| 1 |
|
All Quiet on the Western Front
by
4.11 avg rating — 522,780 ratings
|
|
| 2 |
|
The Guns of August
by
4.18 avg rating — 85,231 ratings
|
|
| 3 |
|
A Farewell to Arms
by
3.82 avg rating — 355,953 ratings
|
|
| 4 |
|
Birdsong
by
4.11 avg rating — 84,276 ratings
|
|
| 5 |
|
Goodbye to All That
by
3.93 avg rating — 15,653 ratings
|
|
| 6 |
|
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by
4.01 avg rating — 33,924 ratings
|
|
| 7 |
|
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
by
4.13 avg rating — 15,183 ratings
|
|
| 8 |
|
Testament of Youth
by
4.11 avg rating — 12,481 ratings
|
|
| 9 |
|
Storm of Steel
by
4.16 avg rating — 21,947 ratings
|
|
| 10 |
|
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by
4.33 avg rating — 349,054 ratings
|
|
| 11 |
|
The Ghost Road
by
4.08 avg rating — 18,388 ratings
|
|
| 12 |
|
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
by
4.31 avg rating — 4,276 ratings
|
|
| 13 |
|
The First World War
by
4.04 avg rating — 15,959 ratings
|
|
| 14 |
|
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by
4.24 avg rating — 14,241 ratings
|
|
| 15 |
|
Johnny Got His Gun
by
4.21 avg rating — 49,068 ratings
|
|
| 16 |
|
The Great War and Modern Memory
by
4.13 avg rating — 6,193 ratings
|
|
| 17 |
|
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by
4.02 avg rating — 10,874 ratings
|
|
| 18 |
|
The Good Soldier Švejk
by
4.10 avg rating — 21,219 ratings
|
|
| 19 |
|
Sebastian
by
4.40 avg rating — 279 ratings
|
|
| 20 |
|
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
by
4.14 avg rating — 9,236 ratings
|
|
| 21 |
|
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
by
4.13 avg rating — 9,757 ratings
|
|
| 22 |
|
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
by
4.37 avg rating — 9,098 ratings
|
|
| 23 |
|
Nicholas And Alexandra
by
4.23 avg rating — 29,908 ratings
|
|
| 24 |
|
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
by
3.91 avg rating — 12,217 ratings
|
|
| 25 |
|
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by
3.81 avg rating — 4,088 ratings
|
|
| 26 |
|
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
by
4.29 avg rating — 3,091 ratings
|
|
| 27 |
|
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
by
4.07 avg rating — 1,871 ratings
|
|
| 28 |
|
August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1)
by
3.94 avg rating — 2,838 ratings
|
|
| 29 |
|
War Horse (War Horse, #1)
by
4.16 avg rating — 59,587 ratings
|
|
| 30 |
|
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by
4.13 avg rating — 162,794 ratings
|
|
| 31 |
|
Parade's End
by
3.87 avg rating — 6,856 ratings
|
|
| 32 |
|
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
by
3.88 avg rating — 3,154 ratings
|
|
| 33 |
|
Coming Home
by
3.92 avg rating — 74 ratings
|
|
| 34 |
|
And Quiet Flows the Don
by
4.12 avg rating — 13,317 ratings
|
|
| 35 |
|
The Zimmermann Telegram
by
4.05 avg rating — 5,229 ratings
|
|
| 36 |
|
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
by
3.93 avg rating — 123,885 ratings
|
|
| 37 |
|
Gallipoli
by
4.09 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
|
|
| 38 |
|
Somewhere in France (The Great War #1)
by
3.82 avg rating — 13,957 ratings
|
|
| 39 |
|
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
by
4.25 avg rating — 7,454 ratings
|
|
| 40 |
|
The Return of the Soldier
by
3.69 avg rating — 9,363 ratings
|
|
| 41 |
|
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
by
4.11 avg rating — 14,582 ratings
|
|
| 42 |
|
The War Poems
by
4.21 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
|
|
| 43 |
|
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by
3.98 avg rating — 42,764 ratings
|
|
| 44 |
|
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
by
4.12 avg rating — 8,718 ratings
|
|
| 45 |
|
Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 52,202 ratings
|
|
| 46 |
|
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
by
4.14 avg rating — 2,964 ratings
|
|
| 47 |
|
To Serve Them All My Days
by
4.33 avg rating — 3,183 ratings
|
|
| 48 |
|
A Very Long Engagement
by
3.90 avg rating — 7,789 ratings
|
|
| 49 |
|
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
by
4.07 avg rating — 6,575 ratings
|
|
| 50 |
|
The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion
by
3.67 avg rating — 28,945 ratings
|
|
| 51 |
|
Journey's End
by
3.87 avg rating — 4,676 ratings
|
|
| 52 |
|
They Called It Passchendaele
by
4.34 avg rating — 645 ratings
|
|
| 53 |
|
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
by
4.31 avg rating — 6,983 ratings
|
|
| 53 |
|
Her Privates We
by
3.99 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
|
|
| 55 |
|
The Absolutist
by
4.11 avg rating — 23,751 ratings
|
|
| 56 |
|
Three Soldiers
by
3.55 avg rating — 1,366 ratings
|
|
| 57 |
|
Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
by
3.99 avg rating — 1,540 ratings
|
|
| 58 |
|
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by
3.92 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
|
|
| 58 |
|
Ashenden
by
3.86 avg rating — 4,135 ratings
|
|
| 58 |
|
The Alice Network
by
4.32 avg rating — 636,863 ratings
|
|
| 61 |
|
Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)
by
4.28 avg rating — 25,979 ratings
|
|
| 62 |
|
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
by
4.19 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
|
|
| 63 |
|
Fear
by
4.19 avg rating — 1,664 ratings
|
|
| 64 |
|
One of Ours
by
3.96 avg rating — 10,135 ratings
|
|
| 65 |
|
Voyage au bout de la nuit
by
4.18 avg rating — 48,229 ratings
|
|
| 66 |
|
Tommy's Tunnel: My grandad's story and his role in the Battle of Messines Ridge
by
4.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
|
|
| 67 |
|
Greenmantle
by
3.73 avg rating — 5,280 ratings
|
|
| 68 |
|
Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
by
4.03 avg rating — 634 ratings
|
|
| 69 |
|
The Wars
by
3.85 avg rating — 9,957 ratings
|
|
| 70 |
|
1914: The Days of Hope
by
4.21 avg rating — 315 ratings
|
|
| 71 |
|
The First Casualty
by
3.95 avg rating — 6,797 ratings
|
|
| 72 |
|
Strange Meeting
by
3.94 avg rating — 2,473 ratings
|
|
| 73 |
|
The Daughters of Mars
by
3.68 avg rating — 4,654 ratings
|
|
| 74 |
|
The Roses of No Man's Land
by
4.28 avg rating — 464 ratings
|
|
| 75 |
|
The First World War
by
3.86 avg rating — 2,720 ratings
|
|
| 76 |
|
Kingdoms Fall - The Laxenburg Message (Kingdoms Fall, #1)
by
3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings
|
|
| 77 |
|
The First Day on the Somme
by
4.31 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
|
|
| 78 |
|
The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
by
3.83 avg rating — 7,836 ratings
|
|
| 79 |
|
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
by
4.33 avg rating — 960 ratings
|
|
| 80 |
|
A Month in the Country
by
4.08 avg rating — 28,682 ratings
|
|
| 81 |
|
Biggles Learns to Fly
by
4.06 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
|
|
| 82 |
|
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
by
4.17 avg rating — 4,742 ratings
|
|
| 83 |
|
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919
by
3.99 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
|
|
| 84 |
|
Somme
by
4.23 avg rating — 740 ratings
|
|
| 85 |
|
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
by
4.18 avg rating — 2,599 ratings
|
|
| 86 |
|
Against the Day
by
4.06 avg rating — 10,279 ratings
|
|
| 87 |
|
The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War
by
3.89 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
|
|
| 88 |
|
The Road Back
by
4.34 avg rating — 10,388 ratings
|
|
| 89 |
|
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918
by
4.19 avg rating — 781 ratings
|
|
| 90 |
|
Birds Without Wings
by
4.16 avg rating — 16,397 ratings
|
|
| 91 |
|
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
by
4.26 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
|
|
| 92 |
|
The Russian Origins of the First World War
by
4.08 avg rating — 275 ratings
|
|
| 93 |
|
Life Class (Life Class, #1)
by
3.62 avg rating — 5,478 ratings
|
|
| 94 |
|
Under Fire
by
3.86 avg rating — 2,393 ratings
|
|
| 95 |
|
Wilfred Owen
by
4.18 avg rating — 111 ratings
|
|
| 96 |
|
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by
3.59 avg rating — 46,844 ratings
|
|
| 97 |
|
Singled Out
by
3.77 avg rating — 909 ratings
|
|
| 98 |
|
Company K
by
4.23 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
|
|
| 99 |
|
Mrs. Dalloway
by
3.78 avg rating — 359,771 ratings
|
|
| 100 |
|
Un Anno sull'Altipiano
by
4.08 avg rating — 3,508 ratings
|
|
If you notice, this self-published novel is ranked #10. However, upon deeper inspection you will also notice that he is doing quid pro quo reviews and rankings with other self-published authors. For example EVERY single vote he received was a #1 vote (really, not War and Peace?). Also, many of those who voted for his book ONLY voted for his book. Also many who voted for his book ALSO have books they are pimping. So, anyway, take it for what it is.
Here is the list of Roy's "Bad Behaving Author Friends":
1. John Hanley - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
2. Paul Cude - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
3. Dab10 - ranked Comign Home 1 of 1 - author of Karmic Krackers
4. Leonardo Ramirez - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
5. Danielle DeVor - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
6. Dianne Harman - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
7. Melodie Ramone - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
8. Elizabeth Marx - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
9. Karen Prince - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
10. Murielle Cyr - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
11. Janna Yeshanova - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
12. Jams N. Roses - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
13. Shane K.P. O'Neill - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
14. Rhonda Patton/Chester McDaniel - ranked Coming Home 1 of 1 - self-published.
So, 14/16 votes are authors. Either Roy is a writer's writer, or this is obviously a way for these self=published authors to try and push up their books. Ugh.
But to be fair to Roy. There were two rating that didn't come from other Goodreads/Self-Published authors. One come from Emma Morris, who has apparently ONLY rated Roy's books (all 5 stars) and has no friends. The other rating comes from a 17 yo Norwegian kid who likes Dan Brown A LOT.