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200 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her o... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'War', 'Literary Fiction'] | 3.93 | 498,043 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6867.Atonement |
201 | Go Ask Alice | Beatrice Sparks | It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and u... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen'] | 3.75 | 265,454 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46799.Go_Ask_Alice |
202 | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be... | ['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Young Adult', 'Drama', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction'] | 4.09 | 1,176,249 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10917.My_Sister_s_Keeper |
203 | Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that ... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'School'] | 3.89 | 262,788 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84981.Tuck_Everlasting |
204 | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein | NAME: Valentine Michael SmithANCESTRY: HumanORIGIN: MarsValentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beli... | ['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Speculative Fiction'] | 3.92 | 303,442 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350.Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land |
205 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforget... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Spain'] | 3.8 | 420,059 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3876.The_Sun_Also_Rises |
206 | Divergent (Divergent, #1) | Veronica Roth | In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-old... | ['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure'] | 4.15 | 3,707,043 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13335037-divergent |
207 | The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) | Marion Zimmer Bradley | Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come.... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Mythology', 'Classics', 'Historical'] | 4.13 | 202,492 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402045.The_Mists_of_Avalon |
208 | Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books — The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality — Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths... | ['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Classics', 'Philosophy'] | 4.35 | 378,880 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40792344-mere-christianity |
209 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | "Now, my dears," said old Mrs Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden."Follow the story of naughty Peter Rabbit as he squeezes—predictably—under the gate into Mr. McGregor's garden and finds himself in all kinds of trouble! But how does Peter Rabbit get ... | ['Childrens', 'Classics', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories'] | 4.21 | 238,241 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19321.The_Tale_of_Peter_Rabbit |
210 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond. For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure'] | 4.19 | 275,780 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378.The_Phantom_Tollbooth |
211 | The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | This modern classic and New York Times best seller was a finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and has become a staple of American classrooms. Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience ... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'Short Stories', 'School', 'Historical'] | 4.14 | 295,046 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133518.The_Things_They_Carried |
212 | The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) | Rick Riordan | Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found herePercy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom f... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Childrens'] | 4.29 | 2,694,539 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28187.The_Lightning_Thief |
213 | Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) | Agatha Christie | Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but, by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door... | ['Mystery', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook'] | 4.2 | 557,417 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853510.Murder_on_the_Orient_Express |
214 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to b... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade'] | 4.18 | 536,361 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47281.Number_the_Stars |
215 | The Constitution of the United States of America | Founding Fathers | The landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, the Constitution outlines the powers and responsibilities of the three chief branches of the Federal ... | ['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Law', 'Reference'] | 4.52 | 27,003 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89959.The_Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America |
216 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West | Dee Brown | Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of th... | ['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Politics', 'Race'] | 4.24 | 86,999 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76401.Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee |
217 | James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. . . At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual ... | ['Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure'] | 4.03 | 450,464 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6689.James_and_the_Giant_Peach |
218 | The Complete Maus | Art Spiegelman | On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).The Pulitzer Prize-winnin... | ['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Historical'] | 4.57 | 199,887 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15195.The_Complete_Maus |
219 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5) | Douglas Adams | At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumb... | ['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy'] | 4.38 | 313,695 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13.The_Ultimate_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy |
220 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to t... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels'] | 4.03 | 625,185 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2187.Middlesex |
221 | Schindler's List | Thomas Keneally | In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who wa... | ['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War II'] | 4.34 | 156,966 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375013.Schindler_s_List |
222 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here, the man who called himse... | ['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Race', 'Politics'] | 4.35 | 254,482 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X |
223 | The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury | Bill Watterson | Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger,... | ['Comics', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comedy'] | 4.64 | 118,695 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43070.The_Essential_Calvin_and_Hobbes |
224 | A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes ch... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical'] | 4.22 | 297,169 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3008.A_Little_Princess |
225 | A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) | Dave Pelzer | Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuou... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Psychology', 'Autobiography', 'Abuse', 'Adult'] | 4.12 | 419,084 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60748.A_Child_Called_It_ |
226 | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson | The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyardAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’... | ['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Education', 'Book Club', 'Biography Memoir'] | 3.66 | 341,731 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49436.Three_Cups_of_Tea |
227 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century. | ['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', '19th Century', 'Philosophy'] | 4.11 | 98,151 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27494.Leaves_of_Grass |
228 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his p... | ['Travel', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Nature', 'School', 'Biography Memoir'] | 4 | 1,037,235 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild |
229 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person—no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots. | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'African American', 'Literature', 'Feminism'] | 3.97 | 324,281 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37415.Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God |
230 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists—Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and, of course, the incorrigible Toad—have enchanted child... | ['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure'] | 4 | 205,800 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5659.The_Wind_in_the_Willows |
231 | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | "Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to ... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Teen', 'Coming Of Age'] | 4.04 | 565,317 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/439288.Speak |
232 | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie | Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling's proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Litt... | ['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade'] | 4.04 | 331,308 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34268.Peter_Pan |
233 | The Republic | Plato | Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic... | ['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'School', 'Literature'] | 3.96 | 194,607 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30289.The_Republic |
234 | A People's History of the United States | Howard Zinn | In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rule... | ['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Historical', 'Social Justice', 'Classics'] | 4.07 | 232,434 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States |
235 | The World According to Garp | John Irving | This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent ... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Humor'] | 4.1 | 222,249 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7069.The_World_According_to_Garp |
236 | American Gods (American Gods, #1) | Neil Gaiman | Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy'] | 4.11 | 882,736 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods |
237 | Holes (Holes, #1) | Louis Sachar | Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging ho... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'School'] | 3.99 | 1,138,631 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38709.Holes |
238 | Looking for Alaska | John Green | Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Teen'] | 3.98 | 1,485,793 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99561.Looking_for_Alaska |
239 | The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this ... | ['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir'] | 4.08 | 144,753 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life |
240 | The Secret Magdalene | Ki Longfellow | Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning—a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philos... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Historical', 'Spirituality', 'Novels', 'Literature'] | 4.16 | 4,446 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514811.The_Secret_Magdalene |
241 | Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) | Chinua Achebe | A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places. | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'School', 'Literature', 'Nigeria'] | 3.72 | 348,692 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37781.Things_Fall_Apart |
242 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) | Arthur Conan Doyle | In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life. The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs.About... | ['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller'] | 4.13 | 322,447 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8921.The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles |
243 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation - how we got from there, b... | ['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Physics', 'Popular Science'] | 4.21 | 366,394 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything |
244 | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Terry Pratchett | According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a ... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy'] | 4.25 | 681,446 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067.Good_Omens |
245 | The Addiction Manifesto | Jerry Weaver | 2020 International Book Awards Finalist for Health: Addiction & Recovery2021 Literary Titan Silver Award"Some people won't believe in you, and that's ok, this journey isn't about them. It's about you."The Addiction Manifesto has been uniquely designed to provide you with a new perspective on recovery and will show you ... | ['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Mental Health', 'Biography'] | 4.87 | 1,068 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58572970-the-addiction-manifesto |
246 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What ... | ['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'History', 'Classics', 'Astronomy', 'Philosophy'] | 4.21 | 404,709 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time |
247 | زندگی مه آلود پریا | سید مرتضی مصطفوی | Mystical storyThe internal revolution of a woman and the fight against her pastدر مورد زنی موفق و کاریزماتیک که مدیریت مهمانسرای بزرگ سنتی را عهده دار است مهمانسرای که در جذب مهمانهای ایرانی و خارجی رتبه اول را داراست پریا گرچه از استعداد و نبوغ بالایی برخوردار است بطوری که دیگران به موفقیت او رشک می بندند اما در گذشته... | ['Fiction'] | 3.28 | 990 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40937505 |
248 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. — This is the story of Karana, th... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure'] | 3.86 | 322,474 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41044096-island-of-the-blue-dolphins |
249 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loya... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American'] | 3.81 | 305,155 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10799.A_Farewell_to_Arms |
250 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Dystopia'] | 4.16 | 384,102 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle |
251 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles | An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Coming Of Age', 'High School'] | 3.59 | 211,397 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5148.A_Separate_Peace |
252 | Blindness | José Saramago | From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. Th... | ['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Portugal'] | 4.16 | 265,298 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40495148-blindness |
253 | The Complete Fairy Tales | Hans Christian Andersen | This book contains the complete Andersen's fairy tales and stories hardcopy format.Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as myt... | ['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fairy Tales', 'Short Stories', 'Literature'] | 4.29 | 106,278 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46306.The_Complete_Fairy_Tales |
254 | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair of Poe's celebrated ... | ['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Gothic', 'School'] | 4.29 | 132,220 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264158.The_Raven |
255 | The Shack | William Paul Young | Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, invi... | ['Fiction', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Inspirational'] | 3.81 | 619,435 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1812457.The_Shack |
256 | The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of belief in God, and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament, to the more benig... | ['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'Atheism', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality'] | 3.9 | 260,122 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14743.The_God_Delusion |
257 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Whistle Stop #1) | Fannie Flagg | Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and ... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Classics', 'Chick Lit', 'Queer', 'Historical'] | 4.28 | 295,793 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9375.Fried_Green_Tomatoes_at_the_Whistle_Stop_Cafe |
258 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacke... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Romance', '19th Century'] | 3.7 | 312,546 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary |
259 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | Alternate cover editions of ISBN 9780143038092 can be found here.Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left ... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'China', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult'] | 3.96 | 668,714 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7763.The_Joy_Luck_Club |
260 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition. Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature. Traditionally attributed to the... | ['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Poetry', 'China'] | 4.3 | 146,590 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67896.Tao_Te_Ching |
261 | Sophie's Choice | William Styron | Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction. | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War II'] | 4.18 | 88,572 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228560.Sophie_s_Choice |
262 | The Neverending Story | Michael Ende | This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it was first published. Its special story within a story is an irresistible invitation for readers to become part of the book itself. The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into... | ['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'German Literature'] | 4.18 | 191,513 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27712.The_Neverending_Story |
263 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he on... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Comedy', 'Novels', 'American'] | 3.88 | 263,865 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310612.A_Confederacy_of_Dunces |
264 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little conta... | ['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adult'] | 3.84 | 628,591 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go |
265 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie's first book is a timeless bestseller, pa... | ['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Communication'] | 4.22 | 889,455 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People |
266 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's f... | ['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction'] | 3.97 | 411,428 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4588.Extremely_Loud_Incredibly_Close |
267 | Flow Down Like Silver | Ki Longfellow | Ki Longfellow, author of the acclaimed The Secret Magdalene, has now written the astonishing life of Hypatia, famed throughout the Mediterranean world, a beauty and a genius, yet for 17 centuries ignored by history. As the Roman Empire fights for its life and emerging Christianity fights for our souls, Hypatia is the l... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Historical', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Africa'] | 3.98 | 4,593 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6801755-flow-down-like-silver |
268 | The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) | Jean M. Auel | This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones w... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Adventure'] | 4.08 | 257,574 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611463-the-clan-of-the-cave-bear |
269 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | "Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on r... | ['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Anthropology', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Economics'] | 4.04 | 385,124 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel |
270 | Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) | Dan Brown | World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. In a despe... | ['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Adventure', 'Crime'] | 3.93 | 3,073,715 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/960.Angels_Demons |
271 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439594.When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but T... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Victorian'] | 3.82 | 272,087 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32261.Tess_of_the_D_Urbervilles |
272 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983)Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who te... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Feminism', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'African American'] | 4.26 | 633,926 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373115.The_Color_Purple |
273 | Outlander (Outlander, #1) | Diana Gabaldon | The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border... | ['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance'] | 4.25 | 990,607 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10964.Outlander |
274 | Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3) | Stephenie Meyer | "BELLA?"Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lip... | ['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance'] | 3.72 | 1,702,478 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428263.Eclipse |
275 | The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff | The Wisdom of Pooh.Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and my... | ['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Taoism'] | 4 | 114,934 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48757.The_Tao_of_Pooh |
276 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his d... | ['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels'] | 3.97 | 107,459 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17125.One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich |
277 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change | Stephen R. Covey | When Stephen Covey first released The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the book became an instant rage because people suddenly got up and took notice that their lives were headed off in the wrong direction; and more than that, they realized that there were so many simple things they could do in order to navigat... | ['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Productivity'] | 4.15 | 693,832 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36072.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People |
278 | Ulysses | James Joyce | Loosely based on the Odyssey, this landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners in 1904. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', '20th Century'] | 3.75 | 122,804 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338798.Ulysses |
279 | A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein | Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...This 20th anniversary of Shel Silverstein's A L... | ['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Picture Books'] | 4.35 | 428,435 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30118.A_Light_in_the_Attic |
280 | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich | Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6-$7 an hour? To find out... | ['Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Economics', 'Memoir', 'Social Justice', 'Poverty'] | 3.65 | 188,698 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1869.Nickel_and_Dimed |
281 | Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4) | Stephenie Meyer | "Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together."I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it.His arms wrapped around me,holding me against him....It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire."Forever," he agreed.WHEN YOU LO... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance'] | 3.73 | 1,604,343 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1162543.Breaking_Dawn |
282 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much ... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Politics', 'School', 'Novels'] | 3.76 | 140,340 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle |
283 | Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) | Larry McMurtry | A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unfo... | ['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Adventure', 'Novels'] | 4.52 | 176,692 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove |
284 | The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) | Patrick Rothfuss | Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bi... | ['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adult'] | 4.52 | 891,992 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind |
285 | The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux | First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the oper... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction'] | 3.96 | 228,409 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480204.The_Phantom_of_the_Opera |
286 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The str... | ['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy'] | 3.83 | 157,764 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost |
287 | Horton Hears a Who! | Dr. Seuss | Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos who live on a speck of dust – no one else believes they are there! But Horton eventually convinces everyone that ‘A person’s a person, no matter how small’!With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr Seuss ha... | ['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Animals'] | 4.2 | 106,453 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7779.Horton_Hears_a_Who_ |
288 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .Armed only with the invincible innocence of children,... | ['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Indian Literature'] | 3.95 | 283,503 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9777.The_God_of_Small_Things |
289 | All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful | James Herriot | The first two memoirs in the New York Times-bestselling series from an English veterinarian--and the basis for the Masterpiece series on PBS.All Creatures Great and Small: In the rolling dales of Yorkshire--a simple, rural region of Northern England--a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice. A stranger... | ['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Nature'] | 4.32 | 14,358 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32087.All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful |
290 | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and g... | ['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Coming Of Age', 'Realistic Fiction'] | 3.92 | 212,223 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37732.Are_You_There_God_It_s_Me_Margaret |
291 | The Green Mile | Stephen King | At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new pri... | ['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Crime'] | 4.47 | 298,637 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile |
292 | The Iliad / The Odyssey | Homer | Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Od... | ['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction'] | 4.06 | 72,383 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1375.The_Iliad_The_Odyssey |
293 | The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for h... | ['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Spanish Literature', 'Historical'] | 4.27 | 243,988 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9328.The_House_of_the_Spirits |
294 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | "For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginat... | ['Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Pirates'] | 3.84 | 464,664 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295.Treasure_Island |
295 | The Shining (The Shining, #1) | Stephen King | Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remot... | ['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery'] | 4.26 | 1,387,146 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11588.The_Shining |
296 | V for Vendetta | Alan Moore | "Remember, remember the fifth of November..."A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.Set in an imagined fut... | ['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Classics'] | 4.26 | 299,765 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5805.V_for_Vendetta |
297 | The Complete Works | William Shakespeare | Tempest Two Gentlemen of Verona Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Love's Labour's Lost Midsummer Night's Dream Merchant of Venice As You Like It Taming of the Shrew All's Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Winter's Tale King John King Richard II King Henry IV. Part 1 King... | ['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Literature', 'Reference'] | 4.47 | 54,934 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569564.The_Complete_Works |
298 | New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2) | Stephenie Meyer | There is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13 9780316160193 here. I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was l... | ['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance'] | 3.58 | 1,807,222 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49041.New_Moon |
299 | The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) | Isaac Asimov | Foundation begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire. Foundation a... | ['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Literature'] | 4.41 | 99,646 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46654.The_Foundation_Trilogy |
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