The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists #3

by Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace

READING CREASES ON SPINE. TANNING INSIDE COVERS. NO WRITING OR MARKS ON PAGES.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Trivia, History, 20th Century

490 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Amy Wallace was an American author. She was the daughter of authors Irving Wallace and Sylvia Wallace and sister of historian David Wallechinsky.

Reviews

[Manny]

Several people have wondered over the last year which review I've been trolled on most often. In an effort to answer this vital question, I've compiled another list. Here, you can see all my reviews on which the comment thread contains at least 100 comments:

The Quran (613)

Harry Potter Boxset (337)

Delusions of Gender (265)

The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning (262)

Mein Kampf (230)

Is There a God? (167)

Off-Topic (166)

The Holy Bible (150)

The Destruction of Dresden (152)

From Eternity to Here (142)

Fifty Shades of Grey (136)

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (120)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (117)

The Hidden Reality (114)

The Hunger Games (113)

Du côté de chez Swann : « Combray » (112)

What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante (109)

New Moon (108)

The Language of God (106)

Why Darwin Matters (102)

So this is what Goodreaders are really interested in! Next time I'm asked, I'll be able to give a snappy answer: in roughly descending order, it's God, Harry Potter, Science, Goodreads, Hitler, Sex, Vampires and Proust. All things considered, not too bad...

[David Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists by Amy Wallace (Bantam Books 1985)(031.02). Now THIS is a trivia book! Before every website had scads of "top ten lists" of every subject under the sun, there was The Book of Lists. I read this thing cover to cover. I couldn't get enough! It's amazing what the author assembled here! I highly recommend this for fans of "Jeopardy"! My rating: 8/10, finished 1995.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

3rd in the series. Also a great interesting reference book.

[Allison Bosco · Rating 4 out of 5]

Outdated in many ways, but still extremely interesting

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1984. These were always a fun and informative read.

[Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Check out my review of the first Book of Lists here, it expresses my enjoyment of the later entries as well, though I must say that Book of Lists #3 is definitely my favorite and the one that I revisited the most often as a kid. Published back in 1985 it compiles, in addition to obsolete (but still interesting) lists such as 17 Minerals our Economy Cannot Function Without and Lucille Ball's 10 Favorite TV Series, there are such awesome factoids as 7 Almost Indestructible People, 7 People Who Were Buried Alive and Lived, 6 UFO Encounters of a Sexual Kind, and, one I really would like to take inspiration from, 10 Authors Who Wrote Novels in Less Than Six Weeks. I can still learn new things in this book.

[Gina Marcelin · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you liked the first two, you will like this one.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book of lists!