Zeitgeist Books

Top 25 books by rating

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)

Bottom 25 books by rating

Wild Animus (1.36), Dianetics (1.68), The Late Great Planet Earth (1.87), The Birthing House (2.1), Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later (2.11), Necronomicon Spellbook (2.12), The Gnostic Mystery (2.16), Powers (2.2), Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued (2.25), May Day (2.26), Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (2.3), Ten Days in the Hills (2.31), Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose (2.35), Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles (2.36), Citizen Girl (2.36), 4 Blondes (2.4), Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby (2.4), The Washingtonienne: A Novel (2.41), A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove (2.41), Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody (2.42), Cracking The Da Vinci Code: The Unauthorized Guide To The Facts Behind Dan Brown's Bestselling Novel (2.43), The Coming of the King (2.44), Loop Group: A Novel (2.45), The Thin Pink Line (2.46), Hotel Casanova: Level 1 (Cambridge English Readers) (2.47)

25 books people can't agree on

Must have 50 raters. The numbers are the standard deviation of rating—how much they differ from the average.

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1.5), The Book of Mormon (1.5), Blown Coverage (1.26), Kassandra (1.16), Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry: And Related Readings (Literature Connections) (1.14), Tree of Smoke (1.11), Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1.09), Enter the Enchanted (1.08), Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 1 (1.06), The Room (1.04), Time Enough for Love (1.03), Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1.03), The Metamorphosis [Norton Critical Edition] (1.03), Politics (1.03), A Separate Country (1.03), FLCL, Volume 1 (1.03), Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (1.03), The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Potter) (1.02), Urban Gothic (1.02), Start Me Up (1.02), The Big U (1), The Mermaid Chair (1), Ethan Frome (1), To the Lighthouse (1), Unless (1)

50 top wanted

The most wanted books across the 14 swap sites LibraryThing integrates with. Number is the difference between "wanted" and "available."
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (7,141), Outliers: The Story of Success (6,805), Gone Girl (6,667), Catching Fire (6,024), Mockingjay (5,972), In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (5,638), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (5,354), The Night Circus (4,680), The Host (4,537), The Hunger Games (4,359), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (4,353), Fifty Shades of Grey (4,338), A Game of Thrones (4,283), PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (4,215), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (4,177), A Dance With Dragons (4,084), Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (4,003), The Help (3,926), Bossypants (3,883), Cloud Atlas (3,881), The Hunger Games / Catching Fire / Mockingjay (3,820), A Discovery of Witches (3,659), The Book Thief (3,640), Infinite Jest (3,639), Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (3,549), The Graveyard Book (3,431), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (3,409), Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume One) (3,378), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (3,331), The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (3,328), 11/22/63 (3,260), World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (3,125), House of Leaves (2,815), Fifty Shades Freed (2,741), The Passage (2,738), The Marriage Plot (2,716), Nourishing Traditions (2,701), An Echo in the Bone (2,589), In The Garden of Beasts (2,581), Where the Sidewalk Ends (2,554), Fall of Giants (2,536), Divergent (2,535), Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (2,489), Before I Go to Sleep (2,474), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2,462), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2,452), State of Wonder (2,448), Deadlocked (2,417), God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything (2,377), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2,364)

50 least wanted

Same as above, but counting "available" copies minus "wanted."
The Da Vinci Code (8,944), Elric: The Stealer of Souls [black hole bug edition] (8,897), Angels & Demons (6,335), Deception Point (4,434), Digital Fortress (4,344), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (4,165), The Brethren (4,113), A Painted House (4,106), The Street Lawyer (4,040), The Broker (4,034), The Testament (3,986), The Runaway Jury (3,959), The King of Torts (3,928), The Summons (3,852), The Devil Wears Prada (3,754), The Memory Keeper's Daughter (3,714), The Chamber (3,689), The Last Juror (3,681), The Partner (3,661), The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (3,513), Memoirs of a Geisha (3,390), The Nanny Diaries (3,351), Rainmaker (3,179), A Time to Kill (3,052), The Pelican Brief (3,025), The Pilot's Wife (2,996), The Pelican Brief (Penguin Readers, Level 5) (2,954), The Purpose Driven Life (2,953), The Firm (2,902), The Client (2,841), The Purpose Driven Life (2,827), Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (2,760), Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2,689), Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution (2,620), Honeymoon (2,614), We'll Meet Again (2,594), Cold Mountain (2,579), The Appeal (2,561), Pilot's Wife (2,539), Shreve, Anita (2,539), What to Expect When You're Expecting (2,493), Trace (2,459), The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5) (2,458), Cross (2,386), A Million Little Pieces {abridged audio} (2,340), Blow Fly (2,339), Hannibal (2,336), The Horse Whisperer (2,332), Skipping Christmas (2,332), Bleachers (2,322)

25 most-reviewed books

(3998 reviews), The Hunger Games (2665 reviews), Twilight (2118 reviews), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1504 reviews), The Book Thief (1356 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1340 reviews), Catching Fire (1266 reviews), The Help (1193 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (1159 reviews), Mockingjay (1146 reviews), The Road (1140 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (1137 reviews), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1104 reviews), The Hornet's Sting: The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum (1084 reviews), The Kite Runner (1069 reviews), Water for Elephants (1060 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (1039 reviews), Breaking Dawn (984 reviews), New Moon (977 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (931 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (901 reviews), The Graveyard Book (894 reviews), To Kill a Mockingbird (854 reviews), The Lovely Bones (849 reviews), The Giver (841 reviews)

Top 50 books, by copies (more)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (72,511), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (64,592), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (63,408), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (63,005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (62,295), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (61,351), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (58,665), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (49,806), The Da Vinci Code (48,558), 1984 (46,344), Pride and Prejudice (45,943), The Catcher in the Rye (44,126), To Kill a Mockingbird (42,729), Twilight (39,694), The Great Gatsby (39,548), The Kite Runner (35,251), Jane Eyre (32,895), Animal Farm (32,514), The Lord of the Rings (31,904), New Moon (31,497), Brave New World (30,857), Angels & Demons (30,527), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (30,243), The Hunger Games (29,747), Life of Pi (29,283), Wuthering Heights (29,130), The Time Traveler's Wife (29,029), Eclipse (28,975), The fellowship of the ring (28,128), Fahrenheit 451 (27,660), One Hundred Years of Solitude (26,997), Lord of the Flies (26,797), Slaughterhouse-Five (26,560), The Odyssey (26,068), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (25,869), The two towers (25,622), Memoirs of a Geisha (25,601), Breaking Dawn (25,548), Crime and Punishment (25,014), The Lovely Bones (24,954), Catch-22 (24,922), The return of the king (24,817), Ender's Game (23,782), American Gods (23,147), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (22,329), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (22,091), Anna Karenina (21,892), Sense and Sensibility (21,735), Emma (21,531), The Golden Compass (21,434)

Top Books by LibraryThing Authors

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Chris Regan, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Dan Chaon, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, The Cat in the Hat by Zachary Sholem Berger, Looking for Alaska by John Green, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, Midwives by Chris Bohjalian, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka, Killing Floor by Lee Child, 2nd Chance by Andrew Gross, A Darkness at Sethanon by Don Maitz, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, The Symposium by Walter Hamilton, The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

Notes: See standard deviation for more on this concept. Basically, if everyone basically agrees that an author's books are good or bad, the standard deviation is low. If opinions differ a lot, the standard deviation of ratings is high. The "completist" score identifies authors of books people have in droves. All statistics are updated nightly, if possible, or more frequently, if possible.

 

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