Top Lists
Welcome to my Top Lists section. We offer top lists, usually in a top 10 format, for everything book related. We aim to offer informative, funny and opinionated top lists.
Note that I will keep these updated if relevant – for example a “Top 10 Books by Author”. If that author writes a book that cracks that top 10 I update the list.
Thanks and leave your opinions in the relevant articles.
Top 10 Harlan Coben Books: No-one can quite spin a tale like Harlan Coben. In this article I rank my top 10 Harlan Coben novels.
Top 10 Jack Reacher Books: Lee Child writes the Jack Reacher series and in this article I rank the Top 10 Jack Reacher books.
Top 10 Mitch Rapp Books: Mitch Rapp is a series written by the late Vince Flynn, and now Kyle Mills. I rank these in order – does Kyle Mills debut novel make the cut? I actually rank ALL of the Mitch Rapp books as I did a re-read purely due to the Mills novel.
Top 10 John Grisham Books: One of my favourite authors as a teenager was John Grisham, and even though the quality has dropped I still read each book. In this article I cover the top 10 John Grisham books.
Top 10 Books for 6-12 Year Olds: I was a huge reader as a kid and both my kids are big readers. With both of them over 6 years old and picking out their own books from the school book fair etc – I’ve written this series to help people pick out books with their kids. More “adult” type books but still 100% for kids.
10 Series To Read After The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games was the hot, hot book series and it introduced a whole new audience to young adult novels – particularly in a dystopian world. In this article I list 10 more series to read after the Hunger Games. Or if you like the Hunger Games, you’ll like these.
Top 10 Book to Movie Adaptations: For many, many years movies have been inspired by books. In this article I write my personal top 10 book to movie adaptations – ones which do an amazing job and are sometimes even better than the book. I will add additional ones when I see them in the comments.
10 Reasons To Buy an E-Reader: I have sooo many people asking me all the time if they should buy an e-reader. I wrote this article to refer people to, to help them decide.
10 Books To Read Before they Hit Movie Theatres: This one was written by 2014 so is out of date but still good to read if you’re looking for book to movie adaptations.
10 Books To Read on Vacation:This list is actually specific to me – in October 2014 I was going on a trip and listing books I was going to read on vacation. But I go into detail about picking books to read etc and there’ll be some new author ideas in there for you hopefully.
Only 6 books so far have sold more than 100 million copies. Those books are A Tale of Two Cities, The Lord of the Rings, The Little Prince, And Then There Were None, Dream of the Red Chamber and The Hobbit.
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I can’t believe you aren’t on any of the lists above. Just read ‘Hot and Badgered’, I haven’t laughed so much while reading a book, absolutely fantastic. Can’t wait to read the next book.
Definitely a print button, copy and pasting doesn’t give the headers.
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How do I buy used paperbacks of Michael Palmer books
Amazon.com
Ebay or Abe’s books are great places to buy.
I try the charity bookshops, having worked in one I can assure you they have a massive selection
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Would be curious to know your, or any other member’s top 10 list for the espionage genre. Any time period. After reading Brian Kilmeade’s Washington’s Spies, I find myself wanting more in depth storytelling. Cold war, OSS WWII, or modern day, just curious for some suggestions.
I would suggest taking a look at Joseph Kanon, Phillip Kerr, Alan Furst and David Downing. Great plots and characters. If you are interested in spying in Europe during the ’30s and ’40s as well as post-war, check these out.
Read some of the old Helen McInnes novels!
Favorites to recommend: John LeCarre and Mick Herron
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Love your site !!! … a great help. May I make a suggestion ?… provide a print button for the listings……..when book shopping it would be great to have all your favorite Authors annotated with books already read with you so you do not inadvertently but any duplicates. Thanks for your consideration
Try an extension called Evernote. You can clip articles and save selections from any web page to have on hand and to print. I absolutely love it!
Oh wow… I like this. I came tot the website when searching for what order to read the Ender series in & I was thinking, how much content can this website even have?! But I likey!
(I’m not sure I’ll ever actually get to the next books in that series, I have too many others to get to first & I’m not particularly itching to read it/them.)
I love Karen Rose / James Patterson / Lisa Jackson books any recommendations for a new author
Try Karin Slaughter she has 2 main series of books with the same characters running through them they are awesome
I have read the whole series wonderful!!
I enjoy reading JD Robb’s (aka Nora Roberts) “In Death” series featuring Lt Eve Dallas. Also read Kathy Reichs’ series featuring Dr. Temperance Brennan. Patricia Cornwell’s series featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta and Sue Grafton’s alphabet series featuring Kinsey Milhone as a private investigator.