drunken Forest is an account of a six months trip Gerald Durrell made with his wife Jacquie to South America in 1954.

16320. Jirel of Joiry

Catherine Moore

Jirel of Joiry is a collection of five fantasy stories by C. L. Moore, often characterized as sword and sorcery. The volume compiles all but one of Moore's stories featuring the title character, a female warrior in an imagined version of medieval France. All the stories were …

16321. The Eagle Has Flown (Classic Jack Higgins Collection)

Jack Higgins

The Eagle Has Flown is a book by Jack Higgins, first published in 1991. It is a quasi-sequel to The Eagle Has Landed.

16322. Demon in My View (A Ruth Rendell Mystery)

Ruth Rendell

A Demon in my View is a novel by British author Ruth Rendell. First published in 1976, it won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year, gaining Rendell the first of six Dagger awards she received during her career, more than any other writer.

16323. Terminal Beach (Everyman Fiction S.)

J. G. Ballard

The Terminal Beach is a collection of science fiction short stories by the British author J. G. Ballard, published in 1964.

16325. Free live free

Gene Wolfe

Free Live Free is a novel by Gene Wolfe. It was first published in 1984.

16327. Alan Moore's Writing for Comics

Alan Moore

Alan Moore's Writing for Comics is a book published in 2003 by Avatar Press. It reprints a 1985 essay by Alan Moore on how to write comics successfully that originally appeared in the British magazine Fantasy Advertiser. The book consists of four main chapters, it also includes …

16330. The island

Peter Benchley

The Island is a novel by Peter Benchley, published in 1979 by Doubleday & Co.

16331. Monster Blood

R. L. Stine

Monster Blood is a book published in 1992 that was written by R. L. Stine.

16332. In the Days of the Comet

Herbert George Wells

In the Days of the Comet is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the old azote," to "change out of itself" and become "a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its …

16333. The call of the wild and selected stories

Jack London

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character is a domesticated dog named Buck. The story starts with him …

16334. La grande caccia

Tom Sharpe

The Great Pursuit is a 1977 comic novel by Tom Sharpe. It is a satire encompassing commercialism in publishing and literary criticism.

16335. The First Immortal

James L. Halperin

The First Immortal is a novel by James L. Halperin, about life of a man born in 1925 who dies in 1988 and is re-animated after a cryonics procedure. The novel spans 200 years and gives a futuristic account of the first immortal human. The novel explores the future prospects of …

16337. Fletch Won (Fletch Mystery, 8)

Gregory Mcdonald

Fletch Won is the eighth book in the Fletch series of mystery/comedy novels written by Gregory Mcdonald, and was published in 1985. The story is set before the first seven books in the series, and follows the early days of the title character's journalism career. Fletch scores …

16338. The janitor's boy

Andrew Clements

The Janitor's Boy is a children's book by Andrew Clements. Part of his school series, it was released by Simon & Schuster in 2000.

16340. Guts

Gary Paulsen

Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books is a non-fiction book by Gary Paulsen, published on January 23, 2001 by Delacorte Books. It is about some of Paulsen's life adventures, including dog sledding in blizzards, being in a plane stalling in the air in the …

16341. In The Presence Of Mine Enemies

Harry Turtledove

In the Presence of Mine Enemies is an alternate history novel by American author Harry Turtledove, expanded from the eponymous short story. The novel depicts a world where the United States remained isolationist and did not participate in the Second World War, thus allowing …

16342. Modesty Blaise

Peter O'Donnell

Modesty Blaise is an action-adventure/spy fiction novel by Peter O'Donnell first published in 1965, featuring the character Modesty Blaise which O'Donnell had created for a comic strip in 1963.

16344. The Game, 20th Anniversary Edition

Ken Dryden

The Game is a book written by former ice hockey goaltender Ken Dryden. Published in 1983, the book is a non-fiction account of the 1978-79 Montreal Canadiens, detailing the life of a professional hockey player. The book describes the pressures of being a goaltender in the NHL, …

16346. (Nancy Drew Book 22) The Clue in the Crumbling Wall

Carolyn Keene

The Clue in the Crumbling Wall is the twenty-second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1945 under Carolyn Keene, a pseudonym of the ghostwriter Mildred Wirt Benson.

16347. Nancy Drew Book 46: The Invisible Intruder

Carolyn Keene

The Invisible Intruder is the 46th volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1969 under Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.

16348. Movie Shoes נעלי הקולנוע

Noel Streatfeild

The Painted Garden is a children's novel by British author Noel Streatfeild. It was first published in serial form in 1948, and as a book in 1949. The abridged US edition was entitled Movie Shoes. The novel is now out of print, the most recent publication being the 2000 Collins …

16349. Xanth, 25, Swell Foop (Xanth)

Piers Anthony

Swell Foop is the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

16350. Lucky Wander Boy A Novel

D. B. Weiss

Lucky Wander Boy is the 2003 debut novel by D. B. Weiss. The book's official website describes the work in the following terms:

16351. The Hero (Posleen Wars Series)

John Ringo

The Hero is a novel by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson, and is part of the Legacy of the Aldenata series. It is set in the future after the defeat of the Posleen, and features a Darhel named Tirdal who is the first of his race to be assigned to a military team. The Darhel …

16352. Freehold

Michael Z. Williamson

Freehold is a Prometheus Award nominated science fiction novel written by Michael Z. Williamson, published in 2004 by Baen Books. The Freehold series is continued in The Weapon which begins prior to Freehold and ends approximately two years afterwards.

16353. M. C. Higgins, The Great

Virginia Hamilton

M. C. Higgins, the Great is a realistic novel by Virginia Hamilton that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1975. It also won the National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the only book to do …

16355. Message from Nam

Danielle Steel

Message From Nam is a romantic novel, written by Danielle Steel and published by Dell Publishing in October 1990. The novel follows Paxton Andrews, who is stationed in Vietnam as a journalist during the Vietnam War, focusing on the men she encounters and how her life and the …

16356. Who censored Roger Rabbit?

Gary K. Wolf

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? is a mystery novel written by Gary K. Wolf in 1981, later adapted into the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

16357. Circle of Flight

John Marsden

Circle of Flight is a book published in 2006 that was written by John Marsden.

16359. Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959

Kim Newman

Dracula Cha Cha Cha, is a 1998 novel by British writer Kim Newman. It is the third book in the Anno Dracula series.

16360. The New Centurions

Joseph Wambaugh

Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind the thin blue line. In a …

16361. Once an eagle

Anton Myrer

Once an Eagle is a war novel by American author Anton Myrer. A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Once an Eagle has been a favorite of American military men and women since its writing. The novel tells the story of Sam Damon, career Army officer, from his initial enlistment to his …

16362. Where There's a Will

Rex Stout

Where There's a Will is the eighth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. Prior to its publication in 1940 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., the novel was abridged in the May 1940 issue of The American Magazine, titled "Sisters in Trouble." The story's magazine appearance was …

16363. The Mount

Carol Emshwiller

The Mount is a 2002 science fantasy novel by Carol Emshwiller. It won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2002, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003. The author was inspired to write The Mount after she took a class in the psychology of prey animals. After …

16364. The Pratchett Portfolio

Terry Pratchett

The Pratchett Portfolio is a small collection of the artistic works of Paul Kidby, illustrating the characters of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It includes a small blurb on each character, and a picture of said person. In addition to the art, each blurb talks about how Pratchett …

16367. Jacqueline Susann's Dolores

Jacqueline Susann

Dolores is Jacqueline Susann's last novel. It is a thinly-veiled presentation on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy. It was published in 1976. A condensed version of the novel was published in the Ladies' Home Journal, under the title "Jackie by Jackie." When her severe illness …

16380. Secrets of the Gnomes

Wil Huygen

The Secret Book of Gnomes is Book II in a series of four books about Gnomes designed for children. They contain stories and a guide to how Gnomes live in harmony with their environment, such as what a Gnome has in his first aid kit and how a Gnome's house is built. The books …

16381. 6/12

Ilkka Remes

16389. The Serpent Mage

Greg Bear

Serpent Mage published in 1986, it is the second in a two book fantasy series written by Greg Bear. It is the sequel to The Infinity Concerto.

16391. Frozen Moment

Camilla Ceder

One cold morning in December, in a small rural town on the Swedish coast, Ake Melkersson is on his way to work when his car breaks down. Luckily he spots a garage nearby, but as he approaches he realizes something is wrong. The owner of the garage lies dead, sprawled on the …

16392. Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!

Annette Curtis Klause

Freaks: Alive on the Inside is a fantasy romance and adventure novel by Annette Curtis Klause.



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