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441,240 | Dreamcatcher | 2,001 | 3.61 | 137,496 | 2,161 | null | null | Stephen King | From the Flap:Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubl... | 620 | 35,045 | 40,863 | 40,674 | 15,235 | 5,679 | -0.818655 | 0.536667 | |
10,315,853 | Duel in the Sun | 1,941 | 2.94 | 32 | 6 | null | null | Niven Busch | The arrival of Pearl Chavez at the Spanish Bit Ranch in the Brazos Country turned the ranch into a hotbed of conflict and unrest.It all began with Pearl taking reckless young Lewt McCanles as her lover and continued through an exciting bandit chase, a jail break and a dramatic trial.And always, lurking in the backgroun... | 255 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 3 | -3.147553 | 0.313333 | |
234,225 | Dune | 1,965 | 4.21 | 604,185 | 15,960 | Dune | 1 | Frank Herbert | Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and heir of House Atreides) as he and his family accept ... | 604 | 304,982 | 177,009 | 82,817 | 25,067 | 14,310 | 1.266926 | 0.736667 | |
1,058,572 | Dying Young | 1,990 | 3.49 | 308 | 21 | null | null | Marti Leimbach | Victor, a 33-year-old intellectual, has decided to end his treatment for leukemia and live out the remainder of his life in a small coastal community. He falls in love with the girl he hired to care for him, and their romance is fraught with uncertainty. | 256 | 78 | 72 | 97 | 45 | 16 | -1.235771 | 0.496667 | |
6,969 | Emma | 1,815 | 3.99 | 559,394 | 14,024 | null | null | Jane Austen | Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect. | 474 | 205,392 | 199,140 | 113,226 | 28,735 | 12,901 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
1,294,495 | Emotional Arithmetic | 1,990 | 3.29 | 41 | 6 | null | null | Matt Cohen | Melanie is a mother and a lover, middle-aged, eccentric, courageous, and often hilariously unpredictable. She's also deeply scarred by her internment as a child in Drancy, a Nazi detention camp. Through the humanity and friendship of an English boy, Christopher Lewis, and her self-appointed protector, Jakob Bronski, Me... | 254 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 4 | -1.930964 | 0.43 | |
1,147,119 | The English Patient | 1,992 | 3.88 | 102,268 | 4,027 | null | null | Michael Ondaatje | Michael Ondaatje | 307 | 33,926 | 35,827 | 21,920 | 7,470 | 3,125 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
4,743,823 | Escape | 1,939 | 3 | 5 | 3 | null | null | Ethel Vance | The time is the late '30s before World War II. Emmy Ritter, an actress who had fled to America, foolishly returns to Nazi Germany to sell her house. She is arrested and condemned to death, but because of an emergency appendectomy, she awaits the carrying-out of the sentence in the infirmary of a concentration camp. Her... | 428 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | -2.938995 | 0.333333 | |
2,325,777 | Fail-Safe | 1,962 | 4.15 | 4,910 | 150 | null | null | Eugene Burdick | A gripping novel about a world faced with nuclear disaster, first published in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities, the issues raised in this compelling thriller are as timely today as ever. | 286 | 1,967 | 1,914 | 884 | 111 | 34 | 1.058368 | 0.716667 | |
12,787 | Falling Angel | 1,978 | 3.92 | 3,118 | 316 | null | null | William Hjortsberg | A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced. For Harry Angel, a routine missing-persons case soon turns into a fiendish nightmare of voodoo and black magic, of dizzying peril and violent death. Many p... | 302 | 988 | 1,200 | 696 | 170 | 64 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
27,055 | The Fan | 1,995 | 3.46 | 309 | 30 | null | null | Peter Abrahams | Baseball sensation Bobby Rayburn | 320 | 44 | 89 | 145 | 26 | 5 | -1.34005 | 0.486667 | |
10,799 | A Farewell to Arms | 1,929 | 3.8 | 232,567 | 8,254 | null | null | 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... | 293 | 65,450 | 86,042 | 56,369 | 17,893 | 6,813 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
2,414,025 | Firefox | 1,977 | 3.92 | 5,202 | 70 | Mitchell Gant | 1 | Craig Thomas | THE MACHINE: The Soviet Mig-31, codenamed Firefox. A thought-controlled, terrifyingly lethal warplane capable of ruling the Western skies.THE MAN: His name is Gant, an obsessed renegade American pilot. His Control: Kenneth Aubrey of Great Britain. His plan: infiltrate the shadowy worldwide KGB network and make his way ... | 288 | 1,606 | 1,948 | 1,330 | 267 | 51 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
3,236,244 | Fletch | 1,974 | 3.92 | 4,891 | 319 | Fletch | 1 | Gregory McDonald | Fletch He's an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he's living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. Fletch He's taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn't appreciate his style. Or the expense account items he's ra... | 197 | 1,442 | 1,975 | 1,180 | 229 | 65 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
121,227 | Forlorn River | 1,927 | 3.91 | 222 | 12 | null | null | Zane Grey | Ben Ide is a failure in the horse trade because he loves horses more than money. A few bad deals have turned the world against him. His greatest adversary is his father, who thinks Ben good for nothing. | 340 | 66 | 84 | 58 | 14 | 0 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 | |
2,260,058 | Forrest Gump | 1,986 | 4.06 | 54,939 | 1,979 | Forrest Gump | 1 | Winston Groom | This is a series of simplified stories, designed as an introduction to literature. The series offers classics, best-sellers, film-titles and original stories. Each book has extensive exercises, a detailed introduction and information about the syllabus. They are published at six levels: level 1 - beginner (300 words); ... | 228 | 24,076 | 16,725 | 9,216 | 3,291 | 1,631 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 | |
1,181,977 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1,969 | 3.87 | 42,933 | 1,465 | null | null | John Fowles | The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg." The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means & vaguely scientific bent; his fianc | 445 | 12,431 | 16,659 | 10,347 | 2,618 | 878 | 0.085097 | 0.623333 | |
3,764 | From Russia With Love | 1,957 | 3.89 | 24,883 | 1,016 | James Bond Original Series | 5 | Ian Fleming | Name: Bond, James. Height: 183 cm, weight: 76 kg; slim build; eyes: blue; hair: black; scar down right cheek & on left shoulder; all-round athlete; expert pistol shot, boxer, knife-thrower; does not use disguises. Languages: French and German. Smokes heavily (NB: special cigarettes with three gold bands); vices: drink,... | 259 | 7,014 | 9,820 | 6,580 | 1,156 | 313 | 0.154616 | 0.63 | |
180,936 | From the Terrace | 1,958 | 3.92 | 387 | 31 | null | null | John O'Hara | With over three million copies sold, O'Hara's great novel of America in the first half of the century was made into an acclaimed film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. It richly chronicles one man's rise to wealth, power, and prominence - and the haunting sense of failure at his heart. | 912 | 112 | 161 | 86 | 27 | 1 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
512,704 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1,925 | 3.63 | 2,294 | 301 | Lorelei Lee | 1 | Anita Loos | If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde who knew that diamonds are a girl | 165 | 469 | 841 | 717 | 204 | 63 | -0.749135 | 0.543333 | |
702,539 | Get Shorty | 1,990 | 3.96 | 18,369 | 588 | Chili Palmer | 1 | Elmore Leonard | Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind | 384 | 5,305 | 8,058 | 4,118 | 708 | 180 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 | |
895,185 | The Ghost | 2,007 | 3.7 | 12,275 | 1,205 | null | null | Robert Harris | The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii and Imperium. | 384 | 2,213 | 5,246 | 3,883 | 799 | 134 | -0.505818 | 0.566667 | |
242,514 | Gidget | 1,957 | 3.64 | 2,282 | 87 | Gidget series | 1 | Frederick Kohner | My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to, quote, sit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unquote Glicksberg! I don't know what kind of things he writes but I found my inspiration in Malibu with a radio, my best girlfriends, and absolutely z... | 154 | 705 | 570 | 625 | 240 | 142 | -0.714376 | 0.546667 | |
3,722,073 | The Girl From Petrovka | 1,972 | 3.29 | 7 | 1 | null | null | George Feifer | This is the story of a very free-spirited Russian girl, a dutiful and skeptical American reporter, and the improbable love they shared. It is also an intimate portrait of the curious country that sparked their love and made it impossible. The tragic tale is not merely a delightful read but also a classic of its kind. "... | 252 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -1.930964 | 0.43 | |
26,874,180 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | 1,966 | 3.34 | 1,629 | 238 | null | null | Yasutaka Tsutsui | null | 226 | 288 | 418 | 562 | 281 | 80 | -1.757166 | 0.446667 | |
373,353 | The Glass Inferno | 1,974 | 3.72 | 201 | 22 | null | null | Thomas N. Scortia | It burst into flame without warning, an incendiary death trap claiming victims as powerless against the blaze as the firefighters 66 stories below. Their emotions laid bare, hundreds cringed or found new courage | 432 | 42 | 75 | 72 | 10 | 2 | -0.436298 | 0.573333 | |
1,772 | The Tower | 1,973 | 3.45 | 292 | 25 | null | null | Richard Martin Stern | For one hundred and twenty-five floors, the world's newest skyscraper rises tall and clean and shining.In its highest room film stars, celebrities, politicians, diplomats, tycoons and their wives celebrate the official opening.Suddenly, an explosion rocks the building. The electrical system is sabotaged. Fire rages upw... | 302 | 53 | 74 | 122 | 37 | 6 | -1.37481 | 0.483333 | |
985,052 | Glitz | 1,985 | 3.74 | 2,735 | 164 | null | null | Elmore Leonard | Vincent Mora just can't win. He's been shot, his girlfriend is about to be tossed off a balcony, and there's a vengeful creep looking to even a twisted score. Set against the tacky glitter of Atlantic City's billion-dollar casinos, "Glitz" has all the classic Leonard touches: quirky characters, colorful and cinematic s... | 251 | 509 | 1,190 | 883 | 134 | 19 | -0.366779 | 0.58 | |
1,013,325 | The Gnomobile | 1,937 | 3.7 | 57 | 8 | null | null | Upton Sinclair | An amusing tale of two gnomes, Glogo and Bobo, who travel to America in the company of two human friends in their custom gnomobile. An unexpectedly silly side to Sinclair, who had a reputation as a public scold. | 191 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 2 | -0.505818 | 0.566667 | |
22,034 | The Godfather | 1,969 | 4.37 | 293,083 | 7,041 | Mario Puzo's Mafia | null | Mario Puzo | The Godfather | 448 | 161,835 | 90,205 | 31,682 | 6,323 | 3,038 | 1.82308 | 0.79 | |
1,188,373 | Gods and Generals | 1,996 | 4.07 | 30,164 | 685 | The Civil War Trilogy | 1 | Jeff Shaara | The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara | 498 | 11,268 | 11,648 | 5,647 | 1,164 | 437 | 0.78029 | 0.69 | |
594,430 | The golden evenings of summer | 1,971 | 4.58 | 19 | 5 | null | null | Will Stanton | Capture a moment of yesterday, a sunset from the porch swing . . . the aroma of the backyard lilac bush . . . the inviting appeal of the vacant lot next door . . . the riches of a bottle-cap collection . . . the temptation of the cookie jar . . . the summers that never ended.Capture a moment and journey back with us to... | 154 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.553034 | 0.86 | |
37,941,573 | Grand Canary | 1,933 | 3.52 | 219 | 12 | null | null | A.J. Cronin | Dr Harvey Leith, brilliant research scientist, awakens from a drunken stupor to find himself aboard a liner bound for the Canary Islands, his past life in ruins, his hopes for the future shattered. His life becomes inextricably involved with those of the other passengers - especially the lovely Mary Fielding, but she's... | 224 | 42 | 73 | 67 | 31 | 6 | -1.131492 | 0.506667 | |
1,024,750 | Green for Danger | 1,944 | 3.88 | 576 | 73 | Inspector Cockrill | 2 | Christianna Brand | Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted detection puzzles, executed with her characteristic cleverness and gusto. When a patient dies under the anesthetic and later the presiding nurse is murdered, Inspector Cockrill finds himself with six suspects--three docto... | 256 | 166 | 228 | 138 | 33 | 11 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
11,566 | The Green Mile | 1,996 | 4.44 | 217,196 | 6,031 | The Green Mile | 1-6 | Stephen King | When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's THE GREEN MILE was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller lists | 592 | 124,916 | 66,862 | 21,362 | 3,259 | 797 | 2.066398 | 0.813333 | |
387,348 | The Group | 1,963 | 3.67 | 11,698 | 1,098 | null | null | Mary McCarthy | Mary McCarthy's most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as "the group." An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult lives: traveling to Eur... | 496 | 2,474 | 4,573 | 3,280 | 1,022 | 349 | -0.610097 | 0.556667 | |
12,187,086 | The War of the Buttons | 1,912 | 3.89 | 1,754 | 55 | La Guerre des Boutons | null | Louis Pergaud | As tenaciously as the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, the boys of the villages of Longevernes and Velrans perpetuate a vendetta of hundreds of years. With the ripping of smocks and the clatter of sabots, missiles and invectives fly--the Longevernes have "flabby balls" and the Velrans "awl have hary asses." Prefatory chapt... | 273 | 552 | 624 | 438 | 109 | 31 | 0.154616 | 0.63 | |
324,987 | A Hall of Mirrors | 1,967 | 3.72 | 385 | 26 | null | null | Robert Stone | Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical Christians... | 416 | 82 | 153 | 119 | 22 | 9 | -0.436298 | 0.573333 | |
12,995 | The Hamlet | 1,940 | 3.86 | 4,284 | 242 | The Snopes Trilogy | 1 | William Faulkner | The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's ... | 409 | 1,299 | 1,601 | 1,007 | 257 | 120 | 0.050337 | 0.62 | |
624,988 | The Harder They Fall | 1,946 | 4.24 | 161 | 18 | null | null | Budd Schulberg | Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promot... | 357 | 65 | 73 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 1.371205 | 0.746667 | |
15,881 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 1,998 | 4.4 | 2,250,076 | 42,839 | Harry Potter | 2 | J.K. Rowling | The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will stri... | 341 | 1,296,953 | 632,153 | 265,865 | 45,475 | 9,630 | 1.92736 | 0.8 | |
6 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2,000 | 4.55 | 2,151,870 | 37,860 | Harry Potter | 4 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools o... | 734 | 1,406,331 | 551,538 | 164,462 | 21,925 | 7,614 | 2.448755 | 0.85 | |
2 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2,003 | 4.48 | 2,106,674 | 34,749 | Harry Potter | 5 | J.K. Rowling | There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it | 870 | 1,315,756 | 550,836 | 195,471 | 34,007 | 10,604 | 2.205437 | 0.826667 | |
148,841 | Hart's War: A Novel of Suspense | 1,999 | 3.95 | 1,157 | 91 | null | null | John Katzenbach | Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria.Then routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a new prisoner: First Lieutenant Lincoln Sc... | 576 | 350 | 483 | 255 | 52 | 17 | 0.363174 | 0.65 | |
1,696,081 | Hating Alison Ashley | 1,984 | 3.5 | 3,336 | 125 | null | null | Robin Klein | A classic story of friendship and jealousy from a beloved Australian author.Erica has always believed herself to be the star of her sixth grade class. But then Alison Ashley shows up, and right from the start, seems to threaten Erica's position. Can these classmates ever see past their difficulties and find friendship | 192 | 688 | 973 | 1,147 | 380 | 148 | -1.201011 | 0.5 | |
89,717 | The Haunting of Hill House | 1,959 | 3.87 | 102,256 | 9,479 | null | null | Shirley Jackson | First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lightheart... | 182 | 31,116 | 37,215 | 24,999 | 7,039 | 1,887 | 0.085097 | 0.623333 | |
12,658 | Hawaii | 1,959 | 4.2 | 66,548 | 1,483 | null | null | James A. Michener | Pulitzer Prize | 1,136 | 29,631 | 23,421 | 11,005 | 1,888 | 603 | 1.232166 | 0.733333 | |
1,129,657 | Heller with a Gun | 1,954 | 3.84 | 1,497 | 39 | null | null | Louis L'Amour | Tom Healy was in trouble. His theatrical troupe needed to get to Alder Gulch, Montana, and the weather was turning. Andy Barker promised Tom he could get them there safely, but Tom was reluctant to trust him: he had the lives of three actresses to consider, and his personal feelings for Janice further heightened his co... | 208 | 392 | 564 | 467 | 62 | 12 | -0.019182 | 0.613333 | |
5,907 | The Hobbit or There and Back Again | 1,937 | 4.26 | 2,488,724 | 42,360 | Middle-Earth Universe | null | J.R.R. Tolkien | In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien | 366 | 1,289,810 | 746,673 | 317,886 | 83,793 | 50,562 | 1.440724 | 0.753333 | |
1,656,001 | The Host | 2,008 | 3.84 | 821,096 | 40,616 | The Host | 1 | Stephenie Meyer | Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.As Melanie fills... | 620 | 304,095 | 240,345 | 164,355 | 66,132 | 46,169 | -0.019182 | 0.613333 | |
8,921 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1,901 | 4.1 | 208,145 | 6,535 | Sherlock Holmes | 5 | Arthur Conan Doyle | 'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the brilliant analytical mind of Sherlock Holmes. As rumours of a legendary hound said to haunt the Basker... | 256 | 77,176 | 83,651 | 40,093 | 5,922 | 1,303 | 0.884569 | 0.7 | |
598,662 | The Hours | 1,998 | 3.93 | 117,846 | 4,573 | null | null | Michael Cunningham | In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, who is recognized as "one of our very best writers" (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times), draw inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despai... | 230 | 40,078 | 42,136 | 25,482 | 7,393 | 2,757 | 0.293655 | 0.643333 | |
1,038,590 | Immortality, Inc. | 1,959 | 3.82 | 1,813 | 98 | null | null | Robert Sheckley | First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation FREEJACK in 1992, Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of Tomorrow now arrives in ebook format for the 21st century.Thomas Blaine awoke in a white bed in a white room, and heard s... | 250 | 463 | 719 | 498 | 112 | 21 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 | |
81,648 | In Country | 1,985 | 3.57 | 2,293 | 174 | null | null | Bobbie Ann Mason | The bestselling novel and deeply affecting story of a young girl who comes to terms with her father's death in Vietnam two decades earlierIn the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made... | 272 | 417 | 823 | 769 | 220 | 64 | -0.957694 | 0.523333 | |
1,025,049 | The Investigation | 1,977 | 3.69 | 132 | 15 | null | null | Dorothy Uhnak | Kitty Keeler is beautiful, blond, and anything but the conventional middle-class mother of the neighborhood. She is estranged from her husband, hoards expensive clothes and leads a very social life around gambling casinos and organized crime.When Kitty's two small sons are found dead, everyone quickly concludes Kitty m... | 320 | 27 | 49 | 48 | 4 | 4 | -0.540577 | 0.563333 | |
232,094 | In the Heat of the Night | 1,965 | 3.78 | 1,479 | 157 | Virgil Tibbs | 1 | John Dudley Ball | It's the 1960s. A hot August night lies heavy over the Carolinas. The corpse -- legs sprawled, stomach down on the concrete pavement, arms above the head -- brings the patrol car to a halt. The local police pick up a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs, only to discover that their most likely suspect is a homicide detect... | 185 | 347 | 620 | 394 | 82 | 36 | -0.22774 | 0.593333 | |
1,241,322 | The Island | 1,979 | 3.32 | 1,575 | 99 | null | null | Peter Benchley | How could hundreds boats carrying more than 2000 people simply disappear Why does no one know or care to know A newspaper editor becomes obsessed with what is happening. | 281 | 209 | 415 | 676 | 223 | 52 | -1.826685 | 0.44 | |
29,981 | The Island of Doctor Moreau | 1,896 | 3.72 | 80,865 | 3,472 | null | null | H.G. Wells | Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his ... | 153 | 17,494 | 31,204 | 25,510 | 5,651 | 1,006 | -0.436298 | 0.573333 | |
366,260 | Jack in the Box | 1,980 | 3.73 | 66 | 5 | null | null | William Kotzwinkle | A witty and nostalgic novel that traces Jack Twiller's zany transition from a 1940s comic-book identity to a typical American youth of the Fabulous Fifties, which is to say completely warped. | 268 | 16 | 27 | 15 | 5 | 3 | -0.401539 | 0.576667 | |
2,399,928 | Jassy | 1,944 | 3.97 | 230 | 23 | null | null | Norah Lofts | She was the daughter of a preacher and a gypsy. A strange and elusive child with powers of prophecy, she grew into an even stranger woman. From those around her she inspired love and admiration or furious hatred. Nothing in between. And somehow Jassy could transform even those who loved her into her enemies. Barney Hat... | 255 | 82 | 80 | 54 | 6 | 8 | 0.432693 | 0.656667 | |
543,300 | The Jewel of Seven Stars | 1,903 | 3.42 | 2,105 | 230 | Fantasy Classics | 5 | Bram Stoker | An Egyptologist, attempting to raise from the dead the mummy of Tera, an ancient Egyptian queen, finds a fabulous gem and is stricken senseless by an unknown force. Amid bloody and eerie scenes, his daughter is possessed by Tera's soul, and her fate depends upon bringing Tera's mummified body to life. | 304 | 385 | 577 | 761 | 296 | 86 | -1.479089 | 0.473333 | |
100,237 | Monkey: The Journey to the West | 1,590 | 4.01 | 5,087 | 420 | null | null | Wu Cheng'en | Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigo... | 306 | 1,797 | 1,956 | 1,000 | 263 | 71 | 0.571732 | 0.67 | |
77,270 | The Jungle Book | 1,895 | 3.94 | 92,032 | 2,926 | null | null | Rudyard Kipling | The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling | 277 | 31,010 | 31,602 | 23,147 | 4,980 | 1,293 | 0.328414 | 0.646667 | |
128,518 | The Second Jungle Book | 1,895 | 3.83 | 2,786 | 143 | null | null | Rudyard Kipling | The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. | 142 | 865 | 921 | 727 | 198 | 75 | -0.053942 | 0.61 | |
526,270 | Jurassic Park | 1,990 | 4 | 721,872 | 10,184 | Jurassic Park | 1 | Michael Crichton | State-of-the-art science and suspense combine in this uniquely exciting high-tension thriller from the author of The Andromeda Strain. Bio-engineers create authentic, detail-perfect, real-life dinosaurs for a Pacific island theme park, but scientific triumph explodes into horrendous disaster as the first visitors encou... | 400 | 267,387 | 256,247 | 146,545 | 35,445 | 16,248 | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
672,988 | The Lost World | 1,995 | 3.76 | 105,938 | 3,060 | Jurassic Park | 2 | Michael Crichton | It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.There are rumors that something has survived... | 393 | 26,094 | 38,989 | 31,647 | 7,780 | 1,428 | -0.29726 | 0.586667 | |
1,676,273 | L.A. Confidential | 1,990 | 4.2 | 26,930 | 734 | L.A. Quartet | 3 | James Ellroy | Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. The novel takes these c... | 496 | 11,927 | 10,066 | 3,763 | 812 | 362 | 1.232166 | 0.733333 | |
70,700 | Lady L | 1,958 | 3.56 | 1,678 | 141 | null | null | Romain Gary | null | 185 | 333 | 546 | 576 | 171 | 52 | -0.992453 | 0.52 | |
50,051 | The Last Picture Show | 1,966 | 3.97 | 12,432 | 625 | The Last Picture Show | 1 | Larry McMurtry | This is one of McMurtry's most memorable novels - the basis for the film of the same name. Set in a small, dusty Texas town, it introduces Jacy, Duane and Sonny, teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love. | 280 | 3,791 | 5,234 | 2,738 | 525 | 144 | 0.432693 | 0.656667 | |
1,054,596 | The Last Ride | 1,996 | 3.95 | 457 | 53 | null | null | Thomas Eidson | A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace. | 304 | 142 | 188 | 96 | 25 | 6 | 0.363174 | 0.65 | |
6,400,090 | The Last Song | 2,009 | 4.15 | 474,579 | 11,534 | null | null | Nicholas Sparks | Alternate Cover Edition can be found hereSeventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller | 390 | 213,828 | 151,097 | 83,028 | 18,915 | 7,711 | 1.058368 | 0.716667 | |
267,418 | The Late George Apley | 1,937 | 3.68 | 1,990 | 109 | null | null | John P. Marquand | A modern classic restored to print -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing fortunes of a distinguished Boston family in the early years of the 20th century. Sweeping us into the inner sanctum of Boston society, into the Beacon Hill town houses and exclusive private clubs where only the city's we... | 368 | 528 | 663 | 529 | 181 | 89 | -0.575337 | 0.56 | |
1,131,222 | Layer Cake | 2,000 | 3.98 | 1,331 | 92 | null | null | J.J. Connolly | A story of one young gangster's attempt to leave the corruption behind him, Layer Cake refers to the layers or levels he has to go as he painstakingly plots his own escape. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not ... | 240 | 417 | 566 | 277 | 53 | 18 | 0.467453 | 0.66 | |
54,822 | Leaving Cheyenne | 1,963 | 3.95 | 1,932 | 117 | Thalia, Texas | 2 | Larry McMurtry | From the Pulitzer Prize | 304 | 593 | 775 | 460 | 86 | 18 | 0.363174 | 0.65 | |
27,523 | Left Behind | 1,995 | 3.82 | 184,370 | 3,495 | Left Behind | 1 | Tim LaHaye | An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun... | 342 | 73,273 | 48,155 | 34,351 | 14,557 | 14,034 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 | |
4,907,587 | Let the Right One In | 2,004 | 4.07 | 76,827 | 5,372 | null | null | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival!It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at lo... | 472 | 30,249 | 28,203 | 13,167 | 3,561 | 1,647 | 0.78029 | 0.69 | |
13,287,266 | Letter To Five Wives | 1,946 | 3.1 | 10 | 1 | null | null | John Klempner | Basis for the 1949 film "A Letter To Three Wives." Originally publish in Cosmopolitan in 1945. | 204 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | -2.591398 | 0.366667 | |
31,250 | Little Dorrit | 1,855 | 3.98 | 41,031 | 1,388 | null | null | Charles Dickens | A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly inte... | 985 | 15,082 | 14,318 | 8,437 | 2,159 | 1,035 | 0.467453 | 0.66 | |
148,432 | The Lizard's Tail | 1,979 | 3.47 | 87 | 5 | null | null | Luisa Valenzuela | The Lizards Tail is a whip much favoured by Latin American torturers. It gives its name to this fictional biography of Lopez Rega, Isabel Perons minister of social well-being who ruled Argentina through sorcery and witchcraft. A figure of immense power and cruelty, Lopez Rega survives all attempts by politicians and th... | 288 | 20 | 25 | 24 | 12 | 6 | -1.30529 | 0.49 | |
769,000 | The Light in the Forest | 1,953 | 3.36 | 4,047 | 462 | The Light in the Forest | 1 | Conrad Richter | When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their cap... | 192 | 694 | 1,184 | 1,329 | 564 | 276 | -1.687647 | 0.453333 | |
121,264 | The Light of Western Stars | 1,914 | 3.98 | 918 | 49 | Light of the Western Stars | 1 | Zane Grey | Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - When Madeline Hammond stepped from the train at El Cajon, New Mexico, it was nearly midnight, and her first impression was of a huge dark space of cool, win... | 200 | 347 | 279 | 233 | 46 | 13 | 0.467453 | 0.66 | |
3,763 | Live and Let Die | 1,954 | 3.63 | 20,394 | 1,328 | James Bond Original Series | 2 | Ian Fleming | "Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message. Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew ... | 229 | 3,508 | 7,863 | 7,205 | 1,544 | 274 | -0.749135 | 0.543333 | |
73,654 | Logan's Run | 1,967 | 3.67 | 9,171 | 531 | Logan | 1 | William F. Nolan | It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But when Lo... | 149 | 2,164 | 3,015 | 2,985 | 809 | 198 | -0.610097 | 0.556667 | |
12,194 | Lord Jim | 1,899 | 3.62 | 25,073 | 1,147 | null | null | Joseph Conrad | Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up b... | 455 | 5,977 | 8,367 | 7,044 | 2,538 | 1,147 | -0.783895 | 0.54 | |
15,241 | The Two Towers | 1,954 | 4.43 | 605,230 | 8,388 | The Lord of the Rings | 2 | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor | 322 | 355,404 | 174,728 | 60,678 | 11,105 | 3,315 | 2.031639 | 0.81 | |
18,512 | The Return of the King | 1,955 | 4.52 | 578,548 | 8,014 | The Lord of the Rings | 3 | J.R.R. Tolkien | Alternate cover edition here.The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest continues. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and took part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry... | 490 | 373,803 | 146,501 | 46,662 | 8,627 | 2,955 | 2.344476 | 0.84 | |
973,972 | Lost Horizon | 1,933 | 3.92 | 15,197 | 1,276 | null | null | James Hilton | Following a plane crash, Conway, a British consul, his deputy, a missionary and an American financer find themselves in the enigmatic snow-capped mountains of uncharted Tibet. Here they discover a seemingly perfect hidden community where they are welcomed. | 218 | 4,555 | 5,906 | 3,815 | 754 | 167 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
10,155 | The Lost World | 1,912 | 3.92 | 49,945 | 1,814 | Professor Challenger | 1 | Arthur Conan Doyle | It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of her. Soon after, he meets Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a 'lost world' populated by pterodactyls and ot... | 272 | 15,020 | 19,177 | 13,113 | 2,220 | 415 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
17,286,391 | Love Story | 1,977 | 3.61 | 48,568 | 2,529 | Love Story | 1 | Erich Segal | "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me." Oliver Barrett IV went to Harvard and Jenny Cavilleri to Radcliffe. He was rich, she was poor. He was sporty, she played music. Nonetheless they fell in love and ... | 127 | 12,026 | 15,096 | 13,898 | 5,626 | 1,922 | -0.818655 | 0.536667 | |
77,544 | The Lovely Bones | 2,002 | 3.79 | 1,816,031 | 38,632 | null | null | Alice Sebold | The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. | 328 | 535,955 | 638,584 | 435,519 | 139,479 | 66,494 | -0.192981 | 0.596667 | |
139,888 | Barry Lyndon | 1,844 | 3.63 | 1,676 | 151 | null | null | William Makepeace Thackeray | "Barry Lyndon" is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmaneuvered in his first love affair, a ruined Barry volunteers for the British army. After seeing service in Germany he deserts and pursues the career of a gambler in the dissolute clubs and courts of Euro... | 220 | 345 | 629 | 486 | 168 | 48 | -0.749135 | 0.543333 | |
150,555 | The Magician | 1,908 | 3.58 | 3,110 | 341 | null | null | W. Somerset Maugham | Maugham | 240 | 544 | 1,147 | 1,046 | 309 | 64 | -0.922934 | 0.526667 | |
929,782 | Martin Eden | 1,909 | 4.41 | 19,170 | 972 | null | null | Jack London | Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140187724The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, di... | 480 | 11,329 | 5,238 | 1,966 | 475 | 162 | 1.962119 | 0.803333 | |
473,850 | Make Room! Make Room! | 1,966 | 3.72 | 5,795 | 464 | null | null | Harry Harrison | First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system--operating within an atmosphere of riots, food shortages, and senseless acts of violence--and a desperate hunt for the truth by a cynical NYC detective tells a classic tale of a dark future. | 288 | 1,224 | 2,282 | 1,818 | 387 | 84 | -0.436298 | 0.573333 | |
396,329 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | 1,963 | 4.03 | 5,161 | 538 | null | null | Walter Tevis | T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead of aid, Newton discovers loneliness and despair that ultimately ends in tragedy. | 209 | 1,647 | 2,256 | 1,044 | 187 | 27 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 | |
370,769 | The Man Who Never Was | 1,954 | 3.91 | 857 | 87 | null | null | Ewen Montagu | The Man Who Never Was provides an exciting and accurate record of the counter-intelligence conspiracy, Operation Mincemeat, which paved the way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. Ewen Montagu, who masterminded the whole scheme, gives his personal account of the audacious and innovative plot to outwit the G... | 168 | 230 | 371 | 212 | 36 | 8 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 | |
30,164,694 | The Man Who Watched Trains Go By | 1,938 | 3.85 | 2,695 | 195 | null | null | Georges Simenon | Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But one night, this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had watched impassively as the trains swept by; now he catches the first one ... | 251 | 623 | 1,220 | 699 | 126 | 27 | 0.015577 | 0.616667 | |
177,193 | The Man With the Golden Gun | 1,965 | 3.56 | 8,780 | 430 | James Bond Original Series | 13 | Ian Fleming | A brainwashed James Bond has tried | 183 | 1,494 | 2,986 | 3,390 | 781 | 129 | -0.992453 | 0.52 | |
1,111,344 | Marathon Man | 1,974 | 4.12 | 18,127 | 400 | Babe Levy | 1 | William Goldman | Goldman, William, Marathon Man | 309 | 6,942 | 7,189 | 3,348 | 500 | 148 | 0.954089 | 0.706667 | |
223,691 | The Mephisto Waltz | 1,969 | 3.7 | 302 | 22 | null | null | Fred Mustard Stewart | "Paula and Myles Clarkson's luck was in the ascendant. After a period of depression following his resounding failure as a concert pianist, Myles had decided, with Paula's encouragement to turn to a career in writing. Now the free-lance assignments that would finance his work on a novel were beginning to come in, among ... | 256 | 76 | 98 | 94 | 29 | 5 | -0.505818 | 0.566667 |
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