Zeitgeist Overview

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Vital Statistics

Members 749,477

Books cataloged 41,033,172

Tags added 52,518,524

Unique works 4,665,098

Total reviews 737,928

Works reviewed 309,379

Ratings 6,541,225

User-contributed covers 1,504,637

Author photos 35,567

User groups 5,338

Forum topics 65,758

Forum messages 1,346,983

Forum touchstones 875,019

50 largest libraries (see more)

angelrose (30,359 books), discountbooksmusicmo (27,199 books), wendybell (26,546 books), dimatulka (18,569 books, private), meftung (18,272 books, private), credo (16,252 books, private), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), JeanLittleLibrary (14,959 books), y.e.deligoz (14,606 books), marxones (14,448 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (14,102 books), kittylafong (13,336 books, private), pagerd (13,142 books), biblioarchy (13,053 books), bookstopshere (12,585 books), shearrob (12,423 books), Patentnonsense (12,410 books), antimuzak (12,216 books), axarca (11,771 books), h34th3r (11,517 books), Jessaba (11,077 books), devenish (11,061 books), gaspari (10,947 books, private), LamSon (10,803 books), libvicki (10,753 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), CarlSandburgLibrary (10,552 books), mitchellray (10,515 books), bertilak (10,502 books), eromsted (10,392 books), hse (10,248 books), fitzwater (10,231 books), SRC (10,200 books), kday_working (10,178 books), TomVeal (10,161 books), Makuleke (10,143 books), shop20q (10,126 books), zenosbooks (9,960 books), dbstgb (9,820 books), carminowe (9,770 books), Papiervisje (9,764 books), tehipite (9,618 books), jalual (9,590 books), oakesspalding (9,572 books), ficekrichard47 (9,405 books), kauders (9,351 books), Rynosseros (9,350 books), benwaugh (9,032 books), ellenandjim (8,949 books), chuck_ralston (8,899 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (see more)

0060008881 (3354362), bluetyson (33436), meadcl (6771), ianchan (6120), occult (4426), Schmerguls (3552), EroticHorizon (3103), burnit99 (2785), wyvernfriend (2543), Budz888 (2142), antimuzak (2128), sstocks (2081), kitchengardenbooks (2071), jon1lambert (1899), herebedragons (1805), nwhyte (1596), WARM (1341), t1bclasslibrary (1291), maaward (1279), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1245), elisa.rolle (1245), rajendran (1219), gwyneira (1174), fredheid (1011), bintphotobooks (1007), sfreader.com (1000), tripleblessings (991), MrsLee (958), bcquinnsmom (940), Fledgist (900), jjmachshev (896), tuckerresearch (895), inkcognito (894), TadAD (872), ceal1959 (845), Darla (818), Megami (806), tjsjohanna (797), Elishibai (790), AlexTheHunn (779), ListerHillLibraryNew (771), MerryMary (745), prkcs (737), sarahthelibrarian (737), antiquary (734), Cecilturtle (730), keylawk (724), UWC_PYP (714), nicsreads (705)

50 top taggers

angelrose (142,076), eromsted (141,852), msrau (114,418), AsYouKnow_Bob (86,079), ThomasKleinert (85,640), bertilak (74,132), gentlemania (72,209), SilentInAWay (68,608), mfd101 (67,593), kathi (61,464), purpledragon42 (51,459), oakesspalding (51,418), alibrarian (49,447), Neuromancer (47,336), clpteensnewbooks (47,142), benwaugh (45,073), antimuzak (44,355), markell (44,060), lisa211 (43,694), cnrenner (42,475), MikeBriggs (40,145), westher (39,899), nicolaerricotenaglia (38,453), esther_a (37,832), wyvernfriend (37,396), DWWilkin (36,764), TomVeal (36,570), muumi (35,927), nmasjhur (34,975), sgfein (34,885), Saraswati_Library (34,587), SeriousGrace (34,278), psybre (33,678), Papiervisje (33,573), JanWillemNoldus (33,395), mcghol (33,207), carminowe (31,807), lquilter (31,719), princemuchao (31,693), diana.gabaldon (31,676), atlaswinks (31,579), malinablue (31,271), GEOCO (30,360), Instigatrix (30,060), vpfluke (29,255), EnriqueFreeque (29,149), tarpfarmer (28,734), idiosyncratic (28,696), edwinbcn (28,664), danbrady (28,200)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (666,344), German (513,167), Japanese (333,629), Spanish (210,689), Italian (191,440), Russian (178,289), Greek (Ancient) (151,407), Dutch (112,026), Latin (107,772), Swedish (85,300), Portuguese (62,349), Chinese (42,619), Norwegian (38,771), Multiple languages (38,404), Danish (32,490), Hebrew (32,182), Czech (26,243), Polish (24,801), English (Middle) (24,527), Arabic (18,816), Finnish (11,975), Old English (11,104), Sanskrit (10,581), Turkish (10,491), Greek (8,353)

recent users

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25 most reviewed books (see more)

Twilight (1084 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (780 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (683 reviews), The Kite Runner (596 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (539 reviews), The Road (523 reviews), The Book Thief (503 reviews), Breaking Dawn (497 reviews), New Moon (486 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (482 reviews), Any Given Doomsday (480 reviews), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (446 reviews), Water for Elephants (421 reviews), Angels & Demons (407 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (401 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (400 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (396 reviews), Eclipse (392 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale (358 reviews), The Historian (357 reviews), Life of Pi (350 reviews), The Lovely Bones (338 reviews), Nineteen Eighty-Four (322 reviews), The Catcher in the Rye (320 reviews), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (319 reviews)

top books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (44,289), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (40,782), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (39,042), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (38,503), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (38,283), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (37,853), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (32,641), The Da Vinci Code (31,366), The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (28,929), Nineteen Eighty-Four (27,308), Pride and Prejudice (26,998), The Catcher in the Rye (26,036), To Kill a Mockingbird (24,397), The Great Gatsby (22,303), The Kite Runner (21,527), The Lord of the Rings (20,813), Twilight (20,269), Jane Eyre (19,280), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (18,748), Angels & Demons (18,646), Animal Farm (18,303), Life of Pi (17,795), Brave New World (17,588), Wuthering Heights (17,110), One Hundred Years of Solitude (16,989)

top 25 books by star rating

Spam, 007 Spam, Licensed to Annoy, A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation, SPAM, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, SPAM, The Lord of the Rings (audio-dramatization), The New Frontier (Absolute Edition), DER VOLKSPRACTITIONER - Grundausbildung im Modell von NLP, The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, Voyage of the Basset, Overcoming Sin and Temptation, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Emma/Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility/Minor Works, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, The Absolute Sandman Volume Four, The Secret Magdalene: A Novel, Nutshell Library, The Absolute Sandman Volume Three, The Pound Era, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories

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, Katie MacAlister, Naomi Novik, Lisa See, John Green, Jean Marzollo, Jo Beverley, Susan Wittig Albert, Adriana Trigiani, Sharon Lee, Janny Wurts, Randy Alcorn, Elizabeth Bear, Susan Wiggs, Brandon Sanderson, Chitra Divakaruni, David Liss, Joe Hill, Rosina Lippi, Richard Price, Angela Elwell Hunt, C.E. Murphy, Arthur Phillips, Sarah Monette, Sarah Addison Allen, Susan Johnson, Susie Bright, David Weinberger, Martha Wells, Patrick Rothfuss — see the full list.

top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (288,011), Stephen King (197,726), Terry Pratchett (171,610), J. R. R. Tolkien (138,553), Neil Gaiman (132,932), C. S. Lewis (127,155), William Shakespeare (108,053), Nora Roberts (92,744), Jane Austen (87,507), Isaac Asimov (83,633), Agatha Christie (81,595), Anne McCaffrey (76,390), Charles Dickens (72,364), Orson Scott Card (70,182), John Grisham (69,272), Anne Rice (68,954), Kurt Vonnegut (67,993), Douglas Adams (66,912), Dan Brown (65,813), Robert A. Heinlein (64,706), Stephenie Meyer (63,575), Mercedes Lackey (61,588), James Patterson (61,537), George Orwell (59,563), Dean Koontz (56,842), Janet Evanovich (55,612), John Steinbeck (55,153), Laurell K. Hamilton (53,757), Piers Anthony (52,955), Margaret Atwood (52,195), Roald Dahl (50,793), Michael Crichton (49,134), Robert Jordan (48,425), Ernest Hemingway (47,822), Philip Pullman (47,530), Fyodor Dostoevsky (46,839), Mark Twain (45,815), Gabriel García Márquez (45,724), Lemony Snicket (45,388), David Eddings (44,998), Ray Bradbury (43,533), Dr. Seuss (42,509), Tom Clancy (42,154), Ursula K. Le Guin (42,094), Frank Herbert (41,397), Philip K. Dick (41,071), Bill Bryson (40,986), Neal Stephenson (40,938), J.D. Salinger (40,908), Haruki Murakami (40,844), Chuck Palahniuk (39,037), Marion Zimmer Bradley (38,771), John Irving (38,466), Anonymous (38,244), Arthur C. Clarke (38,123), Lucy Maud Montgomery (38,078), Patricia Cornwell (37,599), F. Scott Fitzgerald (37,267), Madeleine L'Engle (37,162), Tamora Pierce (37,159), Umberto Eco (36,303), William Gibson (35,428), Jodi Picoult (35,280), David Sedaris (34,132), Virginia Woolf (33,793), Larry Niven (33,402), Vladimir Nabokov (31,666), Khaled Hosseini (31,440), Margaret Weis (31,432), Ian McEwan (31,265), George R. R. Martin (31,174), Homer (31,148), Leo Tolstoy (31,015), Albert Camus (31,005), Alexander McCall Smith (30,943)

top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (2,695,675), fantasy (905,349), history (758,368), non-fiction (536,284), mystery (505,376), read (483,593), science fiction (476,567), nonfiction (424,887), poetry (337,330), biography (336,907), unread (312,539), novel (293,044), reference (286,609), own (252,531), (250,312), romance (246,922), literature (244,753), philosophy (244,249), art (228,035), religion (217,804), short stories (209,441), humor (207,349), sf (205,037), tbr (202,983), science (201,927), historical fiction (181,676), children's (162,795), series (159,130), travel (152,040), horror (151,169), manga (150,157), children (137,791), comics (136,400), classic (135,527), music (132,880), politics (123,969), young adult (123,731), paperback (122,902), anthology (118,822), classics (117,758), memoir (116,544), 20th century (114,377), theology (107,553), crime (103,066), psychology (103,028), picture book (102,308), graphic novel (100,834), american (98,817), england (98,798), cooking (97,057), cookbook (96,893), ya (96,848), essays (96,402), thriller (91,141), drama (90,048), christianity (88,614), british (88,049), humour (87,315), adventure (85,814), historical (82,837), english (82,357), sci-fi (81,728), language (81,337), wishlist (81,031), owned (77,516), childrens (76,364), writing (76,052), animals (75,137), magic (74,779), autobiography (73,894), christian (72,705), 2008 (71,491), hardcover (69,322), photography (69,097), ebook (67,962)

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)