The most popular books in English
from 35801 to 36000
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.
Ana Maria Matute
Ana Maria Matute, author of Celebration in the Northwest, was 10 years old in 1936, the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. For three years she witnessed the strife and carnage that ripped her homeland apart, then came of age in a repressive society ruled by Franco. These …
P. G. Wodehouse
Ice in the Bedroom is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the United States on February 2, 1961 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1961 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The story was originally published, in a …
Alan Edward Nourse
The novel The Bladerunner is a 1974 science fiction novel by Alan E. Nourse.
George Santayana
The Works of George Santayana, Volume 1: Persons and Places (Critical Edition)
Eleanor Clark
The Oysters of Locmariaquer is the book by Eleanor Clark.
Spike Milligan
The Looney: An Irish Fantasy is a comic novel by Spike Milligan. It was first published in 1987 with the paperback edition in 1988. It is his second full-length original novel.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Thin Air is a Star Trek: New Earth novel written by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Joe Haldeman
The Forever War is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story of soldiers fighting an interstellar war between Man and the Taurans. It won the Nebula Award in 1975, and the Hugo and the Locus awards in 1976. Forever Free and …
Donald Hamilton
The Ambushers is a novel by Donald Hamilton first published in 1963, continuing the exploits of assassin Matt Helm.
Leo Frankowski
Conrad's Time Machine is a book published in 2002 that was written by Leo Frankowski.
Brenda Shaughnessy
"Human Dark With Sugar" is a book written by Brenda Shaughnessy.
Joseph Frank
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 is a book by Joseph Frank.
Leslie Charteris
The Saint to the Rescue is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in 1959 by The Crime Club in the United States. The first British edition by Hodder and Stoughton was not published until 1961. This was the 34th book to feature the adventures of Simon …
Sterling Seagrave
Lords of the Rim is book by American historian Sterling Seagrave first published in 1995 and substantially updated in a second edition of 2010. It is a history of Chinese expatriate economics written for the lay person and has received mainly positive reviews. Presenting an …
Dee Dee Ramone
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel is a 2001 novel by Dee Dee Ramone, a member of the punk band The Ramones. The book follows Dee Dee as he dictates daily events at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City with his wife Barbra and dog Banfield. Dee Dee is convinced that the room he stays …
David Cook
Dwellers of the Forbidden City is an adventure module, or pre-packaged adventure booklet, ready for use by Dungeon Masters in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The adventure was first used as a module for tournament play at the 1980 Origins Game Fair, and was …
Alvaro Mutis
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll is a compilation of novellas by Colombian author Álvaro Mutis. First published as a two-volume collection in Colombia in 1993, the work was translated into English by Edith Grossman in 2002. The novellas center on the exploits and …
Philip Sidney
Probably composed in the 1580s, Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella is an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. The name derives from the two Greek words, 'aster' and 'phil', and the Latin word 'stella' meaning star. Thus Astrophil is the star lover, and …
Nerida Newton
The Lambing Flat is a novel written by Australian author Nerida Newton and was first published in 2003. It was Newton's first novel. She has since written a second novel, Death of a Whaler. The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century Australian gold rushes. The main …
Paul Erdman
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing is a book by Paul Erdman.
Alberto Blest Gana
Martin Rivas is an 1862 novel by Alberto Blest Gana, and is widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel. The social realist novel is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, this …
Marc Cerasini
Godzilla Returns is a book published in 1996 that was written by Marc Cerasini.
Marc Cerasini
Godzilla 2000 is a book published in 1997 that was written by Marc Cerasini.
Andrew Greeley
Irish Love is the sixth of the Nuala Anne McGrail series of mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley.
Donald Hamilton
Murderers' Row is the title of a 1962 spy novel by Donald Hamilton. It was the fifth novel featuring his creation Matt Helm, a Second World War assassin recruited as a counter-agent by a secret American agency. This was the last Matt Helm novel to not use Hamilton's naming …
A. J. Cronin
Adventures in Two Worlds is the 1952 autobiography of Dr. A. J. Cronin, in which he relates, with much humour, the exciting events of his dual career as a medical doctor and a novelist.
J. Michael Bailey
The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism is a 2003 book by J. Michael Bailey, published by Joseph Henry Press. In the first section of the book, Bailey discusses gender-atypical behaviors and gender identity disorder in children, emphasizing …
Stan Nicholls
Quicksilver Twilight is a book published in 2006 that was written by Stan Nicholls.
Eve Merriam
Halloween ABC is a book of poetry for children, written by Eve Merriam and illustrated by Lane Smith. It includes a poem related to a scary or Halloween related theme for each letter of the alphabet.
Richard Purtill
The Golden Gryphon Feather is a book published in 1979 that was written by Richard Purtill.
Gary Paulsen
Danger on Midnight River is the sixth novel in World of Adventure series by Gary Paulsen. It was published on July 1, 1995 by Random House.
J. G. Passarella
Avatar is a novel by John Passarella set in the fictional universe of the U.S. television series Angel.
Woody Holton
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution is a book written by Abner Linwood Holton, III .
Michael Kurland
The Infernal Device & Others is a book written by Michael Kurland.
Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the American author Jack Gantos, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2011. It features a boy named Jack Gantos and is based partly on the author's childhood in Norvelt, Pennsylvania. According to one reviewer, the "real …
K. C. Constantine
Saving Room for Dessert is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1990s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania. Constantine's earlier novels followed the exploits of police chief Mario Balzic and detective Rugs Carlucci …
Pablo Neruda
Canto General is Pablo Neruda's tenth book of poems. It was first published in Mexico in 1950, by Talleres Gráficos de la Nación. Neruda began to compose it in 1938. "Canto General" consists of 15 sections, 231 poems, and more than 15,000 lines. This work attempts to be a …
Gabriel García
Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez first published in Spanish in 1985. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007.
G. Bocaccio
The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galehaut, is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just …
Lisanne Norman
Between Darkness and Light is the seventh book of the Sholan Alliance series published in 2003 that was written by Lisanne Norman.