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OCLC Top 1000

2005 Runners up

As with the original 2004 list, we had to extract a larger number of records from WorldCat in order to end up with the updated Top 1000 list, due to consolidation. The titles here didn't quite make the cut, but are still widely held by libraries around the world.

#1002 Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Library holdings: 5,280 Bibliographic records: 24 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1003 "P" Is for Peril Sue Grafton Library holdings: 5,278 Bibliographic records: 23 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1004 Alice in Wonderland [film version] Lewis Carroll Library holdings: 5,270 Bibliographic records: 147
#1005 Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language David Bernard Guralnik Library holdings: 5,267 Bibliographic records: 96 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1006 Woman in White Wilkie Collins Library holdings: 5,258 Bibliographic records: 217 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1007 Bud Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Library holdings: 5,258 Bibliographic records: 29 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1008 Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott Library holdings: 5,256 Bibliographic records: 353 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1009 Night Elie Wiesel Library holdings: 5,255 Bibliographic records: 54 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1010 Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare Library holdings: 5,253 Bibliographic records: 38 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1011 Henry VI Part 3 William Shakespeare Library holdings: 5,251 Bibliographic records: 85 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1012 Growth of the American Republic Samuel Eliot Morison Library holdings: 5,250 Bibliographic records: 30 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1013 Presumed Innocent Scott Turow Library holdings: 5,248 Bibliographic records: 40 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1014 Copyright Book: A Practical Guide William S. Strong Library holdings: 5,247 Bibliographic records: 10 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1015 Tin Drum Günter Grass Library holdings: 5,245 Bibliographic records: 122 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1016 Don Juan George Gordon, Lord Byron Library holdings: 5,244 Bibliographic records: 216 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1017 Little Men Louisa May Alcott Library holdings: 5,242 Bibliographic records: 127 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1018 Winter of our Discontent John Steinbeck Library holdings: 5,241 Bibliographic records: 73 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1019 Nation Library holdings: 5,239 Bibliographic records: 14
#1020 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Library holdings: 5,238 Bibliographic records: 33 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1021 Shane Jack Schaefer Library holdings: 5,237 Bibliographic records: 90 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1022 Camelot Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner Library holdings: 5,236 Bibliographic records: 134 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1023 Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke Library holdings: 5,234 Bibliographic records: 134 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1024 Door in the Wall Marguerite De Angeli Library holdings: 5,227 Bibliographic records: 31 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1025 American Heritage Library holdings: 5,227 Bibliographic records: 7
#1026 Lord God Made Them All James Herriot Library holdings: 5,226 Bibliographic records: 26 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1027 Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals Frederick H. Pough Library holdings: 5,225 Bibliographic records: 15 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1028 Lives of the Saints Alban Butler Library holdings: 5,224 Bibliographic records: 66 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1029 Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne Library holdings: 5,221 Bibliographic records: 185 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1030 Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen Library holdings: 5,220 Bibliographic records: 80 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1031 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus Library holdings: 5,219 Bibliographic records: 282 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1032 Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Library holdings: 5,215 Bibliographic records: 32 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1033 Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy Douglas Adams Library holdings: 5,212 Bibliographic records: 39 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1034 Vietnam: A History Stanley Karnow Library holdings: 5,211 Bibliographic records: 12 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1035 Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Library holdings: 5,210 Bibliographic records: 128 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1036 Man without a Country Edward Everett Hale Library holdings: 5,205 Bibliographic records: 235 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1037 Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper Library holdings: 5,205 Bibliographic records: 38 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1038 King of Torts John Grisham Library holdings: 5,205 Bibliographic records: 35 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1039 Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel Virginia Lee Burton Library holdings: 5,204 Bibliographic records: 45 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1040 'Tis Frank McCourt Library holdings: 5,204 Bibliographic records: 36 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1041 Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Library holdings: 5,203 Bibliographic records: 94 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1042 "A" Is for Alibi Sue Grafton Library holdings: 5,201 Bibliographic records: 42 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1043 Soul Harvest Tim F. Lahaye Library holdings: 5,201 Bibliographic records: 32 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1044 Madame Curie Eve Curie Library holdings: 5,195 Bibliographic records: 120 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1045 Natural History Pliny Library holdings: 5,194 Bibliographic records: 301 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1046 PCs for Dummies Dan Gookin Library holdings: 5,192 Bibliographic records: 34 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1047 Science Weekly Library holdings: 5,190 Bibliographic records: 5
#1048 Truman David G. McCullough Library holdings: 5,188 Bibliographic records: 9 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1049 Cézanne Paul Cézanne Library holdings: 5,186 Bibliographic records: 95 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1050 National Velvet Enid Bagnold Library holdings: 5,185 Bibliographic records: 56 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1051 Famous First Facts Joseph Nathan Kane Library holdings: 5,184 Bibliographic records: 4 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1052 Anabasis Xenophon Library holdings: 5,179 Bibliographic records: 503 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1053 Evangeline Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Library holdings: 5,178 Bibliographic records: 450 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1054 Blubber Judy Blume Library holdings: 5,174 Bibliographic records: 33 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1055 Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen Library holdings: 5,169 Bibliographic records: 110 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1056 Tara Road Maeve Binchy Library holdings: 5,168 Bibliographic records: 31 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1057 Black Stallion Walter Farley Library holdings: 5,162 Bibliographic records: 48 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1058 Times Atlas of the World Library holdings: 5,158 Bibliographic records: 38 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1059 Apollyon Tim F. Lahaye Library holdings: 5,158 Bibliographic records: 27 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1060 Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher Library holdings: 5,157 Bibliographic records: 40 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1061 Pinocchio [Film version] Carlo Collodi Library holdings: 5,156 Bibliographic records: 147 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1062 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann Library holdings: 5,156 Bibliographic records: 105 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1063 Pretend You Don't See Her Mary Higgins Clark Library holdings: 5,152 Bibliographic records: 31 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1064 Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene O'Neill Library holdings: 5,146 Bibliographic records: 67 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1065 World Atlas J. Paul Goode Library holdings: 5,145 Bibliographic records: 41 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1066 Henry VI Part 2 William Shakespeare Library holdings: 5,143 Bibliographic records: 92 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1067 Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church F. L. Cross Library holdings: 5,138 Bibliographic records: 17 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1068 Library Journal Library holdings: 5,131 Bibliographic records: 2
#1069 Prey Michael Crichton Library holdings: 5,130 Bibliographic records: 31 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1070 Guns of August Barbara Tuchman Library holdings: 5,124 Bibliographic records: 30 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1071 Dictionary of Occupational Titles Library holdings: 5,121 Bibliographic records: 13 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1072 Future Shock Alvin Toffler Library holdings: 5,119 Bibliographic records: 44 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1073 Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Library holdings: 5,117 Bibliographic records: 292 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1074 Missing May Cynthia Rylant Library holdings: 5,114 Bibliographic records: 27 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1075 Assassins Tim F. Lahaye Library holdings: 5,112 Bibliographic records: 31 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1076 Self Therapy for the Stutterer Malcolm Fraser Library holdings: 5,111 Bibliographic records: 16 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1077 Forbes Library holdings: 5,111 Bibliographic records: 7
#1078 By the Shores of Silver Lake Laura Ingalls Wilder Library holdings: 5,107 Bibliographic records: 51 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1079 Frog and Toad Are Friends Arnold Lobel Library holdings: 5,106 Bibliographic records: 68 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1080 Gunslinger Stephen King Library holdings: 5,103 Bibliographic records: 30 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1081 Godfather Mario Puzo Library holdings: 5,101 Bibliographic records: 118 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1082 Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner Library holdings: 5,101 Bibliographic records: 34 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1083 Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson Library holdings: 5,098 Bibliographic records: 250 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1084 Mr. Popper's Penguins Richard Atwater Library holdings: 5,095 Bibliographic records: 63 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1085 Misanthrope Molière Library holdings: 5,091 Bibliographic records: 314 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1086 Tartuffe Molière Library holdings: 5,089 Bibliographic records: 304 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1087 Blue Highways William Least Heat Moon Library holdings: 5,089 Bibliographic records: 24 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1088 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg Library holdings: 5,086 Bibliographic records: 28 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1089 Robe Lloyd C. Douglas Library holdings: 5,084 Bibliographic records: 62 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1090 Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom Library holdings: 5,081 Bibliographic records: 13 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1091 Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Library holdings: 5,080 Bibliographic records: 185 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1092 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Richard Strauss Library holdings: 5,077 Bibliographic records: 307 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1093 First to Die James Patterson Library holdings: 5,076 Bibliographic records: 29 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1094 Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming our Lives John Naisbitt Library holdings: 5,076 Bibliographic records: 15 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1095 Greek Myths Robert Graves Library holdings: 5,074 Bibliographic records: 58 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1096 Airframe Michael Crichton Library holdings: 5,074 Bibliographic records: 34 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1097 Encyclopedia of American History Richard Brandon Morris Library holdings: 5,073 Bibliographic records: 5 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1098 Wozzeck Alban Berg Library holdings: 5,071 Bibliographic records: 163 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1099 Little House Virginia Lee Burton Library holdings: 5,068 Bibliographic records: 56 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1100 New Yorker Library holdings: 5,063 Bibliographic records: 14
#1101 Nicolae Tim F. Lahaye Library holdings: 5,060 Bibliographic records: 31 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1102 Westing Game Ellen Raskin Library holdings: 5,057 Bibliographic records: 24 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1103 Hot Zone Richard Preston Library holdings: 5,057 Bibliographic records: 18 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1104 Art of Loving Erich Fromm Library holdings: 5,051 Bibliographic records: 75 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1105 Angels and Demons Dan Brown Library holdings: 5,049 Bibliographic records: 31 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1106 She Stoops To Conquer Oliver Goldsmith Library holdings: 5,045 Bibliographic records: 240 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1107 House of the Spirits Isabel Allende Library holdings: 5,045 Bibliographic records: 99 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1108 Fortune Library holdings: 5,044 Bibliographic records: 4
#1109 Mark Tim F. Lahaye Library holdings: 5,041 Bibliographic records: 27 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1110 Rainbow D. H. Lawrence Library holdings: 5,037 Bibliographic records: 104 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1111 Symphony No. 2 in D Major Ludwig van Beethoven Library holdings: 5,036 Bibliographic records: 439 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1112 Loop Nicholas Evans Library holdings: 5,033 Bibliographic records: 24 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1113 Gods Graves and Scholars C. W. Ceram Library holdings: 5,032 Bibliographic records: 71 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1114 Popular Science Library holdings: 5,029 Bibliographic records: 4
#1115 American Heritage Book of the Revolution Bruce Lancaster Library holdings: 5,025 Bibliographic records: 16 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1116 Study in Scarlet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Library holdings: 5,024 Bibliographic records: 335 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1117 Indwelling Tim F. Lahaye Library holdings: 5,023 Bibliographic records: 26 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1118 Spy James Fenimore Cooper Library holdings: 5,020 Bibliographic records: 251 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1119 Book of Common Prayer Episcopal Church Library holdings: 5,019 Bibliographic records: 297 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1120 On the Street Where You Live Mary Higgins Clark Library holdings: 5,014 Bibliographic records: 36 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1121 Science and Health Mary Baker Eddy Library holdings: 5,013 Bibliographic records: 169 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1122 Filmgoer's Companion Leslie Halliwell Library holdings: 5,013 Bibliographic records: 37 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1123 Nutcracker Peter Tchaikovsky Library holdings: 5,011 Bibliographic records: 360 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1124 Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper Library holdings: 5,010 Bibliographic records: 173 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1125 Stage Makeup Richard Corson Library holdings: 5,007 Bibliographic records: 15 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1126 Art of Walt Disney From Mickey Mouse To the Magic Kingdoms Christopher Finch Library holdings: 5,007 Bibliographic records: 11 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1127 Road Ahead Bill Gates Library holdings: 5,005 Bibliographic records: 32 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1128 Tales of Hoffman Jacques Offenbach Library holdings: 5,003 Bibliographic records: 336 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1129 Make Your Own Living Trust Denis Clifford Library holdings: 5,003 Bibliographic records: 17 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1130 Without Remorse Tom Clancy Library holdings: 5,001 Bibliographic records: 30 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1131 Statistical Abstract of the United States Library holdings: 5,001 Bibliographic records: 24 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1132 Walk To Remember Nicholas Sparks Library holdings: 4,999 Bibliographic records: 32 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1133 How to Eat Fried Worms Thomas Rockwell Library holdings: 4,998 Bibliographic records: 32 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1134 Russia House John Le Carré Library holdings: 4,996 Bibliographic records: 47 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1135 Love Medicine Louise Erdrich Library holdings: 4,995 Bibliographic records: 27 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1136 Q is for Quarry Sue Grafton Library holdings: 4,995 Bibliographic records: 19 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1137 Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Library holdings: 4,994 Bibliographic records: 116 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1138 Whole Internet Users Guide & Catalog Ed Krol Library holdings: 4,993 Bibliographic records: 15 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1139 Redwall Brian Jacques Library holdings: 4,992 Bibliographic records: 35 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1140 Burden of Proof Scott Turow Library holdings: 4,992 Bibliographic records: 26 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1141 Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene Library holdings: 4,989 Bibliographic records: 40 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1142 Executive Orders Tom Clancy Library holdings: 4,988 Bibliographic records: 27 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1143 Debt of Honor Tom Clancy Library holdings: 4,986 Bibliographic records: 24 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1144 Book of the Courtier Baldassarre Castiglione Library holdings: 4,984 Bibliographic records: 206 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1145 Carnival James Thurber Library holdings: 4,984 Bibliographic records: 45 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1146 Psychological Testing Anne Anastasi Library holdings: 4,984 Bibliographic records: 16 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1147 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Ebenezer Brewer Library holdings: 4,982 Bibliographic records: 88 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1148 Ramona Forever Beverly Cleary Library holdings: 4,981 Bibliographic records: 40 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1149 Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver Library holdings: 4,981 Bibliographic records: 19 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1150 Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton Library holdings: 4,980 Bibliographic records: 61 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1151 Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni Library holdings: 4,979 Bibliographic records: 589 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1152 Sophie's Choice William Styron Library holdings: 4,978 Bibliographic records: 76 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1153 Quiet American Graham Greene Library holdings: 4,977 Bibliographic records: 109 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1154 Ordinary People Judith Guest Library holdings: 4,976 Bibliographic records: 30 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1155 Symphony No. 41 in C Major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Library holdings: 4,974 Bibliographic records: 411 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1156 Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir Library holdings: 4,974 Bibliographic records: 78 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1157 Supreme Court Lawrence Baum Library holdings: 4,972 Bibliographic records: 13 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1158 Chesapeake James A. Michener Library holdings: 4,971 Bibliographic records: 33 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1159 Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver Library holdings: 4,971 Bibliographic records: 19 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1160 Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker Library holdings: 4,964 Bibliographic records: 17 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1161 Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche Library holdings: 4,961 Bibliographic records: 127 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1162 Madeline's Rescue Ludwig Bemelmans Library holdings: 4,961 Bibliographic records: 72 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1163 Isle of Dogs Patricia Cornwell Library holdings: 4,960 Bibliographic records: 23 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1164 Pilot James Fenimore Cooper Library holdings: 4,959 Bibliographic records: 200 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1165 Symphony No. 3 in A Minor Felix Mendelssohn Library holdings: 4,958 Bibliographic records: 299 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1166 Prince of Tides Pat Conroy Library holdings: 4,956 Bibliographic records: 28 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1167 Child Is Born Lennart Nilsson Library holdings: 4,955 Bibliographic records: 23 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1168 Evelina Fanny Burney Library holdings: 4,954 Bibliographic records: 163 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1169 Renoir Auguste Renoir Library holdings: 4,954 Bibliographic records: 84 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1170 Moralia Plutarch Library holdings: 4,951 Bibliographic records: 304 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1171 Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton Library holdings: 4,949 Bibliographic records: 32 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1172 Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Library holdings: 4,946 Bibliographic records: 72 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1173 Symphony No. 9 in D Major Gustav Mahler Library holdings: 4,945 Bibliographic records: 205 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1174 Light in the Window Jan Karon Library holdings: 4,945 Bibliographic records: 19 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1175 Saving Faith David Baldacci Library holdings: 4,944 Bibliographic records: 42 Find this title in an OCLC library near you
#1176 Times Atlas of World History Geoffrey Barraclough Library holdings: 4,944 Bibliographic records: 28 Find this title in an OCLC library near you

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