The OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) lists its “top 1000 titles owned by member libraries-the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the ‘purchase vote’ of libraries around the globe.”

The top 10 are as follows:

1. Bible
2. United States Census
3. Mother Goose
4. Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
5. Odyssey by Homer
6. Iliad by Homer
7. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. Lord of the Rings [trilogy] by J. R. R. Tolkien
9. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Britannica Blog takes this list and brings you some Fun Facts About the OCLC Top 1000. Here are a few select factiods from the list:

How many works by Shakespeare made the list? 37.
How many works by Stephen King made the Top 1000 list? Zero, to our surprise. Gunslinger ranked 1080, though.
Which author has the most works on the OCLC Top 1000 list? William Shakespeare (with 37 works). He is followed by Charles Dickens (16 works) and John Grisham (13 works).
What work on the Top 1000 list has the richest publication history, i.e., the most manifestations, as represented by OCLC libraries’ holdings? The Bible, followed by the Haggadah. Divine Comedy was third and the Koran fourth.
How far down the OCLC Top 1000 list do you have to go to get to a live author? Jim Davis’s Garfield is number 18 on the list. (Four of the five top works by living authors are cartoons!) And in case you’re wondering, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is the highest-ranking work by a living female author. It ranked 146.
Fighting like cats and dogs . . . Garfield is number 15 on the list. Snoopy is 69.