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.
- Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1346)
- Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1175)
- Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1035)
- Bronte, Jane Eyre (952)
- Huxley, Brave New World (934)
- Tolkien, The Silmarillion (919)
- Homer, The Odyssey (916)
- Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (885)
- Bronte, Wuthering Heights (862)
- Strunk, The Elements of Style (846)
- Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (828)
- Austen, Emma (763)
- Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (740)
- Nabokov, Lolita (734)
- Austen, Sense and Sensibility (721)
- Pullman, The Golden Compass (710)
- Shelley, Frankenstein (701)
- Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (653)
- Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (651)
- Golding, Lord of the Flies (643)
- Dickens, Great Expectations (642)
- Joyce, Portrait of the Artist (631)
- Joyce, Ulysses (611)
- Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (600)
- Carroll, The Annotated Alice (591) and Stoker, Dracula (591)
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.
Posted by: Vito Prosciutto | March 28, 2006 at 08:51 PM
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.
Posted by: Barry | March 31, 2006 at 06:52 AM