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Zeitgeist Overview

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Vital Statistics

Sodales 912,020

Books cataloged 45,381,719

Tags added 57,300,470

Unique works 4,921,547

Recensiones 880,054

Works reviewed 344,721

Aestimationes 7,319,013

User-contributed covers 1,701,570

Author photos 39,241

Societates 5,887

Talk topics 73,637

Talk messages 1,567,217

Talk touchstones 1,039,293

Free books given out

Early Reviewer books given out 39,273

Member Giveaway books given out 8,236

Total free books given out 47,509

50 largest libraries (plura videre)

snagadeal (37,014 books), wendybell (26,546 books), angelrose (25,031 books), dimatulka (18,570 books, private), meftung (18,274 books, private), credo (16,252 books, private), CovenantNetwork (14,980 books), JeanLittleLibrary (14,691 books), y.e.deligoz (14,606 books), marxones (14,516 books), AsYouKnow_Bob (14,506 books), mhagenberg (14,403 books), Jessaba (14,320 books), pagerd (13,187 books), kittylafong (13,150 books, private), biblioarchy (13,053 books), shearrob (12,982 books), bookstopshere (12,705 books), antimuzak (12,473 books), Patentnonsense (12,427 books), fitzwater (12,337 books), h34th3r (11,536 books), hankph (11,356 books), HindeHouse (11,335 books), trollsdotter (11,321 books), shop20q (11,311 books), devenish (11,299 books), tglovell (11,283 books), gaspari (11,194 books, private), LamSon (11,175 books), mitchellray (10,877 books), bertilak (10,872 books), kday_working (10,799 books), libvicki (10,753 books), axarca (10,743 books), eromsted (10,726 books), TomVeal (10,676 books), ginaruiz (10,630 books), CarlSandburgLibrary (10,554 books), hse (10,525 books), Papiervisje (10,430 books), charzie (10,353 books), SRC (10,231 books), IowaBibliotheque (10,200 books), oakesspalding (10,132 books), Makuleke (10,100 books), esther_a (10,000 books), zenosbooks (9,960 books), jalual (9,920 books), dbstgb (9,901 books)

50 most prolific reviewers (plura videre)

bluetyson (34643), meadcl (7809), ianchan (6119), occult (4420), Schmerguls (3730), GeniusJen (3312), burnit99 (2847), wyvernfriend (2732), kitchengardenbooks (2444), Totarobookroom (2360), jon1lambert (2196), antimuzak (2160), Budz888 (2140), sstocks (2130), herebedragons (1811), nwhyte (1787), WARM (1464), maaward (1405), elisa.rolle (1369), t1bclasslibrary (1299), Ritaleah (1254), Boktips.net (1244), rajendran (1208), gwyneira (1152), bintphotobooks (1051), fredheid (1011), sfreader.com (999), tripleblessings (988), bcquinnsmom (970), MrsLee (970), jjmachshev (952), TadAD (929), tjsjohanna (915), Fledgist (911), inkcognito (894), cowpeace (893), Elishibai (877), ForrestFamily (875), tuckerresearch (866), GlenRalph (844), ceal1959 (837), prkcs (829), Darla (818), AlexTheHunn (802), MerryMary (802), antiquary (791), sarahthelibrarian (772), Cecilturtle (769), nicsreads (740), keylawk (726)

50 top taggers

eromsted (146,335), msrau (114,448), ThomasKleinert (94,685), AsYouKnow_Bob (89,896), gentlemania (78,435), bertilak (77,302), SilentInAWay (71,812), mfd101 (69,265), kathi (61,488), oakesspalding (56,249), purpledragon42 (55,709), cnrenner (54,991), clpteensnewbooks (53,493), alibrarian (49,447), Neuromancer (47,508), benwaugh (46,622), markell (45,381), antimuzak (45,219), lisa211 (44,079), esther_a (43,489), westher (41,898), psybre (41,882), wyvernfriend (40,643), MikeBriggs (40,519), juglicerr (40,048), Saraswati_Library (39,117), nicolaerricotenaglia (38,471), Papiervisje (37,505), muumi (37,492), snagadeal (37,168), DWWilkin (37,038), JanWillemNoldus (35,960), nmasjhur (35,913), SeriousGrace (35,707), lquilter (35,520), EnriqueFreeque (35,255), TomVeal (35,233), mcghol (35,084), sgfein (34,957), diana.gabaldon (33,952), malinablue (33,887), Nedrin (33,623), carminowe (31,836), atlaswinks (31,617), vpfluke (31,117), trollsdotter (31,083), JerryMonaco (30,764), PhileasHannay (30,640), idiosyncratic (30,575), Instigatrix (30,059)

25 top languages (translations from)

French (733,259), German (562,621), Japanese (362,685), Spanish (230,398), Italian (209,618), Russian (195,731), Greek (Ancient) (164,096), Dutch (124,995), Latin (117,667), Swedish (99,222), Portuguese (68,618), Chinese (46,254), Norwegian (43,240), Multiple languages (41,778), Danish (35,740), Hebrew (34,882), Czech (28,012), Polish (27,052), English (Middle) (26,695), Arabic (20,415), Finnish (13,535), Turkish (11,639), Sanskrit (10,360), Greek (9,053), Persian (8,587)

recent users

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25 most reviewed books (plura videre)

Twilight (1,277 recensiones), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (842 recensiones), The Da Vinci Code (733 recensiones), The Time Traveler's Wife (650 recensiones), The Kite Runner (639 recensiones), The Road (615 recensiones), The Book Thief (602 recensiones), Breaking Dawn (596 recensiones), New Moon (590 recensiones), Any Given Doomsday (570 recensiones), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (532 recensiones), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (507 recensiones), Eclipse (470 recensiones), Water for Elephants (466 recensiones), Angels & Demons (449 recensiones), Pride and Prejudice (445 recensiones), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (441 recensiones), A Thousand Splendid Suns (438 recensiones), The Thirteenth Tale (403 recensiones), The Historian (397 recensiones), Life of Pi (387 recensiones), The Lovely Bones (386 recensiones), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (382 recensiones), The Graveyard Book (376 recensiones), Nineteen Eighty-Four (366 recensiones)

top books (plura videre)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (47,870), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (44,386), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (42,264), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) (41,682), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (41,601), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (41,126), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (36,297), The Da Vinci Code (34,023), The Hobbit (31,384), Nineteen Eighty-Four (29,850), Pride and Prejudice (29,469), The Catcher in the Rye (28,215), To Kill A Mockingbird (26,621), Twilight (24,353), The Great Gatsby (24,275), The Kite Runner (23,423), The Lord of the Rings (22,543), Jane Eyre (21,070), Angels & Demons (20,688), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (20,374), Animal Farm (Signet Classics) (20,096), Life of Pi (19,330), Brave New World (19,222), The Time Traveler's Wife (18,859), New Moon (18,635)

top 25 books by star rating

Luthiel's Song: The War of Mists, spam, 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, Apx Alarm, 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 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), A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, The Last Unicorn (Deluxe Edition), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, The Red Tree, 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, Katie MacAlister, Naomi Novik, Lisa See, John Green, Jean Marzollo, Sharon Kay Penman, Jo Beverley, Susan Wittig Albert, Matthew Pearl, Adriana Trigiani, Sharon Lee, Randy Alcorn, Brandon Sanderson, Alan Furst, Janny Wurts, Susan Wiggs, Elizabeth Bear, Chitra Divakaruni, David Liss, Joe Hill, Sara Donati, Richard Price, C.E. Murphy, Angela Elwell Hunt, Gabrielle Zevin, Cleo Coyle, Margie Palatini, Arthur Phillips — see the full list.

top 75 authors (nubes auctorum)

By number of copies

J. K. Rowling (315,672), Stephen King (215,891), Terry Pratchett (187,308), J. R. R. Tolkien (150,598), Neil Gaiman (144,679), C. S. Lewis (138,093), William Shakespeare (117,721), Nora Roberts (102,210), Jane Austen (97,379), Agatha Christie (91,721), Isaac Asimov (91,258), Anne McCaffrey (82,282), Charles Dickens (79,672), Stephenie Meyer (79,175), John Grisham (76,252), Orson Scott Card (76,178), Dan Brown (74,560), Anne Rice (74,447), Kurt Vonnegut (73,800), Douglas Adams (70,729), James Patterson (70,032), Robert A. Heinlein (69,390), Mercedes Lackey (66,007), George Orwell (65,376), Dean Koontz (63,446), Janet Evanovich (62,502), John Steinbeck (60,824), Laurell K. Hamilton (59,036), Margaret Atwood (57,301), Piers Anthony (56,748), Roald Dahl (55,725), Michael Crichton (53,785), Robert Jordan (52,789), Ernest Hemingway (52,203), Philip Pullman (51,873), Fyodor Dostoevsky (50,918), Mark Twain (50,570), Lemony Snicket (49,841), Gabriel García Márquez (49,609), Dr. Seuss (49,098), David Eddings (48,920), Ray Bradbury (47,802), Tom Clancy (45,869), Ursula K. Le Guin (45,485), Haruki Murakami (45,151), Philip K. Dick (44,814), Frank Herbert (44,794), Bill Bryson (44,773), Anonymous (44,507), J.D. Salinger (44,272), Neal Stephenson (43,990), Patricia Cornwell (41,870), John Irving (41,830), Arthur C. Clarke (41,771), Marion Zimmer Bradley (41,767), Lucy Maud Montgomery (41,366), Chuck Palahniuk (41,256), F. Scott Fitzgerald (40,757), Tamora Pierce (40,712), Madeleine L'Engle (40,167), Jodi Picoult (40,150), Umberto Eco (39,462), William Gibson (38,246), David Sedaris (36,986), Charlaine Harris (36,980), Virginia Woolf (36,565), Larry Niven (35,879), Khaled Hosseini (34,896), Alexander McCall Smith (34,477), Margaret Weis (34,435), Vladimir Nabokov (34,249), Ian McEwan (34,128), George R. R. Martin (34,078), Leo Tolstoy (33,971), Albert Camus (33,939)

top 75 tags (Nubes ascriptionum)

fiction (2,908,142), fantasy (978,343), history (823,712), non-fiction (584,874), mystery (551,682), science fiction (512,540), read (499,638), nonfiction (459,918), biography (365,694), poetry (361,089), novel (319,452), unread (315,805), reference (306,162), romance (276,859), literature (263,882), philosophy (260,417), (249,071), art (247,474), own (247,191), religion (233,622), humor (224,120), short stories (223,074), science (222,303), sf (216,186), tbr (203,351), historical fiction (201,630), children's (175,094), series (173,097), horror (164,701), manga (164,531), travel (164,006), children (151,999), comics (148,610), classic (144,727), music (144,018), young adult (134,823), politics (133,270), paperback (133,049), 20th century (130,523), anthology (128,039), classics (127,103), memoir (126,265), theology (114,315), picture book (113,377), crime (112,921), psychology (110,616), england (109,404), graphic novel (108,782), american (108,656), ya (108,333), cookbook (105,411), essays (104,010), cooking (103,002), thriller (101,089), adventure (96,748), drama (96,625), christianity (96,529), british (95,456), humour (93,268), historical (91,456), sci-fi (89,820), english (87,332), language (86,889), animals (86,635), wishlist (85,214), magic (82,417), writing (81,415), autobiography (79,978), childrens (79,145), christian (78,104), owned (76,536), photography (76,030), hardcover (74,797), american history (74,019), ebook (73,938)

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)