Mar. 21st, 2006

e_clare: (book nerd)
OCLC has released a list of the 1000 most commonly-held books in libraries* around the world. [via BoingBoing]

You can play "One of these things is not like the other" with the Top 20:

1. The Bible
2. US Census
3. Mother Goose
4. Divine Comedy (Dante)
5. Odyssey (Homer)
6. Iliad (Homer)
7. Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
8. Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
9. Hamlet (Shakespeare)
10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carrol)
11. Don Quixote (Cervantes)
12. Beowulf
13. Koran
14. Night Before Christmas (Moore)
15. Garfield (Davis)
16. Tom Sawyer (Twain)
17. Aesop's Fables
18. Arabian Nights
19. Macbeth (Shakespeare)
20. Gulliver's Travels (Swift)

*OCLC member libraries only.

(Also, I'm an enabler: $10 shirt sale at Threadless through tomorrow! I want the panda.)

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