The most popular books in English
from 38001 to 38200

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.

38001. Oedipus at Stalingrad

Gregor von Rezzori

A new translation of a renowned, hilarious, and cautionary satire of life in upper-class Berlin shortly before World War II follows the social-climbing career of young Traugott von Jassilkowski as he attempts to conquer the German aristocracy.

38002. Orrie's Story

Thomas Berger

In a modern-day reworking of the Oresteian trilogy, war hero Auggie returns home only to be murdered by his wife and her lover, his own son Orrie

38040. Human, All Too Human (I): A Book for Free Spirits, …

Gary J. Handwerk

This is the second volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsches work. Volume 2: Unfashionable Observations, translated by Richard T. Gray, was published in 1995. The edition is a new English …

38041. The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest

Karl Friedrich Kahlert

The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest is a Gothic novel by Ludwig Flammenberg first published in 1794. It is one of the seven 'horrid novels' lampooned by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey, once thought not to exist except in the text of Northanger Abbey. The novel …

38055. Animal triste

Monika Maron

In an autumnal love story of erotic obsession, possessiveness, remembrance, oblivion, and time, an elderly woman dwells upon a failed love affair of some time past, when she was no longer young but not yet old. The narrator relives meeting her lover, Franz, at the natural …

38161. Paradoxes of the Highest Science

Eliphas Lévi

By the time of his death in 1875, Eliphas Lvi was recognised in both Europe and America as the greatest occultist of the 19th century. In The Paradoxes of the Highest Science, first published in 1883, Lvi makes an appeal for a balance between science and religion by addressing …



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