THE ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR BOOKS IN THE WORLD REVEALED The numbers have been crunched and the list for the best selling books of all time has been revealed. The Holy Quran came out on top with over 3 billion prints, followed by The King James Bible with over 2.5 billion copies sold. The third highest selling print is Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung , a book of selected speeches and writings by Mao Zedong, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party, which has been translated in 34 languages. The most popular novel on this list was Spanish novel Don Quixote which came in at fourth place with 500m copies sold, followed by J.K.Rowlings Harry Potter series at fifth place with 450m copies sold. Homers epic Odyssey has been translated the most amount of time into 250 languages, followed by French Childrens classic Le Petit Prince. To make for easy reading weve ranked the most popular novels below. (Numbers indicate number of copies sold or printed) 1. The Holy Quran (644) - over 3 billion 2. The King James Bible (1611) - over 2.5 billion 3. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse- tung (1964) by Mao Zendong - 800 million 4. Don Quixote (1512) by Miguel de Cervantes - 500 million 5. Harry Potter series (1997-2007) by J.K.Rowling - 450 million 6. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens - 200 million 7. The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien - 150 million 8. Le Petit Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint- Exupéry - 140 million 9. Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Caroll - 100 million Dream of the Red Chamber (1754) by Cao Xueqin - 100 million And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie - 100 million The Hobbit (1937) J. R. R. Tolkien - 100 million 10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis - 85 million
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:24:20 +0000
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