Which Books are on Your List?
There is no definitive list of the best selling books of all time, at least not that I have found. For that reasons, I am including several different lists of best selling books. If you know the location of a "definitive" list (if that is possible) please let me know in the guestbook below.
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Best Selling Books Trivial Pursuit
- How many books on the best selling list are religious based?
- How many books are by multiple authors?
- How many countries are represented by single-author books?
- What author has the greatest number of books on the list?
- How many books on the list have been made into movies?
Wikipedia's List of Best Selling Books
- Bible
- Quotations from Chairman Mao
- The Qur´an
- Don Quixote
- Xinhua Dictionary
- Book of Common Prayer
- Pilgim's Progress
- Foxe´s Book of Martyrs
- Book of Mormon
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (...Sorcerer's stone in US.)
- And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
- The Lord of the Rings
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Catcher and the Rye
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Heidi's Year of Wandering and Learning - Johanna Spyri
- King Somonon's Mines
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- The Curse of Capistrano (The Mark of Zorro)
- The Little Prince
- The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Russell Ash's List of Best Selling Books of All Times
- The Holy Bible c. 1451-55 - More than 6 Billion
- Mao Tse-Tung Quotations from Chairman Mao 1966 - 900,000,000
- Noah Webster The American Spelling Book 1783 - Up to 100,000,000
- Mark C. Young Guiness Book of World Records 1955 More than - 90,000,000
- World Almanac Editors World Almanac 1868 - 73,500,000
- William Holmes McGuffey The McGuffey Readers 1836 - 60,000,000
- Benjamin Spock The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care 1946 - More than 50,000,000
- Elbert Hubbard A Message to Garcia 1899 - More than 40,000,000
- 9 Charles Monroe Sheldon In His Steps, What Would Jesus Do? 1896 - More than 30.000,000
- Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls 1966 - More than 30,000
Best Sellers of Yesterday and Today
Here are some links to best selling books of the past and present. The links to best sellers of the past are not for all-time best sellers but given for specific genres.
Your turn: Am I right?
Know of a best selling book that is not on the list. Let us know. Be sure to mention your source so we can verify it before adding it to a list. Thanks for visiting. Be sure to check out our other lenses.
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