The most name-dropped books

Ranked by the number of books that mention them.

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: mentioned in 82 books
2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 78 books
3. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: mentioned in 68 books
4. A Thousand and One Nights: mentioned in 61 books
5. Iliad by Homer: mentioned in 54 books
6. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 51 books
7. Paradise Lost by John Milton: mentioned in 45 books
8. King Lear by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 39 books
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: mentioned in 38 books
10. The Odyssey by Homer: mentioned in 38 books
11. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: mentioned in 32 books
12. Macbeth by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 32 books
13. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: mentioned in 30 books
14. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: mentioned in 29 books
15. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: mentioned in 27 books
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: mentioned in 25 books
17. The Republic by Plato: mentioned in 25 books
18. The Tempest by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 25 books
19. The Aeneid by Virgil: mentioned in 24 books
20. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: mentioned in 24 books
21. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 23 books
22. Inferno by Dante Alighieri: mentioned in 22 books
23. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: mentioned in 22 books
24. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: mentioned in 22 books
25. As You Like It by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 21 books
26. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: mentioned in 21 books
27. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: mentioned in 21 books
28. Othello by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 20 books
29. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: mentioned in 20 books
30. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: mentioned in 19 books
31. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan: mentioned in 19 books
32. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: mentioned in 19 books
33. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: mentioned in 18 books
34. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: mentioned in 17 books
35. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: mentioned in 17 books
36. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: mentioned in 16 books
37. Candide by Voltaire: mentioned in 15 books
38. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: mentioned in 15 books
39. Metamorphoses by Ovid: mentioned in 15 books
40. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce: mentioned in 14 books
41. Henry V by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 14 books
42. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: mentioned in 14 books
43. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser: mentioned in 14 books
44. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 14 books
45. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson: mentioned in 14 books
46. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 14 books
47. Ulysses by James Joyce: mentioned in 14 books
48. Lotus Sutra: mentioned in 13 books
49. Richard III by William Shakespeare: mentioned in 13 books
50. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: mentioned in 13 books