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Vital Statistics

Members 459,380

Books cataloged 29,581,829

Tags added 37,685,559

Unique works 3,460,217

Total reviews 457,204

Works reviewed 219,962

Ratings 4,591,465

User-contributed covers 991,627

Author photos 23,863

User groups 4,039

Forum messages 699,240

Forum touchstones 469,717

50 largest libraries (see more)

windsorpl (65,535 books), credo (16,008 books, private), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), kittylafong (13,182 books, private), AsYouKnow_Bob (12,861 books), pagerd (12,730 books), Patentnonsense (12,153 books), bookstopshere (11,903 books), antimuzak (11,504 books), h34th3r (11,366 books), shearrob (11,168 books), JeanLittleLibrary (10,924 books), libvicki (10,753 books), devenish (10,677 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), eromsted (10,319 books), gaspari (10,067 books, private), mitchellray (9,994 books), carminowe (9,702 books), tehipite (9,618 books), LamSon (9,561 books), jalual (9,311 books), bertilak (9,256 books), kauders (9,064 books), hse (8,888 books), ellenandjim (8,738 books), Papiervisje (8,659 books), shauneeh (8,649 books), ariadne02 (8,585 books), hailelib (8,572 books), dbstgb (8,538 books), Boomanulla (8,470 books), rpglibrary (8,459 books), debweiss (8,368 books), kday_working (8,239 books), oakesspalding (8,233 books), TomVeal (8,230 books), cbgjr (8,194 books), meadcl (8,183 books, private), dean (8,040 books), Rynosseros (7,869 books), donandpatti (7,806 books), CSUCI (7,778 books), LauraLLD (7,767 books), prufrock9 (7,695 books), MMcM (7,623 books), kendralou (7,567 books), AndrewsUniversity (7,460 books), popa (7,451 books), ErnestHemingway (7,411 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (see more)

bluetyson (24623), occult (3670), burnit99 (2714), Schmerguls (2381), wyvernfriend (2173), Budz888 (2141), antimuzak (2021), sstocks (1857), herebedragons (1770), meadcl (1256), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1245), t1bclasslibrary (1233), nwhyte (1187), kitchengardenbooks (1138), WARM (1077), gwyneira (1017), fredheid (1011), godshouse (999), sfreader.com (983), tripleblessings (973), maaward (894), inkcognito (894), Fledgist (879), rajendran (826), bintphotobooks (825), bcquinnsmom (777), AlexTheHunn (774), Megami (773), elisa.rolle (740), tuckerresearch (730), UWC_PYP (711), pantufla (689), keylawk (675), MareMagnum (673), MrsLee (664), TadAD (656), jpsnow (639), antiquary (638), Cecilturtle (634), fpagan (625), Elishibai (617), momcat.sc (607), nicsreads (607), kmnickels (594), Crowyhead (589), MerryMary (584), sarahthelibrarian (582), hse (572), ceal1959 (564)

50 top taggers

eromsted (131,989), msrau (114,215), AsYouKnow_Bob (72,119), bertilak (64,211), kathi (54,891), SilentInAWay (54,056), gentlemania (52,875), alibrarian (47,613), antimuzak (41,640), Neuromancer (41,446), markell (40,468), lisa211 (37,873), oakesspalding (37,846), MikeBriggs (37,119), lquilter (33,327), wyvernfriend (33,087), ThomasKleinert (32,718), TomVeal (32,205), nicolaerricotenaglia (32,144), carminowe (31,589), princemuchao (31,475), mfd101 (31,471), sgfein (31,393), SeriousGrace (30,945), muumi (30,230), chanale (29,772), Instigatrix (29,272), cnrenner (29,033), clpteensnewbooks (27,709), benwaugh (27,617), mcghol (26,836), atlaswinks (26,823), BoPeep (26,814), velyrhorde (26,630), tarpfarmer (26,108), danbrady (26,068), purpledragon42 (25,956), JanWillemNoldus (25,631), nykolaibasket (25,542), vpfluke (24,981), PandorasRequiem (24,542), hse (24,481), sjii (24,198), idiosyncratic (23,750), ThomasJefferson (23,720), keepers (23,288), pagerd (22,903), readafew (22,745), marnocat (22,741), h34th3r (22,707)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (507,842), German (384,675), Japanese (256,272), Spanish (161,366), Italian (140,918), Russian (136,927), Greek (Ancient) (118,089), Latin (83,617), Dutch (80,421), Swedish (56,187), Portuguese (44,364), Chinese (33,709), Norwegian (32,603), Multiple languages (29,885), Danish (26,232), Hebrew (25,789), Czech (21,000), English (Middle) (20,663), Polish (18,354), Arabic (15,500), Old English (8,752), Sanskrit (8,566), Finnish (8,392), Turkish (7,666), Greek (6,329)

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25 most reviewed books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (647 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (553 reviews), The Kite Runner (444 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (407 reviews), Twilight (382 reviews), (377 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (364 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (323 reviews), The Road (321 reviews), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (311 reviews), (298 reviews), Angels & Demons (297 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (296 reviews), Water for Elephants (285 reviews), The Book Thief (285 reviews), The Historian (276 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel (265 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (265 reviews), Life of Pi (260 reviews), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (254 reviews), 1984 (251 reviews), The Lovely Bones (238 reviews), The Golden Compass (236 reviews), The Catcher in the Rye (234 reviews), To Kill a Mockingbird (232 reviews)

top books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (33,405), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (31,183), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (29,988), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (29,197), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (28,879), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (28,873), The Da Vinci Code (24,234), The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (22,248), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (21,959), Pride and Prejudice (20,842), 1984 (20,591), The Catcher in the Rye (19,880), To Kill a Mockingbird (18,414), The Great Gatsby (16,866), The Lord of the Rings (16,075), The Kite Runner (15,383), Jane Eyre (15,105), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (14,511), Life of Pi (13,878), Animal Farm (13,719), Angels & Demons (13,643), Brave New World (13,521), Wuthering Heights (13,406), One Hundred Years of Solitude (13,127), The Fellowship of the Ring (12,804)

top 25 books by star rating

DER VOLKSPRACTITIONER - Grundausbildung…, Public Records - Fast and Reliable…, Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe unlock'd :…, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, The New shorter Oxford English…, Poker Strategy - Improve Your Poker…, The complete Aubrey/Maturin novels, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, The Compact Edition of The Oxford…, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, Voyage of the Basset, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, Heirloom Knitting, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75…, Absolute Sandman, Volume 1, The Valley of Vision: A collection of…, Nutshell Library, The Compleet Molesworth, Grace and grit : spirituality and…, The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3, The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2, The secret Magdalene : a novel, The red tree, The dot, Thank you, Mr. Falker

50 top-rated authors

Authors with at least ten ratings and five raters (rating/number/raters).

Jeannie Fulbright (5/11/8), John Schreiber (4.98/22/6), Amy Guth (4.92/13/13), Kyoto Costume Institute (4.92/13/13), Takehiko Inoue (4.91/23/5), Josemaria Escriva (4.91/22/6), Ninya Mikhaila (4.91/11/11), Kyoko Hikawa (4.9/60/8), Arthur G. Bennett (4.89/19/19), John Bonnett Wexo (4.88/26/5), Trish New (4.88/41/32), Eberhard Nestle (4.88/16/16), John P. Meier (4.86/18/10), Timothy Ferriss (4.86/14/11), Albert Goldbarth (4.85/43/8), Luigi Serafini (4.85/13/13), Cyril Hare (4.84/25/5), Beverly Jenkins (4.83/12/5), Jonathan Larson (4.83/12/11), Sho Fumimura (4.82/22/6), Ernst Haeckel (4.82/11/11), Tim Hegg (4.82/11/6), Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura (4.82/11/6), Lynn (4.81/16/12), Percy Dearmer (4.8/15/12), William T. Cavanaugh (4.8/10/9), Maida Heatter (4.8/10/8), Abingdon Press (4.8/10/5), Ole Risom (4.8/10/9), Ludwig van Beethoven (4.8/44/21), Mazo de la Roche (4.79/39/5), Elisabeth Crowfoot (4.79/12/12), Vardis Fisher (4.79/26/10), Brian Selznick (4.78/30/30), Alex Grey (4.78/18/14), L. J. Maas (4.78/20/7), Clyde Pharr (4.77/11/11), Marshall G. S. Hodgson (4.77/13/6), Deric Longden (4.77/13/6), Paul Rusesabagina (4.76/17/17), Caroline Lawrence (4.76/21/5), Francis Lathom (4.76/25/6), Mary B. Morrison (4.75/18/7), Julie Phillips (4.75/16/16), Anton Corbijn (4.75/10/10), G. B. Edwards (4.75/10/10), Howard Tayler (4.75/10/7), Walt Kelly (4.75/195/39), Janet Arnold (4.75/89/43), Toni Weschler (4.73/32/32)

50 lowest-rated authors

Authors with at least five ratings and three raters (rating/number/raters). Isn't this fascinating?

Robyn Donald (1.2/5/4), Rich Shapero (1.39/9/9), Martin Bril (1.5/7/3), Catherine Spencer (1.5/5/4), Mary Ann Mitchell (1.56/9/4), Hal Lindsey (1.58/12/9), Andy Baggott (1.6/5/5), Jean-Claude Bernardet (1.63/8/3), Richard H. Pough (1.64/7/4), Andrew Macdonald (1.67/9/8), Katherine Stone (1.67/6/4), Luke Short (1.68/17/4), Curtiss Ann Matlock (1.68/11/8), Hortense Calisher (1.7/5/4), Susan Kay Law (1.7/5/3), Sarah Lyddon Morrison (1.7/5/4), Candace McCarthy (1.71/7/3), Lolita Pille (1.71/7/6), Jonathan Black (1.75/8/6), Bruce R. McConkie (1.8/5/4), Jessie Penn-Lewis (1.8/5/3), Jessica Cutler (1.81/16/16), Johnny Damon (1.83/6/6), Pip Baker (1.86/7/4), Carey (1.86/7/7), Eric Saward (1.88/8/5), Pat Warren (1.88/8/4), Iris Finz (1.9/5/5), Granta (1.9/5/3), Thomas Greanias (1.9/5/5), Liz Jones (1.9/5/5), Motofumi Kobayashi (1.9/5/3), Rhonda R. McClure (1.9/5/5), Gregory J. E. Rawlins (1.9/5/4), John Ure (1.94/8/6), Amanda Scott (1.95/11/7), Erich von Daniken (1.96/50/37), Matthew Lesko (2/9/7), Peggy Darty (2/8/3), Judy Delton (2/8/6), Clarence Larkin (2/7/5), Barry Letts (2/7/5), James Wilcox (2/7/3), Patti Davis (2/6/6), Joyce Christmas (2/5/4), Roger Garaudy (2/5/3), Joan Hohl (2/5/5), Linda Madl (2/5/3), Christian Oster (2/5/4), David S. Platt (2/5/5)

50 "completist" authors

Average number of different books held by people who have any books by the author

Kenneth Robeson (22.85), Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (15.79), Clamp (12.73), Maxwell Grant (12.25), Don Pendleton (11.64), Francine Pascal (11.52), Nobuhiro Watsuki (10.65), Mercedes Lackey (10.37), Ann M. Martin (10.18), Terry Pratchett (10.06), Rex Stout (10.06), Nora Roberts (10.05), Louis L'Amour (9.78), Radclyffe (9.7), Georgette Heyer (9.52), Terrance Dicks (9.21), Anne McCaffrey (9.15), Rumiko Takahashi (9.02), Fuyumi Soryo (8.98), Warren Murphy (8.96), Diana Palmer (8.7), Masami Tsuda (8.65), Tamora Pierce (8.61), Christine Feehan (8.55), Cate Tiernan (8.42), Naoko Takeuchi (8.38), J. D. Robb (8.31), Kathryn Kenny (8.28), D. E. Stevenson (8.24), Kazuo Koike (8.22), Ordnance Survey (8.22), David Eddings (8.15), Laurell K. Hamilton (8.06), Alexander Kent (7.89), Franklin W. Dixon (7.88), Kaori Yuki (7.85), L.J. Smith (7.85), Natsuki Takaya (7.84), Lois Gladys Leppard (7.83), David Weber (7.8), Kazuya Minekura (7.66), Suzanne Brockmann (7.66), Erle Stanley Gardner (7.59), Hisaya Nakajo (7.59), Dick Francis (7.53), Johanna Lindsey (7.49), R. l. Stine (7.34), Carolyn Keene (7.29), Gilbert Morris (7.28), Agatha Christie (7.18)

Authors who LibraryThing (complete list)

Naomi Novik, Susan Wittig Albert, Sharon Lee, Janny Wurts, John Green, Randy Alcorn, Elizabeth Bear, Sara Donati, Joe Hill, Richard Price, Susie Bright, Martha Wells, C.E. Murphy, David Weinberger, Brandon Sanderson, Sarah Monette, Lynn Viehl, Sandra Gulland, Sherryl Woods, Lance Parkin, Robin D. Owens, Marisa de los Santos, Carl Zimmer, Patrick Rothfuss, E.E. Knight, Jonathon Green, Shanna Swendson, Christopher Locke, Lisa Unger, Melissa Wiley — see the full list.

top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J.K. Rowling (210,638), Stephen King (146,330), Terry Pratchett (133,067), J.R.R. Tolkien (106,571), Neil Gaiman (101,353), C. S. Lewis (97,572), William Shakespeare (80,905), Jane Austen (64,076), Isaac Asimov (63,413), Anne McCaffrey (58,907), Agatha Christie (57,600), Orson Scott Card (54,474), Charles Dickens (52,701), Douglas Adams (52,633), Kurt Vonnegut (52,144), Anne Rice (52,120), Robert A. Heinlein (50,233), Dan Brown (49,056), John Grisham (48,496), Nora Roberts (48,119), Mercedes Lackey (47,702), George Orwell (44,508), Piers Anthony (40,759), Dean Koontz (40,729), John Steinbeck (40,519), James Patterson (40,514), Margaret Atwood (40,283), Janet Evanovich (38,937), Laurell K. Hamilton (38,614), Robert Jordan (37,305), Michael Crichton (36,235), Philip Pullman (35,888), Ernest Hemingway (35,613), Roald Dahl (35,340), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (34,988), David Eddings (34,972), Various (34,430), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (34,405), Lemony Snicket (33,863), Mark Twain (33,584), Ray Bradbury (33,115), Ursula K. Le Guin (32,295), Frank Herbert (32,227), J.D. Salinger (31,604), Neal Stephenson (31,592), Philip K. Dick (31,128), Tom Clancy (31,059), Bill Bryson (30,797), Marion Zimmer Bradley (30,526), L.M. Montgomery (29,869), John Irving (29,795), Haruki Murakami (29,690), Madeleine L'Engle (29,099), Arthur C. Clarke (28,984), Dr. Seuss (28,877), Chuck Palahniuk (28,164), Umberto Eco (27,994), William Gibson (27,851), F. Scott Fitzgerald (27,820), Anonymous (27,276), Tamora Pierce (26,541), Patricia Cornwell (26,397), Virginia Woolf (26,253), Larry Niven (25,884), David Sedaris (25,568), Vladimir Nabokov (24,479), Homer (23,676), James Joyce (23,538), George R.R. Martin (23,517), Albert Camus (23,472), Margaret Weis (23,211), Leo Tolstoy (22,956), Nick Hornby (22,926), William Faulkner (22,802), Jodi Picoult (22,705)

top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (2,063,349), fantasy (698,673), history (574,522), non-fiction (399,227), science fiction (380,775), mystery (374,813), read (358,744), nonfiction (333,368), unread (269,402), poetry (265,891), biography (251,960), reference (226,720), novel (223,802), philosophy (192,860), literature (188,886), own (183,187), art (176,772), romance (169,688), religion (168,177), short stories (166,059), humor (163,144), sf (160,150), (160,070), science (149,027), tbr (131,718), historical fiction (128,214), children's (122,951), travel (117,930), series (117,594), manga (117,110), horror (115,168), comics (108,279), classic (106,896), children (102,239), music (101,832), paperback (99,939), politics (98,418), anthology (94,027), classics (90,308), young adult (89,100), memoir (87,713), 20th century (86,329), theology (81,708), psychology (78,352), cooking (76,608), american (76,033), cookbook (75,897), crime (75,888), essays (75,850), graphic novel (73,946), england (72,033), drama (69,460), british (69,194), christianity (68,906), humour (67,993), picture book (67,566), ya (66,788), language (65,303), owned (64,191), childrens (63,714), sci-fi (61,836), english (61,714), historical (61,225), thriller (61,222), writing (60,754), adventure (60,653), wishlist (58,570), autobiography (56,605), magic (55,118), 2007 (54,126), christian (53,410), photography (52,543), american history (51,085), food (51,078), spirituality (50,880)

top 50 long tags

Tags with more than 20 letters

contemporary fiction (8856), 20th century literature (4480), contemporary romance (4276), 20th century fiction (2813), mass market paperback (2746), political philosophy (2683), Fantasy/Science Fiction (2394), Science Fiction/Fantasy (2279), childrens literature (2257), international relations (1841), children's picture book (1670), personal development (1565), contemporary literature (1564), intellectual history (1559), artificial intelligence (1425), philosophy of science (1363), British Crime Fiction (1302), software development (1280), science fiction and fantasy (1254), 19th century literature (1245), permanent collection (1243), history of philosophy (1229), contemporary fantasy (1108), latin american literature (998), children's non-fiction (974), Christian Nonfiction (957), juvenile non-fiction (951), philosophy of religion (903), dungeons and dragons (897), classical literature (891), programming languages (887), African American Fiction (857), literature in translation (852), short story collection (827), philosophy of language (826), information technology (802), comparative religion (774), biography/autobiography (765), 19th century fiction (764), african-american literature (754), historical linguistics (750), software engineering (727), children's nonfiction (726), victorian literature (715), books i want to read (708), young adult literature (695), Atlantian Reference Library (660), computer programming (630), illuminated manuscripts (615), American Contemporary (570)