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# 2005 Drama Does opera (and, for that matter, musicals) belong in both the drama and music category—or just the music category? We included it in both, for this updated subset of the OCLC Top 1000 list. Some of the works in this category were originally offered as plays, and later novelized. We tried to include such titles in both Drama and Fiction categories.
#1 | Hamlet William Shakespeare Library holdings: 39,521 Bibliographic records: 2,008 Rank on complete list: 9
#2 | Macbeth William Shakespeare Library holdings: 30,388 Bibliographic records: 1,562 Rank on complete list: 19
#3 | Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Library holdings: 28,646 Bibliographic records: 1,292 Rank on complete list: 22
#4 | King Lear William Shakespeare Library holdings: 27,163 Bibliographic records: 1,112 Rank on complete list: 27
#5 | Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Library holdings: 25,492 Bibliographic records: 1,855 Rank on complete list: 33
#6 | Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Library holdings: 24,990 Bibliographic records: 1,113 Rank on complete list: 35
#7 | Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Library holdings: 24,033 Bibliographic records: 953 Rank on complete list: 36
#8 | Othello William Shakespeare Library holdings: 23,993 Bibliographic records: 988 Rank on complete list: 37
#9 | Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Library holdings: 23,922 Bibliographic records: 1,256 Rank on complete list: 38
#10 | Tempest William Shakespeare Library holdings: 21,507 Bibliographic records: 868 Rank on complete list: 52
#11 | Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Library holdings: 20,014 Bibliographic records: 804 Rank on complete list: 58
#12 | As You Like It William Shakespeare Library holdings: 19,745 Bibliographic records: 847 Rank on complete list: 61
#13 | Carmen Georges Bizet Library holdings: 18,832 Bibliographic records: 1,243 Rank on complete list: 66
#14 | Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Library holdings: 16,819 Bibliographic records: 1,084 Rank on complete list: 81
#15 | Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare Library holdings: 15,936 Bibliographic records: 504 Rank on complete list: 96
#16 | La Bohème Giacomo Puccini Library holdings: 15,935 Bibliographic records: 843 Rank on complete list: 97
#17 | Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare Library holdings: 15,536 Bibliographic records: 522 Rank on complete list: 102
#18 | Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Library holdings: 15,481 Bibliographic records: 940 Rank on complete list: 103
#19 | Much Ado about Nothing William Shakespeare Library holdings: 15,475 Bibliographic records: 583 Rank on complete list: 104
#20 | Henry V William Shakespeare Library holdings: 15,440 Bibliographic records: 539 Rank on complete list: 105
#21 | Richard II William Shakespeare Library holdings: 15,340 Bibliographic records: 575 Rank on complete list: 106
#22 | Richard III William Shakespeare Library holdings: 15,316 Bibliographic records: 658 Rank on complete list: 107
#23 | Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Library holdings: 14,121 Bibliographic records: 915 Rank on complete list: 126
#24 | Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand Library holdings: 13,864 Bibliographic records: 443 Rank on complete list: 135
#25 | La Traviata Giuseppe Verdi Library holdings: 13,753 Bibliographic records: 980 Rank on complete list: 138
#26 | Aida Giuseppe Verdi Library holdings: 13,687 Bibliographic records: 875 Rank on complete list: 140
#27 | Winter's Tale William Shakespeare Library holdings: 12,664 Bibliographic records: 466 Rank on complete list: 150
#28 | Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini Library holdings: 12,652 Bibliographic records: 652 Rank on complete list: 151
#29 | Peter Pan J. M. Barrie Library holdings: 12,426 Bibliographic records: 314 Rank on complete list: 161
#30 | Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Library holdings: 12,422 Bibliographic records: 788 Rank on complete list: 162
#31 | Tosca Giacomo Puccini Library holdings: 12,402 Bibliographic records: 691 Rank on complete list: 164
#32 | Measure for Measure William Shakespeare Library holdings: 12,303 Bibliographic records: 356 Rank on complete list: 170
#33 | Oedipus Rex Sophocles Library holdings: 11,620 Bibliographic records: 526 Rank on complete list: 187
#34 | Coriolanus William Shakespeare Library holdings: 11,570 Bibliographic records: 422 Rank on complete list: 188
#35 | Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare Library holdings: 11,165 Bibliographic records: 325 Rank on complete list: 199
#36 | Barber of Seville Gioacchino Rossini Library holdings: 11,071 Bibliographic records: 779 Rank on complete list: 204
#37 | Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare Library holdings: 10,917 Bibliographic records: 295 Rank on complete list: 208
#38 | King John William Shakespeare Library holdings: 10,765 Bibliographic records: 376 Rank on complete list: 213
#39 | All's Well that Ends Well William Shakespeare Library holdings: 10,667 Bibliographic records: 258 Rank on complete list: 216
#40 | Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare Library holdings: 10,659 Bibliographic records: 489 Rank on complete list: 218
#41 | Tristan and Isolde Richard Wagner Library holdings: 10,574 Bibliographic records: 600 Rank on complete list: 221
#42 | Henry IV Part 1 William Shakespeare Library holdings: 10,484 Bibliographic records: 312 Rank on complete list: 226
#43 | Così Fan Tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Library holdings: 10,109 Bibliographic records: 503 Rank on complete list: 252
#44 | Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare Library holdings: 10,058 Bibliographic records: 230 Rank on complete list: 254
#45 | Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi Library holdings: 10,016 Bibliographic records: 787 Rank on complete list: 255
#46 | Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti Library holdings: 9,998 Bibliographic records: 653 Rank on complete list: 256
#47 | Oresteia Aeschylus Library holdings: 9,927 Bibliographic records: 191 Rank on complete list: 258
#48 | Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare Library holdings: 9,830 Bibliographic records: 238 Rank on complete list: 264
#49 | Otello Giuseppe Verdi Library holdings: 9,419 Bibliographic records: 485 Rank on complete list: 279
#50 | Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Library holdings: 9,295 Bibliographic records: 145 Rank on complete list: 285
#51 | Cymbeline William Shakespeare Library holdings: 9,150 Bibliographic records: 353 Rank on complete list: 296
#52 | Henry VIII William Shakespeare Library holdings: 8,933 Bibliographic records: 338 Rank on complete list: 313
#53 | Two Gentlemen of Verona William Shakespeare Library holdings: 8,720 Bibliographic records: 239 Rank on complete list: 327
#54 | Meistersingers of Nurenberg Richard Wagner Library holdings: 8,706 Bibliographic records: 559 Rank on complete list: 329
#55 | Cavalleria Rusticana Pietro Mascagni Library holdings: 8,613 Bibliographic records: 567 Rank on complete list: 340
#56 | West Side Story Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim Library holdings: 8,534 Bibliographic records: 262 Rank on complete list: 343
#57 | Porgy and Bess George Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin Library holdings: 8,519 Bibliographic records: 409 Rank on complete list: 348
#58 | Antigone Sophocles Library holdings: 8,184 Bibliographic records: 499 Rank on complete list: 372
#59 | Pericles William Shakespeare Library holdings: 7,975 Bibliographic records: 229 Rank on complete list: 392
#60 | Timon of Athens William Shakespeare Library holdings: 7,938 Bibliographic records: 234 Rank on complete list: 396
#61 | Faust Charles Gounod Library holdings: 7,917 Bibliographic records: 726 Rank on complete list: 400
#62 | Hamlet [film version] William Shakespeare Library holdings: 7,881 Bibliographic records: 138 Rank on complete list: 406
#63 | Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Library holdings: 7,781 Bibliographic records: 65 Rank on complete list: 415
#64 | My Fair Lady Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner Library holdings: 7,659 Bibliographic records: 276 Rank on complete list: 427
#65 | Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell Library holdings: 7,449 Bibliographic records: 261 Rank on complete list: 449
#66 | Ring of the Niebelung Richard Wagner Library holdings: 7,336 Bibliographic records: 395 Rank on complete list: 463
#67 | Parsifal Richard Wagner Library holdings: 7,158 Bibliographic records: 507 Rank on complete list: 493
#68 | Sound of Music Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Library holdings: 7,083 Bibliographic records: 230 Rank on complete list: 505
#69 | Lohengrin Richard Wagner Library holdings: 7,051 Bibliographic records: 566 Rank on complete list: 514
#70 | Salome Richard Strauss Library holdings: 7,038 Bibliographic records: 260 Rank on complete list: 516
#71 | Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett Library holdings: 7,023 Bibliographic records: 148 Rank on complete list: 521
#72 | Twilight of the Gods Richard Wagner Library holdings: 6,942 Bibliographic records: 421 Rank on complete list: 533
#73 | Rheingold Richard Wagner Library holdings: 6,930 Bibliographic records: 379 Rank on complete list: 536
#74 | Valkyrie Richard Wagner Library holdings: 6,894 Bibliographic records: 455 Rank on complete list: 544
#75 | Macbeth [film version] William Shakespeare Library holdings: 6,854 Bibliographic records: 163 Rank on complete list: 553
#76 | Tannhäuser Richard Wagner Library holdings: 6,827 Bibliographic records: 538 Rank on complete list: 561
#77 | Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi Library holdings: 6,788 Bibliographic records: 305 Rank on complete list: 568
#78 | Norma Vincenzo Bellini Library holdings: 6,584 Bibliographic records: 571 Rank on complete list: 604
#79 | Turandot Giacomo Puccini Library holdings: 6,559 Bibliographic records: 311 Rank on complete list: 606
#80 | Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams Library holdings: 6,521 Bibliographic records: 105 Rank on complete list: 619
#81 | Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Library holdings: 6,417 Bibliographic records: 240 Rank on complete list: 642
#82 | Ballo in Maschera Giuseppe Verdi Library holdings: 6,405 Bibliographic records: 489 Rank on complete list: 645
#83 | Flying Dutchman Richard Wagner Library holdings: 6,338 Bibliographic records: 450 Rank on complete list: 657
#84 | Fledermaus Johann Strauss Library holdings: 6,282 Bibliographic records: 399 Rank on complete list: 669
#85 | Siegfried Richard Wagner Library holdings: 6,281 Bibliographic records: 362 Rank on complete list: 670
#86 | Phaedra Jean Racine Library holdings: 6,265 Bibliographic records: 250 Rank on complete list: 677
#87 | Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw Library holdings: 6,241 Bibliographic records: 192 Rank on complete list: 684
#88 | Amahl and the Night Visitors Gian Carlo Menotti Library holdings: 6,220 Bibliographic records: 75 Rank on complete list: 688
#89 | Orpheus and Euridice Christoph Willibald Gluck Library holdings: 6,192 Bibliographic records: 385 Rank on complete list: 696
#90 | Life Is a Dream Pedro Calderón de la Barca Library holdings: 6,185 Bibliographic records: 384 Rank on complete list: 698
#91 | Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe Library holdings: 6,125 Bibliographic records: 211 Rank on complete list: 719
#92 | Fiddler on the Roof Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick Library holdings: 6,094 Bibliographic records: 174 Rank on complete list: 731
#93 | Medea Euripides Library holdings: 6,075 Bibliographic records: 365 Rank on complete list: 739
#94 | Lysistrata Aristophanes Library holdings: 6,059 Bibliographic records: 185 Rank on complete list: 743
#95 | Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Library holdings: 5,967 Bibliographic records: 260 Rank on complete list: 763
#96 | Bacchae Euripides Library holdings: 5,964 Bibliographic records: 221 Rank on complete list: 766
#97 | King Lear [film version] William Shakespeare Library holdings: 5,814 Bibliographic records: 109 Rank on complete list: 819
#98 | Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Library holdings: 5,702 Bibliographic records: 88 Rank on complete list: 849
#99 | William Tell Friedrich Schiller Library holdings: 5,692 Bibliographic records: 411 Rank on complete list: 850
#100 | Midsummer Night's Dream [film version] William Shakespeare Library holdings: 5,572 Bibliographic records: 134 Rank on complete list: 889
#101 | Crucible Arthur Miller Library holdings: 5,453 Bibliographic records: 51 Rank on complete list: 935
#102 | Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot Library holdings: 5,338 Bibliographic records: 89 Rank on complete list: 979
#103 | Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw Library holdings: 5,313 Bibliographic records: 135 Rank on complete list: 992