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Top Forty "Best Sellers": October 2000

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Rank Author Title Downloads
1 Aesop Fables 1875
2 Wells War of the Worlds 1513
3 Stevenson Kidnapped 1339
4 Darwin Origin of Species 1322
5 Verne Around the World in Eighty Days 1217
6 Anonymous Beowulf 1162
7 Carroll Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] 1157
8 Carroll Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] 1039
9 Franklin Autobiography 986
10 Melville Moby Dick 972
11 Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 943
12 Shakespeare Macbeth 936
13 Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles 890
14 Shelley Frankenstein 847
15 Twain Huckleberry Finn 842
16 Milton Paradise Lost 840
17 Baum Marvelous Land of Oz [with illustrations] 815
18 Kipling The Jungle Book 775
19 Frost Group of Four Poems 753
20 Dickens Christmas Carol 749
21 Boccaccio The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 727
22 Moore The Night Before Christmas 714
23 Poe Murders in the Rue Morgue 687
24 Caesar Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 661
25 Wells The Time Machine 661
26 Carroll Through the Looking Glass [without illustrations] 660
27 Abbott David Crockett: His Life and Adventures 659
28 Twain Tom Sawyer 659
29 Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 658
30 Alcott Little Women 646
31 Jefferson et al. The Declaration of Independence 645
32 Dickens Tale of Two Cities 634
33 Burr Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 630
34 Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 623
35 Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner 622
36 Plato The Republic 612
37 Shakespeare Hamlet 612
38 Wells The Invisible Man 596
39 Dickens Oliver Twist 590
40 Carroll Through the Looking Glass [with illustrations] 589