Most-blogged books of 2003

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This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on January 23, 2004). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Another list post, this time, All Consuming‘s list of the most-blogged books of 2003. As before, books in bold and prefaced with » I’ve read.

  1. » Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling
  2. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
  3. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  4. » Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
  5. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
  6. Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
  7. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
  8. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold
  9. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
  10. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  11. Stupid White Men …and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
  12. Dude, Where’s My Country? by Michael Moore
  13. » Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  14. » Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  15. » 1984 by George Orwell
  16. Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter
  17. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
  18. Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
  19. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  20. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  21. » Neuromancer by William Gibson
  22. Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel by Pamela Ribon
  23. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
  24. Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-Lászó Barabási
  25. » American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  26. The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold
  27. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  28. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
  29. The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood
  30. What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News by Eric Alterman
  31. Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content by Biz Stone
  32. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  33. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman
  34. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  35. Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason
  36. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  37. Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger
  38. » The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
  39. » Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling
  40. » Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  41. » Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
  42. » Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  43. » Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  44. » Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  45. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  46. » Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  47. The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson, Steve Martin
  48. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
  49. The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
  50. What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson
  51. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
  52. » Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  53. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
  54. We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs by Paul Bausch, Matthew Haughey, Meg Hourihan
  55. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast
  56. The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
  57. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose
  58. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  59. We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture by Editors of Perseus Publishing, Rebecca Blood
  60. Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier
  61. » Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  62. The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal
  63. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan J. Watts
  64. » Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  65. » Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  66. Jennifer Government: A Novel by Max Barry
  67. » Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J. K. Rowling
  68. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  69. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger
  70. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  71. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  72. The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
  73. » Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  74. Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
  75. » Dune by Frank Herbert
  76. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
  77. The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack
  78. Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design by Eric A. Meyer
  79. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  80. The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
  81. Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
  82. Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5) by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson
  83. The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel by Lauren Weisberger
  84. Essential Blogging by Shelley Powers, Cory Doctorow, J. Scott Johnson, Mena G. Trott, Benjamin Trott, Rael Dornfest
  85. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  86. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
  87. Prey: A Novel by Michael Crichton
  88. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden
  89. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
  90. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg
  91. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
  92. » The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  93. Hey Nostradamus! A Novel by Douglas Coupland
  94. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
  95. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  96. Naked by David Sedaris
  97. Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken
  98. The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel
  99. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  100. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria

There’s a few books here listed twice (The Life of Pi, Harry Potter) — I think that’s just a side effect of Amazon carrying both paperback and hardcover versions of the book, so both were linked to enough to show up on the list at different spots.