Today’s question from the Boston Bibliophile: What’s the most popular book in your library? Have you read it? What did you think? How many users have it?
The most popular book in my library is J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone, logging 37,356 LibraryThingers. Yes, I’ve read it … I must have liked it, since we’ve added the other six Harry Potter books as they’ve become available! They’re all hardcover editions.
I read the book when it was published, in 1998. It’s funny, our eldest child was only two then, and we were reading Goodnight Moon and The Big Red Barn to her. Now she and her 10-year-old brother have read each book in the series and are eagerly awaiting the next movie (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, coming in July, I saw on the trailer when we watched Twilight this weekend). They really do grow up so fast! (like my parents’ friends would say to me when I was a kid, and I discreetly rolled my eyes!)
I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone way before I started blogging or keeping a reading journal to record my impressions of a book. Maybe I’ll re-read it one day and put those impressions into a review. Not that I think another review is needed, with 363 already on LibraryThing! … some reviews are just for me 
What’s the most popular book in your library? How many reviews are on LT for this book?
I loved the Harry Potter books. Someone in my education class gave a presentation on the last book this week. He showed the trailer as well. Can’t wait for the movie! Also he said there is rumor Rowling may write another series with Harry’s second son as the main character. Yippee!!!
We have all the Harry Potter books, but they’re not in the case with my books so I never thought to add them to my LT library.
I’ve never read Harry Potter. Not for lack of wanting, more for lack of time. I saw that trailer too, Dawn, it looks good!
I’m the same with Twilight – read it pre-blogging days so I’ve never formally reviewed it. Maybe someday …
So how do you know which is the most popular book in your library?
Only ever read chapter one of the first Harry Potter.
Bree – we’ve enjoyed the movies, too, although we can’t show the DVDs when our two younger kids are around … great special effects!
Kathy – Since we bought the first 4 or 5 before the kids were reading them, they ended up on my bookcases. If I need the real estate I may move them to the kids’ shelves.
Shana – I just looked under “top books” on the “zeigeist” tab, then I saw that I had the #1 book. I don’t know if there’s a way to overlay your own library on top of the entire database …
Lenore – fantasty/sci-fi is not usually my taste, but this appealed to me somehow; then of course I felt compelled to read each new book and learn what happened next!
I’ve seen the Harry Potter movies, and I have all the books (thanks to my Dad who passes his favorite books to me when he’s done), but neither my husband or I have read them yet! Yikes!!
Here’s my Thinger!
What I love about the whole HP phenomenon is that it brought reading into the lives of millions of children. Children who, when they’ve finished the series, are going to search for another book and another. Must be the librarian in me.
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Harry Potter is the most popular in my library too. I read them long before I started blogging and I wouldn’t mind re-reading someday and putting my thoughts together on them. I loved the movies also. I pretty much like anything Harry Potter. lol.