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2,014,968 | A Sporting Proposition | 1,973 | 4.34 | 29 | 8 | null | null | James Aldridge | null | null | 15 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1.718801 | 0.78 | |
272,757 | The Spy Who Came In From The Cold | 1,963 | 4.07 | 58,718 | 3,568 | George Smiley | null | John le Carr | In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in th... | null | 20,584 | 24,726 | 10,898 | 2,080 | 430 | 0.78029 | 0.69 | |
2,611,829 | The Stalking Moon | 1,965 | 4.02 | 143 | 12 | null | null | T.V. Olsen | The 1968 film "The Stalking Moon" reteamed Gregory Peck and director Robert Mulligan after their tremendous success with "To Kill a Mockingbird." Fraught with the tension of danger looming ever closer, this story has become a favorite in Western suspense. | 288 | 48 | 58 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 0.606492 | 0.673333 | |
411,855 | The Stud | 1,969 | 3.51 | 1,821 | 47 | Fontaine Khaled | 1 | Jackie Collins | The sexy, sizzling classic from international bestselling superstar Jackie CollinsLondon, 1969. The hottest, hippest, wildest domain of hedonists and pleasure-seekers, where swingers swarm the clubs and discos in a high-stakes quest to live for the moment. At the center of this decadent scene, one man plays all the ang... | 352 | 446 | 435 | 628 | 220 | 92 | -1.166252 | 0.503333 | |
825,338 | Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time | 1,945 | 3.94 | 165 | 27 | null | null | Rumer Godden | A novel for adults, made into the film Enchantment in 1948, starring David Niven and Teresa Wright. (Wikipedia) | 176 | 44 | 76 | 37 | 7 | 1 | 0.328414 | 0.646667 | |
1,102,337 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1,973 | 3.77 | 1,780 | 163 | null | null | John Godey | THIS AFTERNOON IN NEW YORK CITY, AFTER A SUBWAY TRAIN LEFT THE PELHAM STATION AT 1:23 P.M., THE EVENTS OF THE DAY TOOK A TERRIFYING DETOUR | 350 | 448 | 653 | 522 | 129 | 28 | -0.2625 | 0.59 | |
1,663,214 | As Terras Do Risco | 1,994 | 4 | 3 | 1 | null | null | Agustina Bessa-Lu | Este romance decorre na Arr | 284 | null | null | null | null | null | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
410,204 | The Tesseract | 1,998 | 3.21 | 5,494 | 256 | null | null | Alex Garland | Alex Garland's international bestseller, The Beach, received extraordinary praise, and his writing was compared to Hemingway, Greene, Conrad, Golding, and Huxley. His new novel, The Tesseract, is a bold departure from The Beach, and demonstrates the enormous range of Garland's talent.The Tesseract is a Chinese puzzle o... | null | 535 | 1,543 | 2,220 | 955 | 241 | -2.209042 | 0.403333 | |
31,326 | Theatre | 1,937 | 4.14 | 5,534 | 237 | null | null | W. Somerset Maugham | In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham | 304 | 2,314 | 2,011 | 943 | 214 | 52 | 1.023608 | 0.713333 | |
10,308,318 | They Came to Cordura | 1,958 | 4.01 | 67 | 7 | null | null | Glendon Swarthout | null | null | 22 | 26 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0.571732 | 0.67 | |
68,930 | They Do It with Mirrors | 1,952 | 3.75 | 19,558 | 959 | Miss Marple | 6 | Agatha Christie | A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home | 224 | 4,106 | 7,735 | 6,568 | 1,027 | 122 | -0.332019 | 0.583333 | |
17,236,709 | The Thirteenth Guest, or, The Morgan Mysteries | 1,929 | 2 | 3 | 1 | null | null | Armitage Trail | This novel was the basis for the American mystery film "The Thirteenth Guest" (1932), known as "Lady Beware" in the United Kingdom. | null | null | null | null | null | null | -6.414962 | 0 | |
25,103,211 | A Thrill a Minute With Jack Albany: An Inner Sanctum Mystery | 1,967 | 3.25 | 4 | 1 | null | null | John Godey | Jack Albany | 135 | null | null | null | null | null | -2.070003 | 0.416667 | |
17,293,795 | A Tiger Walks | 1,960 | 2.75 | 4 | 2 | null | null | Ian Niall | Yosef and Ram Singstop in a small Welsh village, get a little drunk and release a tiger. The tiger escapes, terrorizing the small Welsh village, and for many days the mist is too low to capture it. | 250 | null | null | null | null | null | -3.807987 | 0.25 | |
2,493 | The Time Machine | 1,895 | 3.88 | 352,536 | 8,997 | null | null | H.G. Wells | null | 118 | 100,162 | 137,095 | 92,891 | 18,255 | 4,133 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
2,657 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1,960 | 4.27 | 3,851,555 | 81,774 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1 | Harper Lee | The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning ... | 324 | 2,000,579 | 1,148,424 | 502,004 | 131,805 | 68,743 | 1.475484 | 0.756667 | |
42,707,603 | Toby Tyler: Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus | 1,877 | null | 0 | 0 | null | null | James Otis Kaler | This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (indiv... | 268 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |
882,295 | Twilight for the Gods | 1,958 | 3.94 | 77 | 14 | null | null | Ernest K. Gann | This is the story of the barquentine, Cannibal, and the passengers and crew on her most tempestuous voyage. The date was October 12, 1927. The Cannibal, a forlorn figure as she left the South Seas port of Suva, was one of the last commercial sailing ships still trying valiantly to compete in the world of steam. Manned ... | null | 24 | 29 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0.328414 | 0.646667 | |
1,597,168 | God's Two-Minute Warning | 1,975 | 4.27 | 33 | 2 | null | null | John Hagee | In our sports-saturated culture, we are all familiar with the two-minute warning-a signal to players and coaches that the game is nearing the end. . . 120 clicks left on the clock to attempt any last-minute stratagem that will determine victory or defeat. "God's Two-Minute Warning" is a collection of 33 vignettes by Pa... | 136 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1.475484 | 0.756667 | |
903,730 | The Tunnel of Love | 1,954 | 3.62 | 90 | 16 | null | null | Peter De Vries | A story of love and lunacy, fury and fun, naughty nonsense and galloping gayety, in crazy, crazy Connecticut. | null | 16 | 36 | 29 | 6 | 3 | -0.783895 | 0.54 | |
723,429 | Ugetsu Monogatari ; Harusame Monogatari | 1,776 | 4 | 28 | 1 | null | null | Ueda Akinari | null | 450 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
41,445,969 | Ugly Dachshund | 1,938 | null | 0 | 0 | null | null | Gladys Bronwyn Stern | null | 152 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |
4,504,828 | Useless Cowboy (Center Point Premier Western) | 1,943 | 3.33 | 3 | 0 | null | null | Alan LeMay | Melody Jones had never done anything like it before. He just didn't like the looks of the guy, so he knocked him down. Here he was -- a strange man in a strange town -- and now the townsfolk bowed and scraped to him. When his hand nonchalantly fell to his pistol butt, faces paled and strong men whimpered. What Melody d... | 256 | null | null | null | null | null | -1.791926 | 0.443333 | |
6,090,263 | Les valseuses | 1,974 | 3.88 | 32 | 1 | null | null | Bertrand Blier | null | 414 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
20,160,057 | Viper 3 | 1,972 | 3.45 | 38 | 8 | null | null | Walter Wager | No one writes a political thriller like Walter Wager. No one writes a psychological thriller like Walter Wager. In TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING, he checks both boxes, and the result will keep you reading through to sunrise. A retired general takes over a missile silo in the Badlands. His threat is to provoke a World War, l... | null | 7 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 2 | -1.37481 | 0.483333 | |
656 | War and Peace | 1,869 | 4.1 | 231,531 | 9,562 | null | null | Leo Tolstoy | null | 1,392 | 104,825 | 71,022 | 37,409 | 11,510 | 6,765 | 0.884569 | 0.7 | |
17,212,039 | The Wet Parade | 1,931 | 3 | 3 | 0 | null | null | Upton Sinclair | In the early 20th Century, with the Prohibition Era approaching, two families come undone over the evils of alcohol.The drinking of Roger Chilcote costs him everything, including all his family's money after gambling it away, after his daughter Maggie May's repeated attempts to persuade him to quit. Chilcote commits su... | 429 | null | null | null | null | null | -2.938995 | 0.333333 | |
1,038,619 | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | 1,987 | 3.75 | 69 | 11 | null | null | Hudson Talbott | Illus. in full color. "What happens when scientists from outer space test a new brain-developing product on dinosaurs, educate them, and drop them off in the middle of Manhattan's Thanksgiving Day Parade Those five and up will adore the off-beat humor of this prehistoric tour de force."--Parents Magazine. | 355 | 17 | 26 | 19 | 6 | 1 | -0.332019 | 0.583333 | |
1,024,939 | The Lady Vanishes | 1,936 | 3.8 | 905 | 144 | null | null | Ethel Lina White | THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOVERED BY EDGAR AWARD-WINNING MYSTERY EXPERT OTTO PENZLER! Iris Carr is a beautiful, young socialite on her way back home to England after vacationing in Europe. Feeling terribly alone and afraid, she finds comfort in the c... | 256 | 228 | 330 | 290 | 49 | 8 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
670,572 | When Worlds Collide | 1,932 | 3.91 | 1,866 | 140 | When Worlds Collide | 1 | Philip Wylie | A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth. ... | 382 | 574 | 694 | 477 | 91 | 30 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 | |
148,337 | Where Eagles Dare | 1,967 | 4.13 | 39,807 | 414 | null | null | Alistair MacLean | Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot twists make this the classic adventure thriller | 320 | 15,648 | 15,306 | 7,572 | 999 | 282 | 0.988848 | 0.71 | |
1,270,088 | Whistle Stop: A Novel | 1,941 | 3.62 | 97 | 18 | null | null | Maritta Wolff | Now back in print -- Maritta Wolff's 1941 masterpiece about small-town Midwestern life in post-Depression America Whistle Stop, published to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, is the story of the Veech family, an oversize, poverty-stricken tribe trying to make good in a cruel world. Through the course of ... | 371 | 19 | 37 | 29 | 9 | 3 | -0.783895 | 0.54 | |
601,531 | White Banners | 1,936 | 3.87 | 135 | 15 | null | null | Lloyd C. Douglas | Lloyd Cassel Douglas (1877 - 1951) born Doya C. Douglas, was an American minister and author. He was born in Columbia City, Indiana, spent part of his boyhood in Monroeville, Indiana, Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, was pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church. Douglas ... | null | 40 | 49 | 36 | 8 | 2 | 0.085097 | 0.623333 | |
598,330 | Why Me? | 1,983 | 4.09 | 899 | 48 | Dortmunder | 5 | Donald E. Westlake | The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's the biggest heist of Dortmunder's career, making him the target of everyone from the FBI to the Turkish government. Now Dortmunder has to find a way to unsteal the heist of a lifetime. . . . | 229 | 299 | 399 | 187 | 11 | 3 | 0.84981 | 0.696667 | |
21,567,327 | Winter Meeting | 1,946 | 3.33 | 3 | 1 | null | null | Ethel Vance | A proud, lonely woman...a desperate, disillusioned man...a meeting packed with emotional dynamite.Outside, the snow falls stealthily. Within, flames crackle and jump in the fireplace. Trivial talk...then swift, mysterious tension, as two strangers search in each other's eyes for some sign, some clue...Were they to be f... | 255 | null | null | null | null | null | -1.791926 | 0.443333 | |
1,662,468 | Witchfinder General | 1,966 | 3.95 | 59 | 6 | null | null | Ronald Bassett | 1643. England is at war with itself. While bitter battles rage between King and Parliament, local magistrates have more power, and less accountability, than ever before. Taking advantage of the tense atmosphere and lax prosecution procedures, Matthew Hopkins, an insignificant lawyer and self-appointed Witchfinder Gener... | 256 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0.363174 | 0.65 | |
3,224,667 | The Cat's Pajamas & Witch's Milk | 1,968 | 3.9 | 30 | 6 | null | null | Peter De Vries | null | 303 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0.189376 | 0.633333 | |
43,837,462 | The World in His Arms: A Romance of Russian America | 1,946 | null | 0 | 0 | null | null | Rex Beach | Persuaded by a beautiful Russian Countess to help her escape her odious finance, Captain Jonathan Clarke sales from San Francisco to Alaska in this thrilling tale of adventure and romance on the high seas. | 160 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |
1,523,171 | Young Adam | 1,957 | 3.75 | 777 | 54 | null | null | Alexander Trocchi | First published in 1957, this was Trocchi's first novel. The corpse of a young woman is found floating in the canal. Tension develops between the narrator and his companions as his relationship with the woman unfolds, sucking the reader into his disturbed psyche. | null | 173 | 309 | 234 | 51 | 10 | -0.332019 | 0.583333 |
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