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Characteristic works
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (157), The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (115), The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (113), The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann (113), The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (80), The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs (158), The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester (111), Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich (83), Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (98), Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (135), Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin (76), A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman (170), The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond (113), The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (136), Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (226), The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins (107), Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (115), The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (93), The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (78), The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (251), The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski (87), Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (465), A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester (77), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (104), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond (267)
Most-held works
1984 by George Orwell (750), The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (633), To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (632), Animal Farm by George Orwell (602), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (600), The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (598), The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (596), Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (570), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (562), Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (559), Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (539), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (513), The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (511), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (502), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (498), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (484), The Odyssey by Homer (484), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (483), Lord of the Flies by William Golding (470), The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (467), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (466), Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (466), A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (463), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (456), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (450)