Top 20 Most-Viewed Items for November
Sure we're more than halfway through December, but this is interesting stuff and we can now start kicking these lists out on a regular basis.
Unsurprisingly, Stephanie Meyer's teen vampire series dominated the top 20 most viewed items on WorldCat.org for the month of November. The first three books from the series nabbed the #1, #4, and #10 spots as the film version of the first novel, Twilight, hit theaters last month.
The wizarding crowd maintained a foothold against the pubescent bloodsucker assault, with both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Long Look making the list at #18 and #9 respectively.
In nonfiction news, biographies were strong with President-elect Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father hanging on to the #20 spot and Robert Zweig's Return to Naples grabbing the #12 position. Also in the top 20 were two books on intellectual property rights: No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization (#5), and Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons (#15).
View the full list (in no particular order) and, thanks to Wordle.net, here's a fancy-looking cloud of the subjects for the top 20 works:
Also, I'm taking guesses on where The Tale of Despereaux and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button end up in the top 20 for December, if they make the list at all. And no, don't click on the above links a thousand times to stuff the ballot box.
On second thought, go ahead and do that. And borrow them from your local library while you're at it. Good reads, the both of them.
On December 22, 2008 at 10:56 PM Steve Rickmount said:
Not surprised that Stephanie Meyer get most place in the top 20. I think she is the best horor novel author. Twilight and Eclipse are my best favorite books.
On January 13, 2009 at 8:18 AM Rob said:
I am not surprised as well. Stephanie Meyer deserved a place in the top 20. Certainly the best horor novel author.
Rob Peters
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