50 largest libraries (more)

theraven (8,110 books), dean (7,998 books), ellenandjim (7,536 books), Quatrefoil_library (6,647 books), meburste (5,703 books), carminowe (5,669 books), gaspari (4,869 books, private), rmckeown (4,364 books), birchmore (4,331 books), pagerd (4,199 books), hailelib (4,030 books), languagehat (3,947 books), meganwh (3,733 books, private), tardis (3,659 books), pandorabox82 (3,627 books), bambiedeer59632002 (3,613 books, private), oakesspalding (3,422 books), wyvernfriend (3,229 books), Wombat (3,219 books), gwyneira (3,103 books), vanlaura (3,071 books, private), ringman (3,060 books), Stitswerd (2,900 books), lilithcat (2,754 books), kauders (2,753 books), Bopeepsheep (2,566 books), rivkat (2,545 books), Quaisior (2,509 books), dovegreyreader (2,469 books), geoffmiles (2,437 books), patf4444 (2,406 books), richlindsey (2,388 books), lverner (2,366 books), zette (2,269 books), LarsonLewisProject (2,254 books), gatemansnametag (2,237 books), susanj (2,199 books), GreyHead (2,175 books), junglemom (2,147 books), gcoupe (2,138 books), pmegan (2,122 books), bibliophiles (2,109 books), onefear (2,043 books), CrafterOfCode (2,011 books), nwhyte (2,009 books), mollymolo (1,986 books), liao (1,980 books), Rubberlegs (1,967 books), chrisbrooke (1,965 books), vscarlett (1,939 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (more)

birchmore (629), wyvernfriend (534), nwhyte (278), tripleblessings (245), lilithcat (223), John (222), wenestvedt (219), heidilove (207), Crowyhead (192), ksmyth (185), kencf (170), ryab (166), rmckeown (166), AlexTheHunn (162), languagehat (155), jlspad (146), oakesspalding (141), chamekke (140), engelcox (116), gibbon (113), JoClare (102), ursula (100), chrisbrooke (88), pantufla (82), bostonian71 (82), tole_lege (81), bkliethermes (80), sean_choi (80), patf4444 (78), imnotawitch (77), Words (76), Miro (75), Eric_the_Hamster (73), (73), startredder (73), selfnoise (72), woohoo247 (71), librarychick (71), kaykwilts (69), perodicticus (68), archidose (67), lizw (67), dhamel (67), hippietrail (66), mmckay (66), Selkie (63), popomo (62), dawnpen (62), cequillo (61), File (61)

library totals

total books catalogued 1,093,878
unique books 455,645
16,707 users since August 29, 2005

recent users

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25 most owned books (more)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) (1212), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) (1151), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) (1120), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) (1107), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) (1094), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) (963), The Da Vinci Code (673), Pride and Prejudice (Dover Thrift Editions) (561), The Lord of the Rings (560), American Gods (530), The Catcher in the Rye (498), The Great Gatsby (444), Cryptonomicon (438), Neverwhere (437), 1984 (434), The Silmarillion (432), Ender's Game (Ender Wiggin Saga) (425), To Kill a Mockingbird (425), Brave New World (421), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : A Novel (411), The return of the king : being the third part of The lord of the rings (398), Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) (396), The fellowship of the ring (389), The Hobbit (375), Dune (373)

top 25 reviewed books (more)

The Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The time traveler's wife : a novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Children's Edition, American gods : a novel, Anansi Boys : A Novel, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything, Enders Game, The Historian, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5), Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library Classics), Coraline, The Kite Runner, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (adult) (Narnia), Pride and Prejudice, Cryptonomicon, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Brave New World, On the road, Eragon, The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure. the, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Life of Pi : a novel, Going Postal (Discworld, Book 29)

top 25 books by star rating

top 10 most contentious books

Narcissus in Chains, Memnoch the Devil, Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics), Bleachers, Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl, The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?, A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present (Perennial Classics), Tropic of Cancer, Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders, Book 1), The Notebook

top 75 authors (author cloud)

J.K. Rowling (7,424), Terry Pratchett (5,910), Stephen King (5,030), Neil Gaiman (4,701), C. S. Lewis (4,414), J. R. R. Tolkien (4,280), William Shakespeare (3,008), Anne McCaffrey (2,959), Mercedes Lackey (2,881), Isaac Asimov (2,645), Robert A. Heinlein (2,441), Orson Scott Card (2,323), Jane Austen (2,274), Agatha Christie (2,265), Douglas Adams (2,248), Neal Stephenson (1,963), Piers Anthony (1,804), Charles Dickens (1,785), Kurt Vonnegut (1,759), Anne Rice (1,735), Robert Jordan (1,734), John Grisham (1,627), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1,612), David Eddings (1,561), Madeleine L'Engle (1,492), Philip K. Dick (1,458), Tom Clancy (1,453), Dan Brown (1,425), Lois McMaster Bujold (1,354), Umberto Eco (1,350), Nora Roberts (1,326), L. M. Montgomery (1,320), William Gibson (1,318), Lemony Snicket (1,297), George Orwell (1,296), Ray Bradbury (1,270), Laurell K. Hamilton (1,260), Frank Herbert (1,244), Margaret Atwood (1,223), Tamora Pierce (1,195), Virginia Woolf (1,153), Mark Twain (1,153), Michael Crichton (1,151), Bill Watterson (1,143), Philip Pullman (1,130), John Steinbeck (1,125), Larry Niven (1,124), Patrick O'Brian (1,117), Dorothy L Sayers (1,115), Ernest Hemingway (1,109), C. J. Cherryh (1,109), Diana Wynne Jones (1,081), William Faulkner (1,078), Roald Dahl (1,075), James Joyce (1,062), Bill Bryson (1,056), James Patterson (1,054), Rex Stout (964), John Irving (959), John Piper (957), J.D. Salinger (947), Roger Zelazny (943), Arthur C. Clarke (934), Andre Norton (928), Ursula K. Le Guin (898), Chuck Palahniuk (892), Georgette Heyer (888), Janet Evanovich (886), Albert Camus (885), Plato (882), Haruki Murakami (865), David Sedaris (864), Clamp (859), F. Scott Fitzgerald (853), Various (847)

top 25 tags (tag cloud)

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