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Vital Statistics

Members 2,459,880

Books cataloged 139,250,302

Tags added 156,512,204

Unique works held 13,177,535

Unique works total 23,340,020

Reviews 3,697,024

Works reviewed 1,335,355

Ratings 19,902,521

Member-contributed covers 6,325,860

Author pictures 132,663

Venue pictures 16,757

Groups 11,868

Talk topics 219,734

Talk messages 6,915,562

Talk touchstones 5,273,632

Free books given out

Early Reviewer books given out 397,389

Member Giveaway books given out 1,093,701

Total free books given out 1,491,090

50 largest libraries (see more)

ebc_importer (313,854 books, private), mffowler (141,465 books), cctesttc1 (95,505 books), eandino2012 (81,313 books), KimSalyers (66,844 books), e-zReader (62,601 books), LibraryImporter (55,907 books), jonathan_rigby (53,728 books), purpleprincess1311 (53,246 books), Adolf_Ledesma (50,230 books), cesdemo (47,689 books), kamran3 (45,604 books, private), Pages_Aplenty (44,846 books), Kaethe (43,742 books), calum-iain (43,382 books), Yak_Litsy (41,164 books), safari45 (40,961 books), stansteiner (38,232 books), spicere (36,285 books, private), Nedrin (33,510 books, private), Oryphany (33,311 books), jenniebooks (32,662 books), Shadowdog513 (31,648 books), kel.wright (30,921 books), wwittler77 (30,536 books), pjpfodl (30,291 books), kdf_333 (30,121 books), ltcl (30,053 books), geoffmangum (29,421 books), cordykitten (29,403 books, private), hyades (29,311 books, private), Harry_Vincent (29,105 books), alicekeller (28,883 books), alo1224 (28,823 books), lyzard (28,753 books), ohclibrary (28,403 books), KigaliLibrary (28,105 books), biblio99 (27,237 books), SalemAthenaeum (27,148 books), ciaopaolo (26,642 books, private), davidgn (26,417 books), alaskayo (26,136 books, private), cwc790411 (26,113 books, private), sjcmce (25,999 books), kday_working (25,732 books), donkelly68 (25,211 books), brs (25,136 books), randys_bookbuzz (24,928 books), arjaygee (24,735 books), PC-jacoby (24,601 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (more)

bluetyson (35779), meadcl (13858), BlueTysonSS (11366), ii (11325), VPALib (10112), MemorialSardoShoahDL (8345), purpleprincess1311 (8179), BmoreMetroCouncil (7561), kijabi1 (7076), Rosa.Mill (6760), wyvernfriend (6094), FundacionRosacruz (5804), AbigailAdams26 (5655), Schmerguls (5625), Joop-le-philosophe (5571), jon1lambert (5287), bnielsen (5150), BiblioLorenzoLodi (5146), Cheryl_in_CC_NV (5141), Sullywriter (5002), jbarr5 (4888), cowpeace (4622), GeniusJen (4538), SerenaYates (4509), occult (4420), nwhyte (4268), ElizaJane (4241), Lashea677 (4206), jhawn (4097), TUCC (3890), kitchengardenbooks (3866), burnit99 (3774), vdb (3687), antiquary (3528), USYDArtsMusicLibrary (3403), kika66 (3382), TLH7718 (3269), JennyArch (3063), krau0098 (3051), Renato (3014), bibliest (2969), DinadansFriend (2899), elisa.rolle (2894), aulsmith (2871), nbmars (2863), Carlathelibrarian (2818), sstocks (2763), shanaqui (2739), metsapuro (2735), BookstoogeLT (2732)

50 top taggers

calum-iain (568,402), ii (511,519), ThomasKleinert (345,296), bluetyson (296,724), eromsted (239,690), gangleri (232,405), purpleprincess1311 (220,140), cesdemo (207,458), BookEndsIntl (204,751), bit-of-a-list-tiger (201,343), sagocreno (191,578), linusmedia (189,224), bertilak (184,343), Pages_Aplenty (178,339), mfd101 (176,159), gentlemania (165,660), Merryann (156,259), AsYouKnow_Bob (132,277), donkelly68 (132,017), Nedrin (118,601), cwc790411 (118,552), MatthewCoomber (116,962), PitcherBooks (115,921), clpteensnewbooks (111,720), msrau (111,400), vivir (110,126), BlueTysonSS (109,455), cdcollection (107,683), librisissimo (107,269), e-zReader (104,930), dommebooks (100,731), wwittler77 (100,479), FrankJLucatelli (97,483), TheoClarke (93,327), Littlemissbashful (91,520), skullduggery (90,677), bioethics (89,402), rehpii (87,489), cej1027 (87,460), SilentInAWay (86,576), LunaSlashSea (85,978), spicere (85,412), idiosyncratic (84,362), vahistoricalsociety (84,077), VintiqueBooks (82,830), Smiler69 (82,681), Stitswerd (82,635), Carolus (82,313), wm3395 (81,501), BookHavenAZ (81,340)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (1,784,963), German (1,426,986), Spanish (652,470), Dutch (582,705), Italian (540,195), Swedish (288,236), Russian (240,421), Japanese (178,359), Latin (162,591), Portuguese (110,363), Finnish (95,902), Greek (Ancient) (93,469), Danish (91,861), Chinese (59,437), Hebrew (54,258), Norwegian (53,333), Polish (51,274), Catalan (48,680), Arabic (46,162), Czech (40,126), Hungarian (30,354), Norwegian (Bokmål) (25,570), Turkish (24,935), Greek (24,719), Multiple languages (18,828)

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25 most reviewed books (more)

The Hunger Games (3,183 reviews), Twilight (2,102 reviews), The Book Thief (1,871 reviews), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) (1,659 reviews), Catching Fire (1,625 reviews), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1,580 reviews), Mockingjay (1,577 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1,420 reviews), The Help (1,384 reviews), The Giver (1,375 reviews), The Fault in Our Stars (1,323 reviews), Gone Girl (1,283 reviews), Where the Wild Things Are (1,280 reviews), The Road (1,269 reviews), Divergent (1,251 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (1,207 reviews), To Kill a Mockingbird (1,202 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (1,199 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (1,166 reviews), The Kite Runner (1,159 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (1,114 reviews), The Graveyard Book (1,104 reviews), Water for Elephants (1,100 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (1,097 reviews), The Lightning Thief (1,053 reviews)

Top 25 books (more)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (85,321), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (83,621), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (82,278), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (80,540), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (80,250), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (76,741), The Hobbit (70,806), 1984 (62,882), Pride and Prejudice (61,941), To Kill a Mockingbird (60,728), The Da Vinci Code (59,939), The Catcher in the Rye (57,248), The Great Gatsby (55,496), Twilight (48,364), The Hunger Games (47,748), Jane Eyre (45,371), Animal Farm (44,717), The Kite Runner (44,258), Brave New World (41,979), The Lord of the Rings (40,901), The Fellowship of the Ring (40,113), Fahrenheit 451 (39,935), Wuthering Heights (38,670), New Moon (38,633), Angels & Demons (38,579)

Top 25 works by rating

Rated by at least 25 users

Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (4.96), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (4.89), Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts, Smocks, Neckwear, Headwear and Accessories for Men and Women, c1540-1660 (4.88), The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya) (4.85), The Oxford English Dictionary (20 Volume Set) (Vols 1-20) (4.84), Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (4.84), The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook: More Than 200 Fibers, from Animal to Spun Yarn (4.84), Walking with God through Pain and Suffering (4.82), Oeuvres complètes, tome 1 (4.82), The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary [2 volume set] (4.82), Toda Mafalda (4.81), The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (4.8), The Absolute Sandman Volume Four (4.79), Patterns of Fashion 3: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women, c1560-1620 (4.79), Mansfield Park / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility (4.79), 1599 Geneva Bible (4.79), The Oxford English Dictionary [Compact Edition] (4.79), The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Emma/Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility/Minor Works (4.78), Digger: The Complete Omnibus Edition (4.77), The ESV Study Bible (4.77), A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns (4.77), Under the North Star (4.77), Bloom County: The Complete Library Volume 2: 1982-1984 (4.77), Obama: An Intimate Portrait (4.76), The Complete Far Side (4.76)

50 top-rated authors

Authors with at least 50 ratings

Constance Cappel (4.8), Lesley Brown (4.79), Janet Arnold (4.75), Baha'u'llah (4.7), Sharon Miller (4.7), The Kyoto Costume Institute (4.7), William R. Trumble (4.7), Crossway Bibles (4.7), Nisargadatta Maharaj (4.69), Arthur G. Bennett (4.69), Simon Langton (4.66), William M. Gaines (4.65), Ignatius Press (4.63), Frank H. Netter (4.63), Pete Souza (4.63), Jonathan B. Parshall (4.62), Bill Watterson (4.62), William T. Cavanaugh (4.62), (4.61), Harold Abelson (4.61), Rachel Ignotofsky (4.61), John J. Palmer (4.61), Jennifer Block (4.59), Bryan Stevenson (4.59), Jenn Dlugos (4.59), Karl Elliger (4.58), Johanna Basford (4.58), Menena Cottin (4.58), George Frideric Handel (4.58), Jill Twiss (4.57), Colette Wolff (4.57), Jennie Bishop (4.56), Ninya Mikhaila (4.56), Luigi Serafini (4.56), Jeff Brumbeau (4.56), Elizabeth Shown Mills (4.55), Avraham Azrieli (4.55), Rena Kornreich Gelissen (4.55), Ollie Johnston (4.55), Harold McGee (4.54), James Jean (4.54), Catherine D. Hughes (4.54), Drew Daywalt (4.54), Virginia Fleming (4.54), Westminster Assembly (4.53), Deborah Chandler (4.53), Maryann F. Kohl (4.53), Lindsay Mattick (4.53), Marcus Hearn (4.53), Ijeoma Oluo (4.53)

50 lowest-rated authors

Rich Shapero (1.75), Books LLC (1.86), Randy Davila (2.17), Robin Wyatt Dunn (2.19), Christopher Ransom (2.21), Hal Lindsey (2.39), Rebecca Campbell (2.45), Jessica Cutler (2.46), Sue Lange (2.48), Rebecca Wolff (2.51), Hannah Tennant-Moore (2.52), John B. Olson (2.55), Nancy Balbirer (2.59), Janet Groth (2.59), Alexandra Ulysses (2.6), Melissa P. (2.61), Michael Gerber (2.61), Alexander Campion (2.61), Simon Cox (2.61), Arabella Weir (2.64), O. J. Simpson (2.66), Joanne Dahme (2.67), Catherine Millet (2.68), Emma Tennant (2.68), Adèle Lang (2.68), Anna Sam (2.68), Dave Bruno (2.69), Kaavya Viswanathan (2.7), Simon (2.7), Trudy Baker (2.71), Douglas Monroe (2.71), Jacquelyn Cook (2.74), John Milne (2.75), Robin Kirman (2.75), Billy Corgan (2.75), Vonna Harper (2.76), Cook Coleridge (2.76), Eden Cole (2.76), Erich von Däniken (2.76), Tara Bray Smith (2.76), Ellen Fein (2.77), Sam Christer (2.77), Michael Drosnin (2.77), Charlotte Roche (2.78), Phoenix Desmond (2.78), Andrew Keen (2.79), Tracy Quan (2.79), Jennifer Vandever (2.79), Johanna Skibsrud (2.8), Frank Brennan (2.8), Jill Price (2.81)

Authors who LibraryThing (complete list)

Lee Child, Diana Gabaldon, Don Maitz, Brandon Sanderson, Sandra Brown, John Green, David Brin, Laurie R. King, Jon Scieszka, Patrick Rothfuss, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jude Deveraux, Naomi Novik, Joe Hill, Diane Duane, Ann Brashares, Jennifer Weiner, James Rollins, James Dashner, Nancy Holder, Elizabeth Bear, Andrew Gross, Dan Chaon, Susan Mallery, Chris Bohjalian, Melissa Marr, Manon Smits, Janny Wurts, Tite Kubo, Joan Holub, Angela Elwell Hunt, Jo Beverley, N. K. Jemisin, Sharon Kay Penman, Alan M. Clark, Randy Alcorn, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Wiggs, Alma Flor Ada, Deborah Harkness, Adriana Trigiani, Alan Furst, Sarah Addison Allen, Sharon Lee, Edward R. Tufte, Sherryl Woods, Jonathan Maberry, Matthew Pearl, Laini Taylor — see the full list.

Top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (663,068), Stephen King (522,498), Terry Pratchett (410,307), J. R. R. Tolkien (326,305), C. S. Lewis (320,328), Neil Gaiman (284,141), Nora Roberts (277,517), William Shakespeare (277,007), Agatha Christie (253,974), James Patterson (251,009), Jane Austen (206,071), Charles Dickens (200,710), Isaac Asimov (197,129), John Grisham (187,028), Stephenie Meyer (185,464), Dr. Seuss (180,711), Janet Evanovich (163,710), Dan Brown (160,403), Orson Scott Card (157,905), Anne McCaffrey (155,587), Roald Dahl (154,865), Dean Koontz (154,071), Kurt Vonnegut (147,341), Mary Pope Osborne (146,695), George R. R. Martin (146,082), George Orwell (144,899), Anne Rice (142,125), Douglas Adams (140,760), John Steinbeck (139,311), Rick Riordan (132,609), Robert A. Heinlein (132,323), Mercedes Lackey (131,847), Mark Twain (131,241), Charlaine Harris (130,686), Margaret Atwood (130,297), Suzanne Collins (129,627), Lemony Snicket (125,600), Robert Jordan (120,212), Laurell K. Hamilton (118,999), Ernest Hemingway (117,879), Michael Crichton (116,048), Haruki Murakami (113,895), Fyodor Dostoevsky (113,460), Ray Bradbury (110,088), Piers Anthony (108,682), Jim Butcher (106,529), Philip Pullman (104,650), Carolyn Keene (103,746), Ursula K. Le Guin (101,914), Gabriel García Márquez (101,262), Arthur Conan Doyle (100,054), Philip K. Dick (99,157), Jodi Picoult (98,820), Bill Bryson (98,610), Patricia Cornwell (96,831), F. Scott Fitzgerald (95,362), L. M. Montgomery (94,854), Michael Connelly (94,562), David Eddings (93,039), Arthur C. Clarke (89,900), Tamora Pierce (89,890), Frank Herbert (89,291), Tom Clancy (89,271), R. L. Stine (89,038), Alexander McCall Smith (88,919), Clive Cussler (87,179), Neal Stephenson (86,923), Madeleine L'Engle (86,419), J. D. Salinger (85,946), Nicholas Sparks (85,385), Laura Ingalls Wilder (85,149), Beverly Cleary (83,580), Umberto Eco (82,268), Stan Berenstain (82,214), Leo Tolstoy (82,099)

Top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (5,874,867), to-read (4,077,560), non-fiction (2,531,679), fantasy (1,993,187), history (1,979,219), science fiction (1,432,393), mystery (1,292,039), read (946,445), biography (914,803), romance (749,901), poetry (738,520), novel (724,568), ebook (723,533), humor (631,939), literature (626,249), historical fiction (596,282), art (555,706), philosophy (554,618), reference (541,176), science (536,659), kindle (520,057), religion (508,074), unread (495,423), children's (482,582), picture book (479,752), short stories (464,731), series (454,907), own (419,274), young adult (404,308), 20th century (395,592), wwii (363,258), horror (351,483), sf (351,035), music (350,172), children (349,911), comics (349,510), memoir (342,798), paperback (335,653), manga (329,184), animals (323,552), travel (321,436), politics (316,720), family (312,840), adventure (310,897), hardcover (308,047), thriller (300,995), ya (293,443), cookbook (289,202), classics (288,701), england (280,210), crime (277,887), graphic novel (275,068), anthology (267,942), classic (262,052), psychology (257,879), theology (254,885), usa (246,790), 19th century (231,738), historical (230,233), essays (210,939), library (207,351), christianity (207,316), american (206,179), math (205,979), (205,538), cooking (205,440), drama (200,532), magic (199,447), english (195,123), wishlist (194,737), roman (192,019), american history (191,718), photography (189,797), dvd (189,322), american literature (186,045)

Top 50 long tags

Tags with more than 25 letters

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (34,076), 1001 books you must read before you die (19,583), Mystery and detective stories (10,347), African American Literature (8,883), Biographies Autobiographies and Memoirs (5,224), fairy tales and folk tales (4,579), 20th Century American Literature (4,463), Contemporary Realistic Fiction (3,958), A Series of Unfortunate Events (3,932), contemporary American fiction (3,688), Detective and mystery fiction (3,669), criticism and interpretation (2,461), 20th Century British Literature (2,326), 21st C. American Literature (2,135), mother-daughter relationships (1,975), personal feelings and growth (1,925), Atlantian Reference Library (1,900), Cambridge University Press (1,772), English Language Literature (1,755), 19th Century British Literature (1,718), anthologies and collections (1,689), LibraryThing Early Reviewers (1,670), picture book: intermediate (1,653), CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK (1,640), 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (1,620), Christian historical fiction (1,551), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1,548), 20th century American fiction (1,463), Metropolitan Museum of Art (1,463), human-animal relationships (1,426), 19th Century American Literature (1,382), Native American literature (1,380), literary history and criticism (1,374), american religious history (1,370), Genre: Fiction Romance Historical (1,358), Encyclopedias and dictionaries (1,323), National Book Award Finalist (1,299), young adult science fiction (1,294), Declaration of Independence (1,276), organizational development (1,271), Literatura infanto-juvenil (1,265), library and information science (1,232), 20th Century United States (1,217), Star Trek: The Original Series (1,213), Incarnations of Immortality (1,211), Contemporary American Literature (1,205), 20th century French literature (1,190), black and white photography (1,189), 20th Century American History (1,157), 19th Century English Literature (1,143)

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