Tuesday Thingers: Most Popular Books–What have you Read?
July 1, 2008
I participate in LibraryThing’s Tuesday Thingers group — a weekly blogging exercise. This week’s question:
Here is the Top 100 Most Popular Books on LibraryThing. Bold what you own, italicize what you’ve read. Star what you liked. Star multiple times what you loved!
As I own almost all of the books I’ve read, I’m not going to bother denoting which I own, but I will bold the ones I have read. I think 64 of them. I can’t quite count Shakespeare’s entire works (I’ve read about 2/3 to 3/4 of the plays…). Several of the others I started but haven’t finished, or have plans to read.
- Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone by J.K. Rowling (32,484)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling (29,939)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling (28,728)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling (27,926)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling (27,643)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling (27,641)
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (23,266)
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (21,325)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling (20,485)
- 1984 by George Orwell (19,735)
- Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen (19,583)
- The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger (19,082)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (17,586)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (16,210)
- The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (15,483)
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (14,566)
- Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (14,449)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (13,946)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel (13,272)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell (13,091)
- Angels & demons by Dan Brown (13,089)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (13,005)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (12,777)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah’s Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12,634)
- The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (12,276)
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (12,147)
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (11,976)
- The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,512)
- The Odyssey by Homer (11,483)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (11,392)
- Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (11,360)
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11,257)
- The return of the king : being the third part of The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,082)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (10,979)
- American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (10,823)
- The chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (10,603)
- The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams (10,537)
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding (10,435)
- The lovely bones : a novel by Alice Sebold (10,125)
- Ender’s Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (10,092)
- The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (9,827)
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (9,745)
- Dune by Frank Herbert (9,671)
- Emma by Jane Austen (9,610)
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (9,598)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain (9,593)
- Anna Karenina (Oprah’s Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (9,433)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (9,413)
- Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (9,343)
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (9,336)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9,274)
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (9,246)
- The Iliad by Homer (9,153)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus (9,084)
- Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (9,080)
- Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (9,027)
- The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (8,960)
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac (8,904)
- Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (8,813)
- The Little Prince by saintexupryantoinede – 75k - (8,764)
- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (8,421)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (8,417)
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (8,368)
- The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (8,255)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (8,214)
- The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (8,191)
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8,169)
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (8,129)
- The complete works by William Shakespeare (8,096)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (7,843)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (7,834)
- The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Barbara Kingsolver (7,829)
- Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (7,808)
- Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck (7,807)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (7,793)
- The Alchemist (Plus) by Paulo Coelho (7,710)
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7,648)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Oscar Wilde (7,598)
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk (7,569)
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7,557)
- The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (7,534)
- Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (7,530)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (7,512)
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (7,436)
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (7,238)
- Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad (7,153)
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (7,055)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (7,052)
- The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman (7,043)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (6,933)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (6,901)
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (6,899)
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (6,890)
- The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (6,868)
- Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (6,862)
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (6,841)
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (6,794)
- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (6,715)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (6,708)
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (6,697)
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So which one’s did you like? What were your favorites? I noticed you’d read Pride and Prejudice and Emma but not Sense and Sensibility? You have an interesting list. :-)