The most popular books in English
from 23201 to 23400
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.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_asin1583220526_100_200.jpg)
Annie Ernaux
Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. "I Remain in Darkness" recounts Annie’s attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then, when …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0929587448-L_100_200.jpg)
Paul-André Robert
Prince Friedrich of Homburg is the indisputable dramatic masterpiece of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), a leading figure, along with Goethe and Schiller, among early German Romantics. Available until now only in verse translation, it has been newly rendered for the American …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_9781606992944_100_200.jpg)
Jacques Tardi
The satirical masterpiece that ushered in the graphic novel era to European comics, finally available in English—the beginning of an ambitious publishing project introducing one of Europe’s most beloved cartoonists to American audiences. One of the earliest full-length, …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0375506527-L_100_200.jpg)
Camille Laurens
An international bestseller translated into twelve languages and the winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Our narrator, Camille, loves men. One might say she’s obsessed with them. The latest object of her affection is a psychiatrist, and what better way to seduce a …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0140188088-L_100_200.jpg)
D. H. Lawrence
Under-appreciated until now, "The Lost Girl" is perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary, love story. This captivating novel charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives-one mired in dreary, industrial England and a life of …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0374263183-L_100_200.jpg)
Peter Handke
Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_009928684X-L_100_200.jpg)
W. Somerset Maugham
Catalina is a novel written by W. Somerset Maugham and first published by Heinemann in 1948. Set in Spain during the Inquisition the novel is a satire on the power of the church. It was Maugham’s last published novel.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0749399481-L_100_200.jpg)
Franz Kafka
Letters to Felice is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer from 1912 to 1917. Schocken Books acquired these letters from Felice Bauer in 1955, in addition to roughly half of Kafka's letters to Grete Bloch, Bauer's friend. Additional letters to Bloch …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0771046324-L_100_200.jpg)
Patrick Lane
Red Dog is a short story by Nancy Gillespie and a collection of anecdotes and poetry written by several people of the Pilbara region, chronicling the life and travels of the Red Dog. Colonel Cummings is documented as the Red Dog's original owner, and later John Stazzonelli took …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0340422637-L_100_200.jpg)
Thomas Keneally
The Playmaker is a novel based in Australia written by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. Governor Arthur Phillip presides over the …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1591142946-L_100_200.jpg)
Karl-Heinz Frieser
The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West is a book by Karl-heinz Frieser and John T. Greenwood.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0394759982-L_100_200.jpg)
Chester Himes
Blind Man With a Pistol is a 1969 fiction novel by Chester Himes. It is the 8th book in the Harlem Cycle series.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0803282540-L_100_200.jpg)
Herta Müller
Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical short stories by Romanian-German writer and Nobel laureate Herta Müller. The stories center on life in the Romanian countryside and the violent, oppressive atmosphere of Romania in the mid-20th century.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0374230773-L_100_200.jpg)
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary is a book-length essay by the Nobel Prize–winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Flaubert's Madame Bovary as the first modern novel. The first part of the book has an autobiographical tone; Vargas Llosa then …
![](/images/page/.tmb/thumb_nothumb-img_100_200.png)
Jenny Uglow
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration is a book written by Jenny Uglow.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0753808676-L_100_200.jpg)
Isaiah Berlin
"The Hedgehog and the Fox" is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. It was one of Berlin's most popular essays with the general public. Berlin himself said of the essay: "I never meant it very seriously. I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game, but it was taken …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0710303165-L_100_200.jpg)
Pierre Loti
Aziyadé is a novel by French author Pierre Loti. Originally published anonymously, it was his first book, and along with Le Mariage de Loti, would introduce the author to the French public and quickly propel him to fame; his anonymous persona did not last long. Aziyadé is …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0099999900-L_100_200.jpg)
P. G. Wodehouse
Something Fishy is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 18 January 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on January 28, 1957 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title The Butler Did It. The plot concerns a tontine …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1410100251-L_100_200.jpg)
Jules Verne
A Floating City is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871. It tells of a woman who, on board the ship Great Eastern with her abusive husband, finds that the man she loves is also on board.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1841953563-L_100_200.jpg)
Shane Maloney
The Brush-Off is a 1996 Australian, Ned Kelly Awards-winning crime thriller, written by Shane Maloney. It is the second novel in a series of crime thrillers following the character of Murray Whelan, as he investigates crimes in the Melbourne area in the course of trying to keep …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0590444298-L_100_200.jpg)
Gordon Korman
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag is a novel by Gordon Korman, a Canadian-born author who now lives in New York City. The main characters are Raymond Jardine and Sean Delancy. Sean is a popular student, a starter on the high school basketball team. Raymond Jardine is the …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0192717812-L_100_200.jpg)
K. M. Peyton
Flambards in Summer is a novel for children or young adults by K. M. Peyton, first published by Oxford in 1969 with illustrations by Victor Ambrus. It completed the Flambards trilogy although Peyton continued the story a dozen years later, and controversially reversed the ending …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1585677116-L_100_200.jpg)
Brion Gysin
The Process is a novel by Brion Gysin which was published in 1969. Gysin was a painter and composer, and also collaborated with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs on many occasions. The Process was his first full-length novel. Described by The Overlook Press as "a …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0143037366-L_100_200.jpg)
Loren Pope
The groundbreaking guide to the 40 best colleges you've never heard of—colleges that will change your lifeChoosing the right college has never been more important—or more difficult. For the latest edition of this classic college guide, Hilary Masell Oswald conducted her own …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0099710102-L_100_200.jpg)
P. G. Wodehouse
Jill The Reckless is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on October 8, 1920 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 4 July 1921. It was serialised in Collier's between 10 April and 28 August 1920, in …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1882593642-L_100_200.jpg)
Samuel Shellabarger
Prince of Foxes is a 1947 historical novel by Samuel Shellabarger, following the adventures of the fictional Andrea Orsini, a captain in the service of Cesare Borgia during his conquest of the Romagna.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0375505423-L_100_200.jpg)
John McCain
Worth the Fighting For is a 2002 book by United States Senator John McCain with Mark Salter. Published by Random House, it is part autobiography, part mini-biographies of others. The book picks up where McCain's first memoir, Faith of My Fathers, left off, with his return to the …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1859847862-L_100_200.jpg)
Christopher Hitchens
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere is a 2003 collection of essays by the author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. It was first published in hardback by the New Left Books imprint, Verso.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0374229848-L_100_200.jpg)
José Lezama Lima
Paradiso was the only novel by Cuban poet José Lezama Lima to be completed and published during his lifetime. Written in an elaborately baroque style, the narrative follows the childhood and youth of José Cemí, and depicts many scenes which resonate with Lezama's own life as a …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1566891884-L_100_200.jpg)
Brian Evenson
A taut, otherworldly, and moving literary thriller investigating the contemporary aftermath of Mormonism’s shrouded and violent past. When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_isbn9780930407407_100_200.jpg)
Jacques Lusseyran
Selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending literally to …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_9783518116197_100_200.jpg)
Berthold Zilly
Unter dem Blick des Patriarchen sitzen sie am ländlichen Familientisch, hören seine Reden von alttestamentarischer Wucht. Der siebzehnjährige Andre droht darunter ebenso zu ersticken wie unter der übergroßen Zärtlichkeit der Mutter. Als er bemerkt, wie haltlos, wie …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_039332544X-L_100_200.jpg)
Vincent Bugliosi
Till Death Us Do Part is a book written by Vincent Bugliosi and Ken Hurwitz.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_141010057X-L_100_200.jpg)
Henryk Sienkiewicz
With Fire and Sword is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as The Trilogy, followed by The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe. The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0688842054-L_100_200.jpg)
David Kherdian
The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope, earlier titled The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, is a non-fiction book written by David Kherdian, originally published in 1979. It is based on the life of the author's mother, Veron Dumehjian, who …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0689803508-L_100_200.jpg)
Carol Matas
After the War is a novel written by author Carol Matas. The book was published by Simon and Schuster and released in 1997.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0064403874-L_100_200.jpg)
Jane Leslie Conly
R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH is a sequel to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and it continues the story after the end of Racso and the Rats of NIMH. It was written by Jane Leslie Conly, the daughter of the author for the original book.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0201328283-L_100_200.jpg)
John L. Casti
The Cambridge Quintet is a book written by John L. Casti and published by Helix Books/Addison Wesley in 1998.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_088001508X-L_100_200.jpg)
Joyce Carol Oates
First Love: A Gothic Tale is a novella by award-winning novelist and essayist Joyce Carol Oates. It tells the story of Joise S_____, a girl who goes to stay at her aunt's mansion in upstate New York. While there, she has an incestuous relationship with her cousin, Jared. The …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0918273838-L_100_200.jpg)
Frank Chin
Donald Duk is a coming-of-age novel written by Frank Chin and was first published in February 1991. It is about an eleven-year-old boy named Donald Duk dealing with the struggles of cultural identity as he learns to accept himself for who he is.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0486211339-L_100_200.jpg)
Olaf Stapledon
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0671890093-L_100_200.jpg)
George Takei
To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu is an autobiography by actor George Takei, first published by Pocket Books in 1994. Takei describes his early childhood and the time his family spent in Japanese American internment, and experiences which …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1577656938-L_100_200.jpg)
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0140039465-L_100_200.jpg)
Molly Haskell
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies is a 1974 book by feminist film critic Molly Haskell. It was one of the first books to chronicle women's images in film. Along with Marjorie Rosen's Popcorn Venus, it typifies the first feminist expeditions into film …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1421513943-L_100_200.jpg)
Masaki Yamada
The hulking cyborg counterterrorist Batou doesn't have a family; his electronic brain never dreams. So why did he dream the other night--and dream that he has a son?At one time, Batou had a human love for his partner, the legendary Major, before he witnessed her transfiguration …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_isbn9783864448782_100_200.jpg)
Jules Verne
The Danube Pilot is a novel by Jules Verne. It was first published in 1908, three years after his death, and like most of the books published posthumously, had been extensively revised by his son, Michel. Part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series, it recounts the adventures of …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1416915877-L_100_200.jpg)
Robert Joseph Levy
Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary is an original novel based on the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The author, Robert Joseph Levy, also wrote the Buffyverse novel The Suicide King. The book's title references Go Ask Alice, a controversial book which was an …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_isbn9781440643590_100_200.jpg)
Lee Goldberg
Based on the hit USA network series- from edgar(r) Award - nominated Monk screenwriter lee GoldbergAdrian Monk and his assistant Natalie are in Paris, touring the shadowy catacombs that wind beneath the city streets, lined with millions of centuries-old human bones. Of course, …
![](/images/page/.tmb/thumb_nothumb-img_100_200.png)
John Brunner
The Whole Man is a 1964 science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1965. This novel is often considered a turning point in Brunner's career, a step up from the space operas he'd been turning out as Ace Doubles and pointing towards …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0445086181-L_100_200.jpg)
Niel Hancock
Faragon Fairingay is a book published in 1977 that was written by Niel Hancock.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1601251521-L_100_200.jpg)
Leigh Brackett
The Sword of Rhiannon is a science fiction novel by Leigh Brackett, set in her usual venue of Mars. A 1942 Brackett story, "The Sorcerer of Rhiannon", also uses the name; however, it is the name of a place rather than a character.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1857987470-L_100_200.jpg)
Robert E. Howard
The Conan Chronicles is a 1989 omnibus collection of three previous fantasy collections by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, published by Sphere Books. The component collections had …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0425182800-L_100_200.jpg)
Irene Hunt
No Promises in the Wind is a historical novel by Irene Hunt. This novel takes place in 1932 during the Great Depression. The book is about growing up during the Great Depression, that meant growing up fast as young Josh soon learned.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0671748076-L_100_200.jpg)
Justin Kaplan
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography is a book by Justin Kaplan.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0002255855-L_100_200.jpg)
George MacDonald Fraser
Black Ajax is a historical novel by George MacDonald Fraser based on the career of Tom Molineaux. The father of Harry Flashman appears as a major character although the book is not part of the official Flashman series. As in those novels, several real life characters are …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0304352594-L_100_200.jpg)
W. Stanley Moss
Ill Met by Moonlight is a non-fiction book written by W. Stanley Moss, a British soldier, writer and traveller. It describes an operation in Crete during World War II to capture German general Heinrich Kreipe. The 2014 edition includes an Introduction by one of Moss's children …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0425610888-L_100_200.jpg)
Eric Frank Russell
Men, Martians and Machines is a collection of science-fiction short stories by the British writer Eric Frank Russell. It was first published in 1955.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0312263872-L_100_200.jpg)
Jeanne Cavelos
The Science of Star Wars is a nonfiction popular science book written by former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos first published on April 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Press. The book uses fictional characters, worlds, and technology from the Star Wars universe as starting points …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0881036064-L_100_200.jpg)
Gail E. Haley
A Story a Story is a book written and illustrated by Gail E. Haley that retells the African tale of how, when there were no stories in the world for children to hear, the trickster Anansi obtained them from the Sky God. The book was produced after Gail E. Haley spent a year in …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_034529212X-L_100_200.jpg)
Elizabeth H. Boyer
The Elves and the Otterskin is a book published in 1981 that was written by Elizabeth Boyer.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0814719201-L_100_200.jpg)
Samuel R. Delany
As issues of history and memory collide in our society and in the classroom, the time is ripe to rethink the place of history in our schools. Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History represents a unique effort by an international group of scholars to understand the future of …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_isbn9781477807613_100_200.jpg)
Ayşe Kulin
International bestseller by one of Turkey s most beloved authors As the daughter of one of Turkey s last Ottoman pashas Selva could win the heart of any man in Ankara Yet the spirited young beauty only has eyes for Rafael Alfandari the handsome Jewish son of an esteemed court …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0373834284-L_100_200.jpg)
Nora Roberts
A novel of The MacGregors from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, The Perfect Neighbor brings together a man and woman who share nothing in common but an apartment building hallway—and a desire for love with the perfect companion. Cybil Campbell paints her ideal …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0345477588-L_100_200.jpg)
Michael Reaves
Patterns of Force is the third book in Michael Reaves' series Coruscant Nights. It was released on January 27, 2009.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1578050839-L_100_200.jpg)
David James Duncan
Offers a loving tribute to the landscape, plants, and animals of his native Montana.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_075511115X-L_100_200.jpg)
Baroness Emma Orczy
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, the book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney's exploits in rescuing various aristos and French …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0312032722-L_100_200.jpg)
Moss Hart
Act One is an autobiographical book by playwright Moss Hart.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0312877501-L_100_200.jpg)
Andrew Greeley
God Game is the title of a science fiction novel by Rev. Andrew M. Greeley which was first published in 1986. It was published in hardcover by Warner Books with a paperback edition by Tor Books following in 1987.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0345309863-L_100_200.jpg)
Elizabeth H. Boyer
The Sword and the Satchel is a book published in 1980 that was written by Elizabeth Boyer.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0312858760-L_100_200.jpg)
Melissa Scott
Dreaming Metal is a 1997 science fiction novel by Melissa Scott that explores the question of when does artificial intelligence become indistinguishable from human intelligence. Another important theme to the book is the impact of terrorism on the lives of people and how artists …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0385750528-L_100_200.jpg)
Lee Weatherly
WHEN 13-YEAR-OLD EMMA bumps into her old friend Abby on the bus one Saturday afternoon, she later realizes that she was the last person to see Abby before her mysterious disappearance. Amidst the media frenzy and everyone’s struggle to come to terms with the possibility of …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0385316917-L_100_200.jpg)
Danielle Steel
Special Delivery is a romantic novel written by Danielle Steel.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0586039376-L_100_200.jpg)
Isaac Asimov
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a 1972 collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is accompanied by commentary by the author, who gives details about his life and his literary achievements in the period in which he wrote the story, effectively …
![](/images/page/.tmb/thumb_nothumb-img_100_200.png)
Timothy Zahn
Spinneret is a science fiction novel by Timothy Zahn. It was published in 1985.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_1416572961-L_100_200.jpg)
Natalie Robins
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family is a book written by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson.