Top 500 Most Popular Books

• The list contains 500 popular books ranked by popularity.
• The data is based on the OCLC WorldCat database which contains information about billions of items
• OCLC is a nonprofit cooperative connecting thousands of member libraries worldwide

Top 10 Books

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is ranked number 1.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is ranked number 2.
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is ranked number 3.
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is ranked number 4.
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is ranked number 5.
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is ranked number 6.
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is ranked number 7.
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is ranked number 8.
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville is ranked number 9.
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is ranked number 10.

Authors with Multiple Books in the List

• Charles Dickens has multiple books in the list including A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Hard Times, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit, Dombey And Son, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
• J.K. Rowling has multiple books in the list including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
• John Grisham has multiple books in the list including The Appeal, A Painted House, The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Client, The Pelican Brief, The Brethren, The Testament, The Runaway Jury, The Broker, The King of Torts, The Chamber, The Last Juror, The Rainmaker, The Summons, The Street Lawyer, The Partner, Bleachers, The Associate.
• Laura Ingalls Wilder has multiple books in the list including Little House In the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, The Long Winter, By the Shores of Silver Lake, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years.
• Nicholas Sparks has multiple books in the list including The Notebook, Dear John, The Choice, A Walk to Remember, The Lucky One, Nights in Rodanthe, The Wedding.
• Stephen King has multiple books in the list including The Stand, It, The Shining, Misery, Carrie, Dreamcatcher, The Gunslinger.
• Robert Louis Stevenson has multiple books in the list including Treasure Island, Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses.
• Jules Verne has multiple books in the list including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island.
• Jane Austen has multiple books in the list including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey.
• Ernest Hemingway has multiple books in the list including The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, To Have and Have Not.
• L.M. Montgomery has multiple books in the list including Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island.
• Jack London has multiple books in the list including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf.
• H.G. Wells has multiple books in the list including The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald has multiple books in the list including The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise.
• Toni Morrison has multiple books in the list including Beloved,The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula.
• William Faulkner has multiple books in the list including The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying.
• Thomas Hardy has multiple books in the list including Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
• Agatha Christie has multiple books in the list including Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
• John Steinbeck has multiple books in the list including The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl, The Red Pony, Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat, The Winter of Our Discontent.
• Virginia Woolf has multiple books in the list including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando.
• D.H. Lawrence has multiple books in the list including Lady Chatterley's Lover, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow.
• E.B. White has multiple books in the list including Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan.
• Hermann Hesse has multiple books in the list including Steppenwolf, Siddhartha.
• William Somerset Maugham has multiple books in the list including Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Razor's Edge.
• Roald Dahl has multiple books in the list including James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Matilda, The Witches.
• Isabel Allende has multiple books in the list including The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune.
• Rick Riordan has multiple books in the list including The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters.
• James Patterson has multiple books in the list including Cr oss Fire, Worst Case, Cr oss Country, Swimsuit, Alex Cr oss's Trial

Other Interesting Facts

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