WorldCat Top 1,000 Lists

The WorldCat Top 1000 Lists were created by applying FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) to WorldCat holdings. FRBR consolidates individual bibliographic records from different versions or editions of a work into one bibliographic database. Once holdings were consolidated, titles were counted and ranked in order of the number of items owned by the most libraries. Categories were created for easy reference. For other lists and fun facts visit www.oclc.org/research/top1000/.

Most widely held titles
1. Census [various] United States
2. Holy Bible
3. Mother Goose4. The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
5. The Odyssey Homer
6. The Iliad Homer
7. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
8. Hamlet William Shakespeare
9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
10. Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien

Most widely held children’s titles
1. Mother Goose
2. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
4. Aesop’s Fables Aesop
5. The Night Before Christmas Clement Clarke Moore
6. The Arabian Nights
7. Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
8. Garfield Jim Davis
9. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
10. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

Most widely held fiction titles
1. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
3. Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
5. Aesop’s Fables Aesop
6. The Arabian Nights7. Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
8. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
9. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
10. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens

Most widely held magazines and journals
1. Consumer Reports
2. Newsweek
3. National Geographic
4. U. S. News & World Report
5. Scientific American
6. Sports Illustrated
7. Smithsonian
8. Business Week
9. Science News
10. Nation

Featured WorldCat Collection

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