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Visits |
Date Posted____ |
Prev. Rank |
1 |
"The Monster" (1948) - A. E. van Vogt’s best short story |
73,140 |
Oct. 2013 |
1 |
2 |
"Destination Universe!" - A. E. van Vogt’s superb first anthology of his science-fiction short stories (1952) |
48,450 |
Oct. 2015 |
2 |
3 |
The complete (205) stories of Jack London: synopses, comments and ratings |
39,758 |
June 2014 |
3 |
4 |
The complete stories (103) and novels (35) of A. E. van Vogt: synopses, comments and ratings |
34,201 |
June 2013 |
4 |
5 |
"The Shadow Men (1950)" - an outstanding golden-age sci-fi novel by A. E. van Vogt never before republished |
29,650 |
Sep. 2013 |
5 |
6 |
"The Weapon Shops of Isher" (1949) - a major golden-age novella by A. E. van Vogt never before republished! |
27,710 |
May 2017 |
6 |
7 |
"Out of the Night" (1941) by Jan Valtin - an extraordinary memoir of life in the international Communist movement between the two World Wars |
27,564 |
April 2017 |
7 |
8 |
"The Voyage of the Space Beagle" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt |
26,397 |
April 2015 |
8 |
9 |
Fifteen Golden-Age Science-Fiction Stories by A. E. van Vogt |
24,950 |
Jan. 2016 |
9 |
10 |
"Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English |
24,769 |
April 2018 |
11 |
11 |
"The Weapon Shop" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt |
22,001 |
May 2017 |
10 |
12 |
"The World of Null-A" (1945) by A. E. van Vogt |
19,730 |
June 2015 |
12 |
13 |
"Away and Beyond" - A. E. van Vogt’s other great 1952 anthology |
18,262 |
Oct. 2015 |
13 |
14 |
The funniest Science-Fiction story: "MUGWUMP 4" (1959) by Robert Silverberg |
16,784 |
April 2013 |
14 |
15 |
"Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)” (1940) by Harry Bates |
16,783 |
April 2017 |
17 |
16 |
Survival in the Klondike – 10 Stories by Jack London |
16,606 |
July 2016 |
16 |
17 |
Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1902) |
16,056 |
Dec. 2016 |
15 |
18 |
"Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1844) by Heinrich Hoffmann, an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave – or else! |
14,976 |
April 2018 |
19 |
19 |
The complete (319) stories of Anton Chekhov: synopses, comments and ratings) |
14,753 |
Dec. 2019 |
20 |
20 |
The funniest golden-age sci-fi story: "The Proud Robot" (1943) by Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett) |
14,450 |
March 2017 |
18 |
21 |
Two great boxing stories by Jack London: "A Piece of Steak" (1909) and "The Mexican" (1911 |
12,554 |
July 2016 |
21 |
22 |
The complete (300) stories of Guy de Maupassant: synopses, comments and ratings) |
12,474 |
Sept. 2019 |
23 |
23 |
“Letter From an Unknown Woman” (1922) by Stefan Zweig |
12,188 |
May 2019 |
24 |
24 |
"Vault of the Beast" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first sci-fi story |
11,949 |
March 2015 |
22 |
25 |
"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1859), translated by Edward Fitzgerald |
11,650 |
March 2018 |
26 |
26 |
"Children of Yesterday" - Jan Valtin’s dramatic eyewitness account of the Pacific War in the Philippines 1944-4512 |
11,270 |
Nov. 2017 |
25 |
27 |
"Hearts of Three" (1916) - a treasure-hunt adventure novel by Jack London (co-authored by Charles Goddard) |
10,626 |
April 2019 |
29 |
28 |
"The Ship of Darkness" (1948) - a golden-age sci-fi/fantasy story by A. E. van Vogt |
10,543 |
July 2017 |
27 |
29 |
"Dormant" (1948) - a great golden-age sci-fi story by A. E. van Vogt |
10,172 |
July 2015 |
28 |
30 |
"Slan" (1940) - A. E. van Vogt’s first and most famous novel |
9,268 |
May 2015 |
30 |