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Vital Statistics

Members 1,680,603

Books cataloged 81,894,992

Tags added 97,836,362

Unique works 7,573,662

Reviews 2,200,004

Works reviewed 703,306

Ratings 13,479,514

User-contributed covers 3,472,780

Author photos 42,548

Groups 9,368

Talk topics 146,349

Talk messages 4,068,968

Talk touchstones 2,833,542

Free books given out

Early Reviewer books given out 145,429

Member Giveaway books given out 277,783

Total free books given out 423,212

50 largest libraries (see more)

eandino2012 (65,535 books), jonathan_rigby (49,574 books), kamran3 (45,604 books, private), Kaethe (35,152 books), ohclibrary (28,402 books), lyzard (24,297 books), credo (24,001 books, private), BlueTysonSS (23,344 books), Nedrin (23,052 books), stansteiner (22,192 books), Leischen (21,560 books), angelrose (21,263 books), pharuehut (20,638 books, private), EmScape (20,535 books), spicere (20,031 books, private), gangleri (19,739 books), Pages_Aplenty (19,404 books), calum-iain (19,346 books), geoffmangum (19,314 books), mvuijlst (18,744 books), zenosbooks (18,677 books), michael.brodesky.1 (18,422 books), meftung (18,275 books, private), sljmbll (18,099 books), JeanLittleLibrary (17,983 books), kday_working (17,919 books), shearrob (17,765 books), mhagenberg (17,276 books), shop20q (17,153 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (17,140 books), tglovell (17,030 books), arjaygee (16,840 books), DiosoLibrary (16,627 books), alaskabookworm (16,064 books), hyades (15,865 books, private), JaredMcLaine (15,749 books), ai51 (15,735 books), HindeHouse (15,487 books), ventures99 (15,307 books), robbiedeclercq (15,252 books), marxones (15,128 books), bertilak (15,011 books), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), LamSon (14,962 books), bookitty (14,914 books, private), car02 (14,868 books), rejeanpellerin (14,750 books), reecejones (14,749 books), TheBookStop (14,653 books), Crypto-Willobie (14,610 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (more)

bluetyson (35779), BlueTysonSS (11236), meadcl (11047), kijabi1 (6041), GeniusJen (4538), occult (4420), Schmerguls (4373), wyvernfriend (4148), vdb (3687), kitchengardenbooks (3634), jon1lambert (3542), burnit99 (3430), USYDArtsMusicLibrary (3403), kika66 (3374), nwhyte (2850), Sullywriter (2837), cavlibrary (2811), elisa.rolle (2635), Farella (2634), BeitHallel (2467), sstocks (2460), cowpeace (2412), Totarobookroom (2354), shanaqui (2218), antimuzak (2206), Budz888 (2104), AbigailAdams26 (2095), bnielsen (2067), satyridae (2000), BiblioLorenzoLodi (1976), ElizaJane (1915), herebedragons (1887), Renato (1860), Liekederckx (1780), maaward (1729), antiquary (1712), TRIARC (1704), romsfuulynn (1690), andreahodges (1635), CHINEDESENFANTS (1624), debnance (1621), tjsjohanna (1610), bintphotobooks (1585), aulsmith (1584), lamotm (1567), BRCSBooks (1555), WARM (1516), blauwebanden (1492), KindleRomance (1470), Folkshul (1468)

50 top taggers

ThomasKleinert (147,593), gentlemania (60,724), gangleri (57,491), msrau (42,493), calum-iain (41,522), mfd101 (38,716), DromJohn (37,872), bertilak (35,434), vahistoricalsociety (32,346), Voglioleggere (27,793), Carolus (27,118), fnkelley (22,508), Wraith_Ravenscroft (21,923), eromsted (21,811), johninvienna (17,887), phillipsny04 (16,217), idiosyncratic (14,717), sgfein (14,313), hudview (12,303), emherzog (12,274), Wiszard (11,847), BeitHallel (11,712), Neuromancer (11,588), drlamy (10,873), PeskyLibrary (10,851), freddybo1 (10,797), ipublishcentral (10,752), Friendshaverford (10,657), lmdhs (10,449), HindeHouse (10,421), AGClibrary (10,245), Zineapothecary (10,181), saraswati_library_mm (10,020), clpteensnewbooks (9,965), JanWillemNoldus (9,805), PitcherBooks (9,790), jmacaulay (9,760), vpfluke (9,654), cirdan747 (9,601), FictionBookshelf (9,569), RobertDay (9,355), DiosoLibrary (9,167), rolandperkins (9,039), kijabi1 (8,781), nautilus_library (8,764), grbve (8,689), casamanchaca (8,596), theresinger (8,492), Johnny.B.Good (8,399), stmarysadult (8,064)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (1,177,057), German (912,667), Japanese (546,333), Spanish (388,103), Italian (340,059), Russian (306,008), Greek (Ancient) (259,126), Swedish (223,247), Dutch (206,596), Latin (185,044), Portuguese (109,189), Norwegian (72,166), Chinese (71,550), Multiple languages (62,932), Hebrew (62,045), Danish (53,864), Polish (44,083), Czech (42,613), English (Middle) (39,416), Arabic (33,257), Finnish (24,372), Turkish (18,751), Old English (17,186), Hungarian (15,288), Sanskrit (15,213)

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25 most reviewed books (more)

The Hunger Games (2,407 reviews), Twilight (1,841 reviews), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1,344 reviews), The Book Thief (1,204 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1,157 reviews), Catching Fire (1,147 reviews), The Help (1,079 reviews), Mockingjay (1,033 reviews), The Road (1,015 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (1,005 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (987 reviews), Water for Elephants (949 reviews), The Kite Runner (943 reviews), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (935 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (916 reviews), Breaking Dawn (862 reviews), New Moon (855 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (821 reviews), The Graveyard Book (807 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (779 reviews), The Giver (756 reviews), The Lovely Bones (744 reviews), To Kill a Mockingbird (744 reviews), Eclipse (692 reviews), Life of Pi (682 reviews)

Top 25 books (more)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (72,561), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (64,641), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (63,458), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (63,068), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (62,314), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (61,399), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (58,717), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (49,854), The Da Vinci Code (48,601), 1984 (46,384), Pride and Prejudice (45,984), The Catcher in the Rye (44,169), To Kill a Mockingbird (42,756), Twilight (39,675), The Great Gatsby (39,631), The Kite Runner (35,285), Jane Eyre (32,931), Animal Farm (32,542), The Lord of the Rings (31,928), New Moon (31,512), Brave New World (30,861), Angels & Demons (30,553), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (30,292), The Hunger Games (29,798), Life of Pi (29,326)

Top 25 works by rating

Rated by at least 25 users

Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlocked (4.97), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (4.9), The Oxford English Dictionary (20 Volume Set) (Vols 1-20) (4.86), Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes (4.84), The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Emma/Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility/Minor Works (4.83), The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition) (4.82), Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts, Smocks, Neckwear, Headwear and Accessories for Men and Women, c1540-1660 (4.81), The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels (4.8), I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta (4.8), The Absolute Sandman Volume Four (4.8), Disney Animation : The Illusion of Life (4.8), The Oxford English Dictionary [Compact Edition] (4.8), Fashion (4.79), A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns (4.78), The Complete Far Side (4.78), Toda Mafalda (4.77), The New Frontier (Absolute Edition) (4.76), A Journey of the Imagination: The Art of James Christensen (4.76), Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic: A Materia Magica of African-American Conjure (4.76), Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 28: The Lotus Throne (4.76), Patterns of Fashion 3: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women, c1560-1620 (4.76), The ESV Study Bible (4.75), The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (4.75), A Treasury of Knitting Patterns (4.75), Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace (4.75)

50 top-rated authors

Authors with at least 50 ratings

Marion Rombauer Becker (5), Ian Jack (5), Richard Rodriguez (5), Tom McArthur (5), Don Wood (5), Henry Cole (5), The Lockman Foundation (5), Vonda N. McIntyre (5), Anonymous (5), AA.VV. (5), The Kyoto Costume Institute (4.76), Luigi Serafini (4.76), Janet Arnold (4.74), William M. Gaines (4.74), Crossway Bibles (4.71), William Little (4.68), Arthur G. Bennett (4.68), Ollie Johnston (4.67), David Lynch (4.67), Jonathan Larson (4.65), Steve Purcell (4.64), Don Rosa (4.64), James C. Christensen (4.63), Harold Abelson (4.63), Jeff Brumbeau (4.61), Ki Longfellow (4.61), Tom Tierney (4.6), Bill Watterson (4.59), Carla Emery (4.59), Georg Friedrich Händel (4.59), Randall Munroe (4.59), Richard Williams (4.59), W. Richard Stevens (4.57), Johann Sebastian Bach (4.57), Harold McGee (4.56), Hervé Tullet (4.56), Menena Cottin (4.55), Bryan A. Garner (4.55), Ludwig van Beethoven (4.54), Robert A. Caro (4.54), Eberhard Nestle (4.54), David Allen Sibley (4.54), Alice McLerran (4.53), Peter Menzel (4.53), Peter Jackson (4.53), Walt Kelly (4.52), Jane Sowerby (4.52), Henci Goer (4.52), Walter J. Ciszek (4.52), Robert Bringhurst (4.51)

50 lowest-rated authors

Robert Jordan (0), Ian Rankin (0), Karl Marx (0), Karen Armstrong (0), Mary Balogh (0), Jonathan Carroll (0), Janet Fitch (0), Richard Powers (0), Dale Brown (0), John Donne (0), Jim Harrison (0), Robert A. Wilson (0), Victoria Alexander (0), Nicci French (0), Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (0), James Beard (0), Laura Childs (0), Jennifer Donnelly (0), Mark Lutz (0), Phil Rickman (0), D. E. Stevenson (0), Suzanne Collins (0), Bernard Goldberg (0), Judy Jones (0), Laurel Robertson (0), Erich Auerbach (0), Tim Flannery (0), V. S. Ramachandran (0), Steve Hamilton (0), Molly Cochran (0), Matthew Lewis (0), Larry Watson (0), Laurie R. King (0), Werner Keller (0), Robert Kagan (0), Edmund Cooper (0), Brian Boyd (0), Peter Robb (0), David Wishart (0), Deborah Ellis (0), Laurie Graham (0), Pierre Corneille (0), Paul Joannides (0), Mark I. Pinsky (0), James D. Doss (0), A. Merritt (0), Tsunetomo Yamamoto (0), Les Parrott (0), Jane Thayer (0), William Dietrich (0)

100 "completist" authors

Average number of different books held by people who have any books by the author

Willy Vandersteen (26.87), John Westerdale Bowker (21.92), Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (18.93), E. L. James (16.78), Robert Charles Wilson (16.02), J. M. Snyder (15.56), Kenneth Robeson (15.2), Karen Thompson Walker (14.66), Andrew Grey (14.03), Jacques Martin (13.55), Stephani Hecht (13.22), Perry Rhodan (12.91), Annette Smith (12.89), Yumi Tamura (12.81), Elsie Jeanette Oxenham (12.78), Merian (12.54), CLAMP (12.34), Margit Sandemo (12.28), Saki Hiwatari (12.15), Carol Lynne (11.67), Nora Roberts (11.51), Tsukasa Hojo (11.39), Various Artists (11.2), Chie Shinohara (11.04), Yoko Kamio (10.97), Havank (10.91), Mercedes Lackey (10.83), Jean Graton (10.82), Jeffrey Lord (10.78), Rumiko Takahashi (10.45), Sean Michael (10.23), Kim Dare (10.18), Michael Schaper (10.13), Jamie McGuire (10.11), Roger Leloup (10.1), Ordnance Survey (10.07), Eiichiro Oda (10.07), Society for American Baseball Research (10.04), James Axler (9.96), Maurice de Bévère (9.91), Beverley Randell (9.91), J. T. Edson (9.9), Riichiro Inagaki (9.85), Tabor Evans (9.84), D. J. Manly (9.83), Terry Pratchett (9.78), Kentaro Miura (9.76), San-Antonio (9.75), Gosho Aoyama (9.74), Christopher P. Andersen (9.69), Naoki Urasawa (9.62), Marten Toonder (9.62), Georges-Jean Arnaud (9.58), Masami Kurumada (9.54), David Weber (9.54), Roderick Hunt (9.53), Nobuhiro Watsuki (9.49), Don Pendleton (9.45), Jolly R. Blackburn (9.4), Ken Akamatsu (9.33), Yuu Watase (9.29), Betty Neels (9.28), Anne McCaffrey (9.27), Georgette Heyer (9.26), Grzegorz Rosiński (9.18), Christine Feehan (9.12), Jayne Ann Krentz (9.12), Terrance Dicks (9.06), Jenny Giles (9.05), Banri Hidaka (9.05), Piers Anthony (9.02), Natsuki Takaya (9.02), Naoko Takeuchi (9), Kazuo Koike (8.94), Akimine Kamijyo (8.91), Kazuya Minekura (8.9), Rex Stout (8.89), BA Tortuga (8.85), Soryo Fuyumi (8.81), Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (8.75), WrightGroup/McGraw-Hill (8.74), Rigby (8.73), Hisaya Nakajo (8.72), Tite Kubo (8.72), Dorita Fairlie Bruce (8.69), Laurell K. Hamilton (8.69), Martin Lodewijk (8.67), Henri Vernes (8.64), Amber Kell (8.64), K. H. Scheer (8.62), John MacArthur (8.59), Stormy Glenn (8.55), Fujisawa Tooru (8.54), Carolyn Keene (8.53), Takeshi Konomi (8.52), Anant Pai (8.5), N. Robin Crossby (8.45), Mary Pope Osborne (8.4), Carl Grimberg (8.39), Stephanie Laurens (8.39)

Authors who LibraryThing (complete list)

Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, Don Maitz, Sandra Brown, David Brin, Laurie R. King, John Green, Jude Deveraux, Diane Duane, Ann Brashares, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jon Scieszka, Brandon Sanderson, James Rollins, Naomi Novik, Lisa See, Katie MacAlister, Andrew Gross, Janny Wurts, Dan Chaon, Chris Bohjalian, Nancy Holder, Elizabeth Bear, Melissa Marr, Jo Beverley, Tite Kubo, Sharon Kay Penman, Edward R. Tufte, Susan Wittig Albert, Patrick Rothfuss, Susan Mallery, Adriana Trigiani, Alan Furst, Susan Wiggs, Elisabeth Waters, Matthew Pearl, Lynn Viehl, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Chris Regan, Randy Alcorn, Sharon Lee, Zachary Sholem Berger, Sarah Addison Allen, James Dashner, Neal Asher, Andrew Vachss, Sabrina Jeffries, Chitra Divakaruni, C. E. Murphy, Cate Dermody — see the full list.

Top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (484,357), Stephen King (352,606), Terry Pratchett (282,980), J. R. R. Tolkien (230,223), C. S. Lewis (214,906), Neil Gaiman (213,795), William Shakespeare (189,866), Nora Roberts (179,140), Agatha Christie (165,502), Jane Austen (150,543), Stephenie Meyer (144,628), James Patterson (143,275), Isaac Asimov (142,142), Charles Dickens (134,569), John Grisham (125,901), Anne McCaffrey (120,500), Dan Brown (117,980), Orson Scott Card (117,700), Janet Evanovich (114,791), Kurt Vonnegut (111,801), Anne Rice (109,508), Douglas Adams (107,332), Dean Koontz (105,432), George Orwell (104,328), Robert A. Heinlein (102,311), Mercedes Lackey (100,401), John Steinbeck (99,395), Roald Dahl (98,242), Dr. Seuss (97,283), Laurell K. Hamilton (92,725), Charlaine Harris (91,847), Margaret Atwood (88,800), Anonymous (87,857), Robert Jordan (87,247), Mark Twain (85,632), Michael Crichton (85,105), Piers Anthony (83,975), Ernest Hemingway (83,314), Fyodor Dostoevsky (80,837), Lemony Snicket (80,585), George R. R. Martin (79,679), Philip Pullman (77,999), Haruki Murakami (77,648), Suzanne Collins (76,498), Ray Bradbury (76,430), Gabriel García Márquez (75,125), David Eddings (72,407), Bill Bryson (71,487), Tom Clancy (70,759), Jodi Picoult (70,474), Philip K. Dick (70,212), Ursula K. Le Guin (69,814), Patricia Cornwell (68,831), Mary Pope Osborne (67,564), Frank Herbert (67,239), J. D. Salinger (67,104), F. Scott Fitzgerald (67,024), Jim Butcher (66,391), Tamora Pierce (65,480), L. M. Montgomery (65,283), Neal Stephenson (65,202), Arthur C. Clarke (65,115), John Irving (62,590), Chuck Palahniuk (62,529), Arthur Conan Doyle (61,059), Marion Zimmer Bradley (60,807), Alexander McCall Smith (60,693), Umberto Eco (60,586), Madeleine L'Engle (60,570), Carolyn Keene (59,158), Stieg Larsson (58,619), Rick Riordan (56,961), Meg Cabot (56,592), Michael Connelly (56,116), Leo Tolstoy (56,059)

Top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (4,417,891), non-fiction (1,755,844), fantasy (1,476,366), history (1,402,160), science fiction (1,027,899), mystery (885,698), read (693,982), biography (627,154), to-read (615,125), poetry (546,208), novel (538,662), romance (476,127), humor (473,682), literature (463,933), reference (442,836), young adult (436,130), philosophy (415,442), unread (407,231), art (398,205), religion (378,527), historical fiction (372,915), science (372,449), children's (363,489), short stories (344,556), ebook (326,872), own (308,902), sf (289,102), 20th century (282,723), picture book (282,086), series (281,478), travel (248,889), horror (248,057), children (244,357), manga (241,497), paperback (239,796), comics (238,632), memoir (237,133), music (231,181), wwii (224,745), animals (222,760), politics (222,584), cookbook (219,398), (218,759), graphic novel (216,838), classic (211,516), anthology (203,074), classics (196,929), hardcover (196,397), adventure (194,703), england (193,463), crime (190,244), thriller (186,175), psychology (186,105), theology (183,505), family (177,011), kindle (166,499), 19th century (165,726), usa (160,912), american (159,112), cooking (159,013), historical (157,870), vampires (154,839), essays (154,733), christianity (154,717), math (152,551), sff (145,767), drama (143,048), english (141,622), wishlist (138,536), magic (136,658), british (133,798), autobiography (131,648), roman (130,621), photography (128,984), american history (128,491)

Top 50 long tags

Tags with more than 25 letters

1001 Books to Read Before You Die (6756), African-American Literature (6537), detective and mystery stories (4877), A Series of Unfortunate Events (3123), Detective and mystery fiction (2611), 20th Century American Literature (2585), contemporary American fiction (2514), Contemporary Realistic Fiction (2474), Atlantian Reference Library (1920), 19th Century British Literature (1632), literatura norte-americana (1575), picture book: intermediate (1517), Cambridge University Press (1468), Series of Unfortunate Events (1328), Fiction: Science Fiction/Fantasy (1269), Genre: Fiction Romance Historical (1263), 20th century American fiction (1261), mother-daughter relationships (1254), personal feelings and growth (1229), 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (1168), Incarnations of Immortality (1123), 19th Century American Literature (1085), american religious history (1083), Littérature française. XXe (986), Native American literature (930), Littérature française. XIXe (929), utopian & dystopian literature (909), Contemporary American Literature (893), 20th Century United States (885), National Book Award finalist (872), criticism and interpretation (859), Christian historical fiction (812), new york times notable book (808), children's historical fiction (802), library and information science (801), American History 19th Century (796), human-animal relationships (796), American History 20th Century (755), Metropolitan Museum of Art (753), organizational development (745), Confederate States of America (739), Declaration of Independence (707), literary criticism and history (704), united states-19th century (669), Silhouette Special Edition (663), British Historical Fiction (660), human-computer interaction (633), No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (602), children's science fiction (590), National Book Award Winner (581)

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