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Zeitgeist Overview

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Vital Statistics

Members 975,631

Books cataloged 46,730,222

Tags added 58,854,335

Unique works 5,009,652

Pregledi 923,976

Works reviewed 358,001

Ratings 7,559,098

User-contributed covers 1,767,472

Author photos 40,632

Skupine 6,125

Talk topics 76,897

Talk messages 1,650,333

Talk touchstones 1,095,684

Free books given out

Early Reviewer books given out 43,548

Member Giveaway books given out 10,221

Total free books given out 53,769

50 largest libraries (see more)

snagadeal (41,835 books), angelrose (26,924 books), wendybell (26,546 books), dimatulka (18,570 books, private), meftung (18,274 books, private), credo (16,252 books, private), HindeHouse (15,037 books), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), JeanLittleLibrary (14,963 books), y.e.deligoz (14,606 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (14,563 books), Jessaba (14,540 books), marxones (14,517 books), mhagenberg (14,405 books), shearrob (13,497 books), pagerd (13,212 books), kittylafong (13,190 books, private), biblioarchy (13,053 books), bookstopshere (12,743 books), fitzwater (12,533 books), antimuzak (12,513 books), Patentnonsense (12,440 books), shop20q (11,713 books), tglovell (11,591 books), h34th3r (11,547 books), hankph (11,484 books), trollsdotter (11,416 books), devenish (11,364 books), kday_working (11,324 books), gaspari (11,284 books, private), LamSon (11,279 books), bertilak (10,941 books), mitchellray (10,899 books), TomVeal (10,753 books), libvicki (10,753 books), eromsted (10,746 books), axarca (10,743 books), hse (10,737 books), IowaBibliotheque (10,659 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), CarlSandburgLibrary (10,554 books), charzie (10,545 books), Papiervisje (10,523 books), esther_a (10,402 books), SRC (10,231 books), spicere (10,208 books, private), oakesspalding (10,198 books), Makuleke (10,100 books), jalual (9,973 books), zenosbooks (9,960 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (see more)

bluetyson (35457), meadcl (8641), ianchan (6119), occult (4420), Schmerguls (3763), GeniusJen (3385), burnit99 (2857), wyvernfriend (2776), kitchengardenbooks (2495), Totarobookroom (2360), jon1lambert (2352), antimuzak (2161), Budz888 (2140), sstocks (2133), nwhyte (1830), herebedragons (1811), WARM (1536), maaward (1454), elisa.rolle (1420), t1bclasslibrary (1302), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1244), rajendran (1208), gwyneira (1147), bintphotobooks (1084), cowpeace (1072), fredheid (1011), sfreader.com (999), bcquinnsmom (985), MrsLee (977), tripleblessings (963), jjmachshev (952), gene-hunter (940), TadAD (935), tjsjohanna (933), Fledgist (927), ForrestFamily (898), inkcognito (894), Elishibai (893), tuckerresearch (871), prkcs (865), GlenRalph (856), ceal1959 (837), Darla (818), MerryMary (816), antiquary (813), AlexTheHunn (802), sarahthelibrarian (788), Cecilturtle (782), hgcslibrary (765)

50 top taggers

eromsted (146,411), msrau (114,448), ThomasKleinert (103,065), AsYouKnow_Bob (90,312), gentlemania (80,428), bertilak (78,042), SilentInAWay (73,805), mfd101 (70,227), kathi (61,488), purpledragon42 (58,570), cnrenner (56,735), oakesspalding (56,552), clpteensnewbooks (55,622), alibrarian (49,447), Neuromancer (47,647), benwaugh (46,960), psybre (46,261), markell (45,824), antimuzak (45,368), esther_a (45,135), lisa211 (44,861), westher (43,133), Saraswati_Library (42,530), snagadeal (41,884), wyvernfriend (41,112), MikeBriggs (40,625), juglicerr (39,951), nicolaerricotenaglia (38,471), EnriqueFreeque (38,149), muumi (37,956), Papiervisje (37,810), JanWillemNoldus (37,749), Nedrin (37,417), DWWilkin (37,060), SeriousGrace (35,980), lquilter (35,930), nmasjhur (35,923), mcghol (35,342), TomVeal (35,311), sgfein (35,223), malinablue (34,549), diana.gabaldon (34,106), carminowe (31,836), atlaswinks (31,617), vpfluke (31,482), trollsdotter (31,441), PhileasHannay (31,019), JerryMonaco (30,823), idiosyncratic (30,801), marnocat (30,551)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (752,828), German (577,529), Japanese (370,566), Spanish (236,169), Italian (214,740), Russian (200,323), Greek (Ancient) (167,906), Dutch (129,335), Latin (119,871), Swedish (103,216), Portuguese (70,546), Chinese (47,372), Norwegian (43,674), Multiple languages (41,297), Danish (36,514), Hebrew (35,798), Czech (28,671), Polish (27,722), English (Middle) (27,142), Arabic (20,935), Finnish (13,963), Turkish (11,986), Sanskrit (10,491), Greek (9,324), Persian (8,778)

recent users

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25 most reviewed books (see more)

Somrak (1,337 reviews), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (851 reviews), Da Vincijeva šifra (749 reviews), The Time Traveler's Wife (684 reviews), The Kite Runner (650 reviews), The Road (649 reviews), The Book Thief (631 reviews), New Moon (623 reviews), Breaking Dawn (619 reviews), Any Given Doomsday (584 reviews), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (544 reviews), Harry Potter Kamen modrosti / Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (518 reviews), SPAM (495 reviews), Eclipse (490 reviews), Water for Elephants (479 reviews), Pride and Prejudice (460 reviews), Angeli in demoni (459 reviews), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (444 reviews), A Thousand Splendid Suns (440 reviews), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (415 reviews), The Lovely Bones (413 reviews), The Thirteenth Tale (413 reviews), The Historian (408 reviews), The Graveyard Book (407 reviews), The Hunger Games (400 reviews)

top books (see more)

Harry Potter Kamen modrosti / Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (48,924), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (45,106), Harry Potter V. del - Feniksov red (43,009), Harry Potter II. del - Dvorana skrivnosti (42,519), Harry Potter Jetnik iz Azkabana (42,400), Harry Potter IV. del - Ognjeni kelih (41,858), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (37,211), Da Vincijeva šifra (34,723), Hobit ali Tja in spet nazaj (32,074), Nineteen Eighty-Four (30,517), Pride and Prejudice (30,245), Varuh v rži (28,967), To Kill A Mockingbird (27,092), Somrak (25,249), Veliki Gatsby (24,889), The Kite Runner (24,009), Gospodar prstanov (23,084), Sirota iz Lowooda (21,611), Angeli in demoni (21,139), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (20,808), Animal Farm (20,623), Krasni novi svet (19,749), Life of Pi (19,748), New Moon (19,498), The Time Traveler's Wife (19,465)

top 25 books by star rating

No Deposit Casino Bonus, Luthiel's Song: The War of Mists, A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation, Osama American in Bondage, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, Luthiel's Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale, SPAM, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete BBC Radio Series, The New Frontier (Absolute Edition), The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, Mr. Lincoln's Way, 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, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Complete Far Side 1980-1994, The Absolute Sandman Volume Four, A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, The Lord of the Rings (audio-dramatization), To Kill a Mockingbird, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, The Secret Magdalene: A Novel, Disney Animation : The Illusion of Life

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, Alan Furst, Randy Alcorn, Janny Wurts, Susan Wiggs, Melissa Marr, Elizabeth Bear, Chitra Divakaruni, David Liss, Joe Hill, Sabrina Jeffries, Sara Donati, Richard Price, C.E. Murphy, Angela Elwell Hunt, Cleo Coyle, Gabrielle Zevin — see the full list.

top 75 authors (author cloud)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (322,012), Stephen King (220,526), Terry Pratchett (191,115), J. R. R. Tolkien (153,814), Neil Gaiman (147,731), C. S. Lewis (140,819), William Shakespeare (120,326), Nora Roberts (104,140), Jane Austen (99,923), Agatha Christie (96,238), Isaac Asimov (93,309), Anne McCaffrey (83,713), Stephenie Meyer (82,958), Charles Dickens (81,939), John Grisham (78,243), Orson Scott Card (77,885), Dan Brown (76,986), Anne Rice (75,815), Kurt Vonnegut (75,448), Douglas Adams (74,075), James Patterson (72,316), Robert A. Heinlein (70,675), Mercedes Lackey (67,476), George Orwell (66,881), Dean Koontz (64,883), Janet Evanovich (63,840), John Steinbeck (62,349), Laurell K. Hamilton (60,603), Margaret Atwood (58,613), Piers Anthony (57,778), Roald Dahl (57,133), Michael Crichton (55,155), Robert Jordan (54,489), Ernest Hemingway (53,549), Philip Pullman (53,015), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (52,294), Mark Twain (51,883), Lemony Snicket (50,842), Gabriel García Márquez (50,740), Dr. Seuss (50,459), David Eddings (49,951), Ray Bradbury (48,789), Tom Clancy (46,892), Haruki Murakami (46,402), Ursula K. Le Guin (46,338), Anonymous (46,272), Philip K. Dick (45,893), Frank Herbert (45,825), Bill Bryson (45,811), J. D. Salinger (45,333), Neal Stephenson (44,893), Patricia Cornwell (42,965), John Irving (42,894), Arthur C. Clarke (42,622), Marion Zimmer Bradley (42,442), Chuck Palahniuk (42,294), Lucy Maud Montgomery (42,192), F. Scott Fitzgerald (41,819), Tamora Pierce (41,657), Jodi Picoult (41,309), Madeleine L'Engle (40,914), Umberto Eco (40,344), Charlaine Harris (39,110), William Gibson (38,993), David Sedaris (37,762), Virginia Woolf (37,308), Larry Niven (36,770), Khaled Hosseini (35,846), Alexander McCall Smith (35,473), Margaret Weis (35,271), Vladimir Nabokov (35,118), Ian McEwan (34,936), George R. R. Martin (34,875), Leo Tolstoy (34,799), Albert Camus (34,679)

top 75 tags (tag cloud)

fiction (2,971,196), fantasy (996,547), history (843,635), non-fiction (603,164), mystery (562,478), science fiction (522,002), read (504,817), nonfiction (467,472), biography (374,927), poetry (369,925), novel (326,780), unread (318,489), reference (310,967), romance (283,705), literature (270,000), philosophy (266,086), art (252,775), (247,731), own (246,625), religion (238,495), humor (228,871), short stories (227,825), science (227,518), sf (219,462), historical fiction (206,791), tbr (202,454), children's (178,166), series (177,057), manga (167,947), travel (167,702), horror (167,394), children (156,892), comics (152,276), classic (147,648), music (146,963), young adult (137,876), politics (136,013), paperback (135,857), 20th century (134,418), anthology (130,725), memoir (129,683), classics (129,262), picture book (116,613), crime (116,047), theology (115,878), psychology (113,267), ya (111,753), england (111,538), graphic novel (111,083), american (110,933), cookbook (107,575), essays (106,343), cooking (105,542), thriller (104,101), adventure (99,638), christianity (99,033), drama (98,956), british (97,039), humour (95,110), historical (93,503), sci-fi (91,939), animals (89,545), english (89,246), wishlist (88,739), language (88,430), magic (84,442), writing (82,812), autobiography (81,952), childrens (80,265), christian (79,965), photography (78,057), ebook (77,008), owned (76,954), hardcover (76,431), american history (75,727)

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)