![]() We hope we can help you find your latest book obsession, and this article is a great place to start! The Best-Selling Authors Of All Timeįrom prolific romance and crime authors, to beloved children’s authors who shaped so many generations, let’s see who are indeed the best-selling authors of all time! Agatha Christieĭame Agatha Christie was a prolific English writer, writing 14 short story collections and 66 detective novels, and is best known for her work involving the fictional detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re joining us from, welcome! We’ve recently acquired the site, and we’re all about recommending books and authors on the basis of comparing them with books you might have read and loved before. In our article today, we’ll be looking at the best-selling novels of all time as well as the best-selling authors of all time, as well as providing some insight on what has made these works so enduring. ![]() There are also many celebrated modern classics that we’re sure will be held in the same high esteem as older novels for years to come.īut while there are many celebrated novels we may consider to be the most popular or best-selling of all time, is that the case? ![]()
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After my niece was provided this book for her consumption I chose to check it out for myself just to see if it would actually hold up to the original book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book leaned a bit more heavily on the politics of being rich than the last one did, and I found it all interesting. It took me a while to sort out which brother was which again, but that's a recurrent theme with me, and they do have differences. This book is full of mysteries and puzzles and references to things that happened in the first book, and a refresher would really have been nice.Įven without one, though, this is a great read. I feel like I'm always making this point (and, as always, it applies only to the proof as I haven't seen the finished product) but it's especially important in this kind of book recaps. 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Half-Resurrection Blues is Daniel José Older’s debut and the first novel of his Bone Street Rumba series. In the uniquely engaging and powerful voice of Daniel José Older, the world of New York City’s dead inhabitants is a vivid and alive landscape full of potency. ![]() New York City is a world unto itself, it has been visited by many a writer, and populated by many fictional characters both living and dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the terrific Sebastian Dayne as Prince’s foil, we marvel as the real life comedy of the absurd plays out over corporate intrigue and painful past betrayals. It helps that Rowe is absolutely horrible at deception and the situations he gets himself into or bumbles about in are hilarious. So it took me a while to get into the story with Rowe Prince lying his way through the beginning pages, even chapters, but eventually this character’s engaging personality won me over. Unless you’re a spy, member of a law enforcement agency, or assassin where lying is actually in their job description, then I’m a fan of people who have adult realistic relationships in contemporary romance. ![]() The premise concerned me because I’m not a fan of relationships that start with deception. ![]() I’m really all over the place with Lucy Lennox’s newest book Prince of Lies. ![]() ![]() Despite Travis’s objections, Emma becomes the conduit between Simon and the FBI team. Working against the clock, they must turn to one of the country’s most notorious incarcerated murderers for help: teenage sociopath Simon Gutmunsson. ![]() But when the team is called in to give advice on an active case-a serial killer who exclusively hunts teenagers-things begin to unravel. From the start, Emma and Travis develop a quick friendship, gaining information from juvenile murderers that even the FBI can’t crack. ![]() In 1982, two teenagers-serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell-are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. Summary: The Silence of the Lambs meets Sadie in this riveting psychological thriller about two teenagers teaming up with the FBI to track down juvenile serial killers. ![]() Trigger warnings: death, murder (including teenage death), PTSD Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Park got behind the camera for a film starring Justin H. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to figure out what he really wants from life and love. Ben is a moody but charming character who is often annoyed with his girlfriend Miko’s newfound passion for supporting the Asian American community. It just felt very real and authentic, and in ways that I hadn’t seen reflected anywhere else.”Īt the time, Park dreamed of playing the lead character, Ben Tanaka, an Asian American man living in California’s Bay Area who works at the local arthouse theater but aspires to be a filmmaker. “It felt so reflective of my life at that time, and my friends and the conversations we’d have and the places we’d hang out. “I think what drew me to it was that it just felt so real to me,” Park tells Vanity Fair now. In a profile at Vanity Fair, Park talks about seeing the book for the first time at LA’s Giant Robot shop, and feeling his connection to the story: ![]() Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. 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