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# OCLC Top 1000

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. —Groucho Marx

OCLC Research has updated its list of the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries—the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe. (For a quick guide to the information in each entry, see the key.) ## The 2005 Top 10
#1 | Bible [various] Library holdings: 796,882 Bibliographic records: 93,567
#2 | Census [various] United States Library holdings: 460,628 Bibliographic records: 10,617
#3 | Mother Goose Library holdings: 67,663 Bibliographic records: 2,036
#4 | Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Library holdings: 62,414 Bibliographic records: 2,917
#5 | Odyssey Homer Library holdings: 45,551 Bibliographic records: 2,087
#6 | Iliad Homer Library holdings: 44,093 Bibliographic records: 2,526
#7 | Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Library holdings: 42,724 Bibliographic records: 1,132
#8 | Lord of the Rings [trilogy] J. R. R. Tolkien Library holdings: 40,907 Bibliographic records: 685
#9 | Hamlet William Shakespeare Library holdings: 39,521 Bibliographic records: 2,008
#10 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Library holdings: 39,277 Bibliographic records: 1,942
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