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Author

Book (best books have lowest rating No. )                

Rating

Pages

1

William R. Clark

A means to an end

0.8

219

2

Mary Renault

The last of the Wine

1

3

JRR Tolkien

Fellowship of the ring

1

4

Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford

Beyond the fall of night

1

298

5

Douglas Adams

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

1

6

James Blish

Cities in Flight

1

582

7

James Blish

Midsummer Century

1

106

8

James Blish

The night shapes

1

125

9

Robert M. Pirsig

Lila, an inquiry into morals

1

409

10

Vernor Vinge

Fire upon the deep

1

613

11

James Blish

A case of conscience

1

166

12

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

1

1168

13

Ayn Rand

Fountainhead

1

14

Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe, and everything

1.1

15

Douglas Adams

So long and thanks for all the fish

1.1

16

Douglas Adams

The restaurant at the end of the universe

1.1

17

Arthur C. Clarke

2001--space odyssey

1.2

18

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

1.2

19

Friedrich Nietzsche

Daybreak (tr. R.J. Hollingdale)

1.2

229

20

Larry Niven

Ringworld

1.2

313

21

William Gibson

Neuromancer

1.2

230

22

Bertold Brecht

Galileo Galilea

1.25

23

Jacob Bronowski

The ascent of man

1.25

439

24

Plato

The Protagoras and Meno

1.3

25

PG Wodehouse

Psmith in the City

1.3

26

Aldous Huxley

Brave new world

1.3

27

James Herriott

Let Sleeping vets lie

1.3

28

James Herriott

It shouldn't happen to a vet

1.3

29

James Herriott

Vet in a spin

1.3

30

Roald Dahl

Kiss Kiss

1.3

31

Roald Dahl

Switch Bitch

1.3

32

Tacitus

The Agricola and the Germania (penguin classics)

1.3

33

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

1.3

34

Arthur C. Clarke

The lion of Comarre and against the fall of night

1.3

35

Plato (tr. Benjamin Jowett, M.A.)

Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo

1.3

138

36

Frank Herbert

Dune

1.3

412

37

Dan Simmons

Fall of Hyperion

1.3

517

38

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

A canticle for Leibowitz

1.31

320

39

Dan Simmons

Hyperion

1.31

482

40

Richard Adams

Watership Down

1.35

41

E.L. Doctorow

Ragtime

1.36

42

Jack Higgins

The Eagle has landed

1.39

43

don’t know

The Bishop of Canterbury

1.39

44

HG Wells

The time machine

1.39

215

45

Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express

1.39

249

46

Larry Niven, Jerry Pourneille, Steven Barnes

The legacy of Heorot

1.39

367

47

Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

1.395

48

Leo Tolstoy

Father Sergius and other stories

1.396

49

Arthur C. Clarke

2010--space odyssey

1.4

50

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

1.4

51

Homer

Iliad (translated by E.V. Rieu)

1.4

52

AE Van Voigt

The undercover aliens

1.4

53

Mary Renault

The King must die

1.4

54

Isaac Asimov

Extraterrestrial Civilizations

1.4

55

Arthur C. Clarke

2064--space Odyssey

1.4

56

PG Wodehouse

Leave it to Psmith

1.4

57

A.E. Van Voigt

The beast

1.4

107

58

Alvin Silverstein, Ph.D.

Conquest of Death

1.4

219

59

Nicolas Darvas

How I made $2,000,000 in the stock market

1.4

175

60

Vernor Vinge

Across realtime

1.4

545

61

Isaac Asimov

Nemesis

1.4

364

62

Oscar Wilde

The picture of Dorian Gray

1.4

177

63

don’t know

Knockabout

1.45

64

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

1.45

65

Homer

The Odyssey (tr. E.V. Rieu)

1.45

66

Thomas Mann

Confessions of Felix Krull, confidence man

1.47

67

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the cholocate factory

1.48

68

George Bernard Shaw

Candida

1.5

69

Charles Dickens

A tale of two cities

1.5

70

Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile

1.5

71

Molly Lefebure

The Hunting of Wilberforce Pike

1.5

72

Harold Robbins

The story of Danny Fisher

1.5

73

Arthur Wright

Spycatcher

1.5

74

don’t know

Jaws

1.5

75

Roald Dahl

My uncle Oswald

1.5

76

Carl Sagan

The dragons of Eden

1.5

238

77

HG Wells

The war of the worlds

1.5

78

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

1.5

213

79

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Nigel

1.5

272

80

Jules Verne

Journey to the centre of the earth

1.51

258

81

Mary Bysshe Shelley

Frankenstein

1.6

82

Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta

1.6

83

Charles Dickens

Hard times

1.6

84

S M Ulam

Adventures of a mathematician

1.6

85

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad

1.6

86

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

1.6

249

87

James Blish, Norman L. Knight

A torrent of faces

1.6

270

88

James Blish

Anywhen

1.65

168

89

Dan Simmons

Endymion

1.65

468

90

Greg Bear

Eon

1.65

503

91

don’t know

The shooting party

1.7

92

Elie Wiesel

Dawn

1.7

127

93

Elie Wiesel

The fifth son

1.7

220

94

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1.7

95

Arthur C. Clarke

The wind from the sun

1.7

193

96

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1.7

415

97

John Grisham

The pelican brief

1.7

271

98

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The great Gatsby

1.8

99

Arthur Sillitoe

Saturday night/ Sunday morning

1.8

100

Richard Cowper

Clone

1.8

101

Richard P. Feynmann

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynmann

1.8

102

Enver Carim

The golden city

1.8

103

Harold Robbins

The carpetbaggers

1.8

679

104

Robert James Waller

The bridges of Madison County

1.8

171

105

Joe Haldeman

Worlds apart

1.8

227

106

Dale Carnegie

How to win friends and influence people

1.85

290

107

V.S. Naipaul

In a free state

1.89

246

108

Harold Robbins

The inheritors

1.9

109

Dale Hanson Bourke

The sleep management plan

1.9

130

110

William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White

The elements of style

1.9

85

111

Erich Segal

Doctors

1.9

678

112

V.S. Naipaul

India: A wounded civilization

1.9

191

113

Robert A. Heinlein

Time enough for love--the lives of Lazarus Long

1.9

605

114

Arthur C. Clarke

3001 the final Odyssey

1.9

263

115

Henry James

Daisy Miller and other stories

1.95

146

116

Jon Hassler

Staggerford

2

294

117

Investment company institute

The money managers (mutual fund overview)

2

135

118

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinlanguage

2

180

119

James Blish

Mission to the heart stars

2

158

120

Clifford D. Simak

Way Station

2

210