Zeitgeist Overview

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Vital Statistics

Members 519,098

Books cataloged 32,229,217

Tags added 41,737,997

Unique works 3,695,532

Total reviews 507,069

Works reviewed 235,333

Ratings 4,953,288

User-contributed covers 1,093,106

Author photos 26,839

User groups 4,414

Forum messages 800,673

Forum touchstones 528,504

50 largest libraries (see more)

credo (16,229 books, private), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), JeanLittleLibrary (13,846 books), kittylafong (13,220 books, private), AsYouKnow_Bob (13,140 books), AndrewWheeler (13,050 books), pagerd (12,733 books), Patentnonsense (12,273 books), bookstopshere (12,061 books), antimuzak (11,594 books), shearrob (11,551 books), h34th3r (11,426 books), angelrose (11,400 books), axarca (11,379 books), libvicki (10,753 books), devenish (10,747 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), gaspari (10,273 books, private), mitchellray (10,064 books), eromsted (9,866 books), LamSon (9,862 books), carminowe (9,710 books), tehipite (9,618 books), jalual (9,430 books), bertilak (9,428 books), kauders (9,165 books), kday_working (9,111 books), hse (9,014 books), dbstgb (8,987 books), Papiervisje (8,920 books), ellenandjim (8,770 books), TomVeal (8,715 books), ariadne02 (8,680 books), shauneeh (8,672 books), hailelib (8,582 books), rpglibrary (8,459 books), debweiss (8,400 books), oakesspalding (8,379 books), meadcl (8,301 books, private), cbgjr (8,194 books), Rynosseros (8,130 books), dean (8,040 books), chuck_ralston (7,952 books), donandpatti (7,942 books), LauraLLD (7,869 books), marxones (7,846 books), MMcM (7,816 books), CSUCI (7,778 books), prufrock9 (7,695 books), DeputyHeadmistress (7,623 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (see more)

durftest01 (80828), bluetyson (26769), occult (3842), burnit99 (2726), Schmerguls (2664), wyvernfriend (2249), Budz888 (2141), antimuzak (2038), sstocks (1962), herebedragons (1793), meadcl (1335), Ritaleah (1254), nwhyte (1251), Boktips.net (1245), t1bclasslibrary (1243), kitchengardenbooks (1176), rajendran (1166), WARM (1133), maaward (1045), gwyneira (1025), fredheid (1011), sfreader.com (995), tripleblessings (974), inkcognito (894), Fledgist (882), ceal1959 (845), bintphotobooks (843), elisa.rolle (806), bcquinnsmom (799), Megami (777), AlexTheHunn (774), tuckerresearch (752), TadAD (716), UWC_PYP (711), keylawk (697), pantufla (689), MrsLee (680), MareMagnum (673), antiquary (667), Elishibai (655), Cecilturtle (650), jpsnow (644), fpagan (634), nicsreads (612), momcat.sc (607), sarahthelibrarian (607), MerryMary (599), kmnickels (594), Crowyhead (592), jbd1 (589)

50 top taggers

eromsted (131,083), msrau (113,921), AsYouKnow_Bob (74,383), bertilak (65,680), gentlemania (60,555), kathi (55,118), SilentInAWay (54,824), alibrarian (48,818), mfd101 (45,056), ThomasKleinert (42,880), Neuromancer (42,659), antimuzak (42,493), oakesspalding (42,079), markell (41,751), lisa211 (40,825), MikeBriggs (37,351), nicolaerricotenaglia (36,825), lquilter (35,790), wyvernfriend (34,027), sgfein (33,440), TomVeal (33,249), clpteensnewbooks (32,333), purpledragon42 (32,192), carminowe (31,627), princemuchao (31,528), SeriousGrace (31,449), muumi (31,408), axarca (31,375), chanale (31,241), cnrenner (30,323), Instigatrix (29,676), benwaugh (29,364), mcghol (27,602), velyrhorde (26,947), atlaswinks (26,819), BoPeep (26,814), tarpfarmer (26,394), vpfluke (26,240), JanWillemNoldus (26,168), nykolaibasket (26,106), danbrady (26,082), PandorasRequiem (24,542), idiosyncratic (24,519), hse (24,481), trollsdotter (24,421), Papiervisje (24,316), sjii (24,198), edwinbcn (23,855), ThomasJefferson (23,728), posthumose (23,639)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (541,572), German (413,295), Japanese (271,241), Spanish (173,060), Italian (152,613), Russian (145,920), Greek (Ancient) (124,985), Latin (88,643), Dutch (86,432), Swedish (61,604), Portuguese (48,044), Chinese (35,678), Norwegian (35,502), Multiple languages (31,662), Danish (27,538), Hebrew (26,948), Czech (22,307), English (Middle) (21,838), Polish (19,667), Arabic (16,652), Old English (9,187), Finnish (9,176), Sanskrit (9,025), Turkish (8,206), Greek (6,719)

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25 most reviewed books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (686 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (585 reviews), Twilight (519 reviews), The Kite Runner (483 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (444 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (388 reviews), The Road (372 reviews), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (345 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (341 reviews), The Book Thief (332 reviews), Water for Elephants (324 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (318 reviews), Angels & Demons (313 reviews), The Historian (307 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (305 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel (279 reviews), The Lovely Bones (277 reviews), Life of Pi (276 reviews), 1984 (274 reviews), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (266 reviews), The Golden Compass (254 reviews), To Kill a Mockingbird (250 reviews), The Catcher in the Rye (246 reviews), (0 reviews), (0 reviews)

top books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (36,030), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (33,518), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (32,148), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (31,438), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (31,155), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (30,988), The Da Vinci Code (25,919), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (24,656), The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (24,082), Pride and Prejudice (22,536), 1984 (22,225), The Catcher in the Rye (21,249), To Kill a Mockingbird (19,819), The Great Gatsby (18,156), The Lord of the Rings (17,398), The Kite Runner (16,790), Jane Eyre (16,219), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (15,523), Animal Farm (14,832), Life of Pi (14,699), Angels & Demons (14,639), Brave New World (14,522), Wuthering Heights (14,411), One Hundred Years of Solitude (14,047), The Fellowship of the Ring (13,742)

top 25 books by star rating

Public Records - Fast and Reliable…, Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe unlock'd :…, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, PokerTips.org - Poker Strategy -…, Hunger Games, The Compact Edition of The Oxford…, DER VOLKSPRACTITIONER - Grundausbildung…, Robert Frank: The Americans, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The…, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, Heirloom Knitting, The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3, The Valley of Vision: A collection of…, Absolute Sandman, Volume 2, Brisingr, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75…, Nutshell Library, Voyage of the Basset, The secret Magdalene : a novel, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, The red tree, Absolute Sandman, Volume 1

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, John Green, Sharon Lee, Janny Wurts, Randy Alcorn, Elizabeth Bear, Rosina Lippi, David Liss, Joe Hill, Richard Price, Brandon Sanderson, C.E. Murphy, Susie Bright, Martha Wells, David Weinberger, Sarah Monette, Susan Johnson, Sherryl Woods, Lynn Viehl, Sandra Gulland, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Marisa de los Santos, Robin D. Owens, Patrick Rothfuss, E.E. Knight, Lance Parkin, Carl Zimmer, Shanna Swendson, Lisa Unger — see the full list.

top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (226,512), Stephen King (157,257), Terry Pratchett (141,167), J. R. R. Tolkien (113,398), Neil Gaiman (106,637), C. S. Lewis (103,878), William Shakespeare (86,580), Nora Roberts (72,050), Jane Austen (68,850), Isaac Asimov (67,782), Anne McCaffrey (63,466), Agatha Christie (62,867), Orson Scott Card (57,818), Charles Dickens (56,695), Douglas Adams (55,921), Anne Rice (55,622), Kurt Vonnegut (55,444), Robert A. Heinlein (53,542), John Grisham (52,571), Dan Brown (52,397), Mercedes Lackey (51,325), George Orwell (47,602), James Patterson (44,871), Dean Koontz (44,406), John Steinbeck (43,787), Piers Anthony (43,218), Margaret Atwood (42,695), Janet Evanovich (42,650), Laurell K. Hamilton (41,738), Robert Jordan (39,259), Michael Crichton (39,232), Philip Pullman (38,479), Ernest Hemingway (38,223), Roald Dahl (38,182), Fyodor Dostoevsky (37,343), David Eddings (37,166), Gabriel García Márquez (36,908), Mark Twain (36,327), Lemony Snicket (36,133), Ray Bradbury (35,359), Frank Patrick Herbert (34,243), Ursula K. Le Guin (34,147), Tom Clancy (33,606), Neal Stephenson (33,545), J. D. Salinger (33,486), Philip K. Dick (33,272), Bill Bryson (32,864), Marion Zimmer Bradley (32,701), Dr. Seuss (32,009), Haruki Murakami (31,989), Lucy Maud Montgomery (31,757), John Irving (31,527), Chuck Palahniuk (31,402), Arthur C. Clarke (31,023), Madeleine L'Engle (30,824), Umberto Eco (29,788), F. Scott Fitzgerald (29,730), William Gibson (29,574), Patricia Cornwell (28,803), Tamora Pierce (28,698), Various (27,804), Virginia Woolf (27,731), David Sedaris (27,583), Larry Niven (27,308), Vladimir Nabokov (26,157), (25,684), Stephenie Meyer (25,294), Homer (25,229), Albert Camus (25,181), George R. R. Martin (25,066), James Joyce (24,925), Margaret Weis (24,668), Leo Tolstoy (24,599), William Faulkner (24,406), Ian McEwan (24,323)

top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (2,197,733), fantasy (739,788), history (611,635), non-fiction (427,661), science fiction (401,530), mystery (400,639), read (384,215), nonfiction (350,908), unread (281,416), poetry (279,021), biography (269,369), reference (238,852), novel (236,935), philosophy (204,871), literature (199,561), own (196,762), art (188,084), (183,232), romance (182,780), religion (179,068), short stories (175,028), humor (171,996), sf (167,570), science (161,347), tbr (146,526), historical fiction (137,999), children's (132,420), series (126,121), travel (125,069), horror (122,437), manga (121,946), comics (113,387), classic (113,000), children (110,057), music (109,526), paperback (104,103), politics (103,897), anthology (99,157), classics (95,631), young adult (94,365), memoir (93,514), 20th century (89,397), theology (87,192), psychology (83,055), crime (81,212), american (80,237), cooking (80,226), cookbook (80,109), essays (80,056), graphic novel (78,530), england (77,335), picture book (76,891), ya (73,195), drama (73,013), british (72,755), christianity (72,472), humour (71,915), owned (70,889), language (68,455), thriller (67,339), english (67,096), sci-fi (66,915), childrens (65,592), historical (65,442), adventure (64,664), writing (63,762), wishlist (61,197), autobiography (60,046), magic (58,857), christian (56,402), photography (56,227), animals (56,006), 2007 (55,017), food (54,430), american history (54,083)

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)