50 most requested books in the last month
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1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (More from this author). Added: In the last week What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage:... read more |
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2. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (More from this author). Added: In the last month It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to... read more |
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3. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (More from this author). Added: In the last month Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair... read more |
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4. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (More from this author). Added: In the last month A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaskan... read more |
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5. The Rose Petal Beach by Dorothy Koomson (More from this author). Added: In the last month Every love story has a dangerous twist. Tamia Challey is horrified when her husband, Scott, is accused of something terrible - but when she discovers who his accuser is, everything goes into... read more |
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6. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (More from this author). Added: In the last week A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel... read more |
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7. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (More from this author). Added: In the last month Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the... read more |
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8. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (More from this author). Added: In the last month What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of... read more |
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9. How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran (More from this author). Added: In the last month 1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse.1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. NOW - Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunuch from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting... read more |
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10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (More from this author). Added: In the last month When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or... read more |
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11. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (More from this author). Added: In the last week A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by... read more |
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12. The Prince Of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (More from this author). Added: In the last month It's war time, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the... read more |
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13. Inferno by Dan Brown (More from this author). Added: In the last week <No description available yet> |
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14. Into The Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes (More from this author). Added: In the last week Catherine has been enjoying the single life for long enough to know a good catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic, spontaneous - Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends... read more |
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15. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours <No description available yet> |
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16. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (More from this author). Added: In the last month "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me." Those lines begin one of the most... read more |
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17. Mercy by Jodi Picoult (More from this author). Added: In the last month Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill... read more |
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18. The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones (More from this author). Added: In the last week A brilliant novel ... At once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class.' Ann PatchettOne late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an... read more |
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19. One Day by David Nicholls (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours Two people, twenty years, one day. July 15, 1988. Emma Dexter first meet at a university graduation. Their paths are supposed to leave tomorrow. But after only one day together, they can not even... read more |
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20. Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (More from this author). Added: In the last month The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt... read more |
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21. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (More from this author). Added: In the last month It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World... read more |
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22. WORLD WAR Z by MAX BROOKS (More from this author). Added: In the last month “The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched... read more |
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23. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (More from this author). Added: In the last week In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey... read more |
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24. The Prisoner Of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (More from this author). Added: In the last week <No description available yet> |
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25. A Cottage By The Sea by Carole Matthews (More from this author). Added: In the last month Grace has been best friends with Ella and Flick forever. The late-night chats, shared heartaches and good times have created a bond that has stood the test of time. When Ella invites them to stay for... read more |
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26. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (More from this author). Added: In the last month Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and... read more |
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27. The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (More from this author). Added: In the last month A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan... read more |
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28. Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading... read more |
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29. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (More from this author). Added: In the last week Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her... read more |
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30. The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (More from this author). Added: In the last month "I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six." In the summer of 1914, the Empress Alexandra, a magnificent ocean liner, suffers... read more |
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31. Book For Postage by Me (More from this author). Added: In the last month <No description available yet> |
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32. Eloise by Judy Finnigan (More from this author). Added: In the last week She was a daughter, a wife, a mother. She was my friend. But what secrets did Eloise take to her grave? After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy... read more |
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33. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (More from this author). Added: In the last month First published well, in 1973 actually, this book spawned the Rob Reiner-directed cult film of the same name. It's a tongue-in-cheek fairytale of love, life, action, death and life again. Featuring... read more |
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34. 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian... read more |
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35. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (More from this author). Added: In the last month When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described 'white... read more |
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36. Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell (More from this author). Added: In the last week Having grown up on the quiet island of Guernsey, Betty Dean can't wait to start her new life in London. On a mission to find Clara Pickle - the mysterious beneficiary in her grandmother's will - she... read more |
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37. Rush Of Blood by Mark Billingham (More from this author). Added: In the last month Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder... Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a... read more |
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38. A Song Of Ice And Fire (1) - A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (More from this author). Added: In the last month <No description available yet> |
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39. Tigers In Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann (More from this author). Added: In the last month Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House, the glorious old family estate on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of... read more |
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40. I've Got Your Number by Sophie KINSELLA (More from this author). Added: In the last month I've lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've... read more |
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41. Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson (More from this author). Added: In the last month Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011: Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's... read more |
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42. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (More from this author). Added: In the last week Libby Day was just seven years old when her evidence put her fifteen-year-old brother behind bars.Since then, she has been drifting. But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben's... read more |
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43. A Week In December by Sebastian Faulks (More from this author). Added: In the last week From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe. London: the week... read more |
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44. The Crime Trade by Simon Kernick (More from this author). Added: More than 3 months ago When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers in the act of selling a large consignment of cocaine to undercover police officers, goes horribly wrong,... read more |
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45. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car... read more |
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46. Death Comes To Pemberley by Baroness P. D. James (More from this author). Added: In the last week The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live... read more |
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47. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (More from this author). Added: In the last month 1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move... read more |
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48. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (More from this author). Added: More than 3 months ago In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover.... read more |
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49. Room by Emma Donoghue (More from this author). Added: In the last month To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him... read more |
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50. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins... read more |