The most popular books in English
from 32401 to 32600
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.
Richard Friedenthal
“The study of Goethe’s life is a task that each generation must undertake anew.” Thus writes Richard Friedenthal, author of this rich biography. Spanning eight momentous decades of war, revolution, and social upheaval, Goethe’s life reveals itself as one of conflict and dynamic …
Nancy Huston
Nancy Huston’s The Goldberg Variations, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Translation, echoes Bach’s Variations in its structure and rhythms, and ultimately, its irony. "Suppose you invite thirty people to your home, people whom you love or have loved, …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This English verse translation of Goethe's West-Eastern Divan aims to give English-readers a fair indication of the themes, quality and flavour of Goethe's major cycle of lyric poetry. As far as possible it remains faithful to Goethe's metrical and rhyming patterns. The Divan's …
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Knights of the Cross or The Teutonic Knights is a 1900 historical novel written by the eminent Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the original. The book was serialized by …
Louise Hasbrouck Zimm
"Insect Adventures" by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm, Jean-Henri Fabre (translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to …
Gianni Riotta
A rousing historical adventure from the bestselling author of ‘Prince of the Clouds’.As a boy, Nino Manes used to dash through the morning streets of his island fishing village to reach the church square before the first explosion of the Alborada, the fireworks that rang out …
Oswald Spengler
The Decline of the West, or The Downfall of the Occident, is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler, the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918. Spengler revised this volume in 1922 and published the second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, in …
Zbigniew Herbert
Report from the Besieged City and other Poems is a literary work by Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert.
Georges Charpak
Debunked!: ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience is a book by Georges Charpak and Henri Broch.
Wisława Szymborska
People on the Bridge is a book written by Wisława Szymborska.
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 …
Grazia Deledda
After the Divorce is a novel by Italian author Grazia Deledda.
Paweł Huelle
Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2008“Delightful . . . gently, deceptively provocative.”—The Observer“Full of depth and allusion . . . wonderfully absurd humour.”—The Independent on SundayInspired by Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Castorp recounts Hans …
Henryk Sienkiewicz
On the Field of Glory is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1906. The novel tells a story of a fictional young impoverished Polish nobleman and his love for a young aristocratic woman. The story is set during the reign of King John III …
Zygmunt Bauman
It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around consumer choices rather than on work, professional skills or jobs. Where ‘being poor’ was …