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