The Library 100 List

The Library 100 List From OCLC WorldCat

The Library 100 is a list of the top 500 novels based on the total number of copies for a specific novel across all libraries that have registered that information in WorldCat.

RankTitleAuthor
1Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes
2Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
3The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
4The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain
5Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
6Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
7Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë
8Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
9Moby DickHerman Melville
10The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne
11Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift
12The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan
13A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens
14David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
15A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
16Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
17Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
18The Hobbit, or, There and Back AgainJ.R.R. Tolkien
19Frankenstein, or, the Modern PrometheusMary Shelley
20Oliver TwistCharles Dickens
21Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe
22Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
23Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial lifeGustave Flaubert
24The Return of the KingJ.R.R. Tolkien
25DraculaBram Stoker
26The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas
27Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
28War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy
29To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
30The Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum
31Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
32The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett
33Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
34The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
35The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
36The Call of the WildJack London
3720,000 Leagues Under the SeaJules Verne
38Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
39The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame
40The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
41The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
42Sense and SensibilityJane Austen
43The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
44Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy
45Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneJ.K. Rowling
46HeidiJohanna Spyri
47UlyssesJames Joyce
48The Complete Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
49The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
50The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
51The Lion, the Witch, and the WardrobeC.S. Lewis
52The Hunchback of Notre DameVictor Hugo
53PinocchioCarlo Collodi
54One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez
55IvanhoeWalter Scott
56The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane
57Anne of Green GablesL.M. Montgomery
58Black BeautyAnna Sewell
59Peter PanJ.M. Barrie
60A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
61The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne
62Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding
63The Prince and the PauperMark Twain
64A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce
65Lord JimJoseph Conrad
66Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsJ.K. Rowling
67The Red & the BlackStendhal
68The StrangerAlbert Camus
69The TrialFranz Kafka
70Lady Chatterley's LoverD.H. Lawrence
71Kidnapped: The Adventures of David BalfourRobert Louis Stevenson
72The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger
73Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
74A Journey to the Center of the EarthJules Verne
75Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
76All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque
77Gone with the WindMargaret Mitchell
78My ÁntoniaWilla Cather
79Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck
80The Vicar of WakefieldOliver Goldsmith
81A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain
82White FangJack London
83Fathers and SonsIvan Sergeevich Turgenev
84Doctor ZhivagoBoris Leonidovich Pasternak
85The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio
86Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
87The JungleUpton Sinclair
88The Da Vinci CodeDan Brown
89PersuasionJane Austen
90Mansfield ParkJane Austen
91CandideVoltaire
92For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
93Far from the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy
94The Fellowship of the RingJ.R.R. Tolkien
95The Return of the NativeThomas Hardy
96Sons and LoversD.H. Lawrence
97Charlotte's WebE.B. White
98The Swiss Family RobinsonJohann David Wyss
99Bleak HouseCharles Dickens
100Père GoriotHonoré de Balzac
101UtopiaThomas More
102The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding
103Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ.K. Rowling
104KimRudyard Kipling
105The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner
106Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireJ.K. Rowling
107The Mill on the FlossGeorge Eliot
108A Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L'Engle
109The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle
110The Two TowersJ.R.R. Tolkien
111The War of the WorldsH.G. Wells
112MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
113The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton
114The Color PurpleAlice Walker
115Northanger AbbeyJane Austen
116East of EdenJohn Steinbeck
117On the RoadJack Kerouac
118Catch-22Joseph Heller
119Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne
120Hard TimesCharles Dickens
121BelovedToni Morrison
122Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf
123To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf
124The Magician's NephewC.S. Lewis
125Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixJ.K. Rowling
126The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
127The Good EarthPearl S. Buck
128Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot
129Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez
130RebeccaDaphne Du Maurier
131Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy
132TwilightStephenie Meyer
133A Passage to IndiaE.M. Forster
134The PlagueAlbert Camus
135Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens
136The PearlJohn Steinbeck
137Ethan FromeEdith Wharton
138The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu
139The GiverLois Lowry
140The AlchemistPaulo Coelho
141The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
142Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
143Tender is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald
144The IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky
145HatchetGary Paulsen
146The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
147One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey
148The Portrait of a LadyHenry James
149The OutsidersS.E. Hinton
150Ben-HurLew Wallace
151The Mayor of CasterbridgeThomas Hardy
152Cry, The Beloved CountryAlan Paton
153The Last BattleC.S. Lewis
154Captains CourageousRudyard Kipling
155The CastleFranz Kafka
156The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
157The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)Thomas Mann
158James and the Giant PeachRoald Dahl
159The Horse and His BoyC.S. Lewis
160Angels & DemonsDan Brown
161The Voyage of the Dawn TreaderC.S. Lewis
162The Bell JarSylvia Plath
163Women in LoveD.H. Lawrence
164The YearlingMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings
165O Pioneers!Willa Cather
166The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood
167The MoonstoneWilkie Collins
168The Old Curiosity ShopCharles Dickens
169Little DorritCharles Dickens
170Prince Caspian: The Return to NarniaC.S. Lewis
171Sister CarrieTheodore Dreiser
172The Silver ChairC.S. Lewis
173The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
174This Side of ParadiseF. Scott Fitzgerald
175Eugénie GrandetHonoré de Balzac
176Of Human BondageW. Somerset Maugham
177Dream of the Red ChamberCao Xueqin
178Life of PiYann Martel
179Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsJ.K. Rowling
180Invisible ManRalph Ellison
181SteppenwolfHermann Hesse
182The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
183Bridge to TerabithiaKatherine Paterson
184The Invisible ManH.G. Wells
185HolesLouis Sachar
186SiddharthaHermann Hesse
187A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith
188Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found ThereLewis Carroll
189In Cold BloodTruman Capote
190The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende
191Adam BedeGeorge Eliot
192The BetrothedAlessandro Manzoni
193The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak
194Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston
195One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
196The Sea WolfJack London
197Catching FireSuzanne Collins
198Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryMildred D. Taylor
199Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilla Cather
200The House of MirthEdith Wharton
201Light in AugustWilliam Faulkner
202The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens
203Remembrance of Things PastMarcel Proust
204Barchester Towers and the WardenAnthony Trollope
205The Bridge of San Luis ReyThornton Wilder
206The HelpKathryn Stockett
207Murder on the Orient ExpressAgatha Christie
208The Lovely BonesAlice Sebold
209The AppealJohn Grisham
210Dombey And SonCharles Dickens
211Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut
212An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser
213The Bluest EyeToni Morrison
214Little House In the Big WoodsLaura Ingalls Wilder
215Pippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren
216GerminalÉmile Zola
217The Heart Is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers
218The Woman In WhiteWilkie Collins
219Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner
220A Painted HouseJohn Grisham
221The Girl With the Dragon TattooStieg Larsson
222A Room With a ViewE.M. Forster
223Watership DownRichard Adams
224Memoirs of a GeishaArthur Golden
225Our Mutual FriendCharles Dickens
226BabbittSinclair Lewis
227The Red PonyJohn Steinbeck
228All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren
229Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe
230Lorna DooneR.D. Blackmore
231Johnny TremainEsther Forbes
232Anne of AvonleaL.M. Montgomery
233Tuck EverlastingNatalie Babbitt
234The BFGRoald Dahl
235Cannery RowJohn Steinbeck
236The Joy Luck ClubAmy Tan
237The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien
238RootsAlex Haley
239Little House on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder
240Native SonRichard Wright
241Stuart LittleE.B. White
242Cross FireJames Patterson
243The Power and the GloryGraham Greene
244A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess
245The Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux
246The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury
247The RoadCormac McCarthy
248The Way of All FleshSamuel Butler
249Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long HaulJeff Kinney
250VilletteCharlotte Brontë
251The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-TimeMark Haddon
252The Mysterious IslandJules Verne
253Song of SolomonToni Morrison
254NanaÉmile Zola
255Quo VadisHenryk Sienkiewicz
256Main StreetSinclair Lewis
257MatildaRoald Dahl
258LolitaVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
259Paper TownsJohn Green
260SounderWilliam H. Armstrong
261Are You There God? It's Me, MargaretJudy Blume
262The NotebookNicholas Sparks
263From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. FrankweilerE.L. Konigsburg
264Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand
265The FountainheadAyn Rand
266Number the StarsLois Lowry
267The FirmJohn Grisham
268Swann's WayMarcel Proust
269Ender's GameOrson Scott Card
270The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco
271A Time to KillJohn Grisham
272Water for ElephantsSara Gruen
273The Time MachineH.G. Wells
274EragonChristopher Paolini
275The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams
276BuddenbrooksThomas Mann
277A Thousand Splendid SunsKhaled Hosseini
278The Witch of Blackbird PondElizabeth George Speare
279And Then There Were NoneAgatha Christie
280A Separate PeaceJohn Knowles
281Breaking DawnStephenie Meyer
282As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner
283The Girl Who Played With FireStieg Larsson
284Where the Red Fern GrowsWilson Rawls
285Le Morte D'ArthurThomas Malory
286MockingjaySuzanne Collins
287The Pillars of the EarthKen Follett
288Persian LettersMontesquieu
289The ClientJohn Grisham
290SulaToni Morrison
291Tales of a Fourth Grade NothingJudy Blume
292The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown In NottinghamshireHoward Pyle
293Tortilla FlatJohn Steinbeck
294Look Homeward, AngelThomas Wolfe
295The Mystery of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens
296Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh
297The Pelican BriefJohn Grisham
298AtonementIan McEwan
299Washington SquareHenry James
300Like Water for ChocolateLaura Esquivel
301The Golden CompassPhilip Pullman
302The Secret Life of BeesSue Monk Kidd
303The Fault In Our StarsJohn Green
304NostromoJoseph Conrad
305Finnegans WakeJames Joyce
306The BrethrenJohn Grisham
307CoralineNeil Gaiman
308Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
309On the Banks of Plum CreekLaura Ingalls Wilder
310Rebecca of Sunnybrook FarmKate Douglas Smith Wiggin
311The AmbassadorsHenry James
312The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
313The House on Mango StreetSandra Cisneros
314Go Tell It on the MountainJames Baldwin
315The TestamentJohn Grisham
316The Clan of the Cave BearJean M. Auel
317CranfordElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
318Because of Winn-DixieKate DiCamillo
319My Side of the MountainJean Craighead George
320The Runaway JuryJohn Grisham
321The Mouse and the MotorcycleBeverly Cleary
322The Lost SymbolDan Brown
323The Forsyte SagaJohn Galsworthy
324Gone GirlGillian Flynn
325The Lightning ThiefRick Riordan
326The Last Days of PompeiiEdward Bulwer Lytton
327The ReaderBernhard Schlink
328Caddie WoodlawnCarol Ryrie Brink
329The Tale of DespereauxKate DiCamillo
330The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's NestStieg Larsson
331Dear Mr. HenshawBeverly Cleary
332The Killer AngelsMichael Shaara
333Chronicle of a Death ForetoldGabriel García Márquez
334The Five People You Meet In HeavenMitch Albom
335The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov
336Winesburg, OhioSherwood Anderson
337"P" Is for PerilSue Grafton
338My Sister's KeeperJodi Picoult
339Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
340Howards EndE.M. Forster
341The BrokerJohn Grisham
342The Camel ClubDavid Baldacci
343The RainbowD.H. Lawrence
344The Man In the Iron MaskAlexandre Dumas
345Mary PoppinsP.L. Travers
346Artemis FowlEoin Colfer
347Dear JohnNicholas Sparks
348Cold MountainCharles Frazier
349Flowers for AlgernonDaniel Keyes
350The Dark Is RisingSusan Cooper
351ResurrectionLeo Tolstoy
352Fearless FourteenJanet Evanovich
353A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyLaurence Sterne
354The King of TortsJohn Grisham
355The Graveyard BookNeil Gaiman
356The Quiet AmericanGraham Greene
357The ChamberJohn Grisham
358The English PatientMichael Ondaatje
359Snow Falling on CedarsDavid Guterson
360The Long WinterLaura Ingalls Wilder
361Sarah, Plain and TallPatricia MacLachlan
362Cross CountryJames Patterson
363The Spy Who Came In from the ColdJohn Le Carré
364A Game of ThronesGeorge R.R. Martin
365The Thorn BirdsColleen McCullough
366Old YellerFred Gipson
367Ramona Quimby, Age 8Beverly Cleary
368Death In VeniceThomas Mann
369By the Shores of Silver LakeLaura Ingalls Wilder
370InfernoDan Brown
371Schindler's ListThomas Keneally
372Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
373The StandStephen King
374The Last JurorJohn Grisham
375ShilohPhyllis Reynolds Naylor
376Girl With a Pearl EarringTracy Chevalier
377The Murder of Roger AckroydAgatha Christie
378ItStephen King
379The RainmakerJohn Grisham
380The Poisonwood BibleBarbara Kingsolver
381The Indian in the CupboardLynne Reid Banks
382The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett
383The WardenAnthony Trollope
384The SummonsJohn Grisham
385Encyclopedia Brown: Boy DetectiveDonald J. Sobol
386The Time Traveler's WifeAudrey Niffenegger
387The Incredible JourneySheila Burnford
388Daughter of FortuneIsabel Allende
389ShirleyCharlotte Brontë
390Bud, Not BuddyChristopher Paul Curtis
391The Horse WhispererNicholas Evans
392The Street LawyerJohn Grisham
393NauseaJean-Paul Sartre
394To Have and Have NotErnest Hemingway
395The Bridges of Madison CountyRobert James Waller
396Anne of the IslandL.M. Montgomery
397The Winter of Our DiscontentJohn Steinbeck
398The ShiningStephen King
399The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Brontë
400First FamilyDavid Baldacci
401The PartnerJohn Grisham
402The Girl on the TrainPaula Hawkins
403The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two RosesRobert Louis Stevenson
404The Rise of Silas LaphamWilliam Dea Howells
405The ChoiceNicholas Sparks
406The Virginian: A Horseman of the PlainsOwen Wister
407A Walk to RememberNicholas Sparks
408The Maze RunnerJames Dashner
409The Westing GameEllen Raskin
410Misty of ChincoteagueMarguerite Henry
411Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last StrawJeff Kinney
412King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard
413The Princess of ClevesMadame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayett
414Jacob Have I LovedKatherine Paterson
415Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMHRobert C. O'Brien
416MiseryStephen King
417The Cider House RulesJohn Irving
418King of the WindMarguerite Henry
419The Once and Future KingT. H. White
420The WitchesRoald Dahl
421The Subtle KnifePhilip Pullman
422When You Reach MeRebecca Stead
423CarrieStephen King
424The Moon and SixpenceW. Somerset Maugham
425The Higher Power of LuckySusan Patron
426Looking Backward, 2000-1887Edward Bellamy
427The Wings of the DoveHenry James
428The Summer of the SwansBetsy Cromer Byars
429Dangerous LiaisonsChoderlos de Laclos
430Jurassic ParkMichael Crichton
431The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time IndianSherman Alexie
432The Grey KingSusan Cooper
433The LeopardGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
434The Mammoth HuntersJean M. Auel
435The Trumpet of the SwanE.B. White
436The Lucky OneNicholas Sparks
437These Happy Golden YearsLaura Ingalls Wilder
438ArrowsmithSinclair Lewis
439Julie of the WolvesJean Craighead George
440The Screwtape LettersC.S. Lewis
441The FallAlbert Camus
442The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyAlexander McCall Smith
443Worst CaseJames Patterson
444Lost HorizonJames Hilton
445The GunslingerStephen King
446The Slave DancerPaula Fox
447Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceJ.K. Rowling
448InkheartCornelia Funke
449Ramona and her FatherBeverly Cleary
450InkspellCornelia Funke
451Ramona the PestBeverly Cleary
452Walk Two MoonsSharon Creech
453Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenRansom Riggs
454The Chocolate WarRobert Cormier
455Sophie's ChoiceWilliam Styron
456Looking for AlaskaJohn Green
457Breakfast at Tiffany'sTruman Capote
458The Razor's EdgeW. Somerset Maugham
459DreamcatcherStephen King
460OrlandoVirginia Woolf
461The Things they CarriedTim O'Brien
462Little Town on the PrairieLaura Ingalls Wilder
463Nights in RodantheNicholas Sparks
464The Amber SpyglassPhilip Pullman
465The Miraculous Journey of Edward TulaneKate DiCamillo
466FlatlandEdwin A. Abbott
467Diary of a Wimpy KidJeff Kinney
468The Memory Keeper's DaughterKim Edwards
469The WeddingNicholas Sparks
470Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop CafeFannie Flagg
471The Cricket in Times SquareGeorge Selden
472The Phantom TollboothNorton Juster
473Rob RoyWalter Scott
474The Death of Ivan IlychLeo Tolstoy
475Alex Cross's TrialJames Patterson
476KenilworthWalter Scott
477The Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne
478The Remains of theDayKazuo Ishiguro
479M.C. Higgins, The GreatVirginia Hamilton
480Call It CourageArmstrong Sperry
481Go Set a WatchmanHarper Lee
482BleachersJohn Grisham
483Elijah of BuxtonChristopher Paul Curtis
484SwimsuitJames Patterson
485Cat's CradleKurt Vonnegut
486The Caine MutinyHerman Wouk
487The Heart of the MatterGraham Greene
488Harriet, the SpyLouise Fitzhugh
489Darkness at NoonArthur Koestler
490A Prayer for Owen MeanyJohn Irving
491The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
492The AssociateJohn Grisham
493The ShackWilliam P. Young
494The Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer
495The Sea of MonstersRick Riordan
496Stranger in a Strange LandRobert A. Heinlein
497Vision in WhiteNora Roberts
498The Whipping BoySid Fleischman
499RoomEmma Donoghue
500Deception PointDan Brown

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