Zeitgeist Overview

Firehose meet mouth.

Vital Statistics

Members 586,372

Books cataloged 34,916,301

Tags added 45,447,886

Unique works 4,125,152

Total reviews 587,414

Works reviewed 264,124

Ratings 5,529,045

User-contributed covers 1,250,510

Author photos 30,628

User groups 4,629

Forum topics 52,383

Forum messages 961,472

Forum touchstones 641,212

50 largest libraries (see more)

wendybell (25,564 books), angelrose (24,536 books), meftung (17,557 books, private), credo (16,252 books, private), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), JeanLittleLibrary (14,273 books), marxones (13,614 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (13,469 books), axarca (13,381 books), kittylafong (13,258 books, private), pagerd (13,097 books), biblioarchy (13,043 books), Patentnonsense (12,355 books), bookstopshere (12,297 books), shearrob (11,812 books), antimuzak (11,771 books), h34th3r (11,444 books), y.e.deligoz (10,978 books), devenish (10,860 books), libvicki (10,753 books), gaspari (10,685 books, private), ginaruiz (10,630 books), mitchellray (10,233 books), LamSon (10,169 books), Makuleke (10,143 books), bertilak (9,911 books), eromsted (9,892 books), carminowe (9,736 books), CarlSandburgLibrary (9,681 books), tehipite (9,618 books), jalual (9,462 books), dbstgb (9,419 books), TomVeal (9,390 books), hse (9,382 books), kday_working (9,353 books), oakesspalding (9,332 books), kauders (9,225 books), Papiervisje (9,216 books), fitzwater (9,091 books), ellenandjim (8,825 books), ariadne02 (8,747 books), shauneeh (8,729 books), Rynosseros (8,649 books), hailelib (8,626 books), lonely_planet (8,614 books), chuck_ralston (8,588 books), meule (8,546 books, private), rpglibrary (8,459 books), debweiss (8,454 books), meadcl (8,436 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (see more)

0060008881 (3354362), bluetyson (30563), occult (4071), Schmerguls (3018), burnit99 (2761), wyvernfriend (2361), meadcl (2284), Budz888 (2142), antimuzak (2081), sstocks (1980), EroticHorizon (1847), herebedragons (1801), nwhyte (1378), t1bclasslibrary (1274), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1245), kitchengardenbooks (1219), WARM (1177), rajendran (1166), maaward (1160), jon1lambert (1071), gwyneira (1064), elisa.rolle (1025), fredheid (1011), sfreader.com (1000), tripleblessings (981), bintphotobooks (913), Fledgist (900), inkcognito (894), bcquinnsmom (848), ceal1959 (845), Darla (818), tuckerresearch (810), Megami (786), TadAD (782), AlexTheHunn (774), MrsLee (728), UWC_PYP (714), Elishibai (708), keylawk (704), antiquary (690), pantufla (689), Cecilturtle (684), MareMagnum (673), tjsjohanna (668), MerryMary (665), jpsnow (660), prkcs (656), ListerHillLibraryNew (654), fpagan (653)

50 top taggers

eromsted (131,460), msrau (114,198), AsYouKnow_Bob (77,101), bertilak (69,841), gentlemania (67,879), ThomasKleinert (61,612), SilentInAWay (59,756), mfd101 (56,064), kathi (55,618), alibrarian (49,442), Neuromancer (46,576), oakesspalding (45,773), lisa211 (43,299), antimuzak (43,065), markell (43,030), benwaugh (41,976), clpteensnewbooks (38,519), nicolaerricotenaglia (37,839), lquilter (37,525), purpledragon42 (37,496), MikeBriggs (37,272), wyvernfriend (35,338), TomVeal (34,763), sgfein (34,322), axarca (33,901), nmasjhur (33,869), muumi (33,847), cnrenner (33,390), SeriousGrace (32,542), princemuchao (31,951), carminowe (31,714), mcghol (30,200), Instigatrix (29,727), Papiervisje (29,575), JanWillemNoldus (28,190), vpfluke (27,258), atlaswinks (27,128), velyrhorde (26,947), BoPeep (26,814), nykolaibasket (26,787), danbrady (26,500), tarpfarmer (26,457), westher (26,119), idiosyncratic (26,001), pagerd (25,635), edwinbcn (25,440), trollsdotter (24,931), marxones (24,730), PandorasRequiem (24,565), hse (24,481)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (586,056), German (448,449), Japanese (293,604), Spanish (189,604), Italian (166,736), Russian (158,017), Greek (Ancient) (135,264), Dutch (96,223), Latin (95,353), Swedish (69,519), Portuguese (53,324), Chinese (38,517), Multiple languages (34,441), Norwegian (32,672), Danish (30,201), Hebrew (28,528), Czech (24,224), English (Middle) (23,051), Polish (21,491), Arabic (16,578), Finnish (10,414), Old English (9,531), Sanskrit (9,357), Turkish (9,104), Greek (7,288)

recent users

archstud, Gewehr, doxologia, missheidirenee, DrMeowmix, slowdance, mattea, C_L_O_U_D_M_A_N, cornelisond, williemiller, nickbotter, TomGriffin, Eisenherz, dididiesel, jhlevin, VinnyJH, Alfheira, canadianreader, PWyeth, Narilka, Shmi_Skywalker, chanmac63, maddmatt, anarchistbrow, tomcar1960, woostergrowers, Picarina, Felinea, leonardofquirm, Voetbalstatistieken, jeromep, klive, rvdreijden, Lokifluff, valerielopes, MBLeah, HEF, mokulua, nikokat, vic_, ellynnezainal, hbilgin, gubbi, sofiah, cooter92065, jbrakkee, lizgoodacre, GingerKid2, eduardoal, fallenstar808, acupracacia, faith42love, despil, wordychick, maureensk, LosLibrosSonMejores, Messorius, edwarddiggory, lhaubach, cybo, bconstine, hotran, BethelCD, j_girl76, mistcrescent3, glaukonome, LauraKelsea, cjpartyka, marie17, PaperSun, 925casual, BloodyShadowz13, cbrown07, danielleyork, sfmao, staciereads, AIM-54, cdm5156, tracykendall, Dont_Panic, esteinha, alltherightpills, Kalelsimone, mutantzero, ksummersbyu, rouleau, Mollymop, Nuffins, NathanVB, njthompson, wwwcight, tjhewitt, lylewinton, scarvell, fairydru369, kahn, hydrolith, sizzlemeat, nestor2001es, meywong

25 most reviewed books (see more)

Twilight (723 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (721 reviews), Twilight (686 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (610 reviews), The Kite Runner (520 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (467 reviews), Any Given Doomsday (452 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (418 reviews), The Road (412 reviews), The Book Thief (373 reviews), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (371 reviews), Water for Elephants (362 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (350 reviews), Angels & Demons (333 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (331 reviews), The Historian (327 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (326 reviews), New Moon (324 reviews), Breaking Dawn (324 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel (309 reviews), Life of Pi (296 reviews), The Lovely Bones (296 reviews), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (287 reviews), 1984 (282 reviews), The Golden Compass (272 reviews)

top books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (38,480), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (35,731), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (34,208), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (33,516), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (33,311), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (33,002), The Da Vinci Code (27,523), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (27,160), The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (25,560), 1984 (23,651), Pride and Prejudice (23,347), The Catcher in the Rye (22,632), To Kill a Mockingbird (21,079), The Great Gatsby (19,393), The Lord of the Rings (18,292), The Kite Runner (18,195), Jane Eyre (17,339), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (16,438), Animal Farm (15,805), Angels & Demons (15,782), Life of Pi (15,593), Brave New World (15,434), Wuthering Heights (15,413), One Hundred Years of Solitude (14,963), The Fellowship of the Ring (14,569)

top 25 books by star rating

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, The Absolute Sandman Volume Four, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, DER VOLKSPRACTITIONER - Grundausbildung im Modell von NLP, Absolute DC: The New Frontier, The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary: Volumes I and II, slipcased with reading glass, PokerTips.org - Poker Strategy - Introduction to Omaha, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, The Absolute Sandman Volume Three, Voyage of the Basset, Robert Frank: The Americans, The ESV Study Bible, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1765, The Valley of Vision: A collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, The Absolute Sandman Volume Two, The secret Magdalene : a novel, Heirloom Knitting, The Compleet Molesworth, Disney Animation : The Illusion of Life, Nutshell Library, Fashion: From the 18th to the 20th Century

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)

David Mitchell, Naomi Novik, Jean Marzollo, John Green, Susan Wittig Albert, Sharon Lee, Janny Wurts, Randy Alcorn, Elizabeth Bear, David Liss, Joe Hill, Rosina Lippi, Brandon Sanderson, Richard Price, C.E. Murphy, David Weinberger, Susie Bright, Sarah Monette, Martha Wells, Susan Johnson, Lynn Viehl, Sherryl Woods, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Erica Spindler, Sandra Gulland, Patrick Rothfuss, Marisa de los Santos, Robin D. Owens, Mindy L. Klasky, Bryan Lee O'Malley — see the full list.

top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J.K. Rowling (248,917), Stephen King (171,630), Terry Pratchett (152,313), J. R. R. Tolkien (123,154), Neil Gaiman (116,158), C. S. Lewis (112,283), William Shakespeare (94,700), Nora Roberts (80,017), Jane Austen (75,042), Isaac Asimov (73,741), Agatha Christie (70,013), Anne McCaffrey (68,363), Orson Scott Card (62,527), Charles Dickens (62,294), Anne Rice (60,404), Douglas Adams (60,021), Kurt Vonnegut (59,814), John Grisham (58,612), Robert A. Heinlein (57,709), Dan Brown (57,066), Mercedes Lackey (54,745), George Orwell (51,914), James Patterson (50,738), John Steinbeck (47,658), Janet Evanovich (46,998), Piers Anthony (46,771), Laurell K. Hamilton (45,986), Margaret Atwood (45,919), Dean Koontz (43,823), Roald Dahl (43,370), Michael Crichton (42,866), Robert Jordan (42,740), Philip Pullman (41,799), Ernest Hemingway (41,685), Fyodor Dostoevsky (40,630), Gabriel García Márquez (40,309), David Eddings (40,261), Mark Twain (39,803), Lemony Snicket (39,511), Stephenie Meyer (38,979), Ray Bradbury (38,220), Ursula K. Le Guin (37,125), Frank Herbert (36,917), Tom Clancy (36,624), Neal Stephenson (36,199), Philip K. Dick (36,198), J. D. Salinger (36,081), Dr. Seuss (35,812), Bill Bryson (35,754), Haruki Murakami (35,382), Marion Zimmer Bradley (35,052), L.M. Montgomery (34,188), Chuck Palahniuk (34,048), John Irving (33,939), Arthur C. Clarke (33,659), Madeleine L'Engle (33,033), F. Scott Fitzgerald (32,297), Umberto Eco (32,179), Patricia Cornwell (31,999), William Gibson (31,906), Anonymous (31,578), Tamora Pierce (31,499), Various (30,407), David Sedaris (30,119), Virginia Woolf (29,847), Larry Niven (29,697), Jodi Picoult (28,305), Vladimir Nabokov (28,110), George R. R. Martin (27,432), Margaret Weis (27,361), Homer (27,288), Albert Camus (27,271), James Joyce (26,887), Leo Tolstoy (26,873), Ian McEwan (26,724)

top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (2,396,595), fantasy (803,900), history (666,554), non-fiction (471,319), mystery (439,011), science fiction (430,720), read (427,882), nonfiction (378,530), poetry (300,118), unread (299,110), biography (294,780), reference (257,780), novel (256,073), own (225,479), philosophy (219,916), literature (217,314), (210,575), romance (204,920), art (202,487), religion (193,203), short stories (188,472), humor (185,372), sf (184,260), science (176,432), tbr (175,802), historical fiction (153,829), children's (145,272), series (139,450), travel (134,913), manga (134,474), horror (133,635), comics (122,573), classic (121,284), children (119,875), music (117,984), politics (112,250), paperback (111,511), anthology (107,327), young adult (105,713), classics (103,118), memoir (101,570), 20th century (97,142), theology (96,641), psychology (91,769), graphic novel (88,294), crime (88,220), cookbook (87,924), american (87,497), cooking (86,654), essays (86,359), england (85,561), picture book (84,386), ya (81,796), drama (79,562), british (79,120), christianity (77,586), humour (77,271), thriller (76,869), language (74,707), english (73,477), sci-fi (72,377), historical (72,150), owned (72,127), adventure (72,095), childrens (70,278), wishlist (68,439), writing (68,413), autobiography (65,148), magic (64,932), 2008 (64,079), animals (63,924), christian (62,504), photography (60,954), hardcover (59,567), american history (59,111)

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)