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Top Forty "Best Sellers"
January 2001

In January 2001 we delivered 245,502 e-books to thousands of individuals in over a hundred countries.

Rank Document Accesses
1 Aesop: Fables 1,499
2 Wells: War of the Worlds 1,157
3 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] 994
4 Verne: Around the World in 80 Days 971
5 Darwin: Origin of Species 938
6 Beowulf: (Modern English trans.) 929
7 Shakespeare: Macbeth 902
8 Franklin: Autobiography 847
9 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland (illustrated) 811
10 Jefferson: Quotations on Politics and Government 782
11 Twain: Huckleberry Finn 724
12 Doyle: Hound of the Baskervilles 712
13 Melville: Moby Dick 706
14 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 675
15 Shakespeare: Hamlet 663
16 Genesis: King James Bible 656
17 Caesar: Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 643
18 Alcott: Little Women 624
19 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream 620
20 Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 616
21 Kipling: The Jungle Book 602
22 Milton: Paradise Lost 594
23 Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 582
24 Crane: Red Badge of Courage 579
25 Shelley: Frankenstein 576
26 Carroll: Through the Looking Glass [without illustrations] 572
27 Plato: Republic 563
28 Frost: Group of Four Poems 540
29 Carroll: Through the Looking Glass [with illustrations] 539
30 Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray 533
31 Burr: Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 523
32 Dickens: Christmas Carol 521
33 Zitkala-Sa: Old Indian Legends 521
34 Poe: Murders in the Rue Morgue 513
35 Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 504
36 Dickens: Oliver Twist 504
37 Wells: The Invisible Man 502
38 Baum: Marvelous Land of Oz [with illustrations] 496
39 Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 496
40 Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, volume 1 490