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« 19th C. British Meets the New Top 1000 | Main | Eyeballed »

March 28, 2006

Me and who else?

Inspired by the OCLC Top 1000, below, I decided to amuse myself by identifying the Burstein LibraryThing Top 25: the books I shared with the most people.

  1. Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1346)
  2. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1175)
  3. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1035)
  4. Bronte, Jane Eyre (952)
  5. Huxley, Brave New World (934)
  6. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (919)
  7. Homer, The Odyssey (916)
  8. Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (885)
  9. Bronte, Wuthering Heights (862)
  10. Strunk, The Elements of Style (846)
  11. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (828)
  12. Austen, Emma (763)
  13. Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (740)
  14. Nabokov, Lolita (734)
  15. Austen, Sense and Sensibility (721)
  16. Pullman, The Golden Compass (710)
  17. Shelley, Frankenstein (701)
  18. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (653)
  19. Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (651)
  20. Golding, Lord of the Flies (643)
  21. Dickens, Great Expectations (642)
  22. Joyce, Portrait of the Artist (631)
  23. Joyce, Ulysses (611)
  24. Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (600)
  25. Carroll, The Annotated Alice (591) and Stoker, Dracula (591)

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Well I've got 17 of those in my library.

I started counting on the top 1001 list, but got lost somewhere around 150 so I gave up.

Cool list: I have all but one in my collection (I don't even know #18) and have read all but two - I bought the Handmaid's Tale just last week.

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