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720,234 | A Midnight Clear | 1,982 | 4.18 | 1,322 | 61 | null | null | William Wharton | Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve 1944, Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs are ordered close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation. That is, until the Germans begin revealing their whereabouts a... | 256 | 544 | 535 | 194 | 39 | 10 | 1.162647 | 0.726667 | |
1,872,345 | Millennium | 1,983 | 3.75 | 2,354 | 117 | null | null | John Varley | Just in time for the new millennium...the time-travel classic from "the best writer in America." (Tom Clancy)In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind... | 249 | 529 | 937 | 690 | 173 | 25 | -0.332019 | 0.583333 | |
2,429,135 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 2,007 | 4.13 | 2,246,015 | 65,411 | Millennium | 1 | Stieg Larsson | An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson | 465 | 999,075 | 764,187 | 322,803 | 96,615 | 63,335 | 0.988848 | 0.71 | |
1,071,760 | A Mother's Gift | 2,001 | 3.18 | 639 | 64 | null | null | Britney Spears | A stirring and heartfelt novel about the special bond between one mother and daughter, "A Mother's Gift" follows 14-year-old Holly Faye Lovell, a rising young singer. Now that Holly's off with her posh new friends and new life, she's ashamed to find herself embarrassed by her mom and their humble background. Meanwhile,... | 240 | 105 | 132 | 227 | 122 | 53 | -2.313321 | 0.393333 | |
648,640 | The Moving Target | 1,949 | 3.82 | 2,689 | 272 | Lew Archer | 1 | Ross Macdonald | Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.As Lew Archer follows the clues from the c... | 245 | 596 | 1,179 | 775 | 114 | 25 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 | |
121,622 | Mrs. McGinty's Dead | 1,952 | 3.83 | 16,009 | 707 | Hercule Poirot | 30 | Agatha Christie | Mrs. McGinty is dead and everyone suspects James Bentley, her slightly shifty lodger, but Superintendent Spence is suspicious enough to ask for Hercule Poirot's assistance. Soon, the seemingly simple situation turns into a complex web of lies and hidden identities. Unabridged. 5 CDs. | 244 | 3,696 | 6,625 | 4,970 | 646 | 72 | -0.053942 | 0.61 | |
2,183,315 | Murder in Amityville | 1,979 | 3.18 | 67 | 5 | null | null | Hans Holzer | The Lutz family barely escapes 112 Ocean Ave. While fleeing Amityville, they are attacked, but got away. They arrive at Kathy's mother's house, where they think they are safe. Soon after, George is awoken by a supernatural force. George and Kathy realize that they are being followed. Over the next few days, Kathy and h... | 288 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 14 | 8 | -2.313321 | 0.393333 | |
33,507 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | 1,870 | 3.88 | 169,708 | 5,576 | Captain Nemo | 1 | Jules Verne | French naturalist Dr. Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, only to discover instead the Nautilus, a remarkable submarine built by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Together Nemo and Aronnax explore the underwater marvels, undergo a transcendent experience amongst the ruins of Atlantis, and plant a bla... | 394 | 50,436 | 62,987 | 43,659 | 10,015 | 2,611 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
616,265 | The Naked Face | 1,970 | 3.52 | 16,212 | 511 | null | null | Sidney Sheldon | Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life.If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself...Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of the doctor's patients responsible Someone overwhel... | 320 | 2,928 | 5,116 | 5,988 | 1,818 | 362 | -1.131492 | 0.506667 | |
133,008 | The Night of the Generals | 1,963 | 3.85 | 402 | 30 | null | null | Hans Hellmut Kirst | A Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw in 1942. The possible suspects are narrowed down to three German generals, but the investigation eventually comes to nothing. A similar crime happens in Paris in 1944 when all three generals are assembled once more - but again the investigations are halted by the famous 'night ... | 288 | 108 | 162 | 103 | 20 | 9 | 0.015577 | 0.616667 | |
352,582 | The Night of the Hunter | 1,953 | 4.15 | 1,237 | 184 | null | null | Davis Grubb | Inspired by serial killer Harry Powers, "The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," who was hung in 1932 for his murders of two widows and three children. This best-selling novel, first published in 1953 to wide acclaim by author Grubb, (who like Powers lived in Clarksburg, West Virginia), served as the basis for Charles Laughton's... | 200 | 510 | 466 | 212 | 36 | 13 | 1.058368 | 0.716667 | |
7,140,096 | Nightmare Alley | 1,946 | 4.06 | 1,616 | 186 | null | null | William Lindsay Gresham | Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek | 275 | 615 | 599 | 306 | 79 | 17 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 | |
1,301,173 | The Ninth Configuration | 1,978 | 3.57 | 859 | 97 | null | null | William Peter Blatty | The Ninth Configuration is set in a remote castle which the US government is using as a military asylum. A Marine Corps psychiatrist with a crisis of faith encourages his patients to enact their fantasies as part of their therapy. However, he proves himself to be more deeply disturbed than at first appears and finally ... | 170 | 227 | 246 | 236 | 93 | 57 | -0.957694 | 0.523333 | |
662,798 | No Country for Old Men | 2,005 | 4.13 | 124,360 | 7,075 | null | null | Cormac McCarthy | In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load ... | 309 | 49,018 | 50,671 | 18,672 | 4,282 | 1,717 | 0.988848 | 0.71 | |
31,548 | Of Human Bondage | 1,915 | 4.13 | 42,492 | 2,878 | null | null | W. Somerset Maugham | The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresis... | 684 | 18,096 | 14,846 | 7,036 | 1,866 | 648 | 0.988848 | 0.71 | |
332,613 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1,962 | 4.19 | 553,320 | 9,194 | null | null | Ken Kesey | Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 0141187883 (ISBN13: 9780141187884)Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by ... | 325 | 241,047 | 205,512 | 83,667 | 17,036 | 6,058 | 1.197406 | 0.73 | |
18,839 | Orlando | 1,928 | 3.86 | 46,717 | 2,833 | null | null | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit... | 228 | 15,081 | 16,073 | 10,898 | 3,454 | 1,211 | 0.050337 | 0.62 | |
288,962 | Out of Sight | 1,996 | 3.93 | 9,614 | 362 | null | null | Elmore Leonard | Before there was Raylan, there was Sisco... U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is on the hunt for world-class gentleman felon Jack Foley in Out of Sight, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard | 368 | 2,577 | 4,353 | 2,220 | 367 | 97 | 0.293655 | 0.643333 | |
984,003 | A Painted House | 2,001 | 3.69 | 70,234 | 3,727 | null | null | John Grisham | The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before ... | 388 | 17,675 | 24,031 | 19,702 | 6,677 | 2,149 | -0.540577 | 0.563333 | |
20,178,265 | Pillar of Light | 1,990 | 4.28 | 14,767 | 927 | The Work and the Glory | 1 | Gerald N. Lund | "You believe me, don't you, Nathan." It was not a question, but a statement, filled with wonder.It stunned Nathan."You believe it all. I can see it on your face."For a moment, time seemed suspended as Nathan probed the inward recesses of his soul. There was still the incredulousness, still the sense of hearing somethin... | 456 | 7,199 | 5,107 | 1,993 | 344 | 124 | 1.510243 | 0.76 | |
420,282 | The Polar Express | 1,985 | 4.3 | 196,488 | 3,068 | null | null | Chris Van Allsburg | The Polar Express is | 32 | 110,647 | 48,168 | 26,921 | 7,274 | 3,478 | 1.579763 | 0.766667 | |
1,701,648 | Pollyanna | 1,913 | 4.03 | 61 | 3 | null | null | Colleen L. Reece | When orphaned 11-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community. Includes gold-tone charm. | 223 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 | |
247,060 | Poodle Springs | 1,959 | 3.56 | 4,119 | 190 | Philip Marlowe | 8 | Raymond Chandler | Philip Marlowe marries a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settledown. But old habits die hard, and Marlowe soon is back in business, enmeshed in a case involving pornography, bigamy, and murder. | 304 | 866 | 1,264 | 1,426 | 455 | 108 | -0.992453 | 0.52 | |
1,209,527 | Portrait of Jennie | 1,940 | 4.03 | 925 | 144 | null | null | Robert Nathan | Who was she Where had she come fromWas Jennie a dream, a memory, a lovely ghost from the past Or had she stepped from anther world into this Eben Adams could only guess at the answer. But he understood that Jennie, because she dared to love him, had fused past and present into the delightful delicate magic of "now."And... | 125 | 335 | 356 | 176 | 46 | 12 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 | |
939,934 | The Postman | 1,985 | 3.88 | 28,481 | 1,160 | null | null | David Brin | This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as "War Day" or "Alas, Babylon," David Brin's "The Postman" is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction. ... | 294 | 7,913 | 11,569 | 7,115 | 1,529 | 355 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
591,352 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 1,934 | 3.8 | 26,986 | 1,905 | null | null | James M. Cain | An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution | 128 | 6,751 | 10,771 | 7,278 | 1,701 | 485 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
21,787 | The Princess Bride | 1,973 | 4.26 | 700,308 | 17,769 | null | null | William Goldman | What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreamsAs a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that th... | 398 | 360,966 | 208,569 | 94,260 | 22,940 | 13,573 | 1.440724 | 0.753333 | |
156,427 | Psycho | 1,959 | 4.11 | 45,823 | 1,935 | Psycho | 1 | Robert Bloch | It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty but clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a l... | 208 | 18,400 | 16,507 | 8,814 | 1,574 | 528 | 0.919329 | 0.703333 | |
333,715 | The Queen of the Damned | 1,988 | 3.88 | 125,503 | 2,085 | The Vampire Chronicles | 3 | Anne Rice | "A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there's good news on the last page: 'The chronicle of the vampires will continue.' Yum."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen her... | 448 | 40,348 | 41,968 | 32,862 | 8,402 | 1,923 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
3,698 | The Quiet American | 1,955 | 3.97 | 40,178 | 2,632 | null | null | Graham Greene | Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash... | 180 | 11,452 | 18,154 | 8,635 | 1,611 | 326 | 0.432693 | 0.656667 | |
2,008,756 | Ragtime | 1,975 | 3.88 | 34,154 | 2,212 | null | null | E.L. Doctorow | Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday after... | 270 | 9,825 | 13,609 | 8,140 | 1,929 | 651 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
121,356 | Raiders of Spanish Peaks | 1,938 | 3.92 | 259 | 8 | null | null | Zane Grey | Hoping a change in environment will ease John Lindsay's sickness, his family heads west to discover that their new homestead is an abandoned military post, and they've ridden into the middle of a gang of thieves and rustlers who have total control of the desolate land. | 384 | 82 | 96 | 62 | 16 | 3 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
5,194 | The Reader | 1,995 | 3.74 | 155,045 | 9,323 | null | null | Bernhard Schlink | Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woma... | 218 | 36,217 | 61,105 | 42,839 | 11,715 | 3,169 | -0.366779 | 0.58 | |
25,309,336 | The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales | 0 | 4.06 | 544 | 52 | Josey Wales | 1 | Forrest Carter | Josey Wales is out for blood. The Union Army slaughtered his family and lured his friends into a death trap under the guise of a white flag. The war may be over, but he refuses to surrender. No matter how far he has to ride, no matter how high the price on his head, no matter how much he hurts or hungers - he will get ... | 224 | 184 | 234 | 107 | 11 | 8 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 | |
45,338 | Rendezvous in Black | 1,948 | 3.96 | 1,167 | 99 | null | null | Cornell Woolrich | On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He | 211 | 356 | 497 | 242 | 50 | 22 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 | |
219,919 | The Robe | 1,942 | 4.21 | 21,796 | 1,059 | null | null | Lloyd C. Douglas | A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Here is a timeless story of adventure, faith, a... | 528 | 10,064 | 7,241 | 3,621 | 679 | 191 | 1.266926 | 0.736667 | |
2,932 | Robinson Crusoe | 1,719 | 3.66 | 219,462 | 5,477 | Robinson Crusoe | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps. | 320 | 52,749 | 74,884 | 64,530 | 20,129 | 7,170 | -0.644856 | 0.553333 | |
50,976 | The Roots of Heaven | 1,957 | 4.1 | 977 | 86 | null | null | Romain Gary | "Well, I finally got an idea. When he fails, do like me: think about free elephant ride through Africa for hundreds and hundreds of wonderful animals that nothing could be built - either a wall or a fence of barbed wire - passing large open spaces and crush everything in its path, and destroying everything - while they... | 372 | 418 | 332 | 152 | 61 | 14 | 0.884569 | 0.7 | |
1,650,307 | A Running Duck | 1,974 | 3.73 | 94 | 15 | null | null | Paula Gosling | Clare Randell, copywriter for a major San Francisco advertising agency, is running for a cab one evening when she is suddenly, inexplicably shot by a sniper. When the police investigate, Lieutenant Mike Malchek discerns the mark of Edison, a deadly assassin he's been tracking for years. Then Clare's fiance is killed in... | 202 | 22 | 37 | 25 | 8 | 2 | -0.401539 | 0.576667 | |
287,625 | The Running Man | 1,982 | 3.86 | 85,235 | 2,550 | null | null | Richard Bachman | The year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's latest contestant | 219 | 24,434 | 31,031 | 23,846 | 4,997 | 927 | 0.050337 | 0.62 | |
550,942 | Sahara | 1,992 | 3.96 | 51,169 | 851 | Dirk Pitt | 11 | Clive Cussler | 1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threat... | 541 | 16,700 | 19,660 | 11,709 | 2,209 | 891 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 | |
1,589,604 | Salem's Lot | 1,975 | 4.01 | 283,765 | 7,928 | null | null | Stephen King | 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'salem's Lot was a summer of homecoming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'salem's Lot hoping to cast out h... | 451 | 101,020 | 102,946 | 63,712 | 12,963 | 3,124 | 0.571732 | 0.67 | |
815,854 | The Sand Pebbles | 1,962 | 4.23 | 1,794 | 88 | null | null | Richard McKenna | Recommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962. The winner of the coveted Harper Prize, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for seven m... | 602 | 792 | 670 | 291 | 33 | 8 | 1.336445 | 0.743333 | |
42,956 | Sayonara | 1,954 | 3.8 | 1,946 | 115 | null | null | James A. Michener | From a great master of historical fiction comes a brilliant tale of love amid war. James A. Michener combines powerful storytelling with deep sensitivity in this novel of a U.S. Army man who, against all odds, falls for a fascinating Japanese woman. Stationed in the exotic Far East, Major Lloyd Gruver considers himself... | 208 | 505 | 709 | 591 | 117 | 24 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
1,066,979 | Scarface | 1,929 | 3.76 | 365 | 27 | null | null | Armitage Trail | Tony Guarino grew up in the hard world of the bar and the poolroom, where every gangster was a hero and every cop an enemy. Only the tough made it. When he was just eighteen, he killed Al Spingola, gang boss and ruthless slayer, and was catapulted into notoriety and fame, but that was to be just the beginning of his ri... | 186 | 107 | 116 | 104 | 25 | 13 | -0.29726 | 0.586667 | |
43,049 | The Sea Wolf | 1,904 | 4.03 | 21,901 | 1,163 | null | null | Jack London | The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen.Larsen is... | 425 | 7,686 | 8,471 | 4,614 | 898 | 232 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 | |
37,435 | The Secret Life of Bees | 2,002 | 4.03 | 1,017,618 | 28,366 | null | null | Sue Monk Kidd | Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both ... | 336 | 378,881 | 376,420 | 196,670 | 47,491 | 18,156 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 | |
1,123,529 | Shalako | 1,962 | 3.93 | 2,155 | 62 | null | null | Louis L'Amour | He rode wild country with wilder men. He was a loner who owned nothing but his horse and saddle-and his guns. | 208 | 683 | 756 | 619 | 83 | 14 | 0.293655 | 0.643333 | |
1,233,222 | Sheep | 2,004 | 3.67 | 114 | 13 | null | null | Simon Maginn | James, a builder, and Ad | 320 | 25 | 41 | 35 | 11 | 2 | -0.610097 | 0.556667 | |
33,549 | The Shrinking Man | 1,956 | 3.8 | 6,135 | 415 | null | null | Richard Matheson | While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not onl... | 201 | 1,597 | 2,331 | 1,692 | 406 | 109 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
2,298,271 | Sideways | 2,004 | 3.69 | 4,779 | 551 | The Sideways Trilogy | 1 | Rex Pickett | Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, ... | 368 | 1,080 | 1,831 | 1,333 | 394 | 141 | -0.540577 | 0.563333 | |
4,339,930 | Skinwalkers | 1,986 | 4.03 | 10,379 | 366 | Leaphorn & Chee | 7 | Tony Hillerman | In this breakout thriller by Edgar winner Tony Hillerman, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo tribal police are united for the first time in a murder investigation that leads them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft. | 216 | 3,097 | 4,802 | 2,217 | 216 | 47 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 | |
87,957 | Skipping Christmas | 2,001 | 3.48 | 51,877 | 4,217 | null | null | John Grisham | Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That | 177 | 10,117 | 15,362 | 17,767 | 6,627 | 2,004 | -1.270531 | 0.493333 | |
34,744,357 | The Snatchers/Clean Break | 1,953 | 3.99 | 157 | 32 | null | null | Lionel White | THE SNATCHERS Cal Dent has set up the perfect crime, a kidnapping which will bring the gang a half a million dollars. On his side, he s got Red the ex-boxer and his girl, Pearl, and twitchy Gino, plus Fats Morn, their outside man. The heist goes smoothly. They ve got the kid and her caretaker, and they re holding up in... | 286 | 44 | 72 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
95,558 | Solaris | 1,961 | 3.99 | 59,316 | 2,953 | null | null | Stanis?aw Lem | A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, ... | 204 | 21,346 | 21,350 | 12,092 | 3,456 | 1,072 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
990,078 | Soldier of Fortune | 1,954 | 3.67 | 46 | 6 | null | null | Ernest K. Gann | Louis Hoyt, Jane's wild Irish husband, has traveled the world over on lock and looks and personality. Now he is presumed dead in Red China. Jane alone cannot believe it.So Jane comes to Hong Kong with a few thousand dollars and a great determination to help this man who, for the first time in his life, cannot help hims... | 217 | 8 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 1 | -0.610097 | 0.556667 | |
10,975 | The Sound and the Fury | 1,929 | 3.86 | 145,435 | 6,252 | null | null | William Faulkner | The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions."Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes re... | 326 | 53,214 | 44,630 | 28,427 | 11,880 | 7,284 | 0.050337 | 0.62 | |
629,845 | Spider | 1,990 | 3.77 | 1,652 | 111 | null | null | Patrick McGrath | Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of horror and madness, s... | 224 | 401 | 650 | 448 | 124 | 29 | -0.2625 | 0.59 | |
444,304 | The Field Guide | 2,003 | 3.89 | 71,059 | 2,944 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | 1 | Tony DiTerlizzi | It all starts when Jared Grace finds their great uncle's book, 'Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You' and the Grace kids realize that they are not alone in their new house. Now the kids want to tell their story but the faeries will do everything they can to stop them. | 112 | 23,538 | 23,175 | 18,727 | 4,250 | 1,369 | 0.154616 | 0.63 | |
9,881,733 | Starfire | 1,960 | 3.22 | 9 | 3 | null | null | Robert Buckner | The Air Force wanted Captain Rich Talbot in tip-top form for the big event - a trip to outer space in a satellite. | 139 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | -2.174282 | 0.406667 | |
17,214 | Starship Troopers | 1,959 | 4 | 167,445 | 4,790 | null | null | Robert A. Heinlein | The historians can | 335 | 59,706 | 61,467 | 35,609 | 8,294 | 2,369 | 0.536973 | 0.666667 | |
1,122,715 | The Stepford Wives | 1,972 | 3.74 | 24,762 | 1,838 | null | null | Ira Levin | The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil & Rosemary's Baby with an Introduction by Peter Straub. For Joanna, her husband, Walter & their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a t... | 145 | 5,444 | 9,744 | 7,549 | 1,720 | 305 | -0.366779 | 0.58 | |
51,499 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1,886 | 3.8 | 312,751 | 10,165 | null | null | Robert Louis Stevenson | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawy... | 98 | 78,382 | 120,917 | 90,440 | 19,093 | 3,919 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
15,677 | Strangers on a Train | 1,950 | 3.79 | 14,247 | 1,372 | null | null | Patricia Highsmith | The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the sa... | 256 | 3,344 | 5,987 | 3,728 | 954 | 234 | -0.192981 | 0.596667 | |
528,499 | Strip Tease | 1,993 | 3.84 | 13,369 | 635 | null | null | Carl Hiaasen | Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in south Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure boats | 353 | 3,059 | 5,852 | 3,755 | 604 | 99 | -0.019182 | 0.613333 | |
138,959 | Stuart Little | 1,945 | 3.89 | 98,555 | 2,365 | null | null | E.B. White | A paperback edition of E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! With black and white illustrations.Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, ... | 131 | 32,795 | 32,031 | 25,543 | 6,403 | 1,783 | 0.154616 | 0.63 | |
42,933 | Tai-Pan | 1,966 | 4.26 | 40,507 | 853 | Asian Saga: Chronological Order | 2 | James Clavell | An Alternate Cover of this edition can be found here.Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is ... | 734 | 18,763 | 14,820 | 5,898 | 844 | 182 | 1.440724 | 0.753333 | |
1,953 | A Tale of Two Cities | 1,859 | 3.83 | 736,717 | 15,078 | null | null | Charles Dickens | 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled Fr... | 489 | 247,480 | 235,592 | 163,944 | 58,965 | 30,736 | -0.053942 | 0.61 | |
152,052 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | 1,935 | 3.85 | 5,767 | 496 | null | null | Horace McCoy | The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms | 122 | 1,548 | 2,306 | 1,499 | 329 | 85 | 0.015577 | 0.616667 | |
69,628 | Thin Air | 1,995 | 3.89 | 4,382 | 152 | Spenser | 22 | Robert B. Parker | When a Boston police detective's adored young bride, Lisa St. Claire, disappears without a trace, he enlists Spenser's help in tracking her down. Sleuthing from a New England college campus to the slick sports clubs of L.A., Spenser discovers all about Lisa - including her past history of prostitution, substance abuse,... | 293 | 1,129 | 1,836 | 1,256 | 140 | 21 | 0.154616 | 0.63 | |
177,194 | Thunderball | 1,961 | 3.8 | 11,772 | 556 | James Bond Original Series | 9 | Ian Fleming | "The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey eyes. He was wearing a very dark-blue lightweight single-breasted suit over a cream silk shirt and a black knitted silk tie. Despite the heat, he looked cool and clean. 'And who might you be' she asked sharply. 'My name's B... | 258 | 2,688 | 4,816 | 3,609 | 577 | 82 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
121,198 | The Thundering Herd | 1,925 | 3.73 | 339 | 8 | null | null | Zane Grey | Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest | 368 | 70 | 124 | 131 | 12 | 2 | -0.401539 | 0.576667 | |
2,857,588 | Time After Time | 1,979 | 3.6 | 281 | 54 | null | null | Karl Alexander | H. G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper through time, via his infamous time machine, to current day San Francisco, Jack just happen to be a sociopath friend of dear H.G.'s. San Fran is a great back drop to the novel, and their battles. H.G. even finds love. This book went on to make a great film by the same title. In fact H... | 341 | 50 | 109 | 86 | 31 | 5 | -0.853414 | 0.533333 | |
207,035 | The Time Traveler's Wife | 2,003 | 3.96 | 1,430,463 | 45,483 | null | null | Audrey Niffenegger | A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshire, and artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an ... | 546 | 547,007 | 466,660 | 278,251 | 91,145 | 47,400 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 | |
895,163 | To Sir, With Love | 1,959 | 4.16 | 10,949 | 507 | null | null | E.R. Braithwaite | The all-time Classic schoolroom drama - as relevant as today's headlines ...He shamed them, wrestled with them, enlightened them, and - ultimately - learned to love them. Mr. Braithwaite, the new teacher, had first to fight the class bully. Then he taught defiant, hard-bitten delinquents to call him "Sir," and to addre... | 189 | 4,423 | 4,264 | 1,919 | 283 | 60 | 1.093127 | 0.72 | |
1,201,301 | To the Devil a Daughter (Molly Fountain, #1) | 1,953 | 3.69 | 713 | 56 | Black Magic | 4 | Dennis Wheatley | Beneath the azure sky of the French Riviera, Christina Mordant looks and behaves like any other attractive girl. But each night as darkness falls, the demon within her betrays its presence.A thousand miles away, deep in the Essex marshes, a priest of Satan is about to achieve his life's ambition: Canon Copely-Syle of B... | 336 | 148 | 291 | 198 | 56 | 20 | -0.540577 | 0.563333 | |
85,216 | Touch | 1,987 | 3.54 | 1,437 | 93 | null | null | Elmore Leonard | Touch is sensational suspense from the master of crime fiction, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. | 336 | 235 | 499 | 532 | 146 | 25 | -1.061973 | 0.513333 | |
54,479 | Around the World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages, #11) | 1,873 | 3.92 | 158,368 | 5,330 | null | null | Jules Verne | "To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness"One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions | 252 | 46,380 | 62,698 | 40,544 | 7,327 | 1,419 | 0.258895 | 0.64 | |
135,839 | Trainspotting | 1,993 | 4.09 | 123,861 | 2,338 | Mark Renton | 2 | Irvine Welsh | The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle | 344 | 48,025 | 47,598 | 21,510 | 4,738 | 1,990 | 0.84981 | 0.696667 | |
257,845 | True Grit | 1,968 | 4.14 | 33,570 | 4,519 | null | null | Charles Portis | In the 1870s, young Mattie Ross learns that her beloved father was gunned down by his former handyman. But even though this gutsy 14-year-old is seeking vengeance, she is smart enough to figure out she can't go alone after a desperado who's holed up in Indian territory. With some fast-talking, she convinces mean, one-e... | 224 | 12,941 | 13,913 | 5,525 | 980 | 211 | 1.023608 | 0.713333 | |
49,041 | New Moon | 2,008 | 3.53 | 1,289,181 | 45,226 | Twilight | 2 | Stephenie Meyer | There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here. I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there... | 563 | 378,217 | 311,815 | 317,628 | 172,311 | 109,210 | -1.096732 | 0.51 | |
428,263 | Eclipse | 2,008 | 3.69 | 1,262,648 | 36,123 | Twilight | 3 | Stephenie Meyer | As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential t... | 629 | 427,184 | 331,202 | 282,138 | 133,707 | 88,417 | -0.540577 | 0.563333 | |
9,717 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | 1,984 | 4.09 | 286,130 | 12,689 | null | null | Milan Kundera | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflection... | 320 | 120,678 | 97,313 | 47,850 | 14,743 | 5,546 | 0.84981 | 0.696667 | |
56,187 | Under the Tonto Rim | 1,926 | 3.96 | 375 | 10 | null | null | Zane Grey | Lucy Watson, a young schoolteacher, is appointed welfare instructor in a community of isolated backwoods folk. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. She is especially successful with a strong, uncouth bee-hunter. Zane Grey's handling of these primitive characte... | 384 | 124 | 125 | 113 | 13 | 0 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 | |
18,401,124 | Unforgiven | 1,957 | 3.94 | 5,011 | 583 | Unforgiven | 1 | Elizabeth Finn | A mistake made long ago | 369 | 1,833 | 1,696 | 1,025 | 273 | 184 | 0.328414 | 0.646667 | |
422,728 | The Unknown Soldier | 1,954 | 4.02 | 3,755 | 126 | null | null | V | The Unknown Soldier is a story about the Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union, told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers. Gritty and realistic, it was partly intended to shatter the myth of the noble, obedient Finnish soldier, and in that it succeeded admirably. | 338 | 1,297 | 1,517 | 691 | 206 | 44 | 0.606492 | 0.673333 | |
54,499 | The Man in the Iron Mask | 1,847 | 3.99 | 62,012 | 851 | The d'Artagnan Romances | 3.4 | Alexandre Dumas | A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos pl... | 470 | 21,096 | 22,928 | 14,651 | 2,737 | 600 | 0.502213 | 0.663333 | |
450,110 | Vision Quest | 1,979 | 3.88 | 250 | 43 | null | null | Terry Davis | You think I | 256 | 86 | 77 | 62 | 20 | 5 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 | |
1,220,489 | The Wailing Asteroid | 1,960 | 3.59 | 135 | 21 | null | null | Murray Leinster | THE PUBLIC ABRUPTLY ceased to be interested in news of the signals. Rather, it suddenly wanted to stop thinking about them. The public was scared. Throughout all human history, the most horrifying of all ideas has been the idea of something which was as intelligent as a man, but wasn't human.The first sounds came at mi... | 160 | 27 | 44 | 48 | 13 | 3 | -0.888174 | 0.53 | |
1,141,654 | Walkabout | 1,959 | 3.49 | 1,868 | 187 | null | null | James Vance Marshall | A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia,and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and her younger brother Peter set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meeting with an Abo... | 128 | 348 | 570 | 661 | 229 | 60 | -1.235771 | 0.496667 | |
3,167,863 | A Watcher in the Woods | 1,976 | 3.44 | 385 | 68 | null | null | Florence Engel Randall | When their family moves into a house at the edge of a forest, two sisters sense an invisible presence as strange occurrences take place. | 229 | 56 | 126 | 143 | 53 | 7 | -1.409569 | 0.48 | |
85,609 | Water for Elephants | 2,006 | 4.08 | 1,230,418 | 57,364 | null | null | Sara Gruen | Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of fr... | 335 | 478,481 | 460,613 | 219,113 | 54,008 | 18,203 | 0.81505 | 0.693333 | |
6,062,175 | What Dreams May Come | 1,978 | 3.95 | 10,302 | 932 | null | null | Richard Matheson | The New York Times bestsellerA LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELLWhat happens to us after we die Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.But even Heaven is not complete without ... | 0 | 3,796 | 3,448 | 2,105 | 690 | 263 | 0.363174 | 0.65 | |
1,883,224 | Where the Red Fern Grows | 1,961 | 4.06 | 306,702 | 9,902 | null | null | Wilson Rawls | Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann - a boy and his two dogs.A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to make them into the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadne... | 272 | 128,704 | 97,772 | 57,128 | 16,085 | 7,013 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 | |
121,226 | Wild Horse Mesa | 1,928 | 3.8 | 246 | 13 | null | null | Zane Grey | Into the rough plains of Utah roamed the legendary Panquitch, a great wild stallion, that had eluded the countless wranglers who sought to capture him. | 304 | 57 | 95 | 85 | 7 | 2 | -0.158221 | 0.6 | |
2,020,399 | The Witches | 1,983 | 4.17 | 268,196 | 6,205 | null | null | Roald Dahl | "This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches." So begins one of Roald Dahl's best books ever, and, ironically, it is such a great story because the premise is perfectly plausible from the outset. When the narrator's parents die in a car crash on page two (contrast this terribly real demise with that of James's... | 218 | 120,925 | 89,618 | 44,724 | 8,889 | 4,040 | 1.127887 | 0.723333 | |
14,334 | Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering | 2,006 | 3.98 | 3,124 | 465 | null | null | David Gregory | You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of Nazareth: The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can | 100 | 1,204 | 1,013 | 625 | 198 | 84 | 0.467453 | 0.66 | |
14,337 | A Day with a Perfect Stranger | 2,006 | 4.06 | 1,149 | 136 | null | null | David Gregory | A Day with a Perfect Stranger | 112 | 441 | 413 | 236 | 46 | 13 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 | |
9,784 | Women in Love | 1,920 | 3.66 | 26,555 | 953 | Brangwen Family series | 2 | D.H. Lawrence | "An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expressions which greeted the publication of "Women in Love". Yet Lawrence regarded this novel as his best book and F. R. Leavis considered it Lawrence's supreme masterpiece.The novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursu... | 416 | 6,483 | 9,011 | 7,512 | 2,531 | 1,018 | -0.644856 | 0.553333 | |
765,811 | The Women of Brewster Place | 1,982 | 4.15 | 16,604 | 571 | null | null | Gloria Naylor | In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak inner-city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and open-hearted, these women forge th... | 192 | 6,871 | 6,180 | 2,899 | 458 | 196 | 1.058368 | 0.716667 |
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