What's the most used book in Chemistry?

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I'm looking at OER options and wanted to see what books were most frequently visited at LibreTexts?

Justin Shorb

For the year of 2025, the most popular books in the Chemistry Library:

General Chemistry: The LibreTexts Map of General Chemistry by Brown (689k visitors)
Organic Chemistry: Supplemental Modules (1.7+ million visitors) Runner up: Organic Chemistry (Morsch et al.) (1.17+ million visitors)
Physical Chemistry: Supplemental Modules for Physical Chemistry (4+ million visitors) Runner-up: Physical Chemistry by LibreTexts (probably not that surprising since 3 of the 4 people on the steering committee for LibreTexts are Physical Chemistry instructors! 233k visitors)
Introductory Chemistry: Introductory Chemistry by the CK-12 Foundation (1.1+ million visitors)

Anyone have any recommendations of other good books? These are just the ones that are most commonly hit upon by searches online, not necessarily the ones that are most adopted.

Tara B

The OpenStax books are used pretty frequently, particularly due to the ancillary materials provided with those books. Since access would be split between the OpenStax platform and LibreTexts, I imagine that the LibreTexts numbers would under-count the usage rates.

Justin Shorb

Tara B The Morsch et al. book is actually a remix of LibreTexts materials authored by many faculty, in the same order as OpenStax, actually! I think there was a group of faculty who wanted to stick with that order (to preserve the exam/quiz reading instructions and to use the supplemental materials), but liked the way others taught various topics over the OpenStax authors. It's amazing how OER can make 'counting' adoptions and impact very different than simple website traffic! (that is what these are ranked by - not adoptions)