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1,964,904 | The Assault | 1,982 | 3.71 | 9,367 | 390 | null | null | Harry Mulisch | It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the war in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans arrive within minutes, and in brutal retaliation burn a nearby house and massacre an innocent family. Only the youngest son, twelve-yea... | 185 | 1,736 | 4,093 | 2,734 | 648 | 156 | -0.471058 | 0.57 | |
2,770,004 | About A Boy | 1,998 | 3.8 | 117,323 | 3,027 | null | null | Nick Hornby | 'How cool was Will Freeman'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which i... | 286 | 24,807 | 51,876 | 33,618 | 5,850 | 1,172 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
1,171,639 | Adams Fall | 2,000 | 3.28 | 88 | 12 | null | null | Sean Desmond | With the fall of his senior year at the College upon him, the nameless protagonist of Adams Fall finds himself under the great strain of senior year with a thesis to write, a Marshall to apply for, and a girlfriend to elude. It is a full, but manageable plate for one of "the country's best and brightest."A resident of ... | 272 | 15 | 22 | 31 | 13 | 7 | -1.965724 | 0.426667 | |
56,649 | The Adventurers | 1,966 | 3.87 | 1,313 | 51 | null | null | Harold Robbins | From the author of The New York Times #1 best-selling novel The Carpetbaggers comes a tale of violence, sex, betrayal, revenge and intrigue. The Adventurers is a story of revolution and danger in the sultry jungles of South America.As a young boy, Diogenes Alejandro Xenos ( | 712 | 389 | 486 | 340 | 80 | 18 | 0.085097 | 0.623333 | |
41,096,625 | The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan | 1,824 | 4.29 | 7 | 2 | null | null | James Justinian Morier | The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publis... | 750 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.545003 | 0.763333 | |
180,617 | Pinocchio | 1,883 | 3.86 | 62,365 | 1,826 | null | null | Carlo Collodi | A classic tale of mischance and mischief based on the original adventures.A naughty wooden puppet gets into trouble, disobeys his father, forgets his pomises, and skips through life looking for fun. Just like a "real boy." Until he learns that to become truly real, he must open his heart and think of others. | 262 | 20,809 | 19,222 | 16,426 | 4,523 | 1,385 | 0.050337 | 0.62 | |
3,590 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 1,891 | 4.31 | 210,960 | 5,685 | null | null | Arthur Conan Doyle | A Scandal in Bohemia The Adventure of the Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Bascombe Valley Mystery The Five Orange Pips The Man with the Twisted Lip The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle The Adventure of the Speckled Band The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb The Adventure of the Nobel Bachelor The Adventure of t... | 339 | 102,176 | 76,738 | 27,574 | 3,405 | 1,067 | 1.614522 | 0.77 | |
124,918 | Airport | 1,968 | 3.94 | 33,868 | 449 | null | null | Arthur Hailey | As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination. Over the course of seven pulse-pounding hours, a te... | 476 | 10,799 | 12,655 | 8,394 | 1,639 | 381 | 0.328414 | 0.646667 | |
7,199,539 | All the Brothers Were Valiant | 1,919 | 3.5 | 30 | 3 | null | null | Ben Ames Williams | Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953) was an American writer who published over thirty novels. His writing traversed a wide range of genres and evinced considerable expertise in a number of divergent fields. He achieved his greatest popularity when three of his books, All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919), The Strange Woman (19... | 92 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | -1.201011 | 0.5 | |
613,897 | All the Way | 2,001 | 3.36 | 284 | 47 | null | null | Andy Behrens | The light at the end of nice boy Ian s boring summer is Danielle, someone he met online who might be really hot and who might have agreed to have sex with him. Ian is new to this sex thing and Danielle is nine hundred miles away, but Ian thinks Danielle mightbe the right girl, and if he can get himself and his two best... | 224 | 50 | 78 | 93 | 51 | 12 | -1.687647 | 0.453333 | |
6,255,949 | All You Need Is Kill | 2,009 | 4.06 | 15,046 | 1,604 | null | null | Hiroshi Sakurazaka | There | 200 | 5,023 | 6,611 | 2,808 | 511 | 93 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 | |
398,197 | Almayer's Folly | 1,895 | 3.55 | 1,091 | 98 | null | null | Joseph Conrad | Almayer | 208 | 178 | 396 | 384 | 112 | 21 | -1.027213 | 0.516667 | |
224,994 | Altered States | 1,978 | 3.82 | 579 | 57 | null | null | Paddy Chayefsky | Inspired by the work of John C. Lilly, Chayefsky spent two years in Boston doing research to write his science fiction novel Altered States (HarperCollins, 1978), which he adapted for his last screenplay. In the film Chayefsky is credited under his real first and middle name, Sidney Aaron, because of disputes with dire... | 206 | 138 | 247 | 152 | 33 | 9 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 | |
284,182 | American Knees | 1,995 | 3.42 | 292 | 26 | null | null | Shawn Wong | Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http: //www.americanesethemovie.com | 240 | 49 | 89 | 103 | 37 | 14 | -1.479089 | 0.473333 | |
28,676 | American Psycho | 1,991 | 3.82 | 201,840 | 8,693 | null | null | Bret Easton Ellis | Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream | 399 | 65,008 | 70,023 | 41,650 | 15,399 | 9,760 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 | |
331,319 | An American Tragedy | 1,925 | 3.94 | 29,287 | 1,126 | null | null | Theodore Dreiser | On one level, An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, the novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions and seal his fat... | 859 | 10,533 | 9,987 | 6,141 | 1,821 | 805 | 0.328414 | 0.646667 | |
647,121 | Angel | 1,957 | 3.85 | 1,684 | 246 | null | null | Elizabeth Taylor | Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . .After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Bra... | 252 | 453 | 703 | 385 | 100 | 43 | 0.015577 | 0.616667 | |
1,284,085 | Anna and the King of Siam | 1,944 | 3.77 | 2,120 | 230 | null | null | Margaret Landon | Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikley candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother, her services were engaged in the 1860's by King Mongkut of Siam to help him communicate with foreign governments and be the tutor to his children and favored concubines. Stepping of... | 416 | 549 | 776 | 581 | 179 | 35 | -0.2625 | 0.59 | |
3,148,286 | Anna Karenina | 1,873 | 4.04 | 549,695 | 20,509 | null | null | Leo Tolstoy | Includes photographs, a 10,000-word section on Tolstoy | 864 | 222,709 | 182,458 | 100,101 | 30,623 | 13,804 | 0.676011 | 0.68 | |
1,684,752 | The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. | 1,963 | 3.8 | 780 | 79 | null | null | Jack London | I have accepted a commission from you... The agreement was that I should order my own execution if you proved to my satisfaction that the assassinations achieved by the Bureau were wrong. You have proved it. Nothing remains but to live up to the agreement.Thus Ivan Dragomiloff, founder and mastermind of the secret Assa... | 165 | 200 | 300 | 214 | 54 | 12 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
769,729 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | 1,965 | 4.04 | 2,527 | 239 | null | null | Peter Matthiessen | In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the fearful and elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on behalf of the local comandan... | 384 | 900 | 1,019 | 445 | 123 | 40 | 0.676011 | 0.68 | |
455,764 | Audrey Rose | 1,975 | 3.88 | 19,587 | 172 | null | null | Frank De Felitta | Suppose a stranger told you your daughter was his daughter in another life Suppose you began to believe him Suppose it was true | 480 | 6,536 | 6,042 | 5,402 | 1,264 | 343 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
1,784,015 | The Aviator | 1,981 | 3.82 | 174 | 13 | null | null | Ernest K. Gann | The Rocky Mountains, 1928: He is a lonely US Mail pilot, bearing the scars, inside and out, of his worst flying experience. She is his passenger, an eleven-year-old girl, bright and perceptive beyond her years. Together they survive a devastating crash to begin the journey, and the revelation, of their lives (back cove... | 189 | 38 | 78 | 48 | 8 | 2 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 | |
1,835,865 | Away All Boats | 1,953 | 4.12 | 97 | 11 | null | null | Kenneth Dodson | A vivid portrayal of the officers and sailors of the fictional amphibious transport USS Belinda in the Pacific of World War II. | 444 | 35 | 43 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0.954089 | 0.706667 | |
120,765 | Band of Angels | 1,955 | 3.75 | 255 | 32 | null | null | Robert Penn Warren | Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold into servitude. What follows is a vast panorama of one of the ... | 392 | 61 | 97 | 75 | 17 | 5 | -0.332019 | 0.583333 | |
333,766 | Banner in the Sky | 1,900 | 3.79 | 3,685 | 378 | null | null | James Ramsey Ullman | The CitadelIt stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared to approach the top, and that man died in his pursuit. He was Josef Matt, Rudi Matt's father.At sixteen, Rudi is determined to pay tribute to the man he never knew, and complete the quest that claimed his father's life. And... | 288 | 1,088 | 1,315 | 861 | 266 | 155 | -0.192981 | 0.596667 | |
1,005,680 | Basil of Baker Street | 1,958 | 3.92 | 1,453 | 151 | null | null | Eve Titus | Basil--famous sleuth of mousedom--lived in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes' house. A devoted admirer of the great detective, he had learned his craft by listening at the feet of Holmes himself. The Mystery of the Missing Twins was one of the strangest cases in Basil's career. He had only a few crumbs of clues with which ... | 112 | 460 | 522 | 376 | 78 | 17 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
52,663 | Bastard Out of Carolina | 1,992 | 4.1 | 35,618 | 2,472 | null | null | Dorothy Allison | Greenville County, South Carolina, is a lush place of black walnut trees and weeping willows, of sweet tea served on shaded porches. It is also home to the Boatwright family - rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of t... | 309 | 13,728 | 14,027 | 6,101 | 1,298 | 464 | 0.884569 | 0.7 | |
4,011,730 | Battle Royale | 1,999 | 4.25 | 46,421 | 4,393 | null | null | Koushun Takami | null | 666 | 22,184 | 16,052 | 6,283 | 1,420 | 482 | 1.405964 | 0.75 | |
915,001 | Beaches | 1,985 | 4.15 | 13,694 | 197 | null | null | Iris Rainer Dart | Loudmouthed, redheaded Cee Cee Bloom has her sights set on Hollywood. Bertie White, quiet and conservative, dreams of getting married and having children. In 1951, their childhood worlds collide in Atlantic City. Keeping in touch as pen pals, they reunite over the years ... always near the ocean.Powerful and moving, th... | 276 | 6,086 | 4,410 | 2,493 | 551 | 154 | 1.058368 | 0.716667 | |
4,795,742 | Beat The Devil | 1,951 | 3.69 | 16 | 3 | null | null | Claud Cockburn | This is the classic '50s noir novel that brought John Huston and Humphrey Bogart together for the last time in film. Published under the pseudonym James Helvick, this sophisticated comedy-thriller was in fact the work of Claud Cockburn, whose early career as a Communist agitator prompted his publisher to demand a pseud... | 272 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | -0.540577 | 0.563333 | |
13,422,381 | Belli Moda | 1,961 | 3.99 | 77 | 1 | null | null | Triveni | The novel examines the transformation in the lives of the people residing in Belli moda estate. Indira is an heiress for her father's estate called Belli Moda. A young man called Mohan is engaged to her and dreams about owning Belli Moda when Indira's father passes away. Indira's father returns from US discovering that... | 166 | 29 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
3,176,295 | Benzina | 1,998 | 2.41 | 29 | 0 | null | null | Elena Stancanelli | Nell'arco di un giorno e di una notte lenni e Stella, complici e amanti, girano la citt | 156 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | -4.989816 | 0.136667 | |
52,357 | Beowulf | 0 | 3.43 | 204,156 | 5,648 | null | null | Unknown | The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, "Beowulf" is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood, victory, and death. This repackaged Signet classic Includes a Glossary of terms. | 213 | 42,237 | 57,394 | 63,107 | 28,167 | 13,251 | -1.444329 | 0.476667 | |
243,381 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1,929 | 3.84 | 5,871 | 308 | null | null | Alfred D | Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anst | 457 | 1,967 | 1,948 | 1,269 | 437 | 250 | -0.019182 | 0.613333 | |
56,776 | The Betsy | 1,971 | 3.49 | 1,696 | 56 | null | null | Harold Robbins | They were two men bound together by their daring, their vision | 374 | 334 | 476 | 627 | 199 | 60 | -1.235771 | 0.496667 | |
6,041,861 | Biggles | 1,932 | 3.81 | 186 | 8 | null | null | W.E. Johns | V | 560 | 33 | 97 | 44 | 11 | 1 | -0.123461 | 0.603333 | |
578,644 | Billy Liar | 1,969 | 3.75 | 1,551 | 110 | null | null | Keith Waterhouse | Billy Liar captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future ... | 187 | 374 | 574 | 461 | 119 | 23 | -0.332019 | 0.583333 | |
1,834,855 | Birdy | 1,978 | 4.04 | 5,223 | 203 | null | null | William Wharton | An inventive, hypnotic novel about frienship and family, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale--one that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane. | 309 | 1,909 | 2,004 | 986 | 236 | 88 | 0.676011 | 0.68 | |
20,758,123 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen: Vintage Movie Classics | 1,932 | 3.36 | 25 | 7 | null | null | Grace Zaring Stone | The groundbreaking novel that was the basis for Frank Capra | 224 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | -1.687647 | 0.453333 | |
457,641 | The Black Curtain | 1,941 | 3.9 | 346 | 28 | null | null | Cornell Woolrich | After a slight accident on a tawdry street, Frank Townsend goes home - only to discover he hasn't been there in years. Suffering from amnesia, accused of murder, and the object of a deadly pursuit, he must overcome the crime that time has thrust upon him... | 148 | 91 | 155 | 74 | 25 | 1 | 0.189376 | 0.633333 | |
123,203 | The Black Stallion Returns | 1,989 | 4.17 | 13,108 | 139 | null | null | Walter Farley | In this, the second book in the series, the heart-stopping adventures of the Black Stallion continue as Alec discovers that two men are after the Black. One claims to be the Black | 240 | 5,703 | 4,407 | 2,608 | 332 | 58 | 1.127887 | 0.723333 | |
153,530 | The Blessing | 1,951 | 3.8 | 1,620 | 127 | null | null | Nancy Mitford | With characteristically amusing malice, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Grace Allingham, a naive English rose, impulsively marries Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, a French nobleman with all his class's charm and decadence. Both are duped, however, by their son Sigismund -- the Blessing of the tit... | 221 | 395 | 623 | 492 | 100 | 10 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
32,504 | Blood Work | 1,998 | 4.12 | 41,557 | 1,205 | null | null | Michael Connelly | New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achievement to date--a novel of masterly suspense and righteous obsession that will never let you go.When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He'... | 480 | 15,182 | 17,729 | 7,460 | 957 | 229 | 0.954089 | 0.706667 | |
75,745 | Blueprint: Blaupause | 1,999 | 2.8 | 727 | 33 | null | null | Charlotte Kerner | Charlotte Kerner hat das hei | 185 | 71 | 132 | 211 | 208 | 105 | -3.634188 | 0.266667 | |
1,093,384 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | 1,987 | 3.84 | 62,190 | 2,541 | null | null | Tom Wolfe | Vintage Tom Wolfe, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) | 685 | 17,801 | 23,955 | 14,705 | 4,256 | 1,473 | -0.019182 | 0.613333 | |
749,473 | The Book of Daniel | 1,971 | 3.86 | 4,501 | 354 | null | null | E.L. Doctorow | The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his ... | 320 | 1,319 | 1,740 | 1,047 | 294 | 101 | 0.050337 | 0.62 | |
15,769 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2,004 | 4.11 | 162,165 | 1,126 | null | null | Robert Ludlum | A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason BourneReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity | 688 | 62,564 | 63,536 | 29,162 | 5,081 | 1,822 | 0.919329 | 0.703333 | |
123,543 | The Bourne Legacy | 2,004 | 3.87 | 26,310 | 520 | null | null | Eric Van Lustbader | JASON BOURNE RETURNS FROM THE SHADOWS AS THE WORLD'S #1 ASSASSIN | 597 | 7,630 | 10,180 | 6,511 | 1,421 | 568 | 0.085097 | 0.623333 | |
99,894 | The Boys from Brazil | 1,976 | 4.06 | 30,370 | 695 | null | null | Ira Levin | Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project | 312 | 10,524 | 12,425 | 6,322 | 905 | 194 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 | |
1,627,737 | The Brave Bulls | 1,949 | 3.77 | 22 | 6 | null | null | Tom Lea | One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001) was already a noted artist, muralist, and book illustrator when he published his first novel, The Brave Bulls, in 1949. This suspenseful story of bullfighting in Mexico, elegantly illustrated by the author, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller lis... | 296 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | -0.2625 | 0.59 | |
1,127,856 | Breakfast with Scot | 1,999 | 3.63 | 344 | 54 | null | null | Michael Downing | Sam and Ed are living the good life: happy, healthy, devoted to each other and their careers, they have no yearning for the joyful mysteries of parenthood. But when eleven-year-old Scot's mother suddenly dies, the couple is determined to make good on a wine-soaked promise made years before. They hang a tire swing in th... | 194 | 75 | 122 | 102 | 33 | 12 | -0.749135 | 0.543333 | |
30,933 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder | 1,945 | 4 | 85,189 | 3,951 | null | null | Evelyn Waugh | The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by h... | 351 | 31,246 | 30,455 | 17,137 | 4,615 | 1,736 | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
92,508 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | 1,927 | 3.8 | 27,061 | 1,786 | null | null | Thornton Wilder | This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celeb... | 160 | 7,676 | 9,485 | 7,314 | 2,024 | 562 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
849,065 | Bridge to Terabithia | 1,977 | 3.99 | 391,308 | 10,802 | null | null | Katherine Paterson | The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a female newcomer. | 128 | 147,918 | 131,621 | 80,468 | 21,884 | 9,417 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
603,834 | Bringing Out the Dead | 1,998 | 3.7 | 1,054 | 99 | null | null | Joe Connelly | Frank Pierce has given CPR on dance floors. He's seen an 11-year-old boy shot off his bicycle and brought a bartender back to life on top of his own bar while Irish music played. Frank is an EMS medic in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a profession that subjects him to endless, careening nights tending to the cities most de... | 322 | 223 | 415 | 312 | 82 | 22 | -0.505818 | 0.566667 | |
4,934 | The Brothers Karamazov | 1,880 | 4.32 | 202,553 | 9,026 | null | null | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the | 796 | 110,507 | 57,783 | 25,116 | 6,514 | 2,633 | 1.649282 | 0.773333 | |
253,202 | Cal | 1,983 | 3.51 | 1,795 | 99 | null | null | Bernard MacLaverty | Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980 | 154 | 318 | 621 | 571 | 228 | 57 | -1.166252 | 0.503333 | |
1,852 | The Call of the Wild | 1,903 | 3.85 | 284,931 | 8,357 | null | null | Jack London | First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the froze... | 172 | 85,394 | 103,699 | 70,400 | 18,425 | 7,013 | 0.015577 | 0.616667 | |
168,668 | Catch-22 | 1,961 | 3.98 | 651,241 | 15,673 | null | null | Joseph Heller | The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into ... | 453 | 259,523 | 207,789 | 118,074 | 42,532 | 23,323 | 0.467453 | 0.66 | |
310,918 | The Cement Garden | 1,978 | 3.57 | 21,183 | 1,540 | null | null | Ian McEwan | In this tour de force of psychological unease, McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting | 138 | 3,948 | 7,769 | 6,571 | 2,152 | 743 | -0.957694 | 0.523333 | |
1,743,991 | Charlotte Gray | 1,999 | 3.8 | 9,134 | 486 | null | null | Sebastian Faulks | Charlotte Gray is set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, and its story is that of a young Scottish woman who falls in love with an RAF pilot shortly before his plane is lost over France. She contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and also to search for him, but then is unwil... | 399 | 2,057 | 3,960 | 2,477 | 502 | 138 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
24,178 | Charlotte's Web | 1,952 | 4.16 | 1,231,659 | 15,465 | null | null | E.B. White | This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in ... | 184 | 565,940 | 386,965 | 210,885 | 46,020 | 21,849 | 1.093127 | 0.72 | |
15,818,477 | The Children of Light | 1,960 | 4 | 7 | 1 | null | null | H.L. Lawrence | What should a man do who discovers by accident a secret project of the government which can affect the whole future of mankind Should he be silent Or should he communicate his knowledge to the public, even if it means risking his freedom, even his lifeSimon Largwell is fleeing from the police. A young girl helps him es... | 191 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
77,223 | The Children of Men | 1,992 | 3.68 | 35,522 | 2,721 | null | null | P.D. James | Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair beco... | 241 | 7,583 | 13,782 | 10,259 | 3,051 | 847 | -0.575337 | 0.56 | |
24,780 | The Book of Three | 1,965 | 4 | 64,618 | 2,784 | null | null | Lloyd Alexander | Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was an oracular pig. But the day that Hen Wen vanished, Taran was led into an enchanting and perilous world. With his band of followers, he confronted the Horned King and his terrible Cauldron-Born. These were the forces of ev... | 190 | 22,688 | 24,225 | 13,946 | 2,598 | 1,161 | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
1,002,728 | The Cincinnati Kid: A Novel | 1,964 | 3.74 | 61 | 6 | null | null | Richard Jessup | He was a skinny kid, just twenty-six when it started, with a face set off by a large nose that gave him the look of a hawk. He was a tight man. Everything about him was close and quiet; his gestures were short and clean, with no wasted movement. His eyes were bright and hard, the kind of blue you might see in the sky a... | 168 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 5 | 0 | -0.366779 | 0.58 | |
536,285 | The City of Ember | 2,003 | 3.86 | 222,048 | 10,334 | null | null | Jeanne DuPrau | The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she | 270 | 65,925 | 81,225 | 56,824 | 14,118 | 3,956 | 0.050337 | 0.62 | |
1,296 | The Clan of the Cave Bear | 1,980 | 4.03 | 205,455 | 5,807 | null | null | Jean M. Auel | An all-absorbing journey into man's possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and complex characters who experience the full range of human emotions. All this makes for total involvement and ... | 468 | 80,973 | 69,809 | 39,751 | 10,709 | 4,213 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 | |
5,359 | The Client | 1,993 | 3.99 | 355,733 | 2,185 | null | null | John Grisham | In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two | 483 | 115,490 | 140,578 | 83,734 | 13,161 | 2,770 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
101,194 | A Clockwork Orange | 1,962 | 3.99 | 522,427 | 11,642 | null | null | Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess | 196 | 194,800 | 187,530 | 96,086 | 27,446 | 16,565 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
228 | Cockfighter | 1,962 | 4.11 | 1,117 | 69 | null | null | Charles Willeford | The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of Hoke Moseley detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal u... | 200 | 432 | 448 | 184 | 36 | 17 | 0.919329 | 0.703333 | |
973,352 | Cool Hand Luke | 1,965 | 4.13 | 892 | 97 | null | null | Donn Pearce | "An impressive novel . . . the most brutal and authentic account of a road gang that we have had." | 304 | 339 | 365 | 158 | 28 | 2 | 0.988848 | 0.71 | |
7,126 | The Count of Monte Cristo | 1,844 | 4.24 | 668,732 | 18,133 | null | null | Alexandre Dumas | In 1815 Edmond Dant | 1,276 | 335,858 | 200,953 | 96,634 | 24,111 | 11,176 | 1.371205 | 0.746667 | |
162,898 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | 1,889 | 3.77 | 86,962 | 2,557 | null | null | Mark Twain | ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back in time to sixth-century England in this darkly comic social satire. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information; A chronology of the author's l... | 480 | 22,770 | 31,936 | 23,962 | 6,225 | 2,069 | -0.2625 | 0.59 | |
1,191,620 | Contact | 1,985 | 4.13 | 108,242 | 2,561 | null | null | Carl Sagan | Contacto es la | 432 | 43,661 | 40,343 | 19,598 | 3,665 | 975 | 0.988848 | 0.71 | |
880,620 | Crash | 1,973 | 3.57 | 17,407 | 1,087 | null | null | J.G. Ballard | In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted vi... | 224 | 4,078 | 5,812 | 4,472 | 2,060 | 985 | -0.957694 | 0.523333 | |
29,543 | Creator | 1,980 | 3.91 | 89 | 6 | null | null | Jeremy Leven | A Nobel Prize-winning biologist attempts to re-create his late wife by implanting her clone into a 19-year-old nymphomaniac. And that's only part of the story. Dr. Harry Wolper, an aging Noble Prize-winning biologist, is attempting to create life-specifically, to re-create his adored late wife by implanting her clone i... | 490 | 33 | 25 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 | |
1,542,991 | O Crime do Padre Amaro | 1,875 | 4.07 | 3,911 | 180 | null | null | E | O Crime do Padre Amaro, perhaps the greatest novel of Portuguese realism, is Queiros' criticism of the corrpution in the clergy of his time. A new priest, Father Amaro, arrives in the provincial capital Leiria, where he soon meets and falls in love with Amelia. She becomes pregnant, and is abandoned by Amaro. Heartbrok... | 360 | 1,401 | 1,613 | 722 | 138 | 37 | 0.78029 | 0.69 | |
7,062,599 | Cycle of the Werewolf | 1,983 | 3.64 | 41,566 | 1,411 | null | null | Stephen King | When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated. | 114 | 9,592 | 12,790 | 14,412 | 3,980 | 792 | -0.714376 | 0.546667 | |
673,003 | The Dancer Upstairs | 1,995 | 3.92 | 506 | 49 | null | null | Nicholas Shakespeare | The Peruvian guerilla leader Ezequiel is responsible for tens of thousands of fiendishly cruel murders, yet he consistently eludes capture. But in Agustn Rejas he has an indefatigable pursuer. From secluded city streets to the paths of a mountain village the policeman persists, tracking and anticipating Ezequiel's ever... | 288 | 136 | 230 | 111 | 22 | 7 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
304 | Daniel Deronda | 1,876 | 3.83 | 21,318 | 835 | null | null | George Eliot | George Eliot | 796 | 6,411 | 7,581 | 5,206 | 1,504 | 616 | -0.053942 | 0.61 | |
303,428 | The Dark of the Sun | 1,965 | 3.82 | 2,859 | 70 | null | null | Wilbur Smith | Bruce Curry sets out with a trainload of mercenaries to relieve a mining town besieged by rebels in the heart of the African jungle. The journey, turns into a nightmare, softened only by Shermaine, a Belgian girl he meets and with whom he falls in love. But love is no elixir. In fact, it considerably complicates Curry'... | 282 | 756 | 1,085 | 814 | 160 | 44 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 | |
194,934 | The Day of the Triffids | 1,951 | 4.01 | 76,865 | 2,880 | null | null | John Wyndham | In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having | 302 | 25,667 | 30,832 | 16,468 | 3,106 | 792 | 0.571732 | 0.67 | |
674,989 | Deadline at Dawn | 1,944 | 3.91 | 136 | 14 | null | null | Cornell Woolrich | They meet after midnight in a dance hall: two young innocents from the midwest, trapped in New York City | 224 | 34 | 61 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 | |
1,770,187 | Deadly, Unna? | 1,998 | 3.19 | 1,670 | 115 | null | null | Phillip Gwynne | 'Deadly, unna' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than any of them. Dumby Red and Blacky don't have a lot in common. Dumby's the star of the footy team, he's got a killer smile and the knack with girls, and he's a Nunga. Blacky's a gutless wonder, needs braces, never knows what to say, and he... | 273 | 241 | 428 | 574 | 260 | 167 | -2.278561 | 0.396667 | |
131,359 | Death on the Nile | 1,937 | 4.09 | 92,806 | 3,399 | null | null | Agatha Christie | The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pist... | 214 | 32,720 | 38,693 | 18,840 | 2,211 | 342 | 0.84981 | 0.696667 | |
288,946 | The Deep | 1,976 | 3.74 | 9,972 | 171 | null | null | Peter Benchley | A young couple go to Bermuda on their honeymoon. They dive on the reefs offshore, looking for the wreck of a sunken ship. What they find lures them into a strange and increasingly terrifying encounter with past and present, a struggle for salvage and survival along the floor of the sea, in the deep. | 256 | 2,537 | 3,326 | 3,223 | 746 | 140 | -0.366779 | 0.58 | |
502,889 | Destry Rides Again | 1,930 | 3.8 | 380 | 32 | null | null | Max Brand | Famed fighter Harry Destry comes back from jail a changed man. The town thinks he no longer has what it takes to defend himself, but Destry's innocent act covers a plot for vengeance against the men who set him up. | 208 | 111 | 126 | 109 | 25 | 9 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
762,645 | The Detective | 1,966 | 3.2 | 133 | 22 | null | null | Roderick Thorp | Joe Leland, war hero, career cop, private detective, is a public tough guy whose private world is coming apart.When a wartime acquaintance is killed in a fall from a race-track roof, his young widow hires Leland to investigate. As the search progresses, Leland is drawn into the shadows of Colin MacIver's life and into ... | 598 | 22 | 34 | 42 | 18 | 17 | -2.243801 | 0.4 | |
248,760 | The Devil's Advocate | 1,990 | 4 | 6,566 | 94 | null | null | Andrew Neiderman | DEFENDER OF THE DAMNED... When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton and Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired-- a chauffeur-driven limo, a stunning home in the very building that Mr. Milton himself lives in. Little does Kevin r... | 336 | 2,663 | 1,931 | 1,431 | 371 | 170 | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
53,673 | The Devils of Loudun | 1,969 | 3.91 | 1,818 | 168 | null | null | Aldous Huxley | In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintai... | 400 | 550 | 704 | 431 | 108 | 25 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 | |
122,211 | Disappearing Acts | 1,989 | 4.22 | 12,696 | 176 | null | null | Terry McMillan | He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and independent, petite and not too skinny, just his type. Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker, and a not-quite-divorced daddy of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, songwriter. The... | 464 | 6,026 | 3,995 | 2,221 | 371 | 83 | 1.301685 | 0.74 | |
13,516,272 | Il disprezzo | 1,954 | 3.9 | 2,937 | 273 | null | null | Alberto Moravia | Se l'amore coniugale | 320 | 884 | 1,136 | 694 | 179 | 44 | 0.189376 | 0.633333 | |
36,402,034 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 1,967 | 4.08 | 288,441 | 10,905 | null | null | Philip K. Dick | It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found! | 258 | 103,268 | 119,205 | 53,607 | 9,980 | 2,381 | 0.81505 | 0.693333 | |
387,937 | Doctor in the House | 1,952 | 3.81 | 307 | 28 | null | null | Richard Gordon | Richard Gordon | 152 | 85 | 109 | 90 | 17 | 6 | -0.123461 | 0.603333 | |
415,419 | Dodsworth | 1,929 | 3.96 | 942 | 88 | null | null | Sinclair Lewis | First published in 1929, Dodsworth tells the story of a young American couple who moves to Europe. When the woman becomes involved with another man, her husband must choose between forgiving his wife or abandoning the relationship, & Europe, forever. | 384 | 283 | 393 | 223 | 33 | 10 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 | |
548,158 | Don't Look and It Won't Hurt | 1,971 | 3.45 | 176 | 22 | null | null | Richard Peck | "Out at the city limits there's this sign that says WELCOME TO CLAYPITTS, PEARL OF THE PRAIRIE, and if you'd believe that, you'd believe anything."Sixteen-year-old Carol Patterson is a girl in the middle: in the middle of her sisters, in the middle of her adolescence, in the middle of her family's problems.It is the ea... | 160 | 34 | 50 | 60 | 25 | 7 | -1.37481 | 0.483333 | |
56,616 | Double Indemnity | 1,936 | 4.11 | 16,858 | 916 | null | null | James M. Cain | Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir. | 115 | 6,393 | 6,762 | 3,033 | 531 | 139 | 0.919329 | 0.703333 | |
3,228,325 | The Double Take | 1,946 | 3.86 | 66 | 16 | null | null | Roy Huggins | A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead.The book was the basis of the film entitled "I Love Trouble" with James Carter and Janet Blair. | 169 | 15 | 29 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0.050337 | 0.62 |
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