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Top 20 Best Read eBooks December 2003 This Month Last Month Months On List 1. A Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens, Milo Winter. J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1914. 0 1 2. Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus , by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Collier Books, 1961. 0 1 3. The Works of William Shakespeare Gathered into One Volume , by William Shakespeare, A H Bullen. Oxford University Press, 1938. 0 2 4. Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies , by Richard L. Davis. Praeger Publishers, 1998. 6 17 5. The Lives of Animals , by J. M. Coetzee, Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger, Barbara Smuts, Amy Gutmann. Princeton University Press, 1999. 4 2 6. America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History , by Peter B. Levy. Praeger, 1998. 0 1 7. Leadership for the Twenty-First Century , by Joseph C. Rost. Praeger Publishers, 1993. 8 17 8. The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders , by Bryna Siegel. Oxford University Press, 1996. 12 8 9. Schools, Violence, and Society , by Allan M. Hoffman. Praeger Publishers, 1996. 9 13 10. Punishment and the Death Penalty: The Current Debate , by Robert M. Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Prometheus Books, 1995. 0 1 11. Culture and Customs of Japan , by Noriko Kamachi, Hanchao Lu. Greenwood Press, 1999. 11 12 12. The Tragedy of Macbeth , by William Shakespeare, Nicholas Brooke. Oxford University Press, 1998. 1 7 13. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America , by null. United States Government Printing Office, 1979. 13 13 14. The Ethics of Human Cloning , by Leon R. Kass, James Q. Wilson. American Enterprise Institute, 1998. 14 15 15. Causes and Consequences of World War II , by Robert A. Divine. Quadrangle Books, 1969. 35 11 16. The Colossus & Other Poems , by Sylvia Plath. Knopf, 1962. 10 2 17. The History of Mexico , by Burton Kirkwood. Greenwood Press, 2000. 29 5 18. Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide , by Lucy Rollin. Greenwood Press, 1999. 22 4 19. The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830 , by T. S. Ashton. Oxford University Press, 1997. 5 5 20. The Day the War Began , by Archie Satterfield. Praeger Publishers, 1992. 0 3 Additional eBooks 21. Theories of Child Abuse and Neglect: Differential Perspectives, Summaries, and Evaluations , by Oliver C. S. Tzeng, Jay W. Jackson, Henry C. Karlson. Praeger Publishers, 1991. 18 15 22. Human Behavior in Today's World , by Waris Ishaq. Praeger Publishers, 1991. 0 3 23. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance , by Cary D. Wintz. Rice University Press, 1988. 0 1 24. Hamlet , by G. R. Hibbard , William Shakespeare. Oxford University, 1998. 32 4 25. The Canterbury Tales , by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill. Penguin Books, 1969. 26 7 26. The History of Jazz , by Ted Gioia. Oxford US, 1999. 0 3 27. The Importance of Learning Styles: Understanding the Implications for Learning, Course Design, and Education , by Serbrenia J. Sims. Greenwood Press, 1995. 28 7 28. Teen-Age Alcoholism , by Jim Haskins. Hawthorn Books, 1976. 0 2 29. The History of France , by W. Scott Haine, Frank W. Thackeray, John E. Findling. Greenwood Press, 2000. 0 1 30. Tennessee Williams's the Glass Menagerie , by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1988. 0 1 31. Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality , by Lynda Gratton. Oxford University Press, 1999. 25 7 32. An Introduction to Theories of Personality , by Robert B. Ewen. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998. 0 1 33. A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939-1945 , by Martin Kitchen . Longman, 1990. 0 6 34. Islam: An Introduction , by Annemarie Schimmel. State University of New York Press, 1992. 31 5 35. The Developmental Psychopathology of Eating Disorders: Implications for Research, Prevention, and Treatment , by Linda Smolak, Michael P. Levine, Ruth Striegel-Moore. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. 24 8 Rankings reflect total page views and unique users on the Questia service for December 1 through December 31, 2003, statistically weighted to factor in book length.

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