The most popular books in English
from 51001 to 51200

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.

51005. Beyond US Hegemony?: Assessing the Prospects for a …

Samir Amin

In this major new work - the result of a lifetime of intellectual engagement - one of the developing world's most famous thinkers reflects on the times we live in. He argues that US hegemony has reached a dangerous new level under George Bush Jr, and that the US President's …

51095. Papillon

Henri Charrieri

Papillon is a memoir by convicted felon and fugitive Henri Charrière, first published in France in 1969, describing his escape from Devil's Island, part of the French penal colony in French Guiana. It became an instant bestseller. It was translated into English from the original …

51178. The Queen's Necklace

Alexandre Dumas

The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850. It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.

51199. Les Fleurs du mal

Baudelaire/R. Scholten

This volume includes a new translation of Les fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire 1921 1967 often considered to be France s foremost poet and the first modern one Flowers of Evil was Baudelaire s major work he worked on it all his adult life until aphasia robbed him of the use …



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