The most popular books in English
from 40401 to 40600
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.

Oliverio Girondo
Scarecrow & Other Anomalies, by Oliverio Girondo, is a collection of short prose poems written originally in Spanish. Scarecrow inspired the feature film The Dark Side of the Heart, directed by Eliseo Subiela.

Octave Mirbeau
Le Calvaire is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and published by Ollendorff in 1886.

Anne Wiazemsky
Based on the life of Claire Mauriac, mother of acclaimed writer Anne Wiazemsky, My Berlin Child tells the inspiring story of an extraordinary young woman who abandons her privileged world and finds courage and love while working for the French Red Cross during the Second World …

David Thomas
The inspirational true story of one man overcoming enormous odds – including sexual abuse from his alcoholic mother – to choose his own path in life and become a truly exceptional human being.From the age of four David Thomas was sexually abused by his alcoholic mother and …

Muhsin al-Ramli
Scattered Crumbs: is a novel written by the Iraqi author Muhsin al-Ramli. Al-Ramli's first novel, Scattered Crumbs, was published in Arabic in 2000, and its 2003 English translation received the Arabic Translation Award from the University of Arkansas Press. Set in an Iraqi …

Maxime Chattam
A tense, original New York-based thriller from one of France’s foremost crime writers. 8.34am. Fourteen people were dead. Twenty-one were wounded, some permanently. Hundreds would be scarred forever by what they had seen. Outside, the world was waking up. To start another day. …