{"id":133,"date":"2006-03-22T07:27:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T07:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/22\/top-25-books\/"},"modified":"2006-03-22T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T07:27:19","slug":"top-25-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/22\/top-25-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via a mailing list, the Top 1000 Books in the US<\/a>, ranked in order of library holdings. The Top 25 (after the cut):<\/p>\n

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  1. Bible<\/cite> [various] Library holdings: 796,882 <\/li>\n
  2. Census<\/cite> [various] United States Library holdings: 460,628 <\/li>\n
  3. Mother Goose<\/cite> Library holdings: 67,663 <\/li>\n
  4. Divine Comedy<\/cite> Dante Alighieri Library holdings: 62,414 <\/li>\n
  5. Odyssey<\/cite> Homer Library holdings: 45,551<\/li>\n
  6. Iliad<\/cite> Homer Library holdings: 44,093 <\/li>\n
  7. Huckleberry Finn<\/cite> Mark Twain Library holdings: 42,724<\/li>\n
  8. Lord of the Rings<\/cite> [trilogy] J. R. R. Tolkien Library holdings: 40,907 <\/li>\n
  9. Hamlet<\/cite> William Shakespeare Library holdings: 39,521 <\/li>\n
  10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/cite> Lewis Carroll Library holdings: 39,277 <\/li>\n
  11. Don Quixote<\/cite> Miguel de Cervantes Library holdings: 38,485 <\/li>\n
  12. Beowulf<\/cite> Library holdings: 37,914 <\/li>\n
  13. Koran<\/cite> Library holdings: 37,080 <\/li>\n
  14. Night Before Christmas<\/cite> Clement Clarke Moore Library holdings: 33,343 <\/li>\n
  15. Garfield<\/cite> Jim Davis Library holdings: 33,234 <\/li>\n
  16. Tom Sawyer<\/cite> Mark Twain Library holdings: 32,233 <\/li>\n
  17. Aesop’s Fables<\/cite> Aesop Library holdings: 32,232<\/li>\n
  18. Arabian Nights<\/cite> Library holdings: 31,728 <\/li>\n
  19. Macbeth<\/cite> William Shakespeare Library holdings: 30,388 <\/li>\n
  20. Gulliver’s Travels<\/cite> Jonathan Swift Library holdings: 29,066 <\/li>\n
  21. Robinson Crusoe<\/cite> Daniel Defoe Library holdings: 28,669 <\/li>\n
  22. Romeo and Juliet<\/cite> William Shakespeare Library holdings: 28,646 <\/li>\n
  23. Bhagavadgita<\/cite> Library holdings: 28,588 <\/li>\n
  24. Christmas Carol<\/cite> Charles Dickens Library holdings: 27,928 <\/li>\n
  25. Canterbury Tales<\/cite> Geoffrey Chaucer Library holdings: 27,863<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All I can really say to this is: Garfield<\/i>?<\/p>\n

    Also, it’s interesting that the Bible has more than an order of magnitude lead over the top non-reference book. Atheists, you’ve got your work cut out for you…<\/p>\n

    But, really, Garfield<\/i><\/b>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Via a mailing list, the Top 1000 Books in the US, ranked in order of library holdings. The Top 25 (after the cut):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}