19 September 2008

Popular books

The following purports to be a list of The Top 100 Most Popular Books on LibraryThing (the numbers in parentheses, presumably, being the number of LT members who own that particular book). I've no idea how old it is. There's a little duplication - for instance, The Lord of the Rings is listed, along with all three individual books from the series.

I've bolded the number on books I'm sure I own, and the title on books I've read. Asterisks indicate the books I liked, with multiple asterisks for those I especially liked.

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*, by J K Rowling (32,484)
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J K Rowling (29,939)
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J K Rowling (28,728)
4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J K Rowling (27,926)
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J K Rowling (27,643)
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J K Rowling (27,641)
7. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (23,266)
8. The Hobbit, by J R R Tolkien (21,325)
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J K Rowling (20,485)
10. 1984, by George Orwell (19,735)
11. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (19,583)
12. The Catcher in the Rye, by J D Salinger (19,082)
13. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (17,586)
14. The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald (16,210)
15. The Lord of the Rings, by J R R Tolkien (15,483)
16. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (14,566)
17. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (14,449)
18. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (13,946)
19. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (13,272)
20. Animal Farm, by George Orwell (13,091)
21. Angels & Demons, by Dan Brown (13,089)
22. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (13,005)
23. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte (12,777)
24. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12,634)
25. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J R R Tolkien (12,276)
26. Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden (12,147)
27. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (11,976)
28. The Two Towers, by J R R Tolkien (11,512)
29. The Odyssey, by Homer (11,483)
30. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (11,392)
31. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut (11,360)
32. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11,257)
33. The Return of the King, by J R R Tolkien (11,082)
34. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (10,979)
35. American Gods: A Novel, by Neil Gaiman (10,823)
36. The Chronicles of Narnia, by C S Lewis (10,603)
37. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (10,537)
38. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (10,435)
39. The Lovely Bones: A Novel, by Alice Sebold (10,125)
40. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (10,092)
41. The Golden Compass**, by Philip Pullman (9,827)
42. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Neil Gaiman (9,745)
43. Dune, by Frank Herbert (9,671)
44. Emma, by Jane Austen (9,610)
45. Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (9,598)
46. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (9,593)
47. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (9,433)
48. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke (9,413)
49. Middlesex: A Novel, by Jeffrey Eugenides (9,343)
50. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire (9,336)
51. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (9,274)
52. The Silmarillion, by J R R Tolkien (9,246)
53. The Iliad, by Homer (9,153)
54. The Stranger, by Albert Camus (9,084)
55. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (9,080)
56. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (9,027)
57. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel, by Margaret Atwood (8,960)
58. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac (8,904)
59. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D Levitt (8,813)
60. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery (8,764)
61. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C S Lewis (8,421)
62. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (8,417)
63. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman (8,368)
64. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (8,255)
65. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (8,214)
66. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco (8,191)
67. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8,169)
68. Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (8,129)
69. The complete works of William Shakespeare (8,096)
70. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond (7,843)
71. Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris (7,834)
72. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel, by Barbara Kingsolver (7,829)
73. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (7,808)
74. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (7,807)
75. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (7,793)
76. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (7,710)
77. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (7,648)
78. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (7,598)
79. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition, by William Strunk (7,569)
80. Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7,557)
81. The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman (7,534)
82. Atonement: A Novel, by Ian McEwan (7,530)
83. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (7,512)
84. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd (7,436)
85. Dracula, by Bram Stoker (7,238)
86. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (7,153)
87. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess (7,055)
88. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (7,052)
89. The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman (7,043)
90. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce (6,933)
91. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel, by Milan Kundera (6,901)
92. Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse (6,899)
93. Neuromancer, by William Gibson (6,890)
94. The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer (6,868)
95. Persuasion, by Jane Austen (6,862)
96. Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman (6,841)
97. The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova (6,794)
98. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt (6,715)
99. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers (6,708)
100. The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli (6,697)


* Also known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
** Also known as Northern Lights.

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