What's the most read book among your the shelves of a library?
Books are the most reliable source of knowledge and entertaiment, based on the number of books sold (not printed) we could determine the top 10 book readed for last 50 years (Many titles has more copy than the books in this list, but because they can;t stand the amount of copies sold we'l assume the unsold is unreaded).
1. The Holy Bible
Author : Various Phropet, Translated by Various Languish
Year Published : Unknown, Printed Version published 1456 AD.
Copies Sold : 4.000.000.000
It's first book written at least 1445 BC, The Holy Bible is also the oldest lasting and most translated book, translated into more than 2.000 language (almost 7.000 present in the world) Its mainly divided into two part : the Old Testament about the history of ancient Israel and Judah. The Second Part, the New Testament (Written around 0-30 AD) majorly about Jesus Christ. It's mainly binded with black covers.
2. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Author : Mao Tse-Tung
Year Published : 1964
Copies Sold : 820.000.000
One of the most popular handbook in China, this little red book filled with selected statements from speeches and writings by Mao Tse-tung, former leader of Chinese Communist Party. The most popular versions were printed in small sizes that could be easily carried and bounded in bright red covers, becoming commonly known in the West as the Little Red Book.
Author : Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Year Published : 1997
Copies Sold : 400.000.000
This Series Novel were one of the most popular novel of all time, The Same thing happen to its movie trilogy. It Consists of 7 Titles (The Philosopher/Sorcerers Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of Phoenix, The Half Blooded Prince and The Deathly Hallows). It tells us the Adventure of Harry Potter, A Teenager Wizard from England.
4. The Lord of the Rings
Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Year Published : 1954
Copies Sold : 103.000.000
One of the most influential high fantasy work of all time, This book (That then splited into three titles, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King) That than actually adapted into box office movies. The Lord of the rings has been translated into more than 38 language. The story itself is a sequel to J.R.R. Tolkien Earlier work, The Hobbit.
5. The Alchemist
Author : Paulo Coelho
Year Published : 1988
Copies Sold : 65.000.000
The Alchemist is a novel by Paulo Coelho first published in the year 1988. Originally written in Portuguese by its Brazilian-born author, it has been translated into at least 56 languages as of September 2012. The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic,
6. The Da Vinci Code
Author : Daniel Brown
Year Published : 2003
Copies Sold : 57.000.000
This Controversial Novel is a mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris, when they become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene.
7. The Twillight Saga
Author : Stephenie Morgan Meyer
Year Published :
Copies Sold : 43.000.000
Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn) by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The Novels are also adapted to several movies with the same title which are considered as one of the teenagers favorite.
8. Gone with the Wind
Author : Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
Year Published : 1936
Copies Sold : 33.000.000
A Historical-Fiction Novel set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara. It was popular with American readers from the onset and was the top American fiction bestseller in the year it was published and in 1937.
9. Think and Grow Rich
Author : Napoleon Hill
Year Published : 1937
Copies Sold : 30.000.000
Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill inspired by a suggestion from Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want
Author : Annelies Marie Frank
Year Published : 1947
Copies Sold : 27.000.000
The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank itself died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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