With several hundred books on this site, I thought new readers might like a quick overview of the quality stuff. So here are twenty books that have achieved at least one 5/5 rating, and therefore comprise a list of the hippest and/or best volumes on the site.

These change on a frequent but irregular basis.

JOHN JAKES
BLACK IN TIME
'A black militant, a white supremacist, and a time-travel device tangle in a fight to rewrite history and eternity!'

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BURT HIRSCHFELD
BONNIE AND CLYDE
'Love was almost enough for them but it was murder that made the delicious difference'

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JAMES ROBERT BAKER
BOY WONDER
'In some ways Shark Trager was more than a Hollywood legend. In some ways Shark Trager was Hollywood itself...'

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JOHN SUMMERS
THE DISASTER
'A book that shook the conscience of the world'

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IAN ROSSE
THE DROOP
'The price of permissiveness - a mysterious and terrible plague'

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RICHARD CARLILE
DRUMMER
'The scene is everywhere and nowhere, Drummer is everyone and no one, living is vision and nightmare'

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ERNEST TIDYMAN
FLOWER POWER
'They destroyed her innocence; then rechristened her "Flower"'

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Desmond Hall
I GIVE YOU OSCAR WILDE
'The brilliant novel of the triumphs, the forbidden loves, the decline and fall of a genius'

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KEITH COLQUHOUN
KILLING STALIN
'It is 1953 and Uncle Joe has gone insane'

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JOHN FORTUNE & JOHN WELLS
A MELON FOR ECSTASY

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GILLIAN FREEMAN
NAZI LADY: THE CONFESSIONS OF ELISABETH VON S.
'a tour de force ... entirely convincing' - Newsweek

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WILLIAM HUGHES
PERFORMANCE
'A story of violence and sadism... a sensational film'

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GEORGE MOOR
THE POLE AND WHISTLE
'A frank novel of today's most controversial subject'

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ALAN HOLMES
THE REBEL
'The story, based on the hilarious film, wherein Tony Hancock becomes an artist in gay Montparnasse'

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TONY WARREN
RISING DAMP
'Rigsby's Hell-Shaped Rooms...'

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JOHN CROSBY
SAPPHO IN ABSENCE
'...catches the flavour of the hippies' world: the idealism, the futility, the hopelessness.'

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JEREMY LEVEN
SATAN: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr Kassler, JSPS
'The bawdiest, most entertaining novel for years'

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SARBAN
THE SOUND OF HIS HORN
'I have never read anything more completely terrifying' - Western Mail

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ROBERT THOM
WILD IN THE STREETS
'Teen Takeover - The Day It All Happened, Baby!'

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LEONARD NIMOY
WILL I THINK OF YOU?
'The passion, the power, the ever fresh wonder of love - in shimmering words and haunting photo images. By a superb creative artist who is also one of the shining stars of Star Trek.'

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