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The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

BySimon Winchester

1998 • 185 Readers • 200 pages • 3.8

the devil in the white city

ByErik Larson

2002 • 702 Readers • 447 pages • 4

#5 of 9 in George Smiley

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

ByJohn le Carré

1974 • 240 Readers • 384 pages • 4

#1 of 3 in Little Women

Little Women

ByLouisa May Alcott

1848 • 1,251 Readers • 449 pages • 3.9

#1 of 3 in Imperial Radch

Ancillary Justice

ByAnn Leckie

2013 • 802 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#1 of 22 in No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

ByAlexander McCall Smith

1998 • 175 Readers • 233 pages • 3.5

#3 of 5 in Agatha Christie Graphic Novels

And Then There Were None

ByAgatha Christie

1939 • 1,560 Readers • 116 pages • 4.2

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

ByNeal Stephenson

1995 • 391 Readers • 4

#1 of 22 in Phryne Fisher

Cocaine Blues

ByKerry Greenwood

1989 • 72 Readers • 175 pages • 3.6

#1 of 6 in Jackson Brodie

Case Histories

ByKate Atkinson

2004 • 126 Readers • 223 pages • 3.7

Kindred

ByOctavia E. Butler

1979 • 769 Readers • 292 pages • 4.3

The Woman in White

ByWilkie Collins

275 Readers • 4

#1 of 7 in The Mistborn Saga

Mistborn: The Final Empire

ByBrandon Sanderson

2006 • 2,826 Readers • 541 pages • 4.4

#1 of 3 in Capitaine Nemo

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

ByJules Verne,Anthony Bonner(Translator),+1 more

1866 • 494 Readers • 394 pages • 3.5

Leonardo Da Vinci

ByWalter Isaacson,Jordi Ainaud i Escudero(Translator)

2017 • 239 Readers • 600 pages • 4.2

#1 of 2 in London Below, The World of Neverwhere

Neverwhere

ByNeil Gaiman(Narrator)

1996 • 1,255 Readers • 480 pages • 4.1

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

ByPeter Frankopan

2001 • 188 Readers • 656 pages • 4.1

The Martian Chronicles

ByRay Bradbury

20 • 707 Readers • 182 pages • 4

#1 of 17 in Jason Bourne

The Bourne Identity

ByRobert Ludlum

1980 • 277 Readers • 610 pages • 3.8

The Hunt for Red October

ByTom Clancy

255 Readers • 4

The Day of the Jackal

ByFrederick Forsyth

1971 • 10 Readers • 53 pages • 3.8

#1 of 4 in The Locked Tomb

Gideon the Ninth

ByTamsyn Muir,Jelena Katić Živanović(Translator)

2019 • 1,391 Readers • 448 pages • 4.1

Postwar

ByTony Judt

2005 • 74 Readers • 896 pages • 4.3

The Moonstone

ByWilkie Collins

1868 • 173 Readers • 604 pages • 3.9

The Maltese Falcon

ByDashiell Hammett

1929 • 213 Readers • 165 pages • 3.9

The Plantagenets

ByDan Jones

77 Readers • 22h 7m • 4.2

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

ByErik Larson

2011 • 199 Readers • 448 pages • 3.7

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

ByErik Larson

2015 • 225 Readers • 450 pages • 4

#1 of 19 in Chronicles of Brother Cadfael

A Morbid Taste for Bones

ByEllis Peters

1977 • 79 Readers • 200 pages • 3.7

#1 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

Doomsday Book

ByConnie Willis

1992 • 366 Readers • 587 pages • 3.8

#1 of 7 in Millennium

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

ByStieg Larsson,Reg Keeland(Translator)

2005 • 1,602 Readers • 480 pages • 4.1

#1 of 9 in Rivers of London

Rivers of London

ByBen Aaronovitch

2011 • 353 Readers • 392 pages • 3.9

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

ByErik Larson

2020 • 224 Readers • 546 pages • 4.2

#1 of 6 in Dublin Murder Squad

In the Woods

ByTana French

2007 • 404 Readers • 464 pages • 3.7

#1 of 5 in Wool

Silo 1

ByHugh Howey

2011 • 989 Readers • 537 pages • 4.1

#1 of 3 in Mars Trilogy

Red Mars

ByKim Stanley Robinson

2009 • 451 Readers • 671 pages • 3.7

#1 of 4 in The Giver

The Giver

ByLois Lowry

1993 • 1,583 Readers • 202 pages • 4

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

ByNeil Gaiman,Terry Pratchett

1990 • 1,720 Readers • 432 pages • 4.2

#1 of 4 in Inheritance Trilogy

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

ByN.K. Jemisin

2010 • 470 Readers • 432 pages • 3.8

#1 of 3 in Elantris

Elantris: Edición X aniversario y definitiva del autor

ByBrandon Sanderson

2005 • 1,221 Readers • 656 pages • 4

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

ByMary Beard

1 • 324 Readers • 3.9

#1 of 8 in Frontlines

Terms of Enlistment

ByMarko Kloos

2013 • 123 Readers • 10 pages • 3.9

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

A Wizard of Earthsea

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1968 • 1,205 Readers • 210 pages • 3.9

#1 of 5 in Ringworld

Ringworld

ByLarry Niven

1970 • 466 Readers • 288 pages • 3.7

#1 of 10 in Easy Rawlins

Devil in a Blue Dress

ByWalter Mosley

1990 • 62 Readers • 143 pages • 3.8

The Mammoth book of Private Eye stories

ByBill Pronzini(editor),Martin H. Greenberg(editor)

1988 • 2 Readers • 530 pages

#1 of 25 in Roderick Alleyn

A Man Lay Dead

ByNgaio Marsh

2002 • 23 Readers • 2 pages • 3.3

#1 of 19 in Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries

Still Life

ByLouise Penny

2005 • 213 Readers • 322 pages • 3.7

#3 of 11 in Inspector Erlendur

Jar City

ByArnaldur Indridason

2006 • 30 Readers • 308 pages • 3.5

#1 of 7 in Nameless Detective

The Snatch

ByBill Pronzini

1971 • 3 Readers

The Roman Hat Mystery

ByEllery Queen

10 Readers • 3.5

#1 of 25 in Harry Bosch

The Black Echo

ByMichael Connelly

1992 • 173 Readers • 496 pages • 3.9

#1 of 20 in Dave Robicheaux

The Neon Rain

ByJames Lee Burke

1987 • 51 Readers • 359 pages • 3.7

#1 of 12 in Lord Peter Wimsey

Whose Body?

ByDorothy L. Sayers

1923 • 125 Readers • 228 pages • 3.5

#1 of 17 in Lew Archer

The Moving Target

ByRoss Macdonald

1949 • 20 Readers • 246 pages • 3.5

#1 of 5 in Martin Beck

Roseanna

ByMaj Sjöwall

1965 • 33 Readers • 224 pages • 4.1

#1 of 27 in Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus

The Ritual Bath

ByFaye Kellerman

1986 • 18 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

#1 of 13 in Mike Hammer

I, the Jury

ByMickey Spillane

1947 • 13 Readers • 246 pages • 3.3

#1 of 19 in Elvis Cole and Joe Pike

The Monkey's Raincoat

ByRobert Crais

1987 • 37 Readers • 3.9

#1 of 3 in Jack Laidlaw

Laidlaw

ByWilliam McIlvanney

1977 • 7 Readers • 213 pages • 3.8

#1 of 64 in Perry Mason

The case of the velvet claws.

ByErle Stanley Gardner

1933 • 14 Readers • 226 pages • 3.9

#1 of 23 in Amos Walker

Motor City Blue

ByLoren D. Estleman

1980 • 2 Readers • 248 pages

#1 of 27 in Inspector Banks

Gallows View

ByPeter Robinson

1987 • 25 Readers • 340 pages • 3.4

#1 of 4 in Pete Fernandez Mystery

Silent City

ByAlex Segura

2013 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 2

#1 of 10 in Vera Stanhope

The Crow Trap

ByAnn Cleeves

1999 • 47 Readers • 560 pages • 3.7

#1 of 3 in Susan Ryeland

Magpie Murders

ByAnthony Horowitz

2016 • 330 Readers • 464 pages • 4.1

Red Dragon

ByThomas Harris

396 Readers • 3.9

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Fifth Season

ByN.K. Jemisin

#1 of 6 in Timeline-191

How few remain

ByHarry Turtledove

1997 • 17 Readers • 596 pages • 3

#2 of 2 in Lock In

Head On

ByJohn Scalzi

2018 • 187 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Second nature

ByDavid Mack

7 Readers • 4.5

The Midnight Front

ByDavid Mack

2018 • 11 Readers • 481 pages • 3.8

#1 of 9 in The Expanse

Leviathan Wakes

ByJames S. A. Corey

#1 of 2 in The Android's Dream

The Android's Dream

ByJohn Scalzi

2006 • 131 Readers • 398 pages • 4

#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

The Eye of the World

ByRobert Jordan

#2 of 14 in Honor Harrington

The Honor of the Queen

ByDavid Weber

#1 of 8 in Star Trek: Titan

Taking Wing

ByMichael A. Martin,Andy Mangels

2005 • 17 Readers • 370 pages • 3.5

#6 of 16 in Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

The Vor Game

ByLois McMaster Bujold

1990 • 89 Readers • 343 pages • 3.9

#6 of 6 in Old Man's War

The End of All Things

ByJohn Scalzi

2015 • 169 Readers • 380 pages • 3.9

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