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| 25 most reviewed books (more)The Hunger Games (2,411 reviews), Twilight (1,843 reviews), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1,347 reviews), The Book Thief (1,206 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1,158 reviews), Catching Fire (1,149 reviews), The Help (1,085 reviews), Mockingjay (1,035 reviews), The Road (1,017 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (1,009 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (987 reviews), Water for Elephants (949 reviews), The Kite Runner (944 reviews), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (935 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (921 reviews), Breaking Dawn (862 reviews), New Moon (856 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (821 reviews), The Graveyard Book (808 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (780 reviews), The Giver (756 reviews), The Lovely Bones (745 reviews), To Kill a Mockingbird (745 reviews), Eclipse (692 reviews), Life of Pi (684 reviews)
Top 25 books (more)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (72,604), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (64,683), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (63,517), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (63,124), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (62,322), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (61,458), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (58,766), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (49,893), The Da Vinci Code (48,591), 1984 (46,424), Pride and Prejudice (46,007), The Catcher in the Rye (44,205), To Kill a Mockingbird (42,787), Twilight (39,699), The Great Gatsby (39,685), The Kite Runner (35,307), Jane Eyre (32,957), Animal Farm (32,563), The Lord of the Rings (31,950), New Moon (31,536), Brave New World (30,882), Angels & Demons (30,580), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (30,316), The Hunger Games (29,852), Life of Pi (29,358) 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), Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 28: The Lotus Throne (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), 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), Codex Seraphinianus (4.75)50 top-rated authorsAuthors 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 (4.6), Bill Watterson (4.6), Tom Tierney (4.6), Carla Emery (4.59), Georg Friedrich Händel (4.59), Randall Munroe (4.59), Richard Williams (4.59), Johann Sebastian Bach (4.57), W. Richard Stevens (4.57), Hervé Tullet (4.56), Harold McGee (4.56), Menena Cottin (4.55), Bryan A. Garner (4.55), Robert A. Caro (4.54), Ludwig van Beethoven (4.54), Eberhard Nestle (4.54), David Allen Sibley (4.54), Walter J. Ciszek (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), Robert Bringhurst (4.51) 50 lowest-rated authorsRobert 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), Mike Mason (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)100 "completist" authorsAverage number of different books held by people who have any books by the author Willy Vandersteen (26.52), John Westerdale Bowker (21.92), Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (18.87), E. L. James (16.86), Robert Charles Wilson (16.04), J. M. Snyder (15.63), Kenneth Robeson (15.2), Karen Thompson Walker (14.82), Andrew Grey (13.86), Jacques Martin (13.54), Stephani Hecht (13.11), Perry Rhodan (12.91), Annette Smith (12.82), Elsie Jeanette Oxenham (12.82), Yumi Tamura (12.81), CLAMP (12.34), Margit Sandemo (12.3), Merian (12.16), Saki Hiwatari (12.16), Nora Roberts (11.52), Tsukasa Hojo (11.39), Carol Lynne (11.32), Various Artists (11.27), Chie Shinohara (11.04), Yoko Kamio (10.96), Havank (10.91), Jean Graton (10.84), Mercedes Lackey (10.83), Jeffrey Lord (10.75), Rumiko Takahashi (10.46), Ordnance Survey (10.28), Jamie McGuire (10.24), Michael Schaper (10.16), Roger Leloup (10.1), Society for American Baseball Research (10.07), Eiichiro Oda (10.04), James Axler (9.93), Sean Michael (9.93), Maurice de Bévère (9.92), Roderick Hunt (9.92), J. T. Edson (9.89), Kim Dare (9.88), D. J. Manly (9.85), Riichiro Inagaki (9.84), Beverley Randell (9.81), Terry Pratchett (9.78), Kentaro Miura (9.76), Gosho Aoyama (9.76), San-Antonio (9.76), Christopher P. Andersen (9.72), Tabor Evans (9.7), Marten Toonder (9.66), Naoki Urasawa (9.64), Georges-Jean Arnaud (9.57), David Weber (9.55), Masami Kurumada (9.54), Nobuhiro Watsuki (9.49), Don Pendleton (9.49), Jolly R. Blackburn (9.4), Ken Akamatsu (9.33), Yuu Watase (9.28), Anne McCaffrey (9.27), Georgette Heyer (9.26), Grzegorz Rosiński (9.23), Betty Neels (9.22), Christine Feehan (9.13), Jayne Ann Krentz (9.11), Terrance Dicks (9.06), Banri Hidaka (9.05), Natsuki Takaya (9.02), Piers Anthony (9.01), Naoko Takeuchi (9.01), Jenny Giles (8.98), BA Tortuga (8.95), Kazuo Koike (8.94), Akimine Kamijyo (8.91), Kazuya Minekura (8.9), Rex Stout (8.87), Soryo Fuyumi (8.77), Hisaya Nakajo (8.74), WrightGroup/McGraw-Hill (8.72), Tite Kubo (8.72), Rigby (8.71), Dorita Fairlie Bruce (8.7), Laurell K. Hamilton (8.69), Martin Lodewijk (8.67), Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (8.66), Henri Vernes (8.64), Amber Kell (8.64), John MacArthur (8.59), K. H. Scheer (8.58), Fujisawa Tooru (8.54), Carolyn Keene (8.52), Takeshi Konomi (8.49), Stormy Glenn (8.48), N. Robin Crossby (8.45), Anant Pai (8.44), Mary Pope Osborne (8.42), Stephanie Laurens (8.41), Carl Grimberg (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, Patrick Rothfuss, Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Mallery, Adriana Trigiani, Alan Furst, Susan Wiggs, Elisabeth Waters, Matthew Pearl, Lynn Viehl, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Randy Alcorn, Chris Regan, 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.
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J. K. Rowling (484,854), Stephen King (352,747), Terry Pratchett (283,128), J. R. R. Tolkien (230,450), C. S. Lewis (215,183), Neil Gaiman (214,013), William Shakespeare (190,111), Nora Roberts (179,406), Agatha Christie (165,630), Jane Austen (150,682), Stephenie Meyer (144,760), James Patterson (143,418), Isaac Asimov (142,281), Charles Dickens (134,688), John Grisham (126,050), Anne McCaffrey (120,547), Dan Brown (118,164), Orson Scott Card (117,774), Janet Evanovich (114,923), Kurt Vonnegut (111,880), Anne Rice (109,557), Douglas Adams (107,415), Dean Koontz (105,485), George Orwell (104,430), Robert A. Heinlein (102,369), Mercedes Lackey (100,434), John Steinbeck (99,495), Roald Dahl (98,509), Dr. Seuss (97,560), Laurell K. Hamilton (92,754), Charlaine Harris (92,006), Margaret Atwood (88,865), Anonymous (87,863), Robert Jordan (87,289), Mark Twain (85,765), Michael Crichton (85,134), Piers Anthony (83,989), Ernest Hemingway (83,416), Fyodor Dostoevsky (80,852), Lemony Snicket (80,823), George R. R. Martin (79,803), Philip Pullman (78,114), Haruki Murakami (77,714), Suzanne Collins (76,557), Ray Bradbury (76,500), Gabriel García Márquez (75,179), David Eddings (72,443), Bill Bryson (71,556), Tom Clancy (70,806), Jodi Picoult (70,558), Philip K. Dick (70,252), Ursula K. Le Guin (69,895), Patricia Cornwell (68,909), Mary Pope Osborne (67,966), Frank Herbert (67,287), J. D. Salinger (67,172), F. Scott Fitzgerald (67,116), Jim Butcher (66,457), Tamora Pierce (65,565), L. M. Montgomery (65,409), Neal Stephenson (65,265), Arthur C. Clarke (65,152), John Irving (62,638), Chuck Palahniuk (62,561), Arthur Conan Doyle (61,151), Marion Zimmer Bradley (60,851), Alexander McCall Smith (60,794), Madeleine L'Engle (60,666), Umberto Eco (60,634), Carolyn Keene (59,238), Stieg Larsson (58,655), Rick Riordan (57,053), Meg Cabot (56,751), Michael Connelly (56,196), William Gibson (56,086)
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