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Members 481,546 Books cataloged 30,770,183 Tags added 39,767,890 Unique works 3,601,603 Total reviews 488,960 Works reviewed 227,863 Ratings 4,795,042 User-contributed covers 1,046,046 Author photos 24,503 User groups 4,170 Forum messages 753,725 Forum touchstones 506,079 50 largest libraries (see more)
windsorpl (65,535 books), credo (16,008 books, private), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), kittylafong (13,200 books, private), AsYouKnow_Bob (12,946 books), pagerd (12,733 books), JeanLittleLibrary (12,389 books), Patentnonsense (12,255 books), bookstopshere (12,010 books), antimuzak (11,543 books), h34th3r (11,379 books), shearrob (11,262 books), libvicki (10,753 books), devenish (10,711 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), axarca (10,374 books), eromsted (10,262 books), gaspari (10,211 books, private), mitchellray (10,036 books), carminowe (9,705 books), LamSon (9,675 books), tehipite (9,618 books), jalual (9,396 books), bertilak (9,369 books), kauders (9,094 books), hse (8,918 books), Papiervisje (8,849 books), ellenandjim (8,760 books), kday_working (8,758 books), ariadne02 (8,679 books), shauneeh (8,664 books), Boomanulla (8,608 books), hailelib (8,572 books), dbstgb (8,538 books), TomVeal (8,460 books), rpglibrary (8,459 books), debweiss (8,370 books), oakesspalding (8,312 books), meadcl (8,261 books, private), cbgjr (8,194 books), Rynosseros (8,080 books), dean (8,040 books), donandpatti (7,846 books), LauraLLD (7,839 books), CSUCI (7,778 books), MMcM (7,729 books), prufrock9 (7,695 books), chuck_ralston (7,614 books), kendralou (7,567 books), lycanthropist (7,467 books)
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bluetyson (25953), occult (3824), burnit99 (2721), Schmerguls (2561), wyvernfriend (2223), Budz888 (2141), antimuzak (2025), sstocks (1951), herebedragons (1789), meadcl (1284), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1245), t1bclasslibrary (1235), nwhyte (1228), kitchengardenbooks (1149), WARM (1096), rajendran (1071), gwyneira (1024), fredheid (1011), sfreader.com (989), maaward (981), tripleblessings (973), inkcognito (894), Fledgist (879), ceal1959 (845), bintphotobooks (838), bcquinnsmom (788), elisa.rolle (776), AlexTheHunn (774), Megami (774), tuckerresearch (740), UWC_PYP (711), keylawk (694), TadAD (690), pantufla (689), MareMagnum (673), MrsLee (671), antiquary (664), Cecilturtle (643), jpsnow (642), Elishibai (641), fpagan (632), nicsreads (612), momcat.sc (607), sarahthelibrarian (597), MerryMary (595), kmnickels (594), Crowyhead (592), jbd1 (575), hse (572)
50 top taggers
eromsted (136,004), msrau (113,921), AsYouKnow_Bob (72,937), bertilak (65,112), gentlemania (58,617), kathi (54,962), SilentInAWay (54,656), alibrarian (48,298), antimuzak (42,309), oakesspalding (41,631), Neuromancer (41,527), markell (41,237), mfd101 (39,495), ThomasKleinert (39,237), lisa211 (39,213), MikeBriggs (37,183), nicolaerricotenaglia (35,585), wyvernfriend (33,700), lquilter (33,472), sgfein (32,756), TomVeal (32,736), carminowe (31,609), princemuchao (31,528), SeriousGrace (31,214), muumi (31,069), clpteensnewbooks (30,666), chanale (30,665), cnrenner (29,826), purpledragon42 (29,769), Instigatrix (29,642), benwaugh (29,060), mcghol (27,017), velyrhorde (26,947), atlaswinks (26,823), BoPeep (26,814), axarca (26,719), tarpfarmer (26,239), nykolaibasket (26,106), danbrady (26,082), JanWillemNoldus (26,042), vpfluke (25,906), keepers (25,539), PandorasRequiem (24,542), hse (24,481), sjii (24,198), idiosyncratic (24,173), ThomasJefferson (23,728), posthumose (23,377), edwinbcn (23,359), Papiervisje (23,239)
25 top languages (translations from)
French (531,967), German (404,059), Japanese (267,363), Spanish (168,970), Italian (148,888), Russian (143,204), Greek (Ancient) (123,367), Latin (87,323), Dutch (84,372), Swedish (59,737), Portuguese (46,780), Chinese (35,020), Norwegian (34,545), Multiple languages (31,124), Danish (27,596), Hebrew (26,135), Czech (21,897), English (Middle) (21,512), Polish (19,248), Arabic (16,198), Old English (9,187), Finnish (8,945), Sanskrit (8,887), Turkish (8,033), Greek (6,648)
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| 25 most reviewed books (see more)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (655 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (570 reviews), The Kite Runner (450 reviews), Twilight (422 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (417 reviews), (377 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (377 reviews), The Road (342 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (329 reviews), Harry Potter eta sorgin-harria (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) (322 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (307 reviews), Angels & Demons (306 reviews), The Book Thief (306 reviews), Water for Elephants (303 reviews), Harry Potter eta sorgin-harria (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) (298 reviews), The Historian (293 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (278 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel (273 reviews), The Lovely Bones (270 reviews), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (264 reviews), Life of Pi (261 reviews), 1984 (259 reviews), The Golden Compass (245 reviews), To Kill a Mockingbird (243 reviews), The Catcher in the Rye (239 reviews)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (34,567), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (32,199), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (30,883), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (30,157), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (29,875), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (29,757), The Da Vinci Code (24,946), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (23,106), Pride and Prejudice (21,543), 1984 (21,250), The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (21,107), The Catcher in the Rye (20,466), To Kill a Mockingbird (19,035), The Lord of the Rings (16,562), The Kite Runner (15,947), Jane Eyre (15,553), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (14,966), Life of Pi (14,205), Animal Farm (14,145), Angels & Demons (14,125), Brave New World (13,922), Wuthering Heights (13,834), One Hundred Years of Solitude (13,529), The Fellowship of the Ring (13,191), Memoirs of a Geisha (12,939)
top 25 books by star ratingPublic Records - Fast and Reliable…, Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe unlock'd :…, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, PokerTips.org - Poker Strategy -…, The complete Aubrey/Maturin novels, The Compact Edition of The Oxford…, DER VOLKSPRACTITIONER - Grundausbildung…, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3, Heirloom Knitting, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, The secret Magdalene : a novel, The Valley of Vision: A collection of…, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75…, Nutshell Library, Voyage of the Basset, The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2, Absolute Sandman, Volume 1, The hobbit, or, There and back again, The red tree, The Dot, The Compleet Molesworth, Thank you, Mr. Falker, I love my hair!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, Randy Alcorn, Elizabeth Bear, Rosina Lippi, Joe Hill, Richard Price, Susie Bright, C.E. Murphy, Brandon Sanderson, Martha Wells, David Weinberger, Sarah Monette, Sherryl Woods, Sandra Gulland, Lynn Viehl, Robin D. Owens, Marisa de los Santos, Lance Parkin, Carl Zimmer, Patrick Rothfuss, E.E. Knight, Jonathon Green, Shanna Swendson, Lisa Unger, Christopher Locke, Melissa Wiley — see the full list.
By number of copies
J. K. Rowling (221,782), Stephen King (154,442), Terry Pratchett (138,960), J. R. R. Tolkien (111,289), Neil Gaiman (105,153), C. S. Lewis (102,239), William Shakespeare (85,927), Nora Roberts (70,539), Jane Austen (67,250), Isaac Asimov (66,394), Anne McCaffrey (62,187), Agatha Christie (61,251), Orson Scott Card (56,833), Charles Dickens (55,517), Anne Rice (54,815), Douglas Adams (54,760), Kurt Vonnegut (54,578), Robert A. Heinlein (52,858), John Grisham (51,392), Dan Brown (51,284), Mercedes Lackey (50,079), George Orwell (46,774), James Patterson (43,540), Dean Koontz (43,186), John Steinbeck (42,858), Piers Anthony (42,678), Margaret Atwood (42,072), Janet Evanovich (41,840), Laurell K. Hamilton (40,771), Robert Jordan (38,747), Michael Crichton (38,380), Philip Pullman (37,677), Ernest Hemingway (37,416), Roald Dahl (37,346), Fyodor Dostoevsky (36,622), David Eddings (36,472), Gabriel García Márquez (36,159), Lemony Snicket (35,525), Mark Twain (35,459), Ray Bradbury (34,790), Ursula K. Le Guin (33,709), Frank Herbert (33,626), J. D. Salinger (32,957), Tom Clancy (32,941), Neal Stephenson (32,828), Philip K. Dick (32,749), Bill Bryson (32,261), Marion Zimmer Bradley (32,058), Lucy Maud Montgomery (31,280), Haruki Murakami (31,244), Dr. Seuss (31,169), John Irving (30,961), Various (30,611), Arthur Charles Clarke (30,412), Madeleine L'Engle (30,310), Chuck Palahniuk (29,351), Umberto Eco (29,263), F. Scott Fitzgerald (29,192), William Gibson (29,117), Anonymous (28,546), Patricia Cornwell (28,234), Tamora Pierce (28,090), Virginia Woolf (27,319), Larry Niven (27,014), David Sedaris (26,980), Vladimir Nabokov (25,817), Homer (24,846), Albert Camus (24,717), James Joyce (24,567), George R. R. Martin (24,546), Jodi Picoult (24,392), Margaret Weis (24,183), Leo Tolstoy (24,079), William Faulkner (23,893), Nick Hornby (23,784)
fiction (2,139,044), fantasy (719,963), history (595,729), non-fiction (416,552), science fiction (391,900), mystery (389,724), read (374,591), nonfiction (342,689), unread (276,023), poetry (273,143), biography (262,294), reference (232,740), novel (231,191), philosophy (198,788), literature (194,765), own (191,567), art (183,039), romance (176,470), (174,337), religion (173,954), short stories (171,328), humor (167,984), sf (163,921), science (156,819), tbr (141,160), historical fiction (133,720), children's (128,612), travel (121,900), series (121,514), manga (119,628), horror (119,123), comics (110,744), classic (110,255), children (106,949), music (105,360), paperback (102,553), politics (101,425), anthology (96,871), classics (92,962), young adult (90,920), memoir (90,846), 20th century (86,880), theology (84,383), psychology (80,618), crime (78,611), cooking (78,426), american (78,342), cookbook (78,287), essays (78,120), graphic novel (76,376), england (74,744), picture book (73,136), british (71,423), drama (71,288), christianity (70,904), ya (70,563), humour (70,103), language (66,942), owned (66,929), english (65,560), childrens (65,051), thriller (64,823), sci-fi (63,944), historical (63,689), adventure (62,753), writing (62,557), wishlist (60,394), autobiography (58,506), magic (57,055), christian (54,940), 2007 (54,745), photography (54,702), animals (54,006), spirituality (52,818), american history (52,815)
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)
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