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Nightmare Alley

ByWilliam Lindsay Gresham

1946 • 35 Readers • 275 pages • 3.9

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

ByJared M. Diamond

1998 • 467 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

#1 of 1 in The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World

ByApsley Cherry-Garrard

1922 • 24 Readers • 607 pages • 3.7

China's Last Empire

China's Last Empire: The Great Qing

ByWilliam T. Rowe, Timothy Brook

1 Reader

China's Cosmopolitan Empire

China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty

ByMark Edward Lewis

1 Reader

#1-3 of 1 in A History of Western Philosophy

A History of Western Philosophy

ByBertrand Russell

1945 • 125 Readers • 895 pages • 4.3

Ten Days that Shook the World

ByJohn Reed

1919 • 14 Readers • 351 pages • 4

Wealth and Democracy : A Political History of the American Rich

ByKevin Phillips

2002 • 3 Readers • 496 pages

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra

ByToby Wilkinson

2010 • 19 Readers • 646 pages • 5

Ways of Seeing

ByJohn Berger

1972 • 128 Readers • 192 pages • 4.2

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers

ByRobert L. Heilbroner

1953 • 26 Readers • 368 pages • 3.8

Ancient Warfare and Civilization

In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

ByRobert G. Hoyland

2014 • 4 Readers

Dis-Enclosure

Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity

ByGabriel Malenfant, Jean-Luc Nancy,Bettina Bergo(Translator)

1 Reader

Blood royal

ByEric Jager

2014 • 10 Readers • 323 pages • 3.5

Goethe

ByHermann Grimm

1 Reader

Over the Edge of the World

ByLaurence Bergreen

2009 • 22 Readers • 512 pages

The Year of Magical Thinking

ByJoan Didion

2005 • 337 Readers • 5h 1m • 4.1

History of the Russian Revolution

ByLeon Trotsky,Max Eastman(Translator)

14 Readers

Der Tunnel, Roman Von Bernhard Kellermann

ByBernhard Kellermann

1 Reader

Lost in the Funhouse

ByJohn Barth

1988 • 25 Readers • 212 pages • 3.3

#1 of 4 in Gilead

Gilead

ByMarilynne Robinson

2004 • 170 Readers • 289 pages • 4

#1 of 10 in The Elric Saga

Elric of Melniboné

ByMichael Moorcock

1972 • 238 Readers • 24h 12m • 3.4

The Sea-Hawk (Dodo Press)

ByRafael Sabatini

1915 • 11 Readers • 374 pages • 3.7

Grand Babylon Hotel

ByArnold Bennett

1902 • 6 Readers • 200 pages • 3.3

Seven Men

ByMax Beerbohm

1919 • 5 Readers • 232 pages

#20.5 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

The Labors of Hercules (Hercule Poirot)

ByAgatha Christie

1947 • 56 Readers • 260 pages • 3.5

#11 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

Three Act Tragedy

ByAgatha Christie

1934 • 64 Readers • 230 pages • 3.5

Aztecs

Aztecs: An Interpretation

ByInga Clendinnen

1 Reader

Eminent Victorians

ByLytton Strachey, John Sutherland

2 Readers

A Journal of the Plague Year

ByDaniel Defoe

1722 • 44 Readers • 328 pages • 3.4

The Great God Pan

ByArthur Machen

1890 • 72 Readers • 76 pages • 3.7

The manual of detection

ByJedediah Berry

2009 • 17 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

#1 of 1 in The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers

ByHermann Broch

1964 • 10 Readers • 648 pages • 5

Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

ByWilliam Hazlitt

1822 • 2 Readers • 376 pages • 2

Raffles

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

ByRichard Lancelyn Green, E.W. Hornung

2 Readers

#15 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

Cards on the Table

ByAgatha Christie

1936 • 98 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7

Monkey

Monkey: A Journey to the West

ByArthur Waley, Wu Ch'eng-En

2 Readers

Sometimes a Great Notion

ByKen Kesey

1964 • 51 Readers • 715 pages • 4.4

#1 of 2 in Firefall

Blindsight

ByPeter Watts

2006 • 446 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

#4 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

ByAgatha Christie

1926 • 433 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

Please, Mr. Einstein

ByJean-Claude Carrière, John Brownjohn

1 Reader

Robinson Crusoe

ByDaniel Defoe,George Stade

19 • 297 Readers • 3.5

Women, Compulsion, Modernity

Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism

ByJennifer L. Fleissner

1 Reader

Murder in the Gunroom

ByH. Beam Piper

1953 • 2 Readers • 168 pages

The Golden Peaches of Samarkand

The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of t'Ang Exotics

ByEdward H. Schafer

3 Readers

#37 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

The Clocks

ByAgatha Christie

1960 • 61 Readers • 230 pages • 3.8

Ethan Frome

ByEdith Wharton

116 Readers • 3.3

#33 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

Hickory Dickory Dock

ByAgatha Christie

1955 • 63 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7

#11 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

Crima din Orient Express

ByAgatha Christie

1933 • 798 Readers • 288 pages • 4.1

#1 of 2 in Melbourne Trilogy

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

ByFergus Hume

1886 • 9 Readers • 260 pages • 3.3

Just So Stories

ByRudyard Kipling

1902 • 45 Readers • 210 pages • 3.8

#1 of 10 in Barsoom

A Princess of Mars

ByEdgar Rice Burroughs

1912 • 153 Readers • 186 pages • 3.4

#1 of 3 in The Rise and Fall

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

BySteve Brusatte

2018 • 168 Readers • 533 pages • 4.2

The Midnight Library

ByMatt Haig

2020 • 1,908 Readers • 3.8

The Tale of Sinuhe, and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 B.C.

ByR.B. Parkinson

1 Reader

#13 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

The A.B.C. Murders

ByAgatha Christie

1936 • 19 Readers • 224 pages • 4.2

Legends of Vancouver

ByE. Pauline Johnson

2018 • 1 Reader • 76 pages

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

ByAnne Brontë

1847 • 177 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#8 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

Peril at End House

ByAgatha Christie

1932 • 111 Readers • 204 pages • 3.9

Zuleika Dobson

Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story

ByMax Beerbohm

1 Reader

Wilderness of Mirrors

Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents

ByDavid C. Martin

3 Readers

Comics and Sequential Art

Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist

ByWill Eisner

1 Reader

#2 of 3 in The Growth Trilogy

The Magnificent Ambersons

ByBooth Tarkington

1918 • 20 Readers • 288 pages • 4

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

ByErnest Shackleton

1919 • 6 Readers • 374 pages • 3

#19 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

Appointment with Death

ByAgatha Christie

1938 • 85 Readers • 303 pages • 3.4

Le Morte Darthur

Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript

BySir Thomas Malory, Helen Cooper

1 Reader

#1 of 4 in Professor Challenger

The Lost World

ByArthur Conan Doyle

1900 • 82 Readers • 348 pages • 3.6

Complete Ghost Stories

ByM.R. James

1936 • 4 Readers • 362 pages

Through the Language Glass

ByGuy Deutscher

2010 • 55 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

Philosophical Letters

Philosophical Letters: Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation

ByPrudence L. Steiner, Voltaire

1 Reader

The Art of Reading

ByDamon Young

4 Readers • 3.5

The Long Afternoon of Earth

ByBrian W. Aldiss

3 Readers • 3.3

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

ByErwin Schrödinger

1944 • 20 Readers • 184 pages • 4

Einstein's Dreams

ByAlan Lightman

1992 • 97 Readers • 179 pages • 4

Magic

ByG. K. Chesteron

1 Reader

The Rediscovery of the Mind

ByJohn Rogers Searle

3 Readers • 4

The Character of Physical Law

ByRichard Feynman

1 Reader

The Complete Essays

ByM.A. Screech, Michel de Montaigne

2 Readers

The Right to Be Lazy

The Right to Be Lazy: Essays by Paul Lafargue

ByKari Lyndersen, Fred Thompson, Paul Lafargue, Bernard Marszalek

1 Reader

The Great Stone Face

ByNathaniel Hawthorne, Beatriz Scaglia

1 Reader

A Mathematician's Apology

ByG.H. Hardy

1940 • 17 Readers • 153 pages • 2.5

Passing

ByNella Larsen

1929 • 161 Readers • 307 pages • 3.8

Chemical History of a Candle

Chemical History of a Candle: Twenty-two Experiments and Six Classic Lectures

ByMichael Faraday

1 Reader

Flatland

ByEdwin A. Abbott

1884 • 5 Readers • 125 pages

Surreal Numbers

ByDonald Knuth

3 Readers

#1 of 3 in Auschwitz Trilogy

Survival in Auschwitz

ByPrimo Levi,Stuart J. Woolf(Translator)

1996 • 36 Readers • 198 pages • 4.3

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

ByChristopher de Hamel

2016 • 10 Readers • 632 pages

The Periodic Table

ByPrimo Levi

1975 • 42 Readers • 194 pages • 3.7

Nightwood

ByDjuna Barnes

2006 • 51 Readers • 224 pages • 3.3

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

ByW. S. Merwin

2005 • 4 Readers • 152 pages • 4

The Invention of Morel

ByAdolfo Bioy Casares,Ruth L.C. Simms(Translator)

1940 • 85 Readers • 122 pages • 3.8

#3 of 3 in Empire Trilogy

The Singapore Grip

ByJ.G. Farrell

1978 • 7 Readers • 584 pages

A High Wind in Jamaica

ByRichard Hughes

1929 • 22 Readers • 279 pages • 3.3

Lolly Willowes

BySylvia Townsend Warner

1926 • 39 Readers • 264 pages • 4

Lucky Jim

ByKingsley Amis

5 Readers • 3

Jakob von Gunten

ByRobert Walser

1909 • 33 Readers • 212 pages • 3.5

The Enchanted April

ByElizabeth von Arnim

1922 • 58 Readers • 247 pages • 4.1

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

BySébastien Japrisot,Helen Weaver(Translator)

1966 • 3 Readers • 224 pages • 3

#1 of 3 in The Continental Op

Red Harvest

ByDashiell Hammett

1929 • 78 Readers • 224 pages • 4

Augustus

ByJohn Williams

1972 • 70 Readers • 360 pages • 4.4

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