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University of Virginia Ebook Library: Top 12 "Best Sellers," August 8th, 2000 - May 31st, 2001

1 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland 18,630
  [without illustrations] 10,408
  [with illustrations] 8,222
2 Aesop: Fables 15,506
3 Wells: War of the Worlds 11,834
4 Darwin: Origin of Species 9,768
5 Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days 9,515
6 Shakespeare: Macbeth 9,230
7 Beowulf [modern English translation] 9,076
8 Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 8,372
9 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 7,089
10 Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles 6,825
11 Shakespeare: Hamlet 6,724
12 Caesar: Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 5,339

Close runners-up include:

  • Jefferson: Quotations on Politics and Government;
  • Twain: Huckleberry Finn;
  • Melville: Moby Dick;
  • Alcott: Little Women;
  • Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love;
  • Shelley: Frankenstein;
  • Dickens: Christmas Carol;
  • Burr: Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706;
  • and Frost: A Group of Four Poems.



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