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Top Forty "Best Sellers": December 2000

In December we delivered 241,797 e-books to thousands of individuals in over a hundred countries.



Rank Author Title Downloads
1 Aesop Fables 1,586
2 Wells War of the Worlds 1,128
3 Carroll Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] 1,044
4Franklin Autobiography 972
5 Shakespeare Macbeth 943
6 Verne Around the World in Eighty Days 935
7 Carroll Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] 924
8 Darwin Origin of Species 916
9 Anonymous Beowulf 911
10 Dickens Christmas Carol 871
11 Jefferson, ed. Coates Jefferson on Politics and Government 838
12 Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles 808
13 Moore The Night Before Christmas 748
14 Dickens David Copperfield 720
15 Melville Moby Dick 717
16 Shakespeare Hamlet 712
17 Twain Huckleberry Finn 709
18 Plato The Republic 688
19 Alcott Little Women 652
20 Shelley Frankenstein 648
21 Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 634
22 Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 629
23 Abbott David Crockett: His Life and Adventures 627
24 Crane Red Badge of Courage 623
25 Kipling The Jungle Book 618
26 Boccaccio The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 613
27 Milton Paradise Lost (1667 edition) 611
28 Dickens Oliver Twist 605
29 Dickens Tale of Two Cities 594
30 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream 594
31 Carroll Through the Looking Glass [without illustrations] 574
32 Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin 574
33 Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 564
34 Frost Group of Four Poems 563
35 Dostoyefsky Notes from the Underground 551
36 Caesar Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 551
37 Poe Murders in the Rue Morgue 549
38 Twain Tom Sawyer 543
39 Jefferson et al. The Declaration of Independence 539
40 Shakespeare Comedy of Errors 539