Fun with Libraries: numbers

How about a 'top ten' of books?

Absolute Zero
Knit One, Felt Too
Two for the Lions
Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
The First Four Years
5 Children and It
Six Ponies
Seven Sunny Days
Eight Days of Luke
Minus Nine to One
Starter for Ten

First Test
Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country
He, She, and It
Costume and Fashion: A Concise History, Fourth Edition
The Wizard's Dilemma: The Fifth Book in the Young Wizards Series

A Wizard Alone: The Sixth Book in the Young Wizards Series
The Wizard's Holiday: The Seventh Book in the Young Wizards Series
Wizards at War (The Young Wizards, Book 8)
Tangents: Nine Tales of the Imagination
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus
Nebula Awards 28
Forty Signs of Rain
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales

Sudoku Easy Presented by Will Shortz Volume 1 : 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles
101 Bench Tips for Jewelers
500 Bracelets
1000 Rings

(I redid mine based on what people did later :)

With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur Waley
Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan
Seven Women : Portraits from the American Radical Tradition by Judith Nies
Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
The Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass
I, Claudius : from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54 by Robert Graves

Sorry -- lots of touchstones didn't load.

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Sir Richard F. Burton
The Two Swords by R.A. Salvatore
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
A Guide to Good Cooking From Five Roses Flour
Elfquest: The Grand Quest - Volume Six by Wendy and Richard Pini (it's kind of cheating, but oh well)
The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
A Short Guide to Writing About Art, 8th Edition by Sylvan Barnett
Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block
Elfquest: The Grand Quest - Volume Ten by Wendy and Richard Pini (because there's really nothing else with any connection to the number 10)

I'll play!

With Justice for None
One Book, Many Interpretations
Digenis Akritas: the Two-Blood Border Lord
California, in Three Dimensions : California Center for the Arts Museum, May 21 through August 25, 1995
Law or a Discourse Thereof in Four Books
Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono
Six Little Cooks, or, Aunt Jane's Cooking Class
The Great Chicago Fire Described in Seven Letters by Men and Women who Experienced its Horrors
Eight Women of the American Stage: talking about Acting
A Coin in Nine Hands
Ten Nights in a Bar-room

The First Crusade
Being of Two Minds
Warriors of God : Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
The Four Feathers
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition)
6th Lamentation
the Seven Myths About Gun Control
the 10 Women You'll Be Before You're 35

1. One More For The Road - Ray Bradbury
2. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas by Jay Savage
3. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
4. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
5. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
6. Sixth Grade Secrets by Louis Sachar
7. ??
8. Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
9. Nineteenth Century American Short Fiction edited by William James Holmes
10. Some 10 Minute Solution exercise DVDs?
11. The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base
12. A Pack of Lies: Twelve Stories in One by Geraldine McCaughrean
13. The Thirteenth Room by Siobhan Parkinson

I've got...

.44
One Man's Bible
Two Plays
Five Boys & The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet
The Thirteen Senses
100 Wild Little Wierd Tales
1,001 Thing Everyone Should Know about American History
e: the Story of a Number

Time Zero by Justin Richards
One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey
For Two Nights Only by Tom Holt
The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
The Taking of Planet Five by Simon Bucher-Jones
The Six Messiahs by Mark Frost
Ultra: Seven Days The Luna Brothers
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
To the Nines by Janet Evanovich
Ten Little Aliens by Stephen Cole
The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee

Surrender None by Elizabeth Moon

One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant

Two to Conquer by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Deep Six by Clive Cussler

Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Seven of Nine by Christie Golden

Tarot in Ten Minutes by Richard T. Kaser

A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps by Claudette Wassil-Grimm

Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Mercedes Lackey

The Classic Hundred by William Harmon (ed.)

Five Hundred Years After by Steven Brust

Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C. J. Cherryh

The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson

The Ninety Trillion Fausts by Jack L. Chalker

Hey, I think I have the biggest number! Bwhaahaa.

The touchstones got all messed up on the first try. Two of us posting at once, I think.

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
My First Two Thousand Years by George Sylvester Viereck
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy Kelly
Five Day Nightmare by Fredric Brown
6 x H (touchstone won't work) by Robert A Heinlein
Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers
Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows by Harry Harrison
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Ten Plus One by Ed McBain

Me first! Coming through!

:D

#13:

Firstest with the mostest (biggest number), eh? :-)

Towards Zero
As One Dead
A Tale of Two Cities or Second Foundation
Three Musketeers
Big Four
The Quintessential World of Darkness
Rainbow Six
The Seven Deadlies or The Seventh Gate
And Then There Were None aka ten little indians
A Dozen Black Roses
The Thirteen Problems
An Ensuing Evil and Others: Fourteen Historical Mysteries
Hemlock at Vespers: Fifteen Sister Fidelma Mysteries
Dharma Book: Thousand Whispers
Time Bomb 2000!
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
The Eternity Code

Just had fun with getting different numbers from the titles.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Two is Lonely by Lynne Reid Banks

The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three by John Godey

Love is a Four Letter Word by Nicholas Monsarrat

Five Photos of My Wife by Agnes Desarthe

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl

The List of Seven by Mark Frost

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City by Anonymous

Cloud Nine by James M. Cain

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Campbell's No Time To Cook Recipes
Campbell's Fabulous One-Dish Recipes
Walden Two
The Harvard Book, rev. ed.: Selections from Three Centuries
The Four Seasons (Sesame Street Theater)
Book of Five Rings
Spider-Man: Secret of the Sinister Six
The Shark Diaries: The Seventh Sherman's Lagoon Collection
Meditation: A Simple Eight Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals into Daily Life
The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives
Folk Guitar In Ten Sessions: Chords, Picks, and Strums
The 28 Biggest Writing Blunders (And How to Avoid Them)
101 Great Youth Soccer Drills
110 Incredible Magic Tricks with a Svengali Deck
150 Ways to Play Solitare
251 Essential Drills for Winning Soccer
500 Great Lawyer Jokes
All This and Snoopy, Too :)

edit: linked to non-working touchstone

Without resorting to volume numbers, years or types of motorcycles or cars (although I did include guns), here's what I found -

0. Year Zero
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. The Two Minute Rule
3. The Drawing of the Three
4. Four Past Midnight
5. The Five Sisters

7. Seven years of highly defective people
8. From a Buick 8

10. 10 Years on 2 Wheels

12. The Twelfth Card
13. Thirteen Steps Down: A Novel
13 3/4 The Adrian Mole Diaries : The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
14. Everything's Eventual 14 Dark Tales
15. The Complete Guide to AR-15 Accuracy
16. Black Rifle M16 Retrospective

22. I Shudder at Your Touch 22 Tales of Sex and Horror

25. Mountain biking in New Hampshire

35. Michael Langford's 35mm Handbook

100. 100 Malicious Little Mysteries

347. Unexplained!: 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena

1000. 1000 Places to See Before you Die

This is such a time suck! I should be reading!

1. One Fat Englishman, Kingsley Amis
2. Two Moons, Thomas Mallon
3. Three Continents, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
4. Four Spirits, Sena Jeter Naslund
5. The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney
6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
7. The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott
9. Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
10. Ten Days That Shook the World, John Reed

12. Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish, Richard Flanagan
13. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert F. Kennedy
14. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Oscar Hijuelos

20. Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas

22. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

25. The 25th Hour, David Benioff

84. 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff

1001. 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Two Alone
The Three Pigs
The Four Feathers
The five people you meet in heaven

Ok, some numbers above 10:

25 Cushions to Knit
The bitch in the house : 26 women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood, and marriage
31 Songs aka Songbook
American Country Cross Stitch: Over 40 delightful designs inspired by American folk art
Cartoons: 46th series (Giles
50 Great Stories for 7-9 Year Olds
51st State
100 Scrabble Puzzles
Bears Can't Run Downhill: and 200 other dubious pub facts explained
253
1001 Things You Must Do Before You Get Married
1066 and All That
Nineteen Seventy-Nine: A Big Year in a Small Town

I'm stopping at 10 because I feel guilty about #8...

Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuationby Lynne Truss
The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman
The Universe : a three-dimensional study by Heather Couper
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Easy-to-make wooden sundials : instructions and plans for five projects, with suggestions for designing your own pocket sundial by Milton Stoneman
Sixpence House : lost in a town of books by Paul Collins
The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program by Stanley D. Frank
The Complete Metalsmith: An Illustrated Handbook by Tim McCreight
The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
Power of Ten: A Flipbook by Charles Eames

I'm going to go the easy route.

By Janet Evanovich
One for the dough
Two for the money
Three to get deadly
Four To Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
Eleven On Top
Twelve Sharp

By James Patterson
1st to Die
2nd Chance
3rd Degree
4th of July
5th Horseman
6th Target

By Others:
Fahrenheit 451
Catch 22

From my library:

Harm None (M.R. Sellars)
One Door Away From Heaven (Dean Koontz)
Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Jung Chang)
The First Four Years (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Margaret Sidney)
Sixth-Grade Sleepover (Eve Bunting)
Amy Number Seven (Marilyn Kaye)
Eight Cousins (Louisa May Alcott)
(I don't have anything for 9)
The Tenth Circle (Jodi Picoult)

not only ten....

One fine day by Mollie Panter-Downes
Two days in Aragon by M.J.Farrell
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Kuan-chung Lo
Tea at four o'clock by Janet McNeill
Five Victorian ghost novels
Sixpenny Wonderfuls: 6d Gems from the Past
Seven poor men of Sydney by Christina Stead
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
Nine parts of desire: The hidden world of Islamic women by Geraldine Brooks
The thirteenth tale by Diane Setterfield
The Twenties in Vogue by Carolyn Hall
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
The crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The roaring Nineties by Katharine Susannah Prichard
The 100 things everyone needs to know about Australia by David Dale
Pasta classica: 125 authentic Italian recipes by Julia Della Croce
A fine of 200 francs by Elsa Triolet
365 ways to cook chicken
1000 Places to see before you die by Patricia Schultz
The Thousand and One Nights
The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth

Around the World in Eighty Days

The First Salute
501 German verbs
Chicken soup for the soul : 101 stories to open the heart & rekindle the spirit
Twice-told tales
Standard first aid and personal safety
A Tale of Two Cities
Four tragedies
One thousand beautiful things
3,285 Bible questions & answers
Thirty years in the golden north
God and the Oval Office : The Religious Faith of Our 43 Presidents
New Perspectives on Microsoft Access 2002
45301
Bloopers Blunders Jokes Quips & Quotes: "365 laugh-a-day pages of good, clean, fun!"
Anglo-american Cataloguing Rules 2002 Revision: 2004 Update
Furlough 55: Photographs by Stanley Milstein
Imagining space : achievements, predictions, possibilities : 1950-2050
Goya: 1746-1828

The Zero Stone - Andre Norton

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
First Lensman - E. E. Smith
Once a Hero - Elizabeth Moon

Magic in Ithkar 2 - Andre Norton (ed.)
Tales of the Witch World 2 - Andre Norton (ed.)
Endeavors of Will: Two Decades of Fantastic Writing - Sharon Lee
Man of Two Tribes - Arthur W. Upfield
Forerunner : The Second Venture - Andre Norton
Second Stage Lensmen - E. E. Smith
Twice Shy - Dick Francis

Moon of Three Rings - Andre Norton
Skylark Three - E. E. Smith
Three Against the Witch World - Andre Norton
Variations Three - Sharon Lee
Trey of Swords - Andre Norton
Triplanetary, A Tale of Cosmic Adventure - E. E. Smith

Magic in Ithkar 4 - Andre Norton (ed.)
Four From the Witch World - Andre Norton (ed.)

Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy

The Seventh Scroll - Wilbur A. Smith
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary

Field of Thirteen - Dick Francis

Daybreak 2250 A.D. - Andre Norton

Sorry, the Touchstones don't appear to be working - they have all been saying "loading" for the past few minutes.

I can recommend all of these:
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden
Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
Now That We are Six, A.A.Milne
Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman
Adventurous Women. Eight Stories about Women who Made a Difference, Penny Colman
Nine Parts of Desire, Geraldine Brooks
Ten Apples Up on Top, Dr Seuss

One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko by Mike Royko
Is There a Synoptic Problem?: Rethinking the Literary Dependence of the First Three Gospels by Eta Linnemann
A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me by Jon Katz
The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom by Pamela Rosewell Moore
Roget's International Thesaurus, Indexed, Sixth Edition Revised & Updated
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott
Behind the 8-Ball: A Recovery Guide for the Families of Gamblers by Linda Berman
The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman
The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love by Jane Goodall
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team by John C. Maxwell
My System: 21st Century Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch
The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes by Jonathan Marks
Marriage 911 by Becky Freeman
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Night's Entertainments (The Harvard Classics)
What Color Is Your Parachute? 1999: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
Microsoft Office 2000 8 in 1 by Joe Habraken
Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2002 by Neil Randall and Dennis Jones
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003 by Roger Jennings
Dictionary of Theories (More than 5000 Theories, Laws, and Hypotheses Described) by Jennifer Bothamley
Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Edited to try and get the touchstones to work. Oh, well. :-/

Oooh, I don't have a 4 or 6!

The nothing that is
One Half of Robertson Davies :)
A Widow for One Year
Dance for Two by Alan Lightman
The Three Little Pigs Buy the White House
Stories of Five Decades
Seven Gothic Tales
The Octopus
Nine Stories (on my real shelf but not LT...it's borrowed)
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying

20 Party Tricks
Thirty Years that Shook Physics

etc...

One More Time : The Best of Mike Royko by Mike Royko
Is There a Synoptic Problem? : Rethinking the Literary Dependence of the First Three Gospels by Eta Linnemann
A Dog Year : Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me by Jon Katz
The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom by Pamela Rosewell Moore
Roget's International Thesaurus, Indexed, Sixth Edition Revised & Updated
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott
Behind the 8-Ball: A Recovery Guide for the Families of Gamblers by Linda Berman
The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman
The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love by Jane Goodall
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team by John C. Maxwell
My System: 21st Century Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch
The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition : A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee : Apes, People, and Their Genes by Jonathan Marks
Marriage 911 by Becky Freeman
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Night's Entertainments
What Color Is Your Parachute? 1999: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
Microsoft Office 2000 8 in 1
Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2002
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003
Dictionary of Theories (More than 5000 Theories, Laws, and Hypotheses Described) by Jennifer Bothamley
Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

0. Year Zero by Jeff Long
1. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
2. The Great Hunt - Book Two of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
3. Amber Spyglass, The - Dark Material Book 3 by Philip Pullman
4. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph M.D. McCormick
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
6. Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook
7. The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey
8. The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, Book 8) by Robert Jordan
9. Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9) by Robert Jordan
10. Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
11. Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11) by Robert Jordan
13. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
22. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
451. Farenheit 451 by Ray bradbury
1984. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell