The most popular books in English
from 31001 to 31200

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.

31001. The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky is a 1949 novel of post-colonial alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles.

31003. Edgar A Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance

Kenneth Silverman

"Edgar A Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance" is a biography of American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, by Kenneth Silverman.

31004. Dagger's Point

Anne Logston

Dagger's Point is a book published in 1995 that was written by Anne Logston.

31005. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

W. H. Davies

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies. A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the …

31006. The Horse God Built

Lawrence Scanlan

"For anybody who loves horses, and for all of those who are thrilled by horse racing and the behind-the-scenes drama of the track, The Horse That God Built is must reading."--Michael Korda, author of Horse PeopleMost of us know the legend of Secretariat, the tall, handsome …

31007. Leave It to Me

Bharati Mukherjee

Leave It to Me is a 1997 novel by Bharati Mukherjee. It utilizes the myth of the Hindu mother Goddess, Durga.

31008. Midnight's Choice

Kate Thompson

Midnight's Choice is a fantasy novel for young adults, by Kate Thompson. It is the second book in the Switchers Trilogy, and continues the story of Tess and Kevin, two young Irish shapeshifters. It also introduces the character of Martin, another Switcher, who is the book's main …

31010. The Misbegotten Son

Jack Olsen

The Misbegotten Son is a book written by Jack Olsen.

31012. Finding H.F.

Julia Watts

Finding H.F. is a 2001 young adult novel by Julia Watts, published by Alyson Books. It won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult fiction that same year. Set in the Deep South, it describes the experience of being a lesbian teen in the Bible Belt.

31013. The Stolen White Elephant

Mark Twain

The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain is an extraordinary farce, a detective story that mocks all detective stories and a tragicomedy that attempts at shedding light on how ridiculous some pieces in the genre really are.The story told in the form of telegraphs revolves around …

31017. The Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race". Twain wrote …

31018. The Arabian Nights Murder

John Dickson Carr

The Arabian Nights Murder, first published in 1936, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.

31020. Midnight Dreary

John Evangelist Walsh

Midnight Dreary is a book written by John Evangelist Walsh.

31022. The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson

The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X. The importance of The Night Land was …

31023. Basic Chess Endings

Reuben Fine

Basic Chess Endings is a book on chess endgames which was written by Grandmaster Reuben Fine and originally published on October 27, 1941. It is considered the first systematic book in English on the endgame phase of the game of chess. It is the best-known endgame book in …

31024. Doomsday Deck

Diana G. Gallagher

Doomsday Deck is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

31025. The Gully Dwarves

Dan Parkinson

The Gully Dwarves is a fantasy novel by Dan Parkinson, set in the world of Dragonlance, and based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It is the fifth novel in the "Lost Histories" series. It was published in paperback in June 1996. It continues the short story The …

31026. Weir of Hermiston

Robert Louis Stevenson

Weir of Hermiston is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Many have considered it his masterpiece. It was cut short by Stevenson's sudden death in 1894 from a cerebral hemorrhage. The novel is set in Edinburgh and the Lothians at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

31027. Skinner's Trail

Quintin Jardine

Skinner's Trail is a 1994 novel by Quintin Jardine. It is the third of the Bob Skinner novels.

31028. Three Cheers for the Paraclete

Thomas Keneally

Three Cheers for the Paraclete is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally.

31029. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Ann Radcliffe

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. A Highland Story is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe first published in London by Thomas Hookham in 1789. The novel is a set in a powerful landscape which became familiar in her later work, with complex clan feuds and mysterious romantic …

31030. The Redwall Cookbook

Brian Jacques

The Redwall Cookbook is a cookbook based on food from the Redwall series. It contains recipes mentioned in the books, from Deeper'n'Ever Pie and Summer Strawberry Fizz to Abbey Trifle and Great Hall Gooseberry Fool.

31031. The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia

Michael Gray

The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is a compendium of articles written by Michael Gray covering the life and work of Bob Dylan. It includes reviews of varying length for each album and numerous songs in Dylan's musical output, but is not just a work of music criticism. The topics for …

31032. Quofum

Alan Dean Foster

Quofum is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster.

31036. Kildee House

Rutherford George Montgomery

Kildee House is a children's novel by Rutherford George Montgomery. It tells the story of a house in a redwood forest which becomes a refuge for wildlife. The novel was first published in 1949 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1950. It is illustrated by Barbara Cooney.

31037. The Traitor's Sword

Jan Siegel

The Traitor's Sword is a book published in 2005 that was written by Jan Siegel.

31038. The Road to Camlann

Rosemary Sutcliff

The Road to Camlann: The Death of King Arthur is the third book in Rosemary Sutcliff's Arthurian trilogy, after The Sword and the Circle and The Light Beyond the Forest. This book portrays the events that lead to the Battle of Camlann and the downfall of Camelot, including …

31039. The Missing Link

Kate Thompson

The Missing Link is a book published in 2000 that was written by Kate Thompson.

31040. Goosebumps Deep Trouble II

R. L. Stine

Goosebumps Deep Trouble II is a horror fiction book written by R. L. Stine.

31041. The Last Canadian

William C. Heine

The Last Canadian is a 1974 science fiction novel by William C. Heine about the adventures of Eugene Arnprior after North America is devastated by a plague. The U.S. release of the novel was titled Death Wind.

31048. Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a collection of science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Random House in 2002. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines Planet Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Imagination, Space Science …

31049. Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright

Isaac Asimov

Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by Isaac Asimov. It was the thirteenth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These essays were first published between May 1976 and September 1977. It …

31051. Divided City

Theresa Breslin

Divided City is a novel written by Theresa Breslin and published in 2005 by Doubleday. The novel is written for teenagers and adults concerning the problems of sectarianism in Glasgow and racism against asylum seekers. The main characters are young boys called Graham, a Rangers …

31052. The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories

Mark Twain

The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories is an 1893 collection of short stories by American writer Mark Twain.

31054. The MacGuffin

Stanley Elkin

The MacGuffin is the book written by Stanley Elkin.

31055. Sweet, Savage Death

Jane Haddam

Sweet, Savage Death is a book written by Jane Haddam.

31057. Collected Stories and Later Writings

Paul Bowles

Collected Stories and Later Writings is a book written by Paul Bowles.

31058. Storm Boy

Colin Thiele

Storm Boy is a 1964 Australian children's book by Colin Thiele about a boy and his pelican. The book concentrates on the relationships he has with his father, the pelican, and an outcast Aboriginal man called Fingerbone. The story has been dramatised several times. The film …

31060. The Flivver King

Upton Sinclair, Jr.

The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America is a novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1937, that tells the intertwined stories of Henry Ford and a fictional Ford worker Abner Shutt.

31061. More Flanimals

Ricky Gervais

More Flanimals is the sequel to Ricky Gervais' book Flanimals. Like Flanimals, the book features around 30 species of Flanimal, illustrated by Rob Steen, which make up their own imaginary ecosystem. Some notable Flanimals in this book include the Squat, the Psquirm and the Mung …

31062. The House of the Four Winds

John Buchan

The House of the Four Winds is a novel of adventure by John Buchan, first published in 1935. It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson McCunn books.

31063. Gold and Iron

Fritz Stern

Winner of the Lionel Trilling AwardNominated for the National Book Award “A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” …

31064. Phallos

Samuel R. Delany

Phallos is a short novel — or novella — by Samuel R. Delany, published by Bamberger Books. It was reissued by Wesleyan University Press in 2013. Phallos takes the form of a modern online essay recounting the history and giving a synopsis of a nonexistent novel also called …

31065. Horn of Africa

Philip Caputo

Horn of Africa is a novel written by Philip Caputo.

31069. Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue

W. J. Burley

Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue is a crime novel by Cornish writer W. J. Burley.

31071. The Prize in the Game

Jo Walton

The Prize in the Game is Jo Walton's third novel, published by Tor Books in December 2002. The novel is a prequel to Walton's first two novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name; its main characters appear as minor or off-stage characters in those books. The story was loosely …

31073. Desire

Frank Bidart

Desire is a book written by Frank Bidart.

31075. The Crisscross Shadow

Franklin W. Dixon

The Crisscross Shadow is Volume 32 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Richard Cohen in 1953. Between 1959 and 1973 the first 38 volumes of this series were systematically …

31076. South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal …

Brian C. Anderson

South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias is a book written by Brian C. Anderson. It explores the idea that the traditional mass media in the United States are biased towards liberals, but through new media, such as the Internet, cable television, and talk …

31077. The Jungle of Horrors

Joe Dever

The Jungle of Horrors is the eighth book in the award-winning Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever.

31078. The Face in the Abyss

Abraham Merritt

The Face in the Abyss is a classic from a "golden age" of science fiction. A brilliant tale filled with weird imagination, marvelous writing, horror, beauty, and it may well be called the most "visual" book ever written for the world of fantasy. The Face in the Abyss is a grand …

31079. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, …

31080. War and Remembrance

Herman Wouk

War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in October 1978, which is the sequel to The Winds of War. It continues the story of the extended Henry family and the Jastrow family starting on 15 December 1941 and ending on 6 August 1945. This novel was adapted into the …

31081. Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley

Flags of Our Fathers is a New York Times bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of …

31082. The Memory Cathedral

Jack Dann

The Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci is a 1995 historical fantasy fiction novel by Jack Dann. It follows Leonardo da Vinci constructing his flying machine and then travelling to the East.

31084. Brigham Young: American Moses

Leonard J. Arrington

Brigham Young: American Moses is a biography about Brigham Young by Dr. Leonard J. Arrington, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1985.

31086. The Chelsea Murders

Lionel Davidson

The Chelsea Murders is a thriller by Lionel Davidson. The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award.

31087. The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez

Simon Hawke

The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez is a book published in 1992 that was written by Simon Hawke.

31088. The house of breath

William Goyen

The House of Breath is a novel written by the American author William Goyen. It was his first book, published in 1950. It is not a novel in the usual sense in that it lacks traditional plot and character development. Upon its publication, reviewers noted the book for its unusual …

31089. First Contact

Jeanne Kalogridis

First Contact is 1996 novel by Jeanne Kalogridis (the pseudonym of J.M. Dillard).

31090. Diary of a Groupie

Omar Tyree

Diary of a Groupie is a book written by Omar Tyree.

31091. The Light Around the Body

Robert Bly

The Light Around the Body is a book written by Robert Bly.

31121. The Voice of Memory

Primo Levi

A collection of interviews, originally published in Primo Levi: Converzsazioni e interviste.

31125. The Age of Rights

Norberto Bobbio

This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.

31146. The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

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 …

31148. After the divorce

Grazia Deledda

After the Divorce is a novel by Italian author Grazia Deledda.



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