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The Most Popular Reviews

     The complete review's variation on the traditional bestseller lists ranks the books under review -- and now also the author pages -- according to which reviews and author pages were the most popular during the past month.
     Here are the reviews and author pages that attracted the most interest in October, 2024.

October, 2024

- Reviews -

1. The Third Realm, Karl Ove Knausgaard
2. Annihilation, Michel Houellebecq
3. Eclipse, Hirano Keiichiro
4. The Empusium, Olga Tokarczuk
5. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), Solvej Balle
6. Childish Literature, Alejandro Zambra
7. Comrade Papa, GauZ'
8. The Failure, Giovanni Papini
9. The Vegetarian, Han Kang
10. The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
11. The White Book, Han Kang
12. Documentary Poetry, Heimrad Bäcker
13. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II), Solvej Balle
14. The Face of Another, Abe Kobo
15. The Assault, Harry Mulisch

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- Author Pages -
(previous ranking in parentheses)

1. Jonathan Coe (16)
2. Murray Bail (10)
3. Amélie Nothomb (5)
4. Patrick White (1)
5. Naguib Mahfouz (13)

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Notes:

     Review-views at the complete review fell almost sixty-five per cent in October, compared to last year.
     Han Kang's Nobel win provided a boost for reviews of her titles, but not as large a one as is usual. Otherwise, with Google burying pages from the site ever deeper, newly and recently reviewed titles completely dominated the bestseller list.

For recent bestseller lists, go to previous lists.
For annual and older lists, see also the 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, , 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 , 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 lists.

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