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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	The MLA Style Manual	2,381
2	Outliers (book)	1,862
3	The Tales of Beedle the Bard	1,534
4	Stuff White People Like	1,315
5	The Way I Am (book)	723
6	Just After Sunset	523
7	The Last Lecture	480
8	Joker (graphic novel)	462
9	Monster Manual	439
10	Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition	361
11	The Coming Insurrection	348
12	Player's Handbook	337
13	Physics of the Impossible	337
14	Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book	319
15	The Post-American World	281
16	Predictably Irrational	279
17	When You Are Engulfed in Flames	271
18	Ghostgirl	233
19	Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea	221
20	The Pitchfork 500	205
21	Liberal Fascism	193
22	What Happened	191
23	1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die	170
24	Dreamseller	160
25	I Was Told There'd Be Cake	158
26	The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics	157
27	The Love Dare	157
28	Karlology	152
29	Marienbad My Love	151
30	The Gospel of Filth	135
31	Death by a Thousand Cuts (book)	135
32	The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll	133
33	The Revolution: A Manifesto	126
34	Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography	123
35	Here Comes Everybody	122
36	Wikipedia – The Missing Manual	115
37	The Invention of the Jewish People	113
38	Save Me from Myself	112
39	Logicomix	111
40	The Obama Nation	105
41	There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters	104
42	Monsterology: The Complete Book of Monstrous Creatures	102
43	Why We Suck	101
44	The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006–2008)	98
45	Nudge (book)	96
46	2008 in literature	95
47	Love Letters of Great Men	94
48	Hot, Flat, and Crowded	92
49	Home: A Memoir of My Early Years	86
50	What I Talk About When I Talk About Running	86
51	Flat Belly Diet	86
52	In Defense of Food	83
53	The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life	81
54	Pieces of You (book)	81
55	The Joseph Smith Papers	80
56	A Wolf at the Table	78
57	Too Fat to Fish	76
58	Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War	75
59	Quantum Aspects of Life	73
60	More Information Than You Require	73
61	Bad Science (book)	71
62	Don't Bump the Glump!: and Other Fantasies	70
63	Gay Kids	69
64	How Wikipedia Works	67
65	Maps and Legends	66
66	Armageddon in Retrospect	65
67	The Spook's Mistake	63
68	Me of Little Faith	63
69	My Story (Julie Couillard book)	63
70	Comic Book Tattoo	62
71	Seven Troop (book)	62
72	Things the Grandchildren Should Know	61
73	The Irrational Atheist	61
74	The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power	61
75	The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder	60
76	Remix (book)	60
77	The Future Of The Internet	59
78	Dreams that Glitter – Our Story	58
79	Middle Class Millionaire	57
80	Trick or Treatment	57
81	Beyond the Hoax	55
82	A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir	52
83	Street Gang (book)	52
84	Mindset (book)	51
85	Autism's False Prophets	51
86	Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God	51
87	Tribal Leadership	50
88	The Case Against Barack Obama	50
89	The Three Trillion Dollar War	49
90	The Orphaned Anything's	47
91	Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction	45
92	Call of Duty (Compton's Book)	44
93	My Country My Life	44
94	Keep on the Shadowfell	44
95	The Mighty Book of Boosh	44
96	STORI Telling	43
97	Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974–2001)	42
98	An Appeal to Reason	42
99	How to Break a Terrorist	42
100	Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday	41
101	The House in the Night	41
102	The Adventures of Johnny Bunko	40
103	Just How Stupid Are We?	39
104	Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses	39
105	The Dark Side (book)	38
106	The Best American Short Stories 2008	38
107	Fatal Misconception	38
108	The Age of Wonder	38
109	The Way of the World (book)	37
110	Superclass (book)	37
111	Time to Say Hello	37
112	The Deniers	36
113	A People's History of American Empire	35
114	Groundswell (book)	34
115	Miracles of Life	32
116	Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar	32
117	Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth	32
118	Call Me Ted	32
119	Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World	32
120	When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin	32
121	Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex	32
122	Pest Control (Doctor Who)	31
123	The Book of Other People	31
124	Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes	31
125	The FairTax Book	30
126	Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management	29
127	One Month to Live	29
128	The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing	29
129	Vindicated (book)	29
130	The New Age of Innovation	29
131	ESV Study Bible	29
132	Tales from the Perilous Realm	28
133	The Logic of Life	28
134	The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals	28
135	Gandhi Under Cross Examination	28
136	The Earth After Us	28
137	Expect Resistance	27
138	The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family	27
139	Pitcher-Plants of Borneo	27
140	Who's Your City?	26
141	Spyology: The Complete Book of Spycraft	25
142	Martial Power	25
143	Steampunk (anthology)	24
144	Born Digital	24
145	Chain of Blame	24
146	What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order	24
147	The Craft of Research	23
148	Audition: A Memoir	23
149	The Wordy Shipmates	23
150	Introduction to Kant's Anthropology	23
151	The Second Plane	23
152	A Few Seconds of Panic	23
153	The Sexual Paradox	23
154	The Outdoor Book for Adventurous Boys	22
155	Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope	22
156	Kirby: King of Comics	22
157	Massacre at Mountain Meadows	22
158	Treasure Fever!	22
159	My Dad, John McCain	22
160	Mother Warriors	22
161	The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology	22
162	Doubt is Their Product	22
163	Molora	22
164	Up Till Now	22
165	American Lion (book)	22
166	Escape (David McMillan book)	21
167	Only A Theory	21
168	The Numerati	21
169	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show	21
170	The Book of est	21
171	Experiments in Ethics	21
172	Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy	21
173	Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good	21
174	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse	20
175	Keeper of Dreams	20
176	The Geography of Bliss	20
177	Against Happiness	20
178	With Bare Hands	20
179	The Forever Trap	20
180	The Choice (book)	20
181	Magnetic Surveying in Archaeology (book)	20
182	Strangeways (comics)	19
183	Culture and Conflict in the Middle East	19
184	Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America	19
185	Warhol-o-rama	19
186	Hollywood Undercover	19
187	The Promise: God's Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts	19
188	Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate	19
189	Flood (poem)	19
190	Bad for Democracy	19
191	Philosophy and Real Politics	19
192	Behind the Exclusive Brethren	19
193	War and Decision	18
194	Westlife – Our Story	18
195	Tommy's War	18
196	Slavery by Another Name	18
197	One Team, One Dream	18
198	Shooting Action Sports	18
199	Ghosts/Aliens	18
200	Taxi (book)	17
201	Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism	17
202	Black Belt Patriotism	17
203	The Green Bible	17
204	Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer	16
205	Mes chères études	16
206	The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism	16
207	Losing It	16
208	Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?	16
209	Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency	16
210	The Shadow Factory	16
211	Coal River (book)	16
212	The Green Collar Economy	16
213	Here My Home Once Stood (book)	16
214	25 years on.. Nellie still haunts	16
215	The Postmodern Mariner	16
216	The Dirty Energy Dilemma	16
217	Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis	15
218	Analyzing Intelligence	15
219	Evil Penguins	15
220	The Pursuit of Laughter	15
221	Pyramid of Shadows	15
222	2008 in Australian literature	15
223	Pencil of Doom!	15
224	Encyclopaedia of Wales	14
225	Mormon Scientist: The Life and Faith of Henry Eyring	14
226	Wild Nights!	14
227	The Wrecking Crew (book)	14
228	Goodnight Bush	14
229	The Dirty Dozen (book)	14
230	Splat the Cat	14
231	Gaslight Grimoire	14
232	The Odd Egg	14
233	The Sixties Unplugged	14
234	Decoding the Heavens	14
235	An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President	14
236	The London Encyclopaedia	13
237	Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour	13
238	The Princeton Companion to Mathematics	13
239	Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison	13
240	Inconsequential Tales	13
241	World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures	13
242	FruITion (novel)	13
243	It's Bigger Than Hip Hop	13
244	Along the Roaring River	12
245	Encyclopedia Rizaliana	12
246	The Real McCain	12
247	The Nightmare Factory – Volume 2	12
248	Thunderspire Labyrinth	12
249	Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen	12
250	Moments in a Lifetime	12
251	Side Effects (book)	12
252	Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations	12
253	Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft: Commemorative Edition	12
254	Driftless (novel)	12
255	The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815	12
256	Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to (South) Dublin: How To Get By On, Like, €10,000 A Day	12
257	The Telephone Gambit	11
258	Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership	11
259	The Red Leather Diary	11
260	State of the World 2008	11
261	Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya	11
262	Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District	11
263	Scattershot (book)	11
264	Ladybug Girl	11
265	How Not to Die	11
266	Tasmania's Wilderness Battles	11
267	Mumsi Meets a Lion	11
268	King of the Trollhaunt Warrens	11
269	Incognegro (comics)	11
270	Great American Hypocrites	11
271	The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe	10
272	Defending Identity	10
273	Second Skin (Decide Your Destiny)	10
274	The Dragon King (Decide Your Destiny)	10
275	Now the Hell Will Start	10
276	Rome 1960 (book)	10
277	The She Spot	10
278	The Vampire Curse	10
279	Know Your Power	10
280	Ahead of the Curve	10
281	The Bush Tragedy	10
282	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008	10
283	Chaplin: A Life	10
284	Blocks to Robots	10
285	Lost Luggage (Decide Your Destiny)	9
286	Insoumise et dévoilée	9
287	Zombie Broadway	9
288	Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change	9
289	Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict	9
290	Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System	9
291	Line and Strength	9
292	State by State	9
293	Demon Queen's Enclave	9
294	Modernizing Tradition	9
295	Giftless	9
296	Meet Me at the Monkey Trees	9
297	Otherspace	9
298	Lady Lazarus (novel)	8
299	A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship	8
300	Conversational Capital	8
301	Barbaro, Smarty Jones & Ruffian: The People's Horses	8
302	Science, Evolution, and Creationism	8
303	The Secret Diaries of Abigail Titmuss	8
304	I.O.U.S.A. – The Book	8
305	Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World	8
306	The Politics of Change	8
307	In Arabian Nights	8
308	Philosophy: The Quest for Truth	8
309	Redemption Song (Obama book)	8
310	The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management	8
311	Ordinary Heroes (nonfiction)	8
312	My Friend the Fanatic	8
313	Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories	8
314	Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era	8
315	The Monsters of Templeton	8
316	Lunch with Lenin	8
317	Parenting, Inc.	7
318	The Devil in Dover	7
319	Seagalogy	7
320	Striking at the Roots	7
321	Joined-Up Thinking	7
322	The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics	7
323	The World Is What It Is	7
324	The Times Will Suit Them	7
325	Bending Science	7
326	Relentless: The True Story of the Man Behind Rogers Communications	7
327	The 10 Big Lies About America	7
328	Pius XII, The Holocaust, and the Cold War	7
329	Perspectives on Cinema of Assam	7
330	The Sounds from Boston	6
331	Short Trips: Defining Patterns	6
332	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection	6
333	London Film Location Guide	6
334	Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action	6
335	Illegal Citizens	6
336	Short Trips: How The Doctor Changed My Life	6
337	The Thrillionaire	6
338	Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII	6
339	Short Trips: Christmas Around the World	6
340	Point of Pittsburgh (book)	6
341	Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down	6
342	Year's Best SF 13	6
343	American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty	6
344	Creatures of a Day	6
345	Crunch (book)	6
346	Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife	6
347	The Surge: A Military History	6
348	Celebrity Vinyl	6
349	Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life	6
350	Garner on Language and Writing	less than 5 views
351	My Beautiful Mommy	less than 5 views
352	Makers and Takers	less than 5 views
353	War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007	less than 5 views
354	Savage Barbecue	less than 5 views
355	Florida's Shipwrecks	less than 5 views
356	A Royal Home in Wales: Llwynywermod	less than 5 views
357	The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives	less than 5 views
358	The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama	less than 5 views
359	Khalil and Majnun	less than 5 views
360	Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men	less than 5 views
361	Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps For A Fulfilling Life	less than 5 views
362	Zen Ties	less than 5 views
363	The Starry Rift	less than 5 views
364	One for the Road (Bjørn Christian Tørrissen book)	less than 5 views
365	Short Trips: Transmissions	less than 5 views
366	A British Picture	less than 5 views
367	The Annotated Turing	less than 5 views
368	American Nerd	less than 5 views
369	You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America	less than 5 views
370	Boys of Steel	less than 5 views
371	Splendours of Royal Mysore	less than 5 views
372	Fire And Fame	less than 5 views
373	Nicolas Sarkozy Voodoo Manual (book)	less than 5 views
374	Le Dernier Verre	less than 5 views
375	Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention	less than 5 views
376	The Propitious Esculent	less than 5 views
377	I'll Paint the Sky	less than 5 views
378	The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four	less than 5 views
379	Binurong Lapis	less than 5 views
380	Hurry Down Sunshine	less than 5 views
381	The Case for Latvia	less than 5 views
382	Diggers, Hatters & Whores	less than 5 views
383	Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds	less than 5 views
384	Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History	less than 5 views
385	Thirteen Women Strong	less than 5 views
386	Outsmart The MBA Clones	less than 5 views
387	Ghost Train to the Eastern Star	less than 5 views
388	Doing Business in 21st Century India	less than 5 views
389	Total church	less than 5 views

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