Carleton's "Frequency of Mention of Titles" Databases for Art,
Literature, and Music
Current Top 100-ish Lit Titles
(Weight / Title (date) - Author)
135 Hamlet (1601?) - Shakespeare, William
100 Tempest, The (1611) - Shakespeare, William
78 Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will (1600-01) - Shakespeare, William
77 Merchant of Venice, The (1596?) - Shakespeare, William
77 Macbeth (1606) - Shakespeare, William
75 Divine Comedy, The (1314-21) [Includes any references to Inferno / Purgatorio / Paradiso] - Dante Alighieri
75 Othello (1604) - Shakespeare, William
73 King Lear (1605) - Shakespeare, William
71 As You Like It (c.1599) - Shakespeare, William
67 Candide, or Optimism (1758) - Voltaire [Francois Marie Arouet]
66 Romeo and Juliet (1594-95) - Shakespeare, William
65 Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1595-96) - Shakespeare, William
64 Canterbury Tales, The (1387-1400) - Chaucer, Geoffrey
62 Moby Dick, or, The Whale (1851) - Melville, Herman
61 Julius Caesar (c.1599) - Shakespeare, William
60 Ulysses (1922) - Joyce, James (Augustine Aloysius)
58 Waste Land, The (1922) - Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns]
56 Pride and Prejudice (1813) - Austen, Jane
55 Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99) - Shakespeare, William
53 Odyssey, The (9th cent. BC) - Homer
52 Great Gatsby, The (1925) - Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key)
52 Catch-22 (1961) - Heller, Joseph
52 Lord of the Rings, The (1954-56) - Tolkien, J[ohn] R[onald] R[eull]
51 Sound and the Fury, The (1929) - Faulkner, William
51 Aeneid, The (c.19 BC) - Virgil [Publish Vergilius Maro]
50 One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) [Cien Anos de Solidad] - Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
50 Richard III, The Tragedy of King (1593?) - Shakespeare, William
49 Sherlock Holmes series of stories (1887-1927) - Doyle, Arthur Conan
49 Paradise Lost (1667) - Milton, John
49 Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852) - Stowe, Harriet Beecher
49 Gulliver's Travels (1726) - Swift, Jonathan
48 Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605 and 1615) - Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
48 Heart of Darkness, the (1902) - Conrad, Joseph [b. Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski]
48 Iliad, The (9th cent. BC) - Homer
47 Finnegans Wake (1939) - Joyce, James (Augustine Aloysius)
46 Fathers and Sons (1862) [Ottsy i deti] - Turgenev, Ivan (Sergeyevich)
46 Slaughterhouse Five; or, The Children's Crusade (1969) - Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
45 Things Fall Apart (1958) - Achebe, Chinua [Albert Chinualumogo Achebe]
45 Waiting for Godot (1952) [En attendant Godot] - Beckett, Samuel
44 Faust (Part I - 1808; Part II - 1831) - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
44 Faerie Queen, The (1589-96) - Spenser, Edmund
44 Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (1848) - Thackeray, William Makepeace
43 Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1600-01) - Shakespeare, William
42 Prince, The (1513) [Il Principe] - Machiavelli, Niccolo
41 Crime and Punishment (1866) [Prestupleniye i nakazaniye] - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
41 Critique of Pure Reason (1781) - Kant, Immanuel
40 Pilgrim's Progress, The: From This World to That Which is to Come (1678; 84) - Bunyan, John
40 David Copperfield (1849-50) - Dickens, Charles (John Huffam)
40 Leviathan (1651) [or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil] - Hobbes, Thomas
40 Lolita (1955) - Nabokov, Vladimir (Vladimirovich)
40 Anna Karenina (1877) - Tolstoy, Leo [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi]
40 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
39 Brothers Karamazov, The (1880) [Bratya Karamazovy] - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
39 Gone With the Wind (1936) - Mitchell, Margaret
38 Sun Also Rises, The (1926) [aka "Fiesta" as published in England] - Hemingway, Ernest
38 Brave New World (1932) - Huxley, Aldous (Leonard)
38 1984 (1948) - Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]
38 Rape of the Lock, The (1714) - Pope, Alexander
38 Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594-95) - Shakespeare, William
38 Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)
38 Red and the Black, The (1830) [Le Rouge et le noir] - Stendahl [Henri Marie Beyle]
37 American Tragedy, An (1925) - Dreiser, Theodore
37 Count of Monte Cristo, The (1845) [Le Comte de Monte-Cristo] - Dumas, Alexandre (pere)
37 Tender is the Night (1934) - Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key)
37 Death in Venice (1911) [Der Tod in Venedig] - Mann, Thomas
37 Magic Mountain, The (1924) [Der Zauberberg] - Mann, Thomas
37 Taming of the Shrew, The (1593-94) - Shakespeare, William
37 All the King's Men (1946) - Warren, Robert Penn
36 Long Day's Journey Into Night (pub. 1956) - O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone)
36 World as Will and Idea, The (1819) [aka The World as Will and Representation] - Schopenhauer, Arthur
36 Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2 both 1598) - Shakespeare, William
36 Henry V (1599) - Shakespeare, William
36 Measure for Measure (c.1604) - Shakespeare, William
36 Winter's Tale, The (1611) - Shakespeare, William
35 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (1979) [Hitchhiker's Trilogy] - Adams, Douglas (Noel)
35 Jane Eyre (1847) - Bronte, Charlotte
35 Kubla Khan (1798) - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
35 Return of the Native, The (1878) - Hardy, Thomas
35 Hedda Gabler (1890) - Ibsen, Henrik (Johan)
35 Fountainhead, The (1943) - Rand, Ayn [Alice or Alissa Rosenbaum]
34 Wuthering Heights (1847) - Bronte, Emily
34 Madame Bovary (1857) - Flaubert, Gustave
34 Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy (1903) - Shaw, George Bernard
34 Age of Innocence, The (1920) - Wharton, Edith (Newbold Jones)
33 Great Expectations (1861) - Dickens, Charles (John Huffam)
33 Invisible Man (1952) - Ellison, Ralph (Waldo)
33 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) - Gray, Thomas
33 Being and Time (1927) [Sein und Zeit] - Heidegger, Martin
33 Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) - Keats, John
33 Republic, The (4th cent. BC) [Politeia] - Plato
33 Hobbit, The, or There and Back Again (1937) - Tolkien, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euell]
33 Beowulf (c.700) - Unknown
32 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) - Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
32 Robinson Crusoe, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of (1719) - Defoe, Daniel [b. Daniel Foe]
32 Study in Scarlet, A (1887) - Doyle, Arthur Conan
32 Sister Carrie (1900) - Dreiser, Theodore (Herman Albert)
32 Sorrows of Young Werther, The (1774) - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
32 Doll's House, A (1879) [Et duckkehjem] - Ibsen, Henrik (Johan)
32 Jew of Malta, The (1592) [The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta] - Marlowe, Christopher
32 Strange Interlude (1928) - O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone)
32 Eugene Onegin (1833) [Yevgeny Onegin] - Pushkin, Aleksandr (Sergeyevich)
32 Love's Labours Lost (1594-95) - Shakespeare, William
32 Grapes of Wrath, The (1939) - Steinbeck, John (Ernst)
32 Bhagavad-Gita, The (c.200 B.C.) - Vyasa, traditionally
32 House of Mirth, The (1905) - Wharton, Edith (Newbold Jones)
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