LibraryThing Titles & Statistics

This week’s question: -LibraryThing’s Recently Added feature: do you look at it? Do you use it for ideas? Is there something listed there now that looks interesting to you? What have you added to your LT library recently?

My head is in the cloud when it comes to LibraryThing (online book cataloging tool) features. I feel like I’m the last person on earth to have learned about them. The answer is no, but I do browse other people’s libraries and see what they have added to the virtual bookshelves for ideas. I belong to the lowest tier of membership so there is a cap of 200 books to be listed under my account. Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to list the books in my library that are most popular among LT members (boldfaced are favorites):

1. [22397] Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics), Jane Austen
2. [22164] 1984, George Orwell
3. [21140] The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
4. [14653] Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
5. [14337] Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
6. [13962] One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. [13328] The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
8. [13316] Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel, Arthur Golden
9. [12527] Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. [10478] Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
11. [10139] Great Expectations (Penguin Classics), Charles Dickens
12. [10101] The Iliad, Homer
13. [9038] The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
14. [8810] A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
15. [8670] Atonement : A Novel, Ian McEwan
16. [8488] Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. [8303] The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. [7644] The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel, Milan Kundera
19. [7111] The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
20. [7078] War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

The five “least social,” or eclectic, titles of mine:
1. [9] Escape from China : The Long Journey From Tiananmen to Freedom, Zhang Boli
2. [13] Michelangelo : A Biography, George Bull
3. [16] The Civilization of Angkor, Charles Higham
4. [18] We Are What We Eat : Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans, Donna R. Gabaccia
5. [21] Shadow of a Man, May Sarton

186 Number of books
179 Number of distinct works
629/2,749 Median/mean book obscurity (number of users who have books in mycollection)