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1

The Poetry of John Milton

by Gordon Teskey

21 members

½ 3.5

Global Rank 308

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2

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

by David Wootton

521 members

10 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 440

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3

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

635 members

19 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 574

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4

The Kensington Mass

by David Michael Jones

5 members

Global Rank 689

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5

by Steven Brust

260 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 756

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6

The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry

by Gregory Nagy

159 members

4.1

Global Rank 842

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7

Homer the Preclassic

by Gregory Nagy

21 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Global Rank 911

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8

Homer the Classic

by Gregory Nagy

20 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Global Rank 975

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9

The Victorians and Ancient Greece

by Richard Jenkyns

86 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 1,022

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10

The Hanging Tree

by Ben Aaronovitch

1,817 members

71 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 45

5 Members: wookiebender, jsburbidge, gypsysmom, Emmay, Sarah_Matt

11

The Delirium Brief

by Charles Stross

527 members

20 reviews

4

Global Rank 1,106

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12

The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors

by Matthew Wright

20 members

4

Global Rank 1,173

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13

Four Roads Cross

by Max Gladstone

317 members

18 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 1,208

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14

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

by Charles Nicholl

533 members

16 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 1,249

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15

The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined

by Georges Duby

271 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Global Rank 1,312

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16

Roman canon law in the Church of England; six essays

by Frederic William Maitland

3 members

Global Rank 1,386

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17

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

by Christopher H. Achen

274 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 1,420

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18

Rivers of London, Vol. 2: Night Witch

by Ben Aaronovitch

298 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 1,463

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19

Rivers of London, Vol. 3: Black Mould

by Ben Aaronovitch

235 members

12 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 1,508

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20

Secure Coding in C and C++

by Robert C. Seacord

72 members

1 review

4.1

Global Rank 1,586

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21

Finn and Hengest

by J. R. R. Tolkien

271 members

4

Global Rank 1,625

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22

1,589 members

76 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 356

2 Members: Rtrace, jsburbidge

23

Raven Stratagem

731 members

33 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 1,701

Member: jsburbidge

24

The Fall of Dragons

by Miles Cameron

147 members

2 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 1,774

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25

Too Like the Lightning

1,820 members

93 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 374

2 Members: Rtrace, jsburbidge

26

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

4,723 members

88 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 340

2 Members: jsburbidge, kara.shamy

27

The Skill of Our Hands

by Steven Brust

71 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 1,900

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28

847 members

42 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 1,922

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29

A Darker Shade of Magic

by V. E. Schwab

7,556 members

326 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 1,947

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30

Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements

by Matt Wilkinson

60 members

1 review

3.9

Global Rank 2,008

Member: jsburbidge

31

Once Broken Faith

by Seanan McGuire

636 members

33 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 2,020

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32

by Michelle Sagara

1,757 members

57 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 2,053

Member: jsburbidge

33

Cast in Courtlight

by Michelle Sagara

1,058 members

34 reviews

4

Global Rank 2,091

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34

by Michelle Sagara

859 members

23 reviews

4

Global Rank 2,129

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35

by Michelle Sagara

691 members

20 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,163

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36

Cast in Silence

by Michelle Sagara

597 members

18 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,190

Member: jsburbidge

37

by Michelle Sagara

490 members

16 reviews

4

Global Rank 2,227

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38

by Michelle Sagara

360 members

18 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,296

Member: jsburbidge

39

by Michelle Sagara

317 members

21 reviews

4

Global Rank 2,359

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40

by Michelle Sagara

266 members

15 reviews

4

Global Rank 2,390

Member: jsburbidge

41

by Michelle Sagara

203 members

9 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 2,424

Member: jsburbidge

42

by Michelle Sagara

172 members

6 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,450

Member: jsburbidge

43

Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library

by Scott Meyers

403 members

3 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,471

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44

Essays in Antiquity

21 members

½ 4.3

Global Rank 2,507

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45

Homeric Questions

by Gregory Nagy

63 members

3.8

Global Rank 2,526

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46

All Systems Red

by Martha Wells

5,618 members

354 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,535

Member: jsburbidge

47

The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science

by Steven Mithen

495 members

8 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 2,574

Member: jsburbidge

48

Selected Historical Essays of F. W. Maitland

by F. W. Maitland

28 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Global Rank 2,611

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49

Greek Mythology and Poetics

by Gregory Nagy

41 members

Global Rank 2,632

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50

Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter

by Gregory Nagy

10 members

Global Rank 2,656

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51

Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts in the Diocese of Canterbury

by Brian L. Woodcock

5 members

Global Rank 2,685

Member: jsburbidge

52

by James S. A. Corey

3,514 members

142 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,691

Member: jsburbidge

53

Old English and Its Closest Relatives

by Orrin W. Robinson

295 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 2,728

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54

by Andrzej Sapkowski

7,396 members

218 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 320

2 Members: jsburbidge, aqeeliz

55

The Tyranny of the Night

671 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 2,775

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56

Lord of the Silent Kingdom

412 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 2,800

Member: jsburbidge

57

The Hidden City

by Michelle West

349 members

9 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 2,822

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58

by Michelle West

177 members

4 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 2,848

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59

by Michelle West

128 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 2,869

Member: jsburbidge

60

Just One Damned Thing After Another

2,084 members

151 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 2,879

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61

by Kevin Hearne

2,000 members

121 reviews

4

Global Rank 2,907

Member: jsburbidge

62

Postmodern Pooh

by Frederick Crews

305 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 2,936

Member: jsburbidge

63

The Singer of Tales

by Albert B. Lord

371 members

3 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 2,956

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64

The Untold Tale

44 members

5 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 2,980

Member: jsburbidge

65

Sweet Silver Blues

914 members

23 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 2,993

Member: jsburbidge

66

Cold Copper Tears

623 members

5 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 3,014

Member: jsburbidge

67

Bitter Gold Hearts

644 members

9 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 3,038

Member: jsburbidge

68

The Witch of Syracuse

by Dorothy J. Heydt

12 members

4

Global Rank 3,065

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69

1,624 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 3,072

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70

372 members

17 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 3,093

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71

Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English

21 members

4

Global Rank 3,119

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72

The Novel And The Oxford Movement

by Joseph Ellis Baker

7 members

½ 3.5

Global Rank 3,142

Member: jsburbidge

73

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design

by Scott W. Ambler

209 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Global Rank 3,154

Member: jsburbidge

74

Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debt

by Girish Suryanarayana

10 members

Global Rank 3,178

Member: jsburbidge

75

In Search of the Big Bang

by John Gribbin

300 members

2 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 3,190

Member: jsburbidge

76

Every Heart a Doorway

by Seanan McGuire

3,404 members

293 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 36

7 Members: Storeetllr, Rtrace, jsburbidge, norabelle414, bjappleg8, m_island, souloftherose

77

Passover and Easter: Origin and History to Modern Times (Two Liturgical Traditions, V. 5)

by Paul F. Bradshaw

29 members

4

Global Rank 3,231

Member: jsburbidge

78

The Formation of the Christian Bible

by Hans von Campenhausen

106 members

3

Global Rank 3,248

Member: jsburbidge

79

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design

by Robert C. Martin

286 members

2 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 3,263

Member: jsburbidge

80

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

1,265 members

41 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 3,272

Member: jsburbidge

81

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

by Lisa Randall

612 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 3,296

Member: jsburbidge

82

1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz

by Kerryn Offord

85 members

2 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 3,315

Member: jsburbidge

83

Ring of Fire IV

79 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 3,327

Member: jsburbidge

84

by Ilona Andrews

2,552 members

138 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 3,338

Member: jsburbidge

85

by Ilona Andrews

2,821 members

163 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 3,357

Member: jsburbidge

86

by Ilona Andrews

2,213 members

126 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 3,372

Member: jsburbidge

87

by Ilona Andrews

1,890 members

119 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 3,390

Member: jsburbidge

88

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

2,917 members

86 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 3,408

Member: jsburbidge

89

997 members

18 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 3,425

Member: jsburbidge

90

The Heart of Valor

792 members

17 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 3,439

Member: jsburbidge

91

The Better Part of Valor

774 members

18 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 3,457

Member: jsburbidge

92

699 members

20 reviews

4

Global Rank 3,472

Member: jsburbidge

93

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

by Nicholas Wade

1,076 members

41 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 3,488

Member: jsburbidge

94

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

by Steven Weinberg

502 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 3,505

Member: jsburbidge

95

Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything

by George Musser

208 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 395

2 Members: jjwilson61, jsburbidge

96

The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

by Henry Petroski

150 members

3 reviews

3.2

Global Rank 3,536

Member: jsburbidge

97

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

by Sean M. Carroll

918 members

18 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 3,550

Member: jsburbidge

98

Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects

by Neil MacGregor

478 members

13 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 3,568

Member: jsburbidge

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