Librarything's Top 1000 Books

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This is a list of the most frequently owned books on librarything as of January 2011.

There was a previous list from 2009, but it has changed slightly since then, and the list was never completed, so this is starting from scratch.

January 2012 update completed

List source: http://www.librarything.com/z_books.php

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  1. 1.
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    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1)
    by J. K. Rowling

  2. 2.
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
    by J.K. Rowling

  3. 3.
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
    by J. K. Rowling

  4. 4.
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    by J.K. Rowling

  5. 5.
    Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
    by J. K. Rowling

  6. 6.
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
    by J. K. Rowling

  7. 7.
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
    by J.K. Rowling

  8. 8.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

  9. 9.
    Hobbit
    by J R R Tolkien

  10. 10.
    Pride And Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  11. 11.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four

  12. 12.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  13. 13.
    To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Harper Lee

  14. 14.
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
    by Stephenie Meyer

  15. 15.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  16. 16.
    The Kite Runner
    by Khaled Hosseini

  17. 17.
    Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte

  18. 18.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  19. 19.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  20. 20.
    New Moon (The Twilight Saga)
    by Stephenie Meyer

  21. 21.
    Angels & Demons (Mass Market Paperback)
    by Dan Brown (Author)

  22. 22.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

  23. 23.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  24. 24.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

  25. 25.
    Eclipse (The Twilight Saga)
    by Stephenie Meyer

  26. 26.
    Wuthering Heights
    by Emily Bronte

  27. 27.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

  28. 29.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  29. 30.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  30. 31.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  31. 32.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  32. 33.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

  33. 34.
    The Odyssey

  34. 35.
    Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
    by Stephenie Meyer

  35. 36.

  36. 37.
    The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold

  37. 38.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  38. 39.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  39. 41.
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    by Stieg Larsson

  40. 42.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

  41. 43.
    American Gods: A Novel
    by Neil Gaiman

  42. 45.
    Emma (Signet Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  43. 46.
    Sense And Sensibility
    by Jane Austen

  44. 47.
    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials)
    by Philip Pullman

  45. 48.
    Anna Karenina

  46. 49.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C.S. Lewis

  47. 50.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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Comments

Books That Fell Off The List in the 2012 Update — 19 weeks ago

I Am Legend – Richard Matheson

Faust – Goethe

Raise High the Roof Beam – J.D. Salinger

Generation X – Douglas Coupland

Barrel Fever – David Sedaris

Stitch ’n Bitch Handbook – Debbie Stoller

The Sandman: A Game of You – Neil Gaiman

The Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe

Microserfs – Douglas Coupland

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera

Short Stories – Ernest Hemingway

The Problem of Pain – C.S. Lewis

Sonnets – William Shakespeare

Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld

Bloody Bones – Laurell K. Hamilton

My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk

The White Dragon – Anne McCaffrey

2010 – Arthur C. Clarke

A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick

Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence


Books Added in the 2012 Update — 19 weeks ago

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Diary of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Twits by Roald Dahl

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff

The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kemper

The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

Special by Scott Westerfeld


Untitled — 1 year ago

A great assortment of books. Thank you for creating it.




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