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Research Activities What in the WorldCat? OCLC Top 1000 Complete list - 2005
Books into 5
film

Complete lis - 2005 2005 Books into flm

Key to entries Almost every book—except of course AACR II and Dewey Decimal
Classification—has been made into a movie (or vice versa) at some time
Complete list - 2005 - with covers or another. Nevertheless, we thought you'd like to peruse the updated
Banned books
Top 1000 list from this perspective. What follows are the books on the
OCLC Top 1000 list that have been made into films. We used the
Biography, autobiography, and Internet Movie Database as the resource for selecting these items, as
journals
well as Enser's Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays From
Books into film Which Films Have Been Made, 1928-2001 .

Children's
#1 Odyssey
Drama Homer
Library holdings: 45,551
Fiction Bibliographic records: 2,087
Rank on complete list: 5
Government

Librarianship

Magazines and journals

Music

Poetry
#2 Huckleberry Finn
Reference works Mark Twain
Library holdings: 42,724
Travel Bibliographic records: 1,132
Rank on complete list: 7

#3 Lord of the Rings [trilogy]

J. R. R. Tolkien
Library holdings: 40,907
Bibliographic records: 685
Rank on complete list: 8

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#4 Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 39,521
Bibliographic records: 2,008
Rank on complete list: 9

#5 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll
Library holdings: 39,277
Bibliographic records: 1,942
Rank on complete list: 10

#6 Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Library holdings: 38,485
Bibliographic records: 2,334
Rank on complete list: 11

#7 Beowulf
Library holdings: 37,914
Bibliographic records: 564
Rank on complete list: 12

#8 Night Before Christmas

Clement Clarke Moore
Library holdings: 33,343
Bibliographic records: 846
Rank on complete list: 14

#9 Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Library holdings: 32,233
Bibliographic records: 1,100
Rank on complete list: 16

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#10 Aesop's Fables

Aesop
Library holdings: 32,232
Bibliographic records: 1,461
Rank on complete list: 17

#11 Arabian Nights

Library holdings: 31,728
Bibliographic records: 2,414
Rank on complete list: 18

#12 Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 30,388
Bibliographic records: 1,562
Rank on complete list: 19

#13 Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift
Library holdings: 29,066
Bibliographic records: 1,206
Rank on complete list: 20

#14 Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe
Library holdings: 28,669
Bibliographic records: 2,374
Rank on complete list: 21

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#15 Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 28,646
Bibliographic records: 1,292
Rank on complete list: 22

#16 Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 27,928
Bibliographic records: 1,056
Rank on complete list: 24

#17 Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer
Library holdings: 27,863
Bibliographic records: 690
Rank on complete list: 25

#18 Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson
Library holdings: 27,643
Bibliographic records: 1,414
Rank on complete list: 26

#19 King Lear

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 27,163
Bibliographic records: 1,112
Rank on complete list: 27

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#20 Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë
Library holdings: 26,798
Bibliographic records: 854
Rank on complete list: 28

#21 Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan
Library holdings: 26,604
Bibliographic records: 1,974
Rank on complete list: 29

#22 Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
Library holdings: 26,389
Bibliographic records: 922
Rank on complete list: 30

#23 Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Library holdings: 26,322
Bibliographic records: 758
Rank on complete list: 31

#24 Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen
Library holdings: 26,169
Bibliographic records: 837
Rank on complete list: 32

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#25 Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Library holdings: 25,492
Bibliographic records: 1,855
Rank on complete list: 33

#26 Moby Dick

Herman Melville
Library holdings: 25,149
Bibliographic records: 688
Rank on complete list: 34

#27 Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 24,990
Bibliographic records: 1,113
Rank on complete list: 35

#28 Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 24,033
Bibliographic records: 953
Rank on complete list: 36

#29 Othello
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 23,993
Bibliographic records: 988
Rank on complete list: 37

#30 Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 23,922
Bibliographic records: 1,256
Rank on complete list: 38

#31 Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane
Library holdings: 23,900

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Bibliographic records: 466

Rank on complete list: 39

#32 Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 23,296
Bibliographic records: 928
Rank on complete list: 42

#33 Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Library holdings: 22,571
Bibliographic records: 529
Rank on complete list: 43

#34 Messiah
George Frideric Handel
Library holdings: 22,206
Bibliographic records: 1,522
Rank on complete list: 45

#35 Fairy Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Library holdings: 21,662
Bibliographic records: 614
Rank on complete list: 50

#36 Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 21,566
Bibliographic records: 725
Rank on complete list: 51

#37 Tempest
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 21,507
Bibliographic records: 868
Rank on complete list: 52

#38 Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Library holdings: 20,537
Bibliographic records: 464
Rank on complete list: 54

#39 Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 20,014
Bibliographic records: 804
Rank on complete list: 58

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#40 Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Library holdings: 20,007
Bibliographic records: 960
Rank on complete list: 59

#41 As You Like It

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 19,745
Bibliographic records: 847
Rank on complete list: 61

#42 Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
Library holdings: 19,664
Bibliographic records: 761
Rank on complete list: 62

#43 Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank
Library holdings: 19,541
Bibliographic records: 339
Rank on complete list: 63

#44 Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert
Library holdings: 19,382
Bibliographic records: 733
Rank on complete list: 64

#45 Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 18,843
Bibliographic records: 980
Rank on complete list: 65

#46 Carmen
Georges Bizet
Library holdings: 18,832
Bibliographic records: 1,243
Rank on complete list: 66

#47 Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy
Library holdings: 18,787
Bibliographic records: 671
Rank on complete list: 67

#48 Les Misérables

Victor Hugo
Library holdings: 18,623
Bibliographic records: 884

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Rank on complete list: 70

#49 David Copperfield

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 18,622
Bibliographic records: 940
Rank on complete list: 71

#50 Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Library holdings: 18,479
Bibliographic records: 624
Rank on complete list: 72

#51 Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame
Library holdings: 17,963
Bibliographic records: 446
Rank on complete list: 73

#52 Call of the Wild

Jack London
Library holdings: 17,773
Bibliographic records: 539
Rank on complete list: 74

#53 Dracula
Bram Stoker
Library holdings: 17,723
Bibliographic records: 415
Rank on complete list: 75

#54 Black Beauty

Anna Sewell
Library holdings: 17,134
Bibliographic records: 739
Rank on complete list: 78

#55 Song of Roland

Library holdings: 17,078
Bibliographic records: 603
Rank on complete list: 79

#56 Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas
Library holdings: 16,935
Bibliographic records: 817
Rank on complete list: 80

#57 Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Library holdings: 16,787

Bibliographic records: 409
Rank on complete list: 82

#58 Morte d'Arthur

Sir Thomas Malory
Library holdings: 16,649
Bibliographic records: 322
Rank on complete list: 83

#59 Emma
Jane Austen
Library holdings: 16,630
Bibliographic records: 492
Rank on complete list: 84

#60 Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Library holdings: 16,600
Bibliographic records: 551
Rank on complete list: 85

#61 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne
Library holdings: 16,573
Bibliographic records: 614
Rank on complete list: 86

#62 Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper
Library holdings: 16,477
Bibliographic records: 643
Rank on complete list: 87

#63 Tom Jones

Henry Fielding
Library holdings: 16,381
Bibliographic records: 489
Rank on complete list: 89

#64 War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy
Library holdings: 16,076
Bibliographic records: 508
Rank on complete list: 93

#65 Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 15,936
Bibliographic records: 504
Rank on complete list: 96

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#66 La Bohème
Giacomo Puccini
Library holdings: 15,935
Bibliographic records: 843
Rank on complete list: 97

#67 Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Library holdings: 15,762
Bibliographic records: 343
Rank on complete list: 98

#68 Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 15,544
Bibliographic records: 317
Rank on complete list: 101

#69 Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 15,536
Bibliographic records: 522
Rank on complete list: 102

#70 Magic Flute

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Library holdings: 15,481
Bibliographic records: 940
Rank on complete list: 103

#71 Much Ado about Nothing

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 15,475
Bibliographic records: 583
Rank on complete list: 104

#72 Henry V
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 15,440
Bibliographic records: 539
Rank on complete list: 105

#73 Richard II
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 15,340
Bibliographic records: 575
Rank on complete list: 106

#74 Richard III

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 15,316
Bibliographic records: 658

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Rank on complete list: 107

#75 Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Library holdings: 15,170
Bibliographic records: 767
Rank on complete list: 108

#76 Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Library holdings: 15,109
Bibliographic records: 345
Rank on complete list: 110

#77 Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy
Library holdings: 15,103
Bibliographic records: 395
Rank on complete list: 111

#78 Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen
Library holdings: 15,004
Bibliographic records: 436
Rank on complete list: 113

#79 Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Library holdings: 14,679
Bibliographic records: 530
Rank on complete list: 118

#80 Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo
Library holdings: 14,588
Bibliographic records: 628
Rank on complete list: 120

#81 Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
Library holdings: 14,576
Bibliographic records: 833
Rank on complete list: 121

#82 Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad
Library holdings: 14,548
Bibliographic records: 364
Rank on complete list: 122

#83 Prince and the Pauper

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Mark Twain
Library holdings: 14,183
Bibliographic records: 421
Rank on complete list: 125

#84 Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Library holdings: 14,121
Bibliographic records: 915
Rank on complete list: 126

#85 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain
Library holdings: 14,099
Bibliographic records: 275
Rank on complete list: 127

#86 Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery
Library holdings: 14,032
Bibliographic records: 312
Rank on complete list: 128

#87 Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter
Library holdings: 13,894
Bibliographic records: 417
Rank on complete list: 132

#88 Ulysses
James Joyce
Library holdings: 13,877
Bibliographic records: 373
Rank on complete list: 134

#89 Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand
Library holdings: 13,864
Bibliographic records: 443
Rank on complete list: 135

#90 Remembrance of Things Past

Marcel Proust
Library holdings: 13,804
Bibliographic records: 401
Rank on complete list: 136

#91 Animal Farm

George Orwell
Library holdings: 13,777
Bibliographic records: 296
Rank on complete list: 137

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#92 La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 13,753
Bibliographic records: 980
Rank on complete list: 138

#93 Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell
Library holdings: 13,729
Bibliographic records: 301
Rank on complete list: 139

#94 Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 13,687
Bibliographic records: 875
Rank on complete list: 140

#95 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson
Library holdings: 13,686
Bibliographic records: 490
Rank on complete list: 141

#96 Winnie the Pooh

A. A. Milne
Library holdings: 13,588
Bibliographic records: 308
Rank on complete list: 142

#97 Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
Library holdings: 13,566
Bibliographic records: 909
Rank on complete list: 143

#98 Candide
Voltaire
Library holdings: 13,371
Bibliographic records: 493
Rank on complete list: 144

#99 Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy
Library holdings: 13,303
Bibliographic records: 285
Rank on complete list: 145

#100 To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

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Library holdings: 13,012

Bibliographic records: 151
Rank on complete list: 146

#101 Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray
Library holdings: 12,999
Bibliographic records: 554
Rank on complete list: 147

#102 Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Library holdings: 12,963
Bibliographic records: 634
Rank on complete list: 148

#103 Fables
Jean de La Fontaine
Library holdings: 12,708
Bibliographic records: 1,133
Rank on complete list: 149

#104 Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 12,664
Bibliographic records: 466
Rank on complete list: 150

#105 Madame Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini
Library holdings: 12,652
Bibliographic records: 652
Rank on complete list: 151

#106 Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad
Library holdings: 12,626
Bibliographic records: 201
Rank on complete list: 153

#107 Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams Bianco
Library holdings: 12,600
Bibliographic records: 171
Rank on complete list: 154

#108 Silas Marner

George Eliot
Library holdings: 12,521
Bibliographic records: 474
Rank on complete list: 158

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#109 Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight

Library holdings: 12,509
Bibliographic records: 181
Rank on complete list: 159

#110 Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway
Library holdings: 12,500
Bibliographic records: 359
Rank on complete list: 160

#111 Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie
Library holdings: 12,426
Bibliographic records: 314
Rank on complete list: 161

#112 Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 12,422
Bibliographic records: 788
Rank on complete list: 162

#113 Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
Library holdings: 12,402
Bibliographic records: 691
Rank on complete list: 164

#114 Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling
Library holdings: 12,374
Bibliographic records: 457
Rank on complete list: 166

#115 Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
Library holdings: 12,368
Bibliographic records: 442
Rank on complete list: 167

#116 Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas
Library holdings: 12,351
Bibliographic records: 632
Rank on complete list: 168

#117 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce
Library holdings: 12,312
Bibliographic records: 280
Rank on complete list: 169

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#118 Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 12,303
Bibliographic records: 356
Rank on complete list: 170

#119 Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 12,081
Bibliographic records: 776
Rank on complete list: 173

#120 My Ántonia
Willa Cather
Library holdings: 12,044
Bibliographic records: 158
Rank on complete list: 176

#121 Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 11,879
Bibliographic records: 232
Rank on complete list: 179

#122 Twelve Days of Christmas

Library holdings: 11,792
Bibliographic records: 120
Rank on complete list: 181

#123 Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne
Library holdings: 11,755
Bibliographic records: 391
Rank on complete list: 182

#124 Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith
Library holdings: 11,716
Bibliographic records: 1,027
Rank on complete list: 183

#125 Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway
Library holdings: 11,682
Bibliographic records: 271
Rank on complete list: 184

#126 Oedipus Rex

Sophocles
Library holdings: 11,620

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Bibliographic records: 526

Rank on complete list: 187

#127 Coriolanus
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 11,570
Bibliographic records: 422
Rank on complete list: 188

#128 Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

C. S. Lewis
Library holdings: 11,561
Bibliographic records: 148
Rank on complete list: 189

#129 Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo
Library holdings: 11,472
Bibliographic records: 327
Rank on complete list: 190

#130 Red and the Black

Stendhal
Library holdings: 11,413
Bibliographic records: 478
Rank on complete list: 191

#131 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Library holdings: 11,352
Bibliographic records: 458
Rank on complete list: 192

#132 Peter and the Wolf

Sergey Prokofiev
Library holdings: 11,216
Bibliographic records: 594
Rank on complete list: 196

#133 White Fang

Jack London
Library holdings: 11,174
Bibliographic records: 354
Rank on complete list: 197

#134 Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 11,165
Bibliographic records: 325
Rank on complete list: 199

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#135 Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev
Library holdings: 11,117
Bibliographic records: 350
Rank on complete list: 201

#136 Barber of Seville

Gioacchino Rossini
Library holdings: 11,071
Bibliographic records: 779
Rank on complete list: 204

#137 Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
Library holdings: 11,037
Bibliographic records: 230
Rank on complete list: 205

#138 Middlemarch
George Eliot
Library holdings: 10,980
Bibliographic records: 335
Rank on complete list: 206

#139 Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence
Library holdings: 10,956
Bibliographic records: 355
Rank on complete list: 207

#140 Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 10,917
Bibliographic records: 295
Rank on complete list: 208

#141 Poem of the Cid

Library holdings: 10,896
Bibliographic records: 552
Rank on complete list: 210

#142 Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy
Library holdings: 10,850
Bibliographic records: 288
Rank on complete list: 212

#143 King John

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 10,765
Bibliographic records: 376
Rank on complete list: 213

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#144 Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser
Library holdings: 10,695
Bibliographic records: 170
Rank on complete list: 214

#145 Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell
Library holdings: 10,688
Bibliographic records: 290
Rank on complete list: 215

#146 All's Well that Ends Well

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 10,667
Bibliographic records: 258
Rank on complete list: 216

#147 Bleak House

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 10,663
Bibliographic records: 420
Rank on complete list: 217

#148 Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 10,659
Bibliographic records: 489
Rank on complete list: 218

#149 Charlotte's Web

E. B. White
Library holdings: 10,643
Bibliographic records: 139
Rank on complete list: 219

#150 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J. K. Rowling
Library holdings: 10,595
Bibliographic records: 141
Rank on complete list: 220

#151 Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
Library holdings: 10,571
Bibliographic records: 194
Rank on complete list: 222

#152 Time Machine

H. G. Wells

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Library holdings: 10,553

Bibliographic records: 298
Rank on complete list: 223

#153 Henry IV Part 1

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 10,484
Bibliographic records: 312
Rank on complete list: 226

#154 Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner
Library holdings: 10,461
Bibliographic records: 177
Rank on complete list: 228

#155 Mill on the Floss

George Eliot
Library holdings: 10,455
Bibliographic records: 409
Rank on complete list: 229

#156 Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Library holdings: 10,418
Bibliographic records: 456
Rank on complete list: 231

#157 Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence
Library holdings: 10,413
Bibliographic records: 225
Rank on complete list: 232

#158 Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton
Library holdings: 10,395
Bibliographic records: 160
Rank on complete list: 233

#159 Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac
Library holdings: 10,381
Bibliographic records: 468
Rank on complete list: 234

#160 Stranger
Albert Camus
Library holdings: 10,356
Bibliographic records: 226
Rank on complete list: 235

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#161 Hard Times

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 10,355
Bibliographic records: 293
Rank on complete list: 236

#162 Lord of the Flies

William Golding
Library holdings: 10,316
Bibliographic records: 155
Rank on complete list: 238

#163 Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck
Library holdings: 10,315
Bibliographic records: 223
Rank on complete list: 239

#164 Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain
Library holdings: 10,288
Bibliographic records: 216
Rank on complete list: 240

#165 Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy
Library holdings: 10,258
Bibliographic records: 257
Rank on complete list: 241

#166 All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque
Library holdings: 10,238
Bibliographic records: 233
Rank on complete list: 242

#167 Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Library holdings: 10,209
Bibliographic records: 327
Rank on complete list: 243

#168 Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling
Library holdings: 10,193
Bibliographic records: 266
Rank on complete list: 245

#169 Kim
Rudyard Kipling
Library holdings: 10,190
Bibliographic records: 271

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Rank on complete list: 246

#170 Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury
Library holdings: 10,183
Bibliographic records: 178
Rank on complete list: 247

#171 Celestina
Fernando de Rojas
Library holdings: 10,118
Bibliographic records: 501
Rank on complete list: 251

#172 Così Fan Tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Library holdings: 10,109
Bibliographic records: 503
Rank on complete list: 252

#173 Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton
Library holdings: 10,086
Bibliographic records: 134
Rank on complete list: 253

#174 Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 10,058
Bibliographic records: 230
Rank on complete list: 254

#175 Il Trovatore
Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 10,016
Bibliographic records: 787
Rank on complete list: 255

#176 Lucia di Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti
Library holdings: 9,998
Bibliographic records: 653
Rank on complete list: 256

#177 Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle
Library holdings: 9,973
Bibliographic records: 102
Rank on complete list: 257

#178 Oresteia

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Aeschylus
Library holdings: 9,927
Bibliographic records: 191
Rank on complete list: 258

#179 O Pioneers
Willa Cather
Library holdings: 9,875
Bibliographic records: 108
Rank on complete list: 259

#180 House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Library holdings: 9,855
Bibliographic records: 221
Rank on complete list: 261

#181 For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway
Library holdings: 9,849
Bibliographic records: 280
Rank on complete list: 262

#182 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J. K. Rowling
Library holdings: 9,840
Bibliographic records: 117
Rank on complete list: 263

#183 Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 9,830
Bibliographic records: 238
Rank on complete list: 264

#184 Swiss Family Robinson

Johann Wyss
Library holdings: 9,829
Bibliographic records: 450
Rank on complete list: 265

#185 Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway
Library holdings: 9,823
Bibliographic records: 201
Rank on complete list: 266

#186 Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy
Library holdings: 9,776
Bibliographic records: 193
Rank on complete list: 267

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#187 Main Street

Sinclair Lewis
Library holdings: 9,682
Bibliographic records: 131
Rank on complete list: 270

#188 Turn of the Screw

Henry James
Library holdings: 9,608
Bibliographic records: 202
Rank on complete list: 272

#189 Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton
Library holdings: 9,484
Bibliographic records: 104
Rank on complete list: 276

#190 Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak
Library holdings: 9,453
Bibliographic records: 190
Rank on complete list: 277

#191 Otello
Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 9,419
Bibliographic records: 485
Rank on complete list: 279

#192 Yearling
Marjorie Rawlings
Library holdings: 9,360
Bibliographic records: 148
Rank on complete list: 281

#193 Rebecca
Dame Daphne Du Maurier
Library holdings: 9,316
Bibliographic records: 208
Rank on complete list: 284

#194 Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller
Library holdings: 9,295
Bibliographic records: 145
Rank on complete list: 285

#195 Pearl
John Steinbeck

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Library holdings: 9,278

Bibliographic records: 196
Rank on complete list: 288

#196 Typee
Herman Melville
Library holdings: 9,223
Bibliographic records: 179
Rank on complete list: 292

#197 Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Library holdings: 9,222
Bibliographic records: 251
Rank on complete list: 293

#198 Cymbeline
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 9,150
Bibliographic records: 353
Rank on complete list: 296

#199 Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson
Library holdings: 9,091
Bibliographic records: 128
Rank on complete list: 303

#200 Beloved
Toni Morrison
Library holdings: 9,068
Bibliographic records: 69
Rank on complete list: 306

#201 Sea Wolf

Jack London
Library holdings: 8,997
Bibliographic records: 250
Rank on complete list: 307

#202 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey
Library holdings: 8,996
Bibliographic records: 99
Rank on complete list: 308

#203 War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells
Library holdings: 8,957
Bibliographic records: 254
Rank on complete list: 310

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#204 Henry VIII

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 8,933
Bibliographic records: 338
Rank on complete list: 313

#205 East of Eden

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 8,881
Bibliographic records: 143
Rank on complete list: 318

#206 Trial
Franz Kafka
Library holdings: 8,872
Bibliographic records: 264
Rank on complete list: 319

#207 Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 8,853
Bibliographic records: 518
Rank on complete list: 322

#208 Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling
Library holdings: 8,779
Bibliographic records: 220
Rank on complete list: 324

#209 Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Library holdings: 8,760
Bibliographic records: 117
Rank on complete list: 325

#210 Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 8,720
Bibliographic records: 239
Rank on complete list: 327

#211 Meistersingers of Nurenberg

Richard Wagner
Library holdings: 8,706
Bibliographic records: 559
Rank on complete list: 329

#212 Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace
Library holdings: 8,654
Bibliographic records: 390

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Rank on complete list: 335

#213 Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe
Library holdings: 8,636
Bibliographic records: 241
Rank on complete list: 336

#214 Mansfield Park

Jane Austen
Library holdings: 8,620
Bibliographic records: 316
Rank on complete list: 338

#215 Cavalleria Rusticana

Pietro Mascagni
Library holdings: 8,613
Bibliographic records: 567
Rank on complete list: 340

#216 Voyage to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne
Library holdings: 8,565
Bibliographic records: 297
Rank on complete list: 341

#217 Lazarillo de Tormes

Library holdings: 8,546
Bibliographic records: 556
Rank on complete list: 342

#218 West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Library holdings: 8,534
Bibliographic records: 262
Rank on complete list: 343

#219 Passage to India

E. M. Forster
Library holdings: 8,528
Bibliographic records: 136
Rank on complete list: 344

#220 Color Purple

Alice Walker
Library holdings: 8,528
Bibliographic records: 67
Rank on complete list: 345

#221 Virginian
Owen Wister

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Library holdings: 8,526

Bibliographic records: 160
Rank on complete list: 346

#222 Porgy and Bess

George Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
Library holdings: 8,519
Bibliographic records: 409
Rank on complete list: 348

#223 Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
Library holdings: 8,470
Bibliographic records: 39
Rank on complete list: 351

#224 Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen
Library holdings: 8,333
Bibliographic records: 299
Rank on complete list: 364

#225 Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
Library holdings: 8,307
Bibliographic records: 195
Rank on complete list: 366

#226 Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Library holdings: 8,279
Bibliographic records: 64
Rank on complete list: 367

#227 Persuasion
Jane Austen
Library holdings: 8,228
Bibliographic records: 259
Rank on complete list: 370

#228 Antigone
Sophocles
Library holdings: 8,184
Bibliographic records: 499
Rank on complete list: 372

#229 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou
Library holdings: 8,130
Bibliographic records: 43
Rank on complete list: 377

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#230 Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Library holdings: 8,099
Bibliographic records: 152
Rank on complete list: 378

#231 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Library holdings: 8,072
Bibliographic records: 125
Rank on complete list: 383

#232 All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren
Library holdings: 8,062
Bibliographic records: 110
Rank on complete list: 384

#233 House of Mirth

Edith Wharton
Library holdings: 7,994
Bibliographic records: 133
Rank on complete list: 388

#234 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl
Library holdings: 7,976
Bibliographic records: 106
Rank on complete list: 391

#235 Pericles
William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 7,975
Bibliographic records: 229
Rank on complete list: 392

#236 Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson
Library holdings: 7,956
Bibliographic records: 74
Rank on complete list: 394

#237 Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 7,938
Bibliographic records: 234
Rank on complete list: 396

#238 Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
Library holdings: 7,938
Bibliographic records: 97

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Rank on complete list: 397

#239 Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Library holdings: 7,929
Bibliographic records: 183
Rank on complete list: 398

#240 Billy Budd

Herman Melville
Library holdings: 7,910
Bibliographic records: 125
Rank on complete list: 402

#241 Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen
Library holdings: 7,906
Bibliographic records: 74
Rank on complete list: 403

#242 Roughing It
Mark Twain
Library holdings: 7,895
Bibliographic records: 160
Rank on complete list: 404

#243 Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll
Library holdings: 7,892
Bibliographic records: 417
Rank on complete list: 405

#244 Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 7,864
Bibliographic records: 413
Rank on complete list: 407

#245 Plague
Albert Camus
Library holdings: 7,852
Bibliographic records: 210
Rank on complete list: 409

#246 Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak
Library holdings: 7,834
Bibliographic records: 106
Rank on complete list: 412

#247 Raisin in the Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry
Library holdings: 7,781
Bibliographic records: 65
Rank on complete list: 415

#248 Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt
Library holdings: 7,776
Bibliographic records: 50
Rank on complete list: 416

#249 Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann
Library holdings: 7,753
Bibliographic records: 231
Rank on complete list: 417

#250 Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt
Library holdings: 7,717
Bibliographic records: 100
Rank on complete list: 419

#251 Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder
Library holdings: 7,685
Bibliographic records: 143
Rank on complete list: 422

#252 Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence
Library holdings: 7,675
Bibliographic records: 143
Rank on complete list: 423

#253 Native Son

Richard Wright
Library holdings: 7,668
Bibliographic records: 82
Rank on complete list: 426

#254 My Fair Lady

Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Library holdings: 7,659
Bibliographic records: 276
Rank on complete list: 427

#255 Hans Brinker

Mary Mapes Dodge
Library holdings: 7,654
Bibliographic records: 262
Rank on complete list: 428

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#256 American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser
Library holdings: 7,637
Bibliographic records: 124
Rank on complete list: 430

#257 Separate Peace

John Knowles
Library holdings: 7,620
Bibliographic records: 65
Rank on complete list: 431

#258 Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
Library holdings: 7,602
Bibliographic records: 62
Rank on complete list: 433

#259 Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
Library holdings: 7,566
Bibliographic records: 157
Rank on complete list: 437

#260 Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith
Library holdings: 7,555
Bibliographic records: 92
Rank on complete list: 439

#261 Cat in the Hat

Dr. Seuss
Library holdings: 7,511
Bibliographic records: 91
Rank on complete list: 444

#262 Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 7,498
Bibliographic records: 448
Rank on complete list: 446

#263 Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C. S. Lewis
Library holdings: 7,494
Bibliographic records: 94
Rank on complete list: 447

#264 Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

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Library holdings: 7,474

Bibliographic records: 140
Rank on complete list: 448

#265 Little Engine that Could

Watty Piper
Library holdings: 7,441
Bibliographic records: 88
Rank on complete list: 450

#266 Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving
Library holdings: 7,425
Bibliographic records: 277
Rank on complete list: 453

#267 Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 7,423
Bibliographic records: 210
Rank on complete list: 454

#268 Carmina Burana

Carl Orff
Library holdings: 7,422
Bibliographic records: 328
Rank on complete list: 455

#269 Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury
Library holdings: 7,405
Bibliographic records: 108
Rank on complete list: 456

#270 Adam Bede

George Eliot
Library holdings: 7,357
Bibliographic records: 358
Rank on complete list: 460

#271 James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl
Library holdings: 7,344
Bibliographic records: 94
Rank on complete list: 462

#272 Ring of the Niebelung

Richard Wagner
Library holdings: 7,336
Bibliographic records: 395
Rank on complete list: 463

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#273 Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Library holdings: 7,329
Bibliographic records: 253
Rank on complete list: 464

#274 Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain
Library holdings: 7,325
Bibliographic records: 139
Rank on complete list: 465

#275 Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Library holdings: 7,320
Bibliographic records: 314
Rank on complete list: 468

#276 Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown
Library holdings: 7,317
Bibliographic records: 40
Rank on complete list: 469

#277 Cheaper by the Dozen

Frank B. Gilbreth
Library holdings: 7,312
Bibliographic records: 63
Rank on complete list: 470

#278 Red Pony

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 7,309
Bibliographic records: 114
Rank on complete list: 472

#279 Anne of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery
Library holdings: 7,287
Bibliographic records: 151
Rank on complete list: 475

#280 Casey at the Bat

Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Library holdings: 7,225
Bibliographic records: 56
Rank on complete list: 481

#281 Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats
Library holdings: 7,192
Bibliographic records: 79

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Rank on complete list: 486

#282 Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux
Library holdings: 7,181
Bibliographic records: 153
Rank on complete list: 488

#283 Parsifal
Richard Wagner
Library holdings: 7,158
Bibliographic records: 507
Rank on complete list: 493

#284 Caddie Woodlawn

Carol Ryrie Brink
Library holdings: 7,147
Bibliographic records: 67
Rank on complete list: 495

#285 Satyricon
Petronius
Library holdings: 7,141
Bibliographic records: 368
Rank on complete list: 496

#286 Stuart Little

E. B. White
Library holdings: 7,132
Bibliographic records: 82
Rank on complete list: 498

#287 Silver Chair

C. S. Lewis
Library holdings: 7,095
Bibliographic records: 84
Rank on complete list: 503

#288 Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain
Library holdings: 7,091
Bibliographic records: 192
Rank on complete list: 504

#289 Sound of Music

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Library holdings: 7,083
Bibliographic records: 230
Rank on complete list: 505

#290 Little Princess

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Library holdings: 7,077
Bibliographic records: 179
Rank on complete list: 506

#291 Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Library holdings: 7,055
Bibliographic records: 97
Rank on complete list: 512

#292 And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie
Library holdings: 7,053
Bibliographic records: 131
Rank on complete list: 513

#293 Holes
Louis Sachar
Library holdings: 7,048
Bibliographic records: 51
Rank on complete list: 515

#294 Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
Library holdings: 7,025
Bibliographic records: 75
Rank on complete list: 519

#295 Firm
John Grisham
Library holdings: 7,024
Bibliographic records: 85
Rank on complete list: 520

#296 Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett
Library holdings: 7,023
Bibliographic records: 148
Rank on complete list: 521

#297 Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
Library holdings: 7,021
Bibliographic records: 146
Rank on complete list: 522

#298 Sounder
William Howard Armstrong
Library holdings: 7,009
Bibliographic records: 64
Rank on complete list: 524

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#299 Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers
Library holdings: 7,000
Bibliographic records: 90
Rank on complete list: 526

#300 Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Library holdings: 6,993
Bibliographic records: 180
Rank on complete list: 527

#301 Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut
Library holdings: 6,988
Bibliographic records: 89
Rank on complete list: 528

#302 Twilight of the Gods

Richard Wagner
Library holdings: 6,942
Bibliographic records: 421
Rank on complete list: 533

#303 Rheingold
Richard Wagner
Library holdings: 6,930
Bibliographic records: 379
Rank on complete list: 536

#304 Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel
Library holdings: 6,909
Bibliographic records: 50
Rank on complete list: 540

#305 Left Behind

Tim F. Lahaye
Library holdings: 6,902
Bibliographic records: 45
Rank on complete list: 541

#306 Forsyte Saga

John Galsworthy
Library holdings: 6,898
Bibliographic records: 160
Rank on complete list: 542

#307 Valkyrie
Richard Wagner

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Library holdings: 6,894

Bibliographic records: 455
Rank on complete list: 544

#308 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Konigsburg
Library holdings: 6,891
Bibliographic records: 77
Rank on complete list: 546

#309 Killer Angels

Michael Shaara
Library holdings: 6,883
Bibliographic records: 41
Rank on complete list: 549

#310 Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan
Library holdings: 6,860
Bibliographic records: 78
Rank on complete list: 552

#311 Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 6,843
Bibliographic records: 380
Rank on complete list: 556

#312 To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf
Library holdings: 6,839
Bibliographic records: 131
Rank on complete list: 557

#313 Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Library holdings: 6,827
Bibliographic records: 538
Rank on complete list: 561

#314 Charterhouse of Parma

Stendhal
Library holdings: 6,826
Bibliographic records: 286
Rank on complete list: 562

#315 Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope
Library holdings: 6,818
Bibliographic records: 184
Rank on complete list: 564

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#316 Falstaff
Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 6,788
Bibliographic records: 305
Rank on complete list: 568

#317 Runaway Jury

John Grisham
Library holdings: 6,754
Bibliographic records: 61
Rank on complete list: 570

#318 Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 6,753
Bibliographic records: 399
Rank on complete list: 571

#319 Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell
Library holdings: 6,738
Bibliographic records: 62
Rank on complete list: 572

#320 Room With a View

E. M. Forster
Library holdings: 6,734
Bibliographic records: 107
Rank on complete list: 573

#321 Look Homeward Angel

Thomas Wolfe
Library holdings: 6,729
Bibliographic records: 108
Rank on complete list: 574

#322 Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 6,727
Bibliographic records: 394
Rank on complete list: 575

#323 Time to Kill

John Grisham
Library holdings: 6,716
Bibliographic records: 75
Rank on complete list: 578

#324 Schindler's List

Thomas Keneally
Library holdings: 6,690
Bibliographic records: 62

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Rank on complete list: 584

#325 Castle
Franz Kafka
Library holdings: 6,686
Bibliographic records: 180
Rank on complete list: 585

#326 Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel
Library holdings: 6,670
Bibliographic records: 56
Rank on complete list: 587

#327 Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac
Library holdings: 6,649
Bibliographic records: 390
Rank on complete list: 589

#328 Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving
Library holdings: 6,648
Bibliographic records: 185
Rank on complete list: 590

#329 Three Little Pigs

Library holdings: 6,603
Bibliographic records: 147
Rank on complete list: 598

#330 Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Library holdings: 6,598
Bibliographic records: 68
Rank on complete list: 601

#331 Incredible Journey

Sheila Every Burnford
Library holdings: 6,588
Bibliographic records: 61
Rank on complete list: 603

#332 Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan
Library holdings: 6,568
Bibliographic records: 42
Rank on complete list: 605

#333 Turandot
Giacomo Puccini

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Library holdings: 6,559

Bibliographic records: 311
Rank on complete list: 606

#334 Cricket in Times Square

George Selden
Library holdings: 6,559
Bibliographic records: 77
Rank on complete list: 607

#335 Night to Remember

Walter Lord
Library holdings: 6,554
Bibliographic records: 74
Rank on complete list: 611

#336 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Library holdings: 6,548
Bibliographic records: 98
Rank on complete list: 616

#337 Cinderella
Charles Perrault
Library holdings: 6,531
Bibliographic records: 155
Rank on complete list: 618

#338 Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams
Library holdings: 6,521
Bibliographic records: 105
Rank on complete list: 619

#339 Pelican Brief

John Grisham
Library holdings: 6,513
Bibliographic records: 68
Rank on complete list: 623

#340 Book of Good Love

Juan Ruiz
Library holdings: 6,503
Bibliographic records: 243
Rank on complete list: 624

#341 In Cold Blood

Truman Capote
Library holdings: 6,501
Bibliographic records: 94
Rank on complete list: 626

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#342 Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Library holdings: 6,498
Bibliographic records: 165
Rank on complete list: 627

#343 Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier
Library holdings: 6,496
Bibliographic records: 37
Rank on complete list: 628

#344 Orlando Furioso

Lodovico Ariosto
Library holdings: 6,495
Bibliographic records: 553
Rank on complete list: 629

#345 Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson
Library holdings: 6,495
Bibliographic records: 44
Rank on complete list: 631

#346 Power and the Glory

Graham Greene
Library holdings: 6,479
Bibliographic records: 134
Rank on complete list: 635

#347 Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin
Library holdings: 6,467
Bibliographic records: 46
Rank on complete list: 636

#348 Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
Library holdings: 6,417
Bibliographic records: 240
Rank on complete list: 642

#349 Cannery Row

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 6,413
Bibliographic records: 112
Rank on complete list: 644

#350 Ballo in Maschera

Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 6,405
Bibliographic records: 489

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Rank on complete list: 645

#351 Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson
Library holdings: 6,373
Bibliographic records: 45
Rank on complete list: 649

#352 Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol
Library holdings: 6,366
Bibliographic records: 204
Rank on complete list: 650

#353 Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy
Library holdings: 6,362
Bibliographic records: 146
Rank on complete list: 651

#354 Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh
Library holdings: 6,353
Bibliographic records: 100
Rank on complete list: 653

#355 Watership Down

Richard Adams
Library holdings: 6,301
Bibliographic records: 59
Rank on complete list: 663

#356 Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe
Library holdings: 6,297
Bibliographic records: 84
Rank on complete list: 664

#357 Jacob Have I Loved

Katherine Paterson
Library holdings: 6,290
Bibliographic records: 41
Rank on complete list: 666

#358 Tale of Genji

Lady Murasaki
Library holdings: 6,286
Bibliographic records: 376
Rank on complete list: 667

#359 Chamber

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John Grisham
Library holdings: 6,285
Bibliographic records: 53
Rank on complete list: 668

#360 Fledermaus
Johann Strauss
Library holdings: 6,282
Bibliographic records: 399
Rank on complete list: 669

#361 Siegfried
Richard Wagner
Library holdings: 6,281
Bibliographic records: 362
Rank on complete list: 670

#362 Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Library holdings: 6,276
Bibliographic records: 48
Rank on complete list: 673

#363 Martín Fierro

José Hernández
Library holdings: 6,268
Bibliographic records: 561
Rank on complete list: 675

#364 Tortilla Flat

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 6,268
Bibliographic records: 137
Rank on complete list: 676

#365 Phaedra
Jean Racine
Library holdings: 6,265
Bibliographic records: 250
Rank on complete list: 677

#366 Bridges of Madison County

Robert James Waller
Library holdings: 6,260
Bibliographic records: 80
Rank on complete list: 680

#367 Eugene Onegin

Aleksandr Pushkin
Library holdings: 6,251
Bibliographic records: 279
Rank on complete list: 683

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#368 Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Library holdings: 6,241
Bibliographic records: 192
Rank on complete list: 684

#369 Quo Vadis

Henryk Sienkiewicz
Library holdings: 6,221
Bibliographic records: 436
Rank on complete list: 687

#370 Amahl and the Night Visitors

Gian Carlo Menotti
Library holdings: 6,220
Bibliographic records: 75
Rank on complete list: 688

#371 Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Library holdings: 6,193
Bibliographic records: 421
Rank on complete list: 694

#372 Life Is a Dream

Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Library holdings: 6,185
Bibliographic records: 384
Rank on complete list: 698

#373 Horse Whisperer

Nicholas Evans
Library holdings: 6,179
Bibliographic records: 37
Rank on complete list: 700

#374 Sanctuary
William Faulkner
Library holdings: 6,173
Bibliographic records: 128
Rank on complete list: 701

#375 Mysterious Island

Jules Verne
Library holdings: 6,150
Bibliographic records: 217
Rank on complete list: 705

#376 Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

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Library holdings: 6,150

Bibliographic records: 107
Rank on complete list: 706

#377 Clear and Present Danger

Tom Clancy
Library holdings: 6,140
Bibliographic records: 51
Rank on complete list: 708

#378 Old Yeller

Fred Gipson
Library holdings: 6,132
Bibliographic records: 57
Rank on complete list: 712

#379 Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Library holdings: 6,130
Bibliographic records: 487
Rank on complete list: 713

#380 King of the Wind

Marguerite Henry
Library holdings: 6,130
Bibliographic records: 66
Rank on complete list: 714

#381 Summer of the Swans

Betsy Cromer Byars
Library holdings: 6,130
Bibliographic records: 63
Rank on complete list: 715

#382 Pagliacci
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Library holdings: 6,128
Bibliographic records: 405
Rank on complete list: 716

#383 Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe
Library holdings: 6,125
Bibliographic records: 211
Rank on complete list: 719

#384 Prince Caspian the Return to Narnia

C. S. Lewis
Library holdings: 6,117
Bibliographic records: 39
Rank on complete list: 722

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#385 Washington Square

Henry James
Library holdings: 6,114
Bibliographic records: 141
Rank on complete list: 723

#386 Client
John Grisham
Library holdings: 6,113
Bibliographic records: 57
Rank on complete list: 724

#387 Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen
Library holdings: 6,108
Bibliographic records: 139
Rank on complete list: 725

#388 My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George
Library holdings: 6,106
Bibliographic records: 53
Rank on complete list: 726

#389 Fiddler on the Roof

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
Library holdings: 6,094
Bibliographic records: 174
Rank on complete list: 731

#390 Dune
Frank Herbert
Library holdings: 6,079
Bibliographic records: 95
Rank on complete list: 738

#391 Medea
Euripides
Library holdings: 6,075
Bibliographic records: 365
Rank on complete list: 739

#392 Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Library holdings: 6,059
Bibliographic records: 185
Rank on complete list: 743

#393 Howards End

E. M. Forster
Library holdings: 6,055
Bibliographic records: 103

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Rank on complete list: 744

#394 Lost Horizon

James Hilton
Library holdings: 6,006
Bibliographic records: 114
Rank on complete list: 749

#395 Mary Poppins

P. L. Travers
Library holdings: 5,992
Bibliographic records: 110
Rank on complete list: 753

#396 Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
Library holdings: 5,992
Bibliographic records: 60
Rank on complete list: 754

#397 Misty of Chincoteague

Marguerite Henry
Library holdings: 5,981
Bibliographic records: 58
Rank on complete list: 756

#398 Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy
Library holdings: 5,978
Bibliographic records: 74
Rank on complete list: 757

#399 Roots
Alex Haley
Library holdings: 5,971
Bibliographic records: 83
Rank on complete list: 760

#400 All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot
Library holdings: 5,970
Bibliographic records: 45
Rank on complete list: 761

#401 Rosenkavalier
Richard Strauss
Library holdings: 5,967
Bibliographic records: 260
Rank on complete list: 763

#402 South Pacific

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Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

Library holdings: 5,967
Bibliographic records: 215
Rank on complete list: 764

#403 Bacchae
Euripides
Library holdings: 5,964
Bibliographic records: 221
Rank on complete list: 766

#404 Tuesdays With Morrie

Mitch Albom
Library holdings: 5,962
Bibliographic records: 43
Rank on complete list: 767

#405 Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle
Library holdings: 5,947
Bibliographic records: 116
Rank on complete list: 777

#406 Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey
Library holdings: 5,947
Bibliographic records: 77
Rank on complete list: 778

#407 Fidelio
Ludwig van Beethoven
Library holdings: 5,946
Bibliographic records: 353
Rank on complete list: 779

#408 Germinal
Émile Zola
Library holdings: 5,945
Bibliographic records: 247
Rank on complete list: 780

#409 Kon-Tiki
Thor Heyerdahl
Library holdings: 5,938
Bibliographic records: 81
Rank on complete list: 783

#410 Chocolate War

Robert Cormier
Library holdings: 5,929
Bibliographic records: 51
Rank on complete list: 784

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#411 Manon Lescaut

Abbé Prévost
Library holdings: 5,895
Bibliographic records: 375
Rank on complete list: 792

#412 Ugly Duckling

Hans Christian Andersen
Library holdings: 5,895
Bibliographic records: 202
Rank on complete list: 793

#413 Possessed
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Library holdings: 5,894
Bibliographic records: 160
Rank on complete list: 794

#414 Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls
Library holdings: 5,886
Bibliographic records: 33
Rank on complete list: 797

#415 Breathing Lessons

Anne Tyler
Library holdings: 5,882
Bibliographic records: 51
Rank on complete list: 799

#416 Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carré
Library holdings: 5,868
Bibliographic records: 99
Rank on complete list: 804

#417 Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham
Library holdings: 5,862
Bibliographic records: 159
Rank on complete list: 806

#418 Indian in the Cupboard

Lynne Reid Banks
Library holdings: 5,852
Bibliographic records: 50
Rank on complete list: 808

#419 Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

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Library holdings: 5,838

Bibliographic records: 67
Rank on complete list: 813

#420 Light in the Forest

Conrad Richter
Library holdings: 5,838
Bibliographic records: 57
Rank on complete list: 814

#421 Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough
Library holdings: 5,826
Bibliographic records: 117
Rank on complete list: 816

#422 Black Arrow

Robert Louis Stevenson
Library holdings: 5,817
Bibliographic records: 224
Rank on complete list: 818

#423 King Lear [film version]

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 5,814
Bibliographic records: 109
Rank on complete list: 819

#424 Invisible Man

H. G. Wells
Library holdings: 5,810
Bibliographic records: 205
Rank on complete list: 821

#425 Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns
Library holdings: 5,797
Bibliographic records: 29
Rank on complete list: 823

#426 Cider House Rules

John Irving
Library holdings: 5,792
Bibliographic records: 49
Rank on complete list: 824

#427 Hansel and Gretel

Library holdings: 5,782
Bibliographic records: 72
Rank on complete list: 825

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#428 Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Library holdings: 5,768
Bibliographic records: 483
Rank on complete list: 829

#429 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

Robert C. O'Brien
Library holdings: 5,750
Bibliographic records: 63
Rank on complete list: 836

#430 Three Penny Opera

Kurt Weill
Library holdings: 5,736
Bibliographic records: 169
Rank on complete list: 839

#431 Good-bye Mr. Chips

James Hilton
Library holdings: 5,734
Bibliographic records: 98
Rank on complete list: 840

#432 Steadfast Tin Soldier

Hans Christian Andersen
Library holdings: 5,707
Bibliographic records: 84
Rank on complete list: 847

#433 Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand
Library holdings: 5,707
Bibliographic records: 18
Rank on complete list: 848

#434 Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams
Library holdings: 5,702
Bibliographic records: 88
Rank on complete list: 849

#435 William Tell

Friedrich Schiller
Library holdings: 5,692
Bibliographic records: 411
Rank on complete list: 850

#436 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines
Library holdings: 5,688
Bibliographic records: 38

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Rank on complete list: 851

#437 Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley
Library holdings: 5,685
Bibliographic records: 25
Rank on complete list: 853

#438 Peer Gynt

Henrik Ibsen
Library holdings: 5,680
Bibliographic records: 238
Rank on complete list: 854

#439 Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh
Library holdings: 5,672
Bibliographic records: 49
Rank on complete list: 856

#440 Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels

Library holdings: 5,663
Bibliographic records: 571
Rank on complete list: 859

#441 Street Lawyer

John Grisham
Library holdings: 5,632
Bibliographic records: 46
Rank on complete list: 866

#442 Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger
Library holdings: 5,630
Bibliographic records: 28
Rank on complete list: 867

#443 Hansel and Gretel

Engelbert Humperdinck
Library holdings: 5,622
Bibliographic records: 309
Rank on complete list: 869

#444 Wings of the Dove

Henry James
Library holdings: 5,621
Bibliographic records: 89
Rank on complete list: 870

#445 Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

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Library holdings: 5,615

Bibliographic records: 115
Rank on complete list: 873

#446 Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton
Library holdings: 5,613
Bibliographic records: 62
Rank on complete list: 875

#447 King and I

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Library holdings: 5,611
Bibliographic records: 182
Rank on complete list: 876

#448 Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers
Library holdings: 5,606
Bibliographic records: 68
Rank on complete list: 879

#449 Nana
Émile Zola
Library holdings: 5,605
Bibliographic records: 294
Rank on complete list: 880

#450 Timeline
Michael Crichton
Library holdings: 5,598
Bibliographic records: 44
Rank on complete list: 882

#451 Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin
Library holdings: 5,582
Bibliographic records: 55
Rank on complete list: 886

#452 Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster
Library holdings: 5,579
Bibliographic records: 65
Rank on complete list: 888

#453 Midsummer Night's Dream [film version]

William Shakespeare
Library holdings: 5,572
Bibliographic records: 134
Rank on complete list: 889

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#454 Patriot Games

Tom Clancy
Library holdings: 5,568
Bibliographic records: 45
Rank on complete list: 891

#455 Barnaby Rudge

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 5,566
Bibliographic records: 361
Rank on complete list: 892

#456 Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren
Library holdings: 5,564
Bibliographic records: 113
Rank on complete list: 893

#457 La Forza del Destino

Giuseppe Verdi
Library holdings: 5,557
Bibliographic records: 380
Rank on complete list: 895

#458 Swan Lake

Peter Tchaikovsky
Library holdings: 5,536
Bibliographic records: 458
Rank on complete list: 902

#459 Shipping News

Annie Proulx
Library holdings: 5,530
Bibliographic records: 32
Rank on complete list: 904

#460 Accidental Tourist

Anne Tyler
Library holdings: 5,507
Bibliographic records: 61
Rank on complete list: 917

#461 Lady of the Lake

Sir Walter Scott
Library holdings: 5,497
Bibliographic records: 442
Rank on complete list: 918

#462 Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Library holdings: 5,495
Bibliographic records: 78

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Rank on complete list: 919

#463 Abduction from the Seraglio

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Library holdings: 5,493
Bibliographic records: 364
Rank on complete list: 920

#464 Manon Lescaut

Giacomo Puccini
Library holdings: 5,489
Bibliographic records: 254
Rank on complete list: 921

#465 I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Margaret Craven
Library holdings: 5,482
Bibliographic records: 27
Rank on complete list: 922

#466 Rainmaker
John Grisham
Library holdings: 5,466
Bibliographic records: 73
Rank on complete list: 928

#467 Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt
Library holdings: 5,460
Bibliographic records: 42
Rank on complete list: 931

#468 Crucible
Arthur Miller
Library holdings: 5,453
Bibliographic records: 51
Rank on complete list: 935

#469 Matilda
Roald Dahl
Library holdings: 5,436
Bibliographic records: 68
Rank on complete list: 941

#470 Pelléas and Mélisande

Claude Debussy
Library holdings: 5,434
Bibliographic records: 214
Rank on complete list: 944

#471 Murder on the Orient Express

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Agatha Christie
Library holdings: 5,430
Bibliographic records: 124
Rank on complete list: 946

#472 Victory
Joseph Conrad
Library holdings: 5,429
Bibliographic records: 157
Rank on complete list: 948

#473 Only Yesterday

Frederick Lewis Allen
Library holdings: 5,421
Bibliographic records: 26
Rank on complete list: 949

#474 Loves Music, Loves to Dance

Mary Higgins Clark
Library holdings: 5,415
Bibliographic records: 36
Rank on complete list: 950

#475 Sum of All Fears

Tom Clancy
Library holdings: 5,406
Bibliographic records: 37
Rank on complete list: 953

#476 Lost World

Michael Crichton
Library holdings: 5,398
Bibliographic records: 37
Rank on complete list: 954

#477 Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes
Library holdings: 5,396
Bibliographic records: 49
Rank on complete list: 955

#478 History of Gil Blas of Santillana

Alain René Le Sage
Library holdings: 5,386
Bibliographic records: 506
Rank on complete list: 958

#479 Death in the Family

James Agee
Library holdings: 5,380
Bibliographic records: 33
Rank on complete list: 961

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#480 While My Pretty One Sleeps

Mary Higgins Clark
Library holdings: 5,379
Bibliographic records: 39
Rank on complete list: 962

#481 Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf
Library holdings: 5,373
Bibliographic records: 97
Rank on complete list: 963

#482 Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines
Library holdings: 5,371
Bibliographic records: 20
Rank on complete list: 964

#483 Emperor's New Clothes

Hans Christian Andersen
Library holdings: 5,370
Bibliographic records: 163
Rank on complete list: 965

#484 Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe
Library holdings: 5,363
Bibliographic records: 38
Rank on complete list: 969

#485 Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach
Library holdings: 5,358
Bibliographic records: 88
Rank on complete list: 971

#486 Trumpet of the Swan

E. B. White
Library holdings: 5,355
Bibliographic records: 50
Rank on complete list: 975

#487 Death in Venice

Thomas Mann
Library holdings: 5,350
Bibliographic records: 152
Rank on complete list: 976

#488 Borrowers
Mary Norton

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Library holdings: 5,344

Bibliographic records: 72
Rank on complete list: 978

#489 Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot
Library holdings: 5,338
Bibliographic records: 89
Rank on complete list: 979

#490 Great Gilly Hopkins

Katherine Paterson
Library holdings: 5,336
Bibliographic records: 57
Rank on complete list: 980

#491 Villette
Charlotte Brontë
Library holdings: 5,332
Bibliographic records: 224
Rank on complete list: 982

#492 Ox-Bow Incident

Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Library holdings: 5,321
Bibliographic records: 47
Rank on complete list: 988

#493 Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw
Library holdings: 5,313
Bibliographic records: 135
Rank on complete list: 992

#494 Oklahoma
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Library holdings: 5,302
Bibliographic records: 237
Rank on complete list: 993

#495 Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham
Library holdings: 5,294
Bibliographic records: 106
Rank on complete list: 996

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