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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 January, 2026.

January, 2026

- Reviews -

The Fortress, Meša Selimović
Ice, Jacek Dukaj
Sidetracked, Alexander Voloshin
Domesticity, Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Image of Her, Simone de Beauvoir
Self-Worth, Emma Tholozan
The Cabala, Thornton Wilder
Blind Corner, Dornford Yates
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss
Stolen Flower, Irma Pineda
2666, Roberto Bolaño
Scorpions, Kurahashi Yumiko
the folded clock, Gerhard Rühm
Effingers, Gabriele Tergit
Your Name Here, Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff

- Author Pages -
(previous ranking in parentheses)

Amélie Nothomb (1)
Murakami Haruki (3)
Cees Nooteboom (2)
Arno Schmidt (11)
Dubravka Ugrešić (19)

Notes:
     AI bots scraping have inflated overall visitor-numbers to the site, with overall site traffic nominally up some 250 per cent over January, 2025; this is not an accurate reflection of actual user-engagemnt (though *real* traffic does appear to be up sigificantly compared to last January, somewhere in the 30 to 50 per cent range).
     The top spot on the January list is likely also an AI-scraped aberration; while The Fortress is consistently popular, a brief flood of views pushed it to the top; again, time-on-page numbers suggest those visitors weren't real viewers. Otherwise, the rankings appear plausible enough, with new reviews again faring very well.

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, 2024, and 2025 lists.

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