What is the most commonly stolen book from public libraries?
2007-03-14 14:05:43 · 12 answers · asked by John C 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
According to this site, it's the Guinness Book of World Records:
http://www.distant.ca/UselessFacts/fact.asp?ID=258
Overall, that may be true, but at my locale the most stolen books are books on Wicca or witchcraft, automotive repair, Helter Skelter (the book about Charles Manson), anything on Jim Morrison, and local ghost story books. Anne Rice's are probably up there too.
And I don't know of any library who manages to hang onto The Anarchist's Cookbook or The Satanic Bible. Anything called the Necronomicon usually vanishes as well.
2007-03-14 14:25:31 · answer #1 · answered by princessmikey 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably the Bible overall followed closely by the Kama Sutra but in recent years it would have to be The Da Vinci Code.
2007-03-14 14:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by tardieu13 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We lost an awful lot of GED study guides at our library. Other things that people stole were The Joy of Sex (too embarrassed to check it out), baby name books, and witchcraft handbooks.
2007-03-14 14:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it is Atlas' or books that contain maps. Especially maps to hidden treasure. Those pirates just can't be trusted at public libraries!
2007-03-14 14:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by Libby 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bibles are frequently stolen.
Also "Steal This Book" by Abbie Hoffman. Which is stupid, really. steal it from a bookstore, not from the library.
2007-03-14 15:40:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They just had this on the news...it was sports illustrated swimsuit edition that was consistantly stolen
2007-03-14 16:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
catcher in the rye?
or is that just a common book for supposed assassin?
2007-03-14 14:21:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the Bible.
I remember it as being ironic.
2007-03-15 00:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by Dan A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible
2007-03-14 14:13:14 · answer #9 · answered by rouschkateer 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the Bible > go figure
2007-03-14 14:09:28 · answer #10 · answered by BANANA 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋