Zeitgeist Overview

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Vital Statistics

Members 939,052

Books cataloged 45,965,397

Tags added 57,954,812

Unique works 4,956,097

Reviews 900,688

Works reviewed 350,367

Ratings 7,420,014

User-contributed covers 1,727,856

Author photos 39,885

Groups 5,978

Talk topics 74,791

Talk messages 1,600,851

Talk touchstones 1,061,041

Free books given out

Early Reviewer books given out 39,273

Member Giveaway books given out 9,389

Total free books given out 48,662

50 largest libraries (see more)

snagadeal (39,334 books), wendybell (26,546 books), angelrose (25,463 books), dimatulka (18,570 books, private), meftung (18,274 books, private), credo (16,252 books, private), HindeHouse (15,037 books), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), JeanLittleLibrary (14,791 books), y.e.deligoz (14,606 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (14,543 books), marxones (14,516 books), mhagenberg (14,405 books), Jessaba (14,369 books), pagerd (13,194 books), kittylafong (13,178 books, private), biblioarchy (13,053 books), shearrob (13,000 books), bookstopshere (12,728 books), antimuzak (12,498 books), fitzwater (12,452 books), Patentnonsense (12,440 books), h34th3r (11,541 books), shop20q (11,478 books), tglovell (11,399 books), hankph (11,384 books), trollsdotter (11,373 books), devenish (11,333 books), gaspari (11,235 books, private), LamSon (11,213 books), bertilak (10,903 books), mitchellray (10,895 books), kday_working (10,877 books), libvicki (10,753 books), axarca (10,743 books), TomVeal (10,706 books), eromsted (10,686 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), hse (10,609 books), CarlSandburgLibrary (10,554 books), Papiervisje (10,465 books), charzie (10,399 books), IowaBibliotheque (10,357 books), esther_a (10,278 books), SRC (10,231 books), oakesspalding (10,155 books), Makuleke (10,100 books), jalual (9,966 books), zenosbooks (9,960 books), dbstgb (9,906 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (see more)

bluetyson (35026), meadcl (8129), ianchan (6119), occult (4420), Schmerguls (3746), GeniusJen (3339), burnit99 (2847), wyvernfriend (2744), kitchengardenbooks (2464), Totarobookroom (2360), jon1lambert (2267), antimuzak (2161), Budz888 (2140), sstocks (2133), herebedragons (1811), nwhyte (1808), WARM (1506), maaward (1436), elisa.rolle (1383), t1bclasslibrary (1299), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1244), rajendran (1208), gwyneira (1146), bintphotobooks (1071), fredheid (1011), sfreader.com (999), tripleblessings (988), bcquinnsmom (983), MrsLee (975), cowpeace (974), jjmachshev (952), TadAD (933), tjsjohanna (919), Fledgist (911), inkcognito (894), ForrestFamily (886), Elishibai (885), tuckerresearch (868), GlenRalph (856), prkcs (845), ceal1959 (837), Darla (818), MerryMary (808), antiquary (802), AlexTheHunn (802), sarahthelibrarian (782), Cecilturtle (776), nicsreads (746), keylawk (726)

50 top taggers

eromsted (145,679), msrau (114,448), ThomasKleinert (98,374), AsYouKnow_Bob (90,171), gentlemania (79,328), bertilak (77,536), SilentInAWay (72,404), mfd101 (69,732), kathi (61,488), oakesspalding (56,296), purpledragon42 (56,103), cnrenner (55,759), clpteensnewbooks (54,243), alibrarian (49,447), Neuromancer (47,444), benwaugh (46,838), markell (45,565), antimuzak (45,309), esther_a (44,657), psybre (44,432), lisa211 (44,174), westher (42,966), Saraswati_Library (40,926), wyvernfriend (40,849), MikeBriggs (40,588), juglicerr (40,256), snagadeal (39,383), nicolaerricotenaglia (38,471), muumi (37,749), Papiervisje (37,622), DWWilkin (37,052), JanWillemNoldus (36,916), EnriqueFreeque (36,522), nmasjhur (35,913), SeriousGrace (35,814), Nedrin (35,778), lquilter (35,773), TomVeal (35,267), mcghol (35,228), sgfein (35,055), diana.gabaldon (34,106), malinablue (34,077), carminowe (31,836), atlaswinks (31,617), vpfluke (31,238), trollsdotter (31,188), PhileasHannay (30,855), JerryMonaco (30,801), idiosyncratic (30,593), Instigatrix (30,059)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (741,131), German (568,859), Japanese (365,224), Spanish (232,681), Italian (211,675), Russian (197,301), Greek (Ancient) (165,591), Dutch (127,255), Latin (118,540), Swedish (100,982), Portuguese (69,331), Chinese (46,683), Norwegian (43,068), Multiple languages (41,930), Danish (36,086), Hebrew (35,181), Czech (28,289), Polish (27,304), English (Middle) (26,765), Arabic (20,641), Finnish (13,704), Turkish (11,774), Sanskrit (10,467), Greek (9,137), Persian (8,672)

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25 most reviewed books (see more)

Twilight (1,303 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (847 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (743 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (668 reviews), The Kite Runner (643 reviews), The Road (635 reviews), The Book Thief (617 reviews), Breaking Dawn (606 reviews), New Moon (600 reviews), Any Given Doomsday (574 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (539 reviews), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (513 reviews), Eclipse (476 reviews), Water for Elephants (474 reviews), Angels & Demons (455 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (452 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (443 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (441 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale (408 reviews), The Historian (401 reviews), The Lovely Bones (400 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (396 reviews), Life of Pi (394 reviews), The Graveyard Book (392 reviews), The Hunger Games (377 reviews)

top books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (48,197), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (44,547), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (42,463), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (41,971), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (41,818), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (41,300), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (36,688), The Da Vinci Code (34,303), The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (31,627), Nineteen Eighty-Four (30,011), Pride and Prejudice (29,760), The Catcher in the Rye (28,492), To Kill A Mockingbird (26,863), Twilight (24,588), The Great Gatsby (24,509), The Kite Runner (23,659), The Lord of the Rings (22,734), Jane Eyre (21,274), Angels & Demons (20,816), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (20,525), Animal Farm (20,279), Life of Pi (19,469), Brave New World (19,404), The Time Traveler's Wife (19,092), New Moon (18,905)

top 25 books by star rating

Luthiel's Song: The War of Mists, spam, A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, Osama American in Bondage, Luthiel's Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale, Spam, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete BBC Radio Series, Mr. Lincoln's Way, The New Frontier (Absolute Edition), The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, DER VOLKSPRACTITIONER - Grundausbildung im Modell von NLP, The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, The Brothers Karamazov: The Constance Garnett Translation Revised by Ralph E. Matlaw : Backgrounds and Sources, Essays i, The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Emma/Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility/Minor Works, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, The Absolute Sandman Volume Four, The Lord of the Rings (audio-dramatization), The Last Unicorn (Deluxe Edition), The Secret Magdalene: A Novel, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Voyage of the Basset

50 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 Mitchell, Naomi Novik, Katie MacAlister, Lisa See, John Green, Jean Marzollo, Sharon Kay Penman, Jo Beverley, Susan Wittig Albert, Matthew Pearl, Adriana Trigiani, Sharon Lee, Brandon Sanderson, Randy Alcorn, Alan Furst, Janny Wurts, Susan Wiggs, Elizabeth Bear, Chitra Divakaruni, Joe Hill, David Liss, Sara Donati, Richard Price, C.E. Murphy, Angela Elwell Hunt, Cleo Coyle, Gabrielle Zevin, Margie Palatini, Sarah Addison Allen — see the full list.

top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (317,648), Stephen King (217,481), Terry Pratchett (188,553), J. R. R. Tolkien (151,749), Neil Gaiman (145,740), C. S. Lewis (139,127), William Shakespeare (118,633), Nora Roberts (103,374), Jane Austen (98,239), Agatha Christie (92,977), Isaac Asimov (92,036), Anne McCaffrey (82,945), Stephenie Meyer (80,468), Charles Dickens (80,384), John Grisham (77,031), Orson Scott Card (76,721), Dan Brown (75,537), Anne Rice (74,952), Kurt Vonnegut (74,303), Douglas Adams (73,041), James Patterson (70,808), Robert A. Heinlein (69,736), Mercedes Lackey (66,607), George Orwell (65,833), Dean Koontz (64,045), Janet Evanovich (62,874), John Steinbeck (61,373), Laurell K. Hamilton (59,558), Margaret Atwood (57,687), Piers Anthony (57,063), Roald Dahl (56,271), Michael Crichton (54,216), Robert Jordan (53,537), Ernest Hemingway (52,741), Philip Pullman (52,262), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (51,444), Mark Twain (51,061), Lemony Snicket (50,203), Gabriel García Márquez (50,073), Dr. Seuss (49,634), David Eddings (49,253), Ray Bradbury (48,121), Tom Clancy (46,196), Ursula K. Le Guin (45,870), Haruki Murakami (45,674), Philip K. Dick (45,302), Frank Herbert (45,201), Anonymous (45,169), Bill Bryson (45,137), J.D. Salinger (44,670), Neal Stephenson (44,337), Patricia Cornwell (42,367), John Irving (42,295), Marion Zimmer Bradley (42,127), Arthur C. Clarke (42,078), Lucy Maud Montgomery (41,649), Chuck Palahniuk (41,593), F. Scott Fitzgerald (41,150), Tamora Pierce (41,013), Jodi Picoult (40,585), Madeleine L'Engle (40,443), Umberto Eco (39,788), William Gibson (38,528), Charlaine Harris (37,815), David Sedaris (37,267), Virginia Woolf (36,828), Larry Niven (36,200), Khaled Hosseini (35,309), Alexander McCall Smith (34,837), Margaret Weis (34,692), Vladimir Nabokov (34,557), Ian McEwan (34,435), George R. R. Martin (34,421), Leo Tolstoy (34,267), Homer (34,170)

top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (2,934,463), fantasy (986,946), history (831,480), non-fiction (593,492), mystery (556,377), science fiction (516,520), read (501,499), nonfiction (463,648), biography (369,155), poetry (364,187), novel (322,119), unread (317,080), reference (308,423), romance (279,400), literature (266,378), philosophy (262,361), art (250,048), (248,554), own (247,357), religion (235,870), humor (226,078), short stories (224,784), science (224,458), sf (217,516), historical fiction (203,934), tbr (202,832), children's (176,493), series (174,669), horror (165,709), manga (165,499), travel (165,413), children (154,123), comics (149,814), classic (145,841), music (145,278), young adult (136,065), politics (134,364), paperback (133,982), 20th century (131,951), anthology (129,231), classics (127,774), memoir (127,690), theology (114,941), picture book (114,908), crime (114,257), psychology (111,676), england (110,797), ya (109,758), american (109,677), graphic novel (109,537), cookbook (106,577), essays (104,795), cooking (104,088), thriller (102,356), adventure (97,968), christianity (97,536), drama (97,432), british (96,020), humour (94,092), historical (92,488), sci-fi (90,759), english (88,126), animals (87,999), language (87,541), wishlist (85,192), magic (83,242), writing (82,144), autobiography (80,782), childrens (79,842), christian (78,889), owned (76,944), photography (76,875), ebook (75,321), hardcover (75,244), american history (74,721)

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)