Zeitgeist OverviewFirehose meet mouth. Vital StatisticsMembers 1,180,744 Books cataloged 54,967,924 Tags added 67,789,660 Unique works 5,596,494 Reviews 1,147,537 Works reviewed 419,767 Ratings 8,905,890 User-contributed covers 2,130,120 Author photos 42,551 Groups 6,882 Talk topics 91,175 Talk messages 2,085,702 Talk touchstones 1,448,868
Free books given outEarly Reviewer books given out 59,577 Member Giveaway books given out 17,723 Total free books given out 77,300
50 largest libraries (see more)
wendybell (26,546 books), angelrose (24,223 books), Jessaba (18,661 books), meftung (18,277 books, private), credo (17,718 books), shearrob (16,472 books), HindeHouse (15,489 books), JeanLittleLibrary (15,473 books), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (14,978 books), mhagenberg (14,946 books), axarca (14,725 books), marxones (14,666 books), y.e.deligoz (14,606 books), iranica (13,808 books, private), pagerd (13,783 books), tglovell (13,706 books), kday_working (13,695 books), kittylafong (13,390 books, private), shop20q (13,364 books), fitzwater (13,289 books), biblioarchy (13,053 books), bookstopshere (13,033 books), antimuzak (12,823 books), spicere (12,727 books, private), Patentnonsense (12,511 books), LamSon (12,212 books), IowaBibliotheque (12,201 books), charzie (12,106 books), pharuehut (12,041 books, private), hankph (11,905 books), gangleri (11,806 books), trollsdotter (11,757 books), h34th3r (11,601 books), bertilak (11,589 books), gaspari (11,567 books, private), devenish (11,524 books), mitchellray (11,512 books), DiosoLibrary (11,423 books), Crypto-Willobie (11,328 books), TomVeal (11,303 books), hse (11,143 books), Nedrin (11,126 books), eromsted (11,124 books), Papiervisje (11,014 books), oakes (10,754 books), libvicki (10,753 books), esther_a (10,683 books), jon1lambert (10,658 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books)
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50 top taggers
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25 top languages (translations from)
French (859,130), German (663,113), Japanese (417,411), Spanish (269,806), Italian (241,148), Russian (224,323), Greek (Ancient) (190,543), Dutch (149,885), Latin (135,794), Swedish (133,675), Portuguese (79,431), Chinese (52,931), Norwegian (50,341), Multiple languages (46,825), Hebrew (41,961), Danish (41,280), Czech (32,131), Polish (31,686), English (Middle) (30,770), Arabic (23,780), Finnish (16,603), Turkish (13,709), Old English (13,202), Sanskrit (11,630), Greek (10,536)
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| 25 most reviewed books (more)Twilight (1,515 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (925 reviews), The Book Thief (804 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (803 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (798 reviews), The Road (792 reviews), The Kite Runner (736 reviews), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (728 reviews), New Moon (DVD) (708 reviews), Breaking Dawn (691 reviews), The Hunger Games (640 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (622 reviews), Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (610 reviews), Any Given Doomsday (603 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (592 reviews), Eclipse (567 reviews), Water for Elephants (561 reviews), The Lovely Bones (551 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (532 reviews), The Graveyard Book (522 reviews), Angels & Demons (510 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (501 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (490 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale (475 reviews), The Historian (424 reviews)
top books (more)
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (53,288), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (48,835), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (46,605), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (46,300), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (46,234), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (45,560), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (41,082), The Da Vinci Code (37,725), The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again (35,239), Nineteen Eighty-Four (33,468), Pride and Prejudice (33,412), The Catcher in the Rye (31,955), To Kill a Mockingbird (30,000), Twilight (29,144), The Great Gatsby (27,530), The Kite Runner (26,341), The Lord of the Rings (25,222), Jane Eyre (23,861), Angels & Demons (23,272), Animal Farm (22,873), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (22,775), New Moon (DVD) (22,665), The Time Traveler's Wife (21,961), Brave New World (21,900), Life of Pi (21,527)
top 25 books by star rating50 top-rated authors
Authors with at least ten ratings and five raters (rating/number/raters). Jeannie Fulbright (5/11/8), John Schreiber (4.98/22/6), Amy Guth (4.92/13/13), Kyoto Costume Institute (4.92/13/13), Takehiko Inoue (4.91/23/5), Josemaria Escriva (4.91/22/6), Ninya Mikhaila (4.91/11/11), Kyoko Hikawa (4.9/60/8), Arthur G. Bennett (4.89/19/19), John Bonnett Wexo (4.88/26/5), Trish New (4.88/41/32), Eberhard Nestle (4.88/16/16), John P. Meier (4.86/18/10), Timothy Ferriss (4.86/14/11), Albert Goldbarth (4.85/43/8), Luigi Serafini (4.85/13/13), Cyril Hare (4.84/25/5), Beverly Jenkins (4.83/12/5), Jonathan Larson (4.83/12/11), Sho Fumimura (4.82/22/6), Ernst Haeckel (4.82/11/11), Tim Hegg (4.82/11/6), Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura (4.82/11/6), Lynn (4.81/16/12), Percy Dearmer (4.8/15/12), William T. Cavanaugh (4.8/10/9), Maida Heatter (4.8/10/8), Abingdon Press (4.8/10/5), Ole Risom (4.8/10/9), Ludwig van Beethoven (4.8/44/21), Mazo de la Roche (4.79/39/5), Elisabeth Crowfoot (4.79/12/12), Vardis Fisher (4.79/26/10), Brian Selznick (4.78/30/30), Alex Grey (4.78/18/14), L. J. Maas (4.78/20/7), Clyde Pharr (4.77/11/11), Marshall G. S. Hodgson (4.77/13/6), Deric Longden (4.77/13/6), Paul Rusesabagina (4.76/17/17), Caroline Lawrence (4.76/21/5), Francis Lathom (4.76/25/6), Mary B. Morrison (4.75/18/7), Julie Phillips (4.75/16/16), Anton Corbijn (4.75/10/10), G. B. Edwards (4.75/10/10), Howard Tayler (4.75/10/7), Walt Kelly (4.75/195/39), Janet Arnold (4.75/89/43), Toni Weschler (4.73/32/32) 50 lowest-rated authors
Authors with at least five ratings and three raters (rating/number/raters). Isn't this fascinating? Robyn Donald (1.2/5/4), Rich Shapero (1.39/9/9), Martin Bril (1.5/7/3), Catherine Spencer (1.5/5/4), Mary Ann Mitchell (1.56/9/4), Hal Lindsey (1.58/12/9), Andy Baggott (1.6/5/5), Jean-Claude Bernardet (1.63/8/3), Richard H. Pough (1.64/7/4), Andrew Macdonald (1.67/9/8), Katherine Stone (1.67/6/4), Luke Short (1.68/17/4), Curtiss Ann Matlock (1.68/11/8), Hortense Calisher (1.7/5/4), Susan Kay Law (1.7/5/3), Sarah Lyddon Morrison (1.7/5/4), Candace McCarthy (1.71/7/3), Lolita Pille (1.71/7/6), Jonathan Black (1.75/8/6), Bruce R. McConkie (1.8/5/4), Jessie Penn-Lewis (1.8/5/3), Jessica Cutler (1.81/16/16), Johnny Damon (1.83/6/6), Pip Baker (1.86/7/4), Carey (1.86/7/7), Eric Saward (1.88/8/5), Pat Warren (1.88/8/4), Iris Finz (1.9/5/5), Granta (1.9/5/3), Thomas Greanias (1.9/5/5), Liz Jones (1.9/5/5), Motofumi Kobayashi (1.9/5/3), Rhonda R. McClure (1.9/5/5), Gregory J. E. Rawlins (1.9/5/4), John Ure (1.94/8/6), Amanda Scott (1.95/11/7), Erich von Daniken (1.96/50/37), Matthew Lesko (2/9/7), Peggy Darty (2/8/3), Judy Delton (2/8/6), Clarence Larkin (2/7/5), Barry Letts (2/7/5), James Wilcox (2/7/3), Patti Davis (2/6/6), Joyce Christmas (2/5/4), Roger Garaudy (2/5/3), Joan Hohl (2/5/5), Linda Madl (2/5/3), Christian Oster (2/5/4), David S. Platt (2/5/5) 50 "completist" authors
Average number of different books held by people who have any books by the author Kenneth Robeson (22.85), Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (15.79), Clamp (12.73), Maxwell Grant (12.25), Don Pendleton (11.64), Francine Pascal (11.52), Nobuhiro Watsuki (10.65), Mercedes Lackey (10.37), Ann M. Martin (10.18), Terry Pratchett (10.06), Rex Stout (10.06), Nora Roberts (10.05), Louis L'Amour (9.78), Radclyffe (9.7), Georgette Heyer (9.52), Terrance Dicks (9.21), Anne McCaffrey (9.15), Rumiko Takahashi (9.02), Fuyumi Soryo (8.98), Warren Murphy (8.96), Diana Palmer (8.7), Masami Tsuda (8.65), Tamora Pierce (8.61), Christine Feehan (8.55), Cate Tiernan (8.42), Naoko Takeuchi (8.38), J. D. Robb (8.31), Kathryn Kenny (8.28), D. E. Stevenson (8.24), Kazuo Koike (8.22), Ordnance Survey (8.22), David Eddings (8.15), Laurell K. Hamilton (8.06), Alexander Kent (7.89), Franklin W. Dixon (7.88), Kaori Yuki (7.85), L.J. Smith (7.85), Natsuki Takaya (7.84), Lois Gladys Leppard (7.83), David Weber (7.8), Kazuya Minekura (7.66), Suzanne Brockmann (7.66), Erle Stanley Gardner (7.59), Hisaya Nakajo (7.59), Dick Francis (7.53), Johanna Lindsey (7.49), R. l. Stine (7.34), Carolyn Keene (7.29), Gilbert Morris (7.28), Agatha Christie (7.18) |
Authors who LibraryThing (complete list)Diana Gabaldon, David Brin, Laurie R. King, Laurie Halse Anderson, David Mitchell, James Rollins, Naomi Novik, Katie MacAlister, John Green, Lisa See, Jean Marzollo, Sharon Kay Penman, Jo Beverley, Susan Wittig Albert, Adriana Trigiani, Brandon Sanderson, Matthew Pearl, Melissa Marr, Sharon Lee, Alan Furst, Randy Alcorn, Susan Wiggs, Joe Hill, Janny Wurts, Elizabeth Bear, Chitra Divakaruni, Neal Asher, David Liss, Sabrina Jeffries, Naomi Wolf — see the full list.
By number of copies
J. K. Rowling (364,525), Stephen King (256,232), Terry Pratchett (214,823), J. R. R. Tolkien (174,401), Neil Gaiman (164,837), C. S. Lewis (160,207), William Shakespeare (138,378), Nora Roberts (122,434), Jane Austen (116,489), Agatha Christie (113,165), Isaac Asimov (105,362), Stephenie Meyer (103,919), Charles Dickens (94,893), Anne McCaffrey (93,146), John Grisham (90,002), Dan Brown (89,745), James Patterson (89,056), Orson Scott Card (88,375), Kurt Vonnegut (85,542), Anne Rice (85,184), Douglas Adams (83,047), Janet Evanovich (81,145), Robert A. Heinlein (79,390), George Orwell (76,912), Dean Koontz (75,255), Mercedes Lackey (75,116), John Steinbeck (71,904), Laurell K. Hamilton (69,939), Roald Dahl (67,352), Margaret Atwood (66,894), Piers Anthony (64,728), Michael Crichton (63,393), Robert Jordan (62,912), Dr. Seuss (61,527), Ernest Hemingway (61,297), Mark Twain (60,384), Fyodor Dostoevsky (60,075), Philip Pullman (60,018), Lemony Snicket (58,532), Gabriel García Márquez (57,461), David Eddings (56,261), Ray Bradbury (55,866), Charlaine Harris (54,833), Haruki Murakami (53,462), Ursula K. Le Guin (52,408), Tom Clancy (52,183), Bill Bryson (52,101), Philip K. Dick (51,969), Frank Herbert (51,833), J. D. Salinger (51,742), Neal Stephenson (50,162), Jodi Picoult (49,717), Patricia Cornwell (49,426), Lucy Maud Montgomery (48,675), Arthur C. Clarke (48,668), John Irving (48,459), Chuck Palahniuk (48,266), Tamora Pierce (48,182), F. Scott Fitzgerald (48,181), Marion Zimmer Bradley (47,506), Madeleine L'Engle (46,096), Anonymous (45,985), Umberto Eco (44,992), Various (44,967), William Gibson (43,495), Virginia Woolf (42,474), Alexander McCall Smith (42,442), David Sedaris (42,303), Larry Niven (41,638), Khaled Hosseini (41,296), Meg Cabot (40,635), Ian McEwan (40,439), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (40,257), Leo Tolstoy (40,190), George R. R. Martin (40,188)
fiction (4,711,527), fantasy (1,906,846), non-fiction (1,589,824), history (1,308,926), mystery (1,109,281), science fiction (981,558), read (959,103), biography (705,538), novel (686,841), poetry (594,232), reference (575,953), unread (565,182), romance (561,520), philosophy (514,287), (478,849), humor (463,780), short stories (449,735), literature (430,660), nonfiction (420,188), children's (405,703), young adult (405,685), historical fiction (401,359), art (397,804), own (393,299), Fiction (387,746), science (362,420), religion (357,431), tbr (323,572), travel (317,489), series (315,903), Fantasy (313,421), 20th century (311,057), sf (304,365), manga (296,724), classic (280,121), memoir (276,542), paperback (271,273), anthology (265,539), horror (265,070), picture book (257,826), children (256,193), comics (255,405), music (247,040), classics (242,182), graphic novel (241,524), cookbook (239,252), crime (233,513), politics (232,444), sci-fi (216,621), essays (210,426), drama (183,337), psychology (182,007), Mystery (179,114), Science Fiction (178,669), hardcover (174,546), adventure (173,872), england (170,958), 19th century (168,075), wwii (165,609), cooking (162,711), Biography (161,996), wishlist (156,968), thriller (156,759), historical (156,120), animals (156,014), 2008 (153,062), christianity (152,001), magic (151,520), language (150,034), 2009 (149,709), family (148,569), vampires (147,977), english (145,759), ebook (142,871), theology (141,537)
top 50 long tags
Tags with more than 20 letters contemporary fiction (8856), 20th century literature (4480), contemporary romance (4276), 20th century fiction (2813), mass market paperback (2746), political philosophy (2683), Fantasy/Science Fiction (2394), Science Fiction/Fantasy (2279), childrens literature (2257), international relations (1841), children's picture book (1670), personal development (1565), contemporary literature (1564), intellectual history (1559), artificial intelligence (1425), philosophy of science (1363), British Crime Fiction (1302), software development (1280), science fiction and fantasy (1254), 19th century literature (1245), permanent collection (1243), history of philosophy (1229), contemporary fantasy (1108), latin american literature (998), children's non-fiction (974), Christian Nonfiction (957), juvenile non-fiction (951), philosophy of religion (903), dungeons and dragons (897), classical literature (891), programming languages (887), African American Fiction (857), literature in translation (852), short story collection (827), philosophy of language (826), information technology (802), comparative religion (774), biography/autobiography (765), 19th century fiction (764), african-american literature (754), historical linguistics (750), software engineering (727), children's nonfiction (726), victorian literature (715), books i want to read (708), young adult literature (695), Atlantian Reference Library (660), computer programming (630), illuminated manuscripts (615), American Contemporary (570)
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