Easy to use site that will help you find the best books on many topics. You can sort the best books using variety of criteria in order to help you find what you want quickly and easily.
TopRank for each category is calculated weekly on Sundays. In the category listing you can see the weekly change in TopRank position labeled with arrows. Books labeled new were not in the list last week (but may have been prior to that). The rest of the data displayed is queried from amazon and cached for no longer than allowed by the Amazon Web Service caching guidelines.
TopRank - TopRank is unique to top-books.org. It is intended to be an objective measure of the quality of a book based on number of factors, including sales data, release date, and user ratings all gathered using the amazon web service.
Stars - Simply the average Amazon user rating
Popularity - This is the based on the current Amazon Sales Rank of the book. Here is a good explanation of how sales volume translates into Sales Rank
Price - The current Amazon price, or the used or third party price if the book is not available directly from Amazon
Release Date - The release date of the current edition of the book.
Please keep in mind that some of the content we make available to you through this application comes from amazon web services. All such content is provided to you "as is." This content and your use of it are subject to change and/or removal at any time.