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Top Forty "Best Sellers": May 2001

In May 2001 we delivered 233,126 e-books to thousands of individuals in over a hundred countries.


Rank Document Accesses
Miscellaneous full-text searches 8,485
1 Carroll: Hunting of the Snark 1,451
2 Twain: Roughing It 1,247
3 Aesop: Fables 1,130
4 Darwin: Origin of Species 1,040
5 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] 1,029
6 Wells: War of the Worlds 854
7 Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days 851
8 White: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 846
9 Trollope: Can You Forgive Her? 809
10 Verne: Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 805
11 Caesar: Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 789
12 Conrad: Nostromo 786
13 Thoreau: The Maine Woods 761
14 Twain: Prince and the Pauper 750
15 Jefferson: Quotations on Politics and Government 743
16 Conrad: A Set of Six 731
17 Shakespeare: Macbeth 725
18 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] 724
19 Dickens: David Copperfield 704
20 Defoe: Robinson Cruesoe 702
21 Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1891) 678
22 Tarkington: Alice Adams 661
23 White: The Silent Places 657
24 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 654
25 White: Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White vol 1 652
26 Whibley: A Book of Scoundrels 639
27 Cooper: The Prairie 625
28 White: The Mountains 623
29 Steinmetz: The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims 622
30 Shelley: Frankenstein 622
31 White: Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White vol 2 621
32 Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin 620
33 Shakespeare: Hamlet 617
34 Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 616
35 Beowulf (modern English translation) 608
36 Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans 606
37 Franklin: Autobiography 600
38 Twain: Tom Sawyer 591
39 Doyle: Hound of the Baskervilles 590
40 Trollope: Rachel Ray 587