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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.
William Hazlitt
Table-Talk is a collection of essays by the English cultural critic and social commentator William Hazlitt. It was originally published as two volumes, the first of which appeared in April 1821. The essays deal with topics such as art, literature and philosophy. Duncan Wu has …
David Foster
The Glade within the Grove is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Foster.
Julia Ward Howe
The Hermaphrodite is an incomplete novel by Julia Ward Howe about a hermaphrodite raised as a male, but whose underlying gender ambiguity often creates havoc in his life. Its date of creation is uncertain; University of Idaho professor Gary Williams hypothesizes that it was …
Anthony Sampson
The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed is an investigation and anatomical study of the international arms trade by Anthony Sampson.
Marjorie Bowen
Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales is a collection of stories by author Marjorie Bowen. It was released in 1976 and was the author's first collection of stories published in the U.S.. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 4,391 copies.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a …
Joseph Conrad
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process. Written before the first World War, its themes of corruption and the …
James Axler
Latitude Zero is the twelfth book in the series of Deathlands. It was written by Laurence James under the house name James Axler.
James Axler
Cold Asylum is the twentieth book in the series of Deathlands. It was written by Laurence James under the house name James Axler.
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler Speaking is a collection of letter excerpts, various notes, essays and an unfinished novel. It was compiled in 1962 by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker. The origins of the collection were contentions: after Chandler's death, his literary agent and …
Ivan Turgenev
First Love is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, but things change when the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
William L. DeAndrea
Killed in the Ratings is a book by William L. DeAndrea.
Arthur Danto
Mysticism and Morality is a work written by Arthur Danto.
Alessandra Comini
Egon Schieles Portraits is a book written by Alessandra Comini.
Leah Rewolinski
Star Wreck 6: Geek Space Nine is a book published in 1994 that was written by Leah Rewolinski.
Alfred Bester
Star Light, Star Bright is the name of a 1976 collection of science fiction short stories by Alfred Bester containing: "Adam and No Eve" "Time Is the Traitor" "Oddie And Id" "Hobson's Choice" "Star Light, Star Bright" "They Don't Make Life Like They Used To" "Of Time and Third …
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Scottish Folk Tales is a 1976 anthology of 18 fairy tales from Scotland that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
Susan Greenwood
Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology is an anthropological study of contemporary Pagan and ceremonial magic groups that practiced magic in London, England during the 1990s. It was written by English anthropologist Susan Greenwood based upon her doctoral research …
Jock Sturges
Radiant Identities is a 1994 photography book by Jock Sturges. The book consists of 60 black-and-white images of both children and adults, many of which show nudity. Photos were taken primarily at nude beaches in France and California. The girl on the front cover is Misty Dawn, …
Janet Morris
Wind from The Abyss is a fantasy novel by American writer Janet Morris, published in 1978. It is the third book of her Silistra series.
Arthur C. Clarke
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1971 is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1973. The stories, written between 1937 and 1971 originally appeared in a number of periodicals including Amateur Science Stories, Zenith, The …
Franklin W. Dixon
Hazed is the 14th book in The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers series. It was first published in February 2007 by Aladdin Paperbacks an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Telford Taylor
Munich: The Price of Peace is a book written by Telford Taylor.
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished …
Daniel Defoe
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, Robinson Crusoe, the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under …
Josef F. Blumrich
The Spaceships of Ezekiel is a book by Josef F. Blumrich about a spaceship that was supposedly observed by the prophet Ezekiel, written while the author was chief of NASA's systems layout branch of the program development office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. It was …
Washington Irving
Tales of a Traveller, by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. is a collection of essays and short stories composed by Washington Irving while he was living in Europe, primarily in Germany and Paris. The collection was published using Irving's pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon.
Mort Walker
The Lexicon of Comicana is a 1980 book by the American cartoonist Mort Walker. It was intended as a tongue-in-cheek look at the devices that cartoonists utilize in their craft. In it, Walker invented an international set of symbols called symbolia after researching cartoons …
A. E. W. Mason
They Wouldn't Be Chessmen is a 1934 British detective novel by A.E.W. Mason. It is the fourth book in the Inspector Hanaud series of novels.
Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Half in Shadow is a collection of stories by author Mary Elizabeth Counselman. It had first been published as a fourteen story collection as a Consul paperback by World Distributors, UK, in 1964. It was released in 1978 by Arkham House with fourteen stories and was the author's …
Reginald Gibbons
Published in 2008, Creatures of a Day is the eighth book of poetry by Reginald Gibbons and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.
Jack Conroy
The Disinherited is a proletarian novel written by Jack Conroy. It was published in 1933. Conroy wrote it initially as nonfiction, but editors insisted he fictionalize the story for better audience reception. The novel explores the 1920s and 30s worker experience through the …
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy novel written by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the …
Anthony Cave Brown
Bodyguard of Lies is a 1975 non-fiction book written by Anthony Cave Brown, his first major historical work. Named for a wartime quote of Winston Churchill, it is a narrative account of Allied military deception operations during the Second World War. The British and American …
Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij
Selected works of Fyodor Dostoevsky from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past …
