Check It Out

What's the most checked-out book in the Dartmouth library system? With help from our friends at Baker-Berry, and limiting ourselves to the past 10 years— that's how long the electronic catalog has been around—we have the winner: OneHundred Years of Solitude. It leads the pack with 64 checkouts, which comes as no surprise to English professor Jonathan Crewe. "It is a major, hugely successful novel worldwide, highly readable and probably read in many courses," he says. With 2.1 million volumes vying for the podium, ladies and gentlemen, we give you the top 10 titles (and the number of checkouts for each):

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (64)

2. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (60)

3. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (59)

4. Ishmael: A Novel by Daniel Quinn (58)

5. The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays by Wendy Wasserstein (50)

6. Nineteen Eighty-Four, A Novel by George Orwell (50)

7. Toni Morrison's World of Fiction by Karen Carmean (50)

8. Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot (49)

9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (48)

10. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (48)