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Top Forty "Best Sellers" February 2001

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Rank Document Accesses
1 Aesop: Fables 1,261
2 Wells: War of the Worlds 1,130
3 Verne: Around the World in 80 Days 912
4 Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [without illustrations] 904
5 Jefferson: Quotations on Politics and Government 850
6 Shakespeare: MacBeth 787
7 Anonymous: Beowulf 773
8 Darwin: Origin of Species 741
9 Doyle: Hound of Baskervilles 691
10 Twain: Huckleberry Finn 687
11 Kipling: The Jungle Book 655
12 Melville: Moby Dick 653
13 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] 647
14 Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 628
15 Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 606
16 Franklin: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 600
17 Shelley: Frankenstein 584
18 Carroll: Through the Looking Glass 570
19 Milton: Paradise Lost 562
20 Shakespeare: Hamlet 558
21 Poe: Murders in the Rue Morgue 555
22 Alcott: Little Women 551
23 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 547
24 Caesar: Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 526
25 Frost: Group of Four Poems 507
26 Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 504
27 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream 502
28 Genesis: King James Bible 484
29 Baum: Marvelous Land of Oz [with illustrations] 480
30 Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin 477
31 Verne: Off on a Comet 464
32 Abbott: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures 457
33 Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, vol. I. 455
34 Wilde: Picture of Dorian Gray 453
35 Burr: Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 452
36 Crane: Red Badge of Courage 450
37 Austen: Emma 447
38 Dickens: Oliver Twist 436
39 Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer 433
40 Zitkala-Sa: Old Indian Legends 431