Zeitgeist Overview

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Vital Statistics

Members 931,690

Books cataloged 45,842,505

Tags added 57,823,313

Unique works 4,948,142

Reviews 896,554

Works reviewed 349,072

Ratings 7,398,043

User-contributed covers 1,723,577

Author photos 39,634

Groups 5,960

Talk topics 74,597

Talk messages 1,594,572

Talk touchstones 1,056,515

Free books given out

Early Reviewer books given out 39,273

Member Giveaway books given out 9,321

Total free books given out 48,594

50 largest libraries (see more)

snagadeal (38,096 books), wendybell (26,546 books), angelrose (25,402 books), dimatulka (18,570 books, private), meftung (18,274 books, private), credo (16,252 books, private), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), JeanLittleLibrary (14,764 books), y.e.deligoz (14,606 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (14,543 books), marxones (14,516 books), HindeHouse (14,434 books), mhagenberg (14,405 books), Jessaba (14,367 books), pagerd (13,188 books), kittylafong (13,172 books, private), biblioarchy (13,053 books), shearrob (13,000 books), bookstopshere (12,725 books), antimuzak (12,496 books), Patentnonsense (12,440 books), fitzwater (12,413 books), h34th3r (11,541 books), shop20q (11,466 books), tglovell (11,397 books), hankph (11,370 books), devenish (11,328 books), trollsdotter (11,301 books), gaspari (11,213 books, private), LamSon (11,209 books), bertilak (10,901 books), mitchellray (10,878 books), kday_working (10,877 books), libvicki (10,753 books), axarca (10,743 books), TomVeal (10,700 books), eromsted (10,686 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), hse (10,580 books), CarlSandburgLibrary (10,554 books), Papiervisje (10,456 books), charzie (10,398 books), IowaBibliotheque (10,281 books), SRC (10,231 books), esther_a (10,180 books), oakesspalding (10,154 books), Makuleke (10,100 books), jalual (9,966 books), zenosbooks (9,960 books), dbstgb (9,906 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (see more)

bluetyson (34987), meadcl (8070), ianchan (6119), occult (4420), Schmerguls (3743), GeniusJen (3339), burnit99 (2847), wyvernfriend (2742), kitchengardenbooks (2459), Totarobookroom (2360), jon1lambert (2245), antimuzak (2161), Budz888 (2140), sstocks (2133), herebedragons (1811), nwhyte (1804), WARM (1512), maaward (1436), elisa.rolle (1382), t1bclasslibrary (1299), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1244), rajendran (1208), gwyneira (1146), bintphotobooks (1067), fredheid (1011), sfreader.com (999), tripleblessings (988), bcquinnsmom (981), MrsLee (970), cowpeace (961), jjmachshev (952), TadAD (933), tjsjohanna (917), Fledgist (911), inkcognito (894), Elishibai (884), ForrestFamily (883), tuckerresearch (868), GlenRalph (856), prkcs (841), ceal1959 (837), Darla (818), MerryMary (805), AlexTheHunn (802), antiquary (801), sarahthelibrarian (781), Cecilturtle (775), nicsreads (746), keylawk (726)

50 top taggers

eromsted (145,638), msrau (114,448), ThomasKleinert (97,590), AsYouKnow_Bob (90,171), gentlemania (78,841), bertilak (77,530), SilentInAWay (72,402), mfd101 (69,621), kathi (61,488), oakesspalding (56,293), purpledragon42 (56,103), cnrenner (55,702), clpteensnewbooks (54,194), alibrarian (49,447), Neuromancer (47,436), benwaugh (46,753), markell (45,431), antimuzak (45,294), esther_a (44,259), lisa211 (44,094), psybre (43,934), westher (42,966), wyvernfriend (40,827), MikeBriggs (40,574), juglicerr (40,238), Saraswati_Library (39,895), nicolaerricotenaglia (38,471), snagadeal (38,145), muumi (37,715), Papiervisje (37,622), DWWilkin (37,052), JanWillemNoldus (36,761), nmasjhur (35,913), SeriousGrace (35,814), lquilter (35,721), EnriqueFreeque (35,605), Nedrin (35,492), TomVeal (35,260), mcghol (35,221), sgfein (35,051), diana.gabaldon (34,106), malinablue (33,965), carminowe (31,836), atlaswinks (31,617), vpfluke (31,231), trollsdotter (31,056), PhileasHannay (30,818), JerryMonaco (30,801), idiosyncratic (30,590), Instigatrix (30,059)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (739,042), German (567,326), Japanese (364,754), Spanish (232,101), Italian (211,194), Russian (196,810), Greek (Ancient) (165,010), Dutch (126,827), Latin (118,196), Swedish (100,540), Portuguese (69,118), Chinese (46,614), Norwegian (43,631), Multiple languages (41,856), Danish (36,001), Hebrew (35,058), Czech (28,209), Polish (27,199), English (Middle) (26,811), Arabic (20,575), Finnish (13,681), Turkish (11,732), Sanskrit (10,447), Greek (9,110), Persian (8,657)

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25 most reviewed books (see more)

Twilight (1,297 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (846 reviews), The Da Vinci Code (743 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (666 reviews), The Kite Runner (643 reviews), The Road (628 reviews), The Book Thief (615 reviews), Breaking Dawn (605 reviews), New Moon (598 reviews), Any Given Doomsday (573 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (539 reviews), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (514 reviews), Water for Elephants (474 reviews), Eclipse (472 reviews), Angels & Demons (455 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (449 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (443 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (440 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale (407 reviews), The Historian (400 reviews), The Lovely Bones (400 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (395 reviews), Life of Pi (392 reviews), The Graveyard Book (389 reviews), The Hunger Games (372 reviews)

top books (see more)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (48,126), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (44,484), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (42,404), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (41,917), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (41,751), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (41,232), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (36,627), The Da Vinci Code (34,237), The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (31,574), Nineteen Eighty-Four (29,959), Pride and Prejudice (29,689), The Catcher in the Rye (28,425), To Kill A Mockingbird (26,812), Twilight (24,480), The Great Gatsby (24,473), The Kite Runner (23,604), The Lord of the Rings (22,683), Jane Eyre (21,238), Angels & Demons (20,773), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (20,486), Animal Farm (20,247), Life of Pi (19,432), Brave New World (19,376), The Time Traveler's Wife (19,030), New Moon (18,817)

top 25 books by star rating

spam, Luthiel's Song: The War of Mists, A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, Osama American in Bondage, Luthiel's Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale, spam, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete BBC Radio Series, Mr. Lincoln's Way, The New Frontier (Absolute Edition), DER VOLKSPRACTITIONER - Grundausbildung im Modell von NLP, The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, The Brothers Karamazov: The Constance Garnett Translation Revised by Ralph E. Matlaw : Backgrounds and Sources, Essays i, The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Emma/Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility/Minor Works, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, The Absolute Sandman Volume Four, The Lord of the Rings (audio-dramatization), The Last Unicorn (Deluxe Edition), The Red Tree, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, The Secret Magdalene: A Novel, Voyage of the Basset

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)

Diana Gabaldon, David Mitchell, Naomi Novik, Katie MacAlister, Lisa See, John Green, Jean Marzollo, Sharon Kay Penman, Jo Beverley, Susan Wittig Albert, Matthew Pearl, Adriana Trigiani, Sharon Lee, Brandon Sanderson, Randy Alcorn, Alan Furst, Janny Wurts, Susan Wiggs, Elizabeth Bear, Chitra Divakaruni, Joe Hill, David Liss, Sara Donati, Richard Price, C.E. Murphy, Angela Elwell Hunt, Cleo Coyle, Gabrielle Zevin, Margie Palatini, Arthur Phillips — see the full list.

top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (317,000), Stephen King (217,148), Terry Pratchett (188,170), J. R. R. Tolkien (151,409), Neil Gaiman (145,440), C. S. Lewis (138,850), William Shakespeare (118,427), Nora Roberts (103,182), Jane Austen (97,995), Agatha Christie (92,846), Isaac Asimov (91,823), Anne McCaffrey (82,698), Charles Dickens (80,278), Stephenie Meyer (80,014), John Grisham (76,840), Orson Scott Card (76,519), Dan Brown (75,263), Anne Rice (74,846), Kurt Vonnegut (74,146), Douglas Adams (72,903), James Patterson (70,576), Robert A. Heinlein (69,563), Mercedes Lackey (66,436), George Orwell (65,668), Dean Koontz (63,957), Janet Evanovich (62,745), John Steinbeck (61,229), Laurell K. Hamilton (59,391), Margaret Atwood (57,538), Piers Anthony (56,975), Roald Dahl (56,118), Michael Crichton (54,067), Robert Jordan (53,339), Ernest Hemingway (52,576), Philip Pullman (52,128), Fiódor Dostoiévski (51,320), Mark Twain (50,893), Lemony Snicket (50,187), Gabriel García Márquez (49,957), Dr. Seuss (49,463), David Eddings (49,144), Ray Bradbury (48,048), Tom Clancy (46,140), Ursula K. Le Guin (45,763), Haruki Murakami (45,480), Philip K. Dick (45,175), Frank Herbert (45,101), Bill Bryson (45,011), Anonymous (44,734), J.D. Salinger (44,564), Neal Stephenson (44,222), John Irving (42,177), Patricia Cornwell (42,172), Marion Zimmer Bradley (42,052), Arthur C. Clarke (41,952), Lucy Maud Montgomery (41,591), Chuck Palahniuk (41,511), F. Scott Fitzgerald (41,052), Tamora Pierce (40,866), Jodi Picoult (40,450), Madeleine L'Engle (40,347), Umberto Eco (39,710), William Gibson (38,422), Charlaine Harris (37,578), David Sedaris (37,175), Virginia Woolf (36,734), Larry Niven (36,068), Khaled Hosseini (35,200), Alexander McCall Smith (34,723), Margaret Weis (34,569), Vladimir Nabokov (34,473), Ian McEwan (34,331), George R. R. Martin (34,316), Leo Tolstoy (34,164), Albert Camus (34,110)

top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (2,927,546), fantasy (984,693), history (828,707), non-fiction (590,794), mystery (554,886), science fiction (515,822), read (501,403), nonfiction (463,009), biography (368,180), poetry (363,307), novel (321,638), unread (316,874), reference (307,406), romance (278,737), literature (265,664), philosophy (261,820), art (249,258), (248,699), own (247,289), religion (235,452), humor (225,607), short stories (224,452), science (223,922), sf (217,027), historical fiction (203,220), tbr (202,447), children's (175,994), series (174,171), manga (165,590), horror (165,514), travel (165,006), children (153,668), comics (149,509), classic (145,575), music (144,968), young adult (135,803), politics (133,972), paperback (133,752), 20th century (131,417), anthology (129,023), classics (127,531), memoir (127,127), theology (114,825), picture book (114,543), crime (113,771), psychology (111,514), england (110,699), american (109,384), ya (109,313), graphic novel (109,193), cookbook (106,389), essays (104,569), cooking (103,783), thriller (102,064), adventure (97,637), christianity (97,431), drama (97,180), british (95,824), humour (93,865), historical (92,231), sci-fi (90,451), english (87,926), animals (87,679), language (87,415), wishlist (85,035), magic (82,986), writing (81,980), autobiography (80,615), childrens (79,619), christian (78,748), owned (76,800), photography (76,643), hardcover (75,178), ebook (74,898), american history (74,544)

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)