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Top Forty "Best Sellers": April 2001

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Rank Document Accesses
1 Aesop: Fables 1,135
2 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] 828
3 Wells: War of the Worlds 788
4 Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days 775
5 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] 772
6 Shakespeare: Macbeth 713
7 Jefferson: Quotations on Politics and Government 705
8 Beowulf [modern English translation] 679
9 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 662
10 Genesis: King James Bible 627
11 Darwin: Origin of Species 625
12 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream 579
13 Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 575
14 Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 571
15 Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles 570
16 Kipling : Jungle Book 560
17 Milton: Paradise Lost 555
18 Shakespeare: Hamlet 552
19 Twain: Huckleberry Finn 549
20 Alcott: Little Women 547
21 Baum: Marvelous Land of Oz 538
22 Melville: Moby Dick 537
23 Poe: Murders in the Rue Morgue 525
24 Caesar: Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 501
25 Austen: Emma 496
26 Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors 490
27 Plato: Republic 482
28 Zitkala-Sa: Old Indian Legends 472
29 Abbott: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures 472
30 Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow 466
31 Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer 466
32 Genesis : Revised Standard Version 465
33 Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, volume 1 464
34 Carroll: Through the Looking Glass 459
35 Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin 459
36 Crane: The Red Badge of Courage 455
37 Shakespeare: Julius Caesar 452
38 Shakespeare: Othello 444