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General Chart - Positions 11 to 20 << Back

Chart Note: Book chapters which are very similarly rated will be ranked equally in positions 11 to 70. This is to recognise the comparative quality of books and help to highlight more authors' books in the Top 70.

To qualify for the Top Ten, book chapters must have a reading credit attached when the nightly ratings take place, a minimum of five reviews, and be the opening chapters of a novel or a short story.

11.
Diminuendo
by Joe 90 Short Story, General Fiction 13 Nov 2008
Music is good for the soul

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12.
NIGHT JOURNEY - CHAPTERS FIVE & SIX
by Goldie Browning Mystery, Novel, Fantasy 13 Jul 2008
THE SHINING meets COMA meets SOMEWHERE IN TIME. Continuation of earlier chapters of Night Journey available on my YWO page. A ghostly tale of past lives that intertwine with the present. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE FIRST PART, YOU MAY CLICK ON ONE PAGE SYNOPSIS TO CATCH UP.

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They Don’t Pick Cotton by Hand Any More
by Chuck Buckner Short Story, Literary Fiction 02 Oct 2008
Something about memories, picking and chopping cotton, going to school when it rained or when it was too cold. Something about stick figures and hunchbacks, burned lunches and fights over a piece of pork, getting shot at, black soil, white cotton, green and yellow spiders and a red sun.

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13.
Spirit Shifter
by Gavin Cramblet Novel, Fantasy 19 Sep 2008
Talyn’s kingdom often relies on his miraculous ability to transfer wounds from one person to another. But when nobles exploit his powers to start a war, and a murderer holds him hostage in an attempt to prove her innocence, he’ll need more than miracles to save himself and his country.

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14.
Finding Tyler
by Emilie Wain Action, Adventure, Mystery, Novel, Thriller 03 Oct 2008
Miles’s life is already all figured-out – he will work in Rye until he retires and marry his girlfriend Tracy, forgetting his dreams of one day living in America. Then he meets Tyler, an American businessman. The friendship is an unusual one and only gets more complicated when Tyler inexplicably disappears.

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The Price of Freedom (Re-revised)
by PaulE Adventure, Historical 08 Oct 2008
The lives of six people cross at the Bristol Riots. Each experiences events from a different perspective. Most never meet, but their destinies become entwined for years to come. A story about the battle for power, and the fight for freedom, and the lengths people will go to, to achieve what they want. Based on actual historical events.

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15.
He sings because he is
by Joe 90 Short Story, Romance 27 Aug 2008
Rewrite of "Soliloquy for Two" incorporating many of the helpful suggestions supplied by my critics.

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Zaught Green
by RJ Moser Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Teenage Fiction 28 Sep 2008
It’s bad enough being a twelve year-old foster kid with no friends. What do you do when kids from another world want to beat you up? Zack finds out the hard way in Zaught Green, a modern fantasy for middle school ages. What begins as your average story on getting paid $3 to beat up a boy ends with four friends, two worlds, & one sinister school.

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The sweet smell of revenge
by Joe 90 Short Story, General Fiction 18 Sep 2008
Even a rose grower can step out of line.

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Making It Better
by Derek Haycock Short Story, Historical 01 Sep 2008
A scientist reflects on how his work has affected his life and the lives of those close to him, and contemplates the enormity of the new project he is being propelled towards. (It is more ‘stream of consciousness' than conventional storytelling.)

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CATCH A FALLING STAR
by Lexi Revellian Mystery, Novel, Thriller 10 Aug 2008
Caz is startled to discover a strange man asleep on her roof terrace...

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Two years and three weeks
by Juliet Short Story, General Fiction 28 Oct 2008
A short story about sisters.

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Rock Chick
by Kit Ashley Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance 05 Oct 2008
Indy Savage has loved Lee Nightingale since she was five years old. Breaking her heart, Lee has never been interested. Now Indy has bad guys shooting at her and Lee needs to help. She can’t keep him out of her life when she’s getting stun-gunned, kidnapped and finding dead bodies.

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16.
The Elusive Empress
by Ann Nibbs Historical, Novel, Womens Fiction, General Fiction 09 Aug 2008
Austrians call her their Princess Diana. Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) was worshipped by her husband and subjects and was the most beautiful Royal in Europe. But behind the beauty, lay a dark secret – the hereditary Wittelsbach madness. This is her story – told through the eyes of those who knew her best.

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The Shattered Mirror
by Nick Poole Historical, Novel, Fantasy 27 May 2008
"All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own." Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890). This is the story of Tommy Grimes.

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Come in, please
by Joe 90 Short Story, Thriller 29 Sep 2008
Walk away. NOW!

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Past; Tense
by Joe 90 Short Story, Historical, Literary Fiction 11 Sep 2008
Don't mess with the past.

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A Gift From Gauguin (Rev)
by D.S. Knight Thriller 11 Sep 2008
A Gift From Gauguin is a nautical thriller about a Polynesian teenager who is raped by a Catholic Missionary. In exchange for her silence she is promised an offshore education that will change her life forever, until it is time to defy her abuser and return to face the past.

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Ready, Steady, Dig!
by Rosalind Winter Comedy, Novel, Fantasy, Teenage Fiction, General Fiction 03 Oct 2008
The little household gods of the Villa Corvo have spent the last 1600 years faithfully guarding a buried hoard of gold, so the arrival of a bunch of archaeologists from the popular TV programme "Ready, Steady, Dig!" is seriously bad news...

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SAFE (Was 'Streetwise')
by Kate Hanney Novel, Teenage Fiction 20 Sep 2008
The teachers, his mom, the cops – Danny’s always in trouble with somebody, and it’s nothing new; it’s normal. But then he gets mixed up with a ‘posh’ girl, and his mom gets another new boyfriend. And then it’s not normal trouble anymore, and it’s not just Danny who isn’t ‘safe.’

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Fullmoon Aaru - Rev (2)
by Eleanor T. Beaty Adventure, Children's Fiction 17 Sep 2008
Twelve year-old Naiye, the only son to the Manis’ chief, doesn’t take life too seriously, until someone kidnaps his armadillo.

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