The most popular books in English
from 53801 to 54000

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.

53801. Involvement and detachment

Norbert Elias

This essay has, since it was first published in 1956, been regarded as a classic statement on sociological method. Here it is combined with two other of the author's essays. His study represents a departure from traditional sociological and philosophical theories of knowledge. …

53807. Danton's Death

Georg Büchner

Danton's Death was the first play written by Georg Büchner, set during the French Revolution.

53822. The Champion

Tim Binding

Charles Pemberton has lived his whole life in the same small town: he went to the best local school, he lived in one of the finest houses and his parents were, effectively, middle-class aristocracy. His quiet life of privileged contentment might well have continued undisturbed, …

53882. Stolz

Paul Nizon

53919. A general selection from the works of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

A general selection from the works of Sigmund Freud is a book written by Sigmund Freud.

53934. Metamorphosis of Plants

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs.The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend “the truth about the how of the organism.” Inspired by the diversity …

53971. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Bruno Travan

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1927 adventure novel by the mysterious German-English bilingual author B. Traven, in which two destitute Americans of the 1920s join with an old-timer, in Mexico, to prospect for gold. John Huston adapted the book as a 1948 film of the same …



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