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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 February, 2025.

February, 2025

- Reviews -

1. The Lily in the Valley, Honoré de Balzac
2. Perspective(s), Laurent Binet
3. Command Performance, Jean Echenoz
4. Near Distance, Hanna Stoltenberg
5. First Love, Shimamoto Rio
6. Saara, Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
7. The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards, Emil Szittya
8. The Magpie at Night, Li Qingzhao
9. Strange Pictures, Uketsu
10. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
11. Die Trying, Lee Child
12. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), Solvej Balle
13. The Place of Shells, Ishizawa Mai
14. The Suicides, Antonio Di Benedetto
15. Ballerina, Patrick Modiano

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- Author Pages -
(previous ranking in parentheses)

1. Geoff Nicholson (15)
2. Jonathan Coe (2)
3. Dubravka Ugrešić (12)
4. Patrick White (1)
5. Roberto Bolaño (10)

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Notes:

     Review-views at the complete review were down in February -- but *only* around forty-five per cent compared to last year.
     New releases and reviews dominated the bestseller list, though less than in recent months. The death of Geoff Nicholson naturally propelled his author-page to the top of that 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, 2023, and 2024 lists.

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