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 week 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. Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth by Andrew Smith (More from this author). Added: In the last month The Apollo Moon landings have been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys, and all were indelibly marked by it. In Moondust,... read more |
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4. Sophie's World: A Novel About The History Of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (More from this author). Added: In the last week Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl,... read more |
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5. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (More from this author). Added: In the last week 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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6. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (More from this author). Added: In the last month 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 Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (More from this author). Added: In the last week 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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9. 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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10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (More from this author). Added: In the last week 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. 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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12. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (More from this author). Added: In the last month 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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13. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (More from this author). Added: In the last month "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to... read more |
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14. The Prisoner Of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (More from this author). Added: In the last month <No description available yet> |
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15. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (More from this author). Added: In the last month 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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16. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (More from this author). Added: In the last month "Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America..." So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk... read more |
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17. Mockingjay (Hunger Games Trilogy) by Suzanne Collins (More from this author). Added: In the last week Can Katniss Everdeen win the final fight against the Capitol? Against all odds, she's survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she is still not safe.... read more |
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18. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (More from this author). Added: In the last month NATIONAL BESTSELLERPULITZER PRIZE WINNERNational Book Critic's Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the YearThe Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The... read more |
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19. Book For Postage by Me (More from this author). Added: In the last month <No description available yet> |
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20. A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth... read more |
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21. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (More from this author). Added: In the last week 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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22. Book For Postage by None (More from this author). Added: In the last month <No description available yet> |
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23. Into The Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes (More from this author). Added: In the last month 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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24. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (More from this author). Added: In the last week 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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25. 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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26. How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran (More from this author). Added: In the last week 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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27. The Bookseller Of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad (More from this author). Added: In the last month Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family... read more |
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28. 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 week 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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29. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (More from this author). Added: In the last month <No description available yet> |
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30. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (More from this author). Added: In the last month Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away. But what if he didn't do it? The thrilling new novel from the award-winning author of SHARP OBJECTS. |
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31. The Passage by Justin Cronin (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.” First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a... read more |
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32. Eloise by Judy Finnigan (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 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. Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (More from this author). Added: In the last month 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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34. 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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35. The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly (More from this author). Added: In the last week 'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother !' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and... read more |
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36. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (More from this author). Added: In the last month From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession,... read more |
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37. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop In Paris by Jenny Colgan (More from this author). Added: In the last month Mouth-watering recipes inside! As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest,... read more |
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38. Farewell To The East End: The Last Days Of The East End Midwives by Jennifer Worth (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by... read more |
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39. 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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40. The Good Father by Noah Hawley (More from this author). Added: In the last month An ordinary boy with an ordinary life stands accused of killing the next president of the United States.WHAT HAPPENED?Dr Paul Allen is a well-respected man. He lives a happy, comfortable life with... read more |
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41. Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson (More from this author). Added: In the last 3 months ABOUTBOOK: From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception ("I exist!"), it is clear that she is a narrator who will leave no stone unturned in her account of family life above a pet shop in... read more |
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42. The Carrier by Sophie Hannah (More from this author). Added: In the last month When her plane is delayed overnight, Gaby Struthers finds herself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman named Lauren Cookson - but why is she scared of Gaby in... read more |
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43. The Dinner by Herman Koch (More from this author). Added: In the last week An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one... read more |
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44. 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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45. After The Fall by Charity Norman (More from this author). Added: In the last week In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse,... read more |
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46. Meet Me At The Cupcake Café by Jenny Colgan (More from this author). Added: In the last month Ever dreamed of starting over?Issy Randall can bake. No, more than that - Issy can create stunning, mouth-wateringly divine cakes. After a childhood spent in her beloved Grampa Joe's bakery she has... read more |
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47. A Week In December by Sebastian Faulks (More from this author). Added: In the last month 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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48. Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions (New Scientist) by "New Scientist" (More from this author). Added: In the last week How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof? Why do people have eyebrows? Why do pineapples have spines? How much does a head weigh? What affects the... read more |
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49. Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge (More from this author). Added: In the last month After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book, The Birthday Boys, the novelist tackles a much larger 1912 disaster: the sinking of the Titanic. The narrator,... read more |
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50. French Revolutions: Cycling The Tour De France by Tim Moore (More from this author). Added: In the last week Comic writer Tim Moore trades his ailing Rolls Royce for a bicycle, a map and a water bottle in French Revolutions. This is a quest to pedal the route of the Tour de France, no mean feat for the fit,... read more |