Sunday, September 27, 2009

10 Best Selling Books of All Time

For all of you aspiring authors, here's a list of the competition - the top 10 best selling books of all time. I stumbled on it while playing around on the Writer's Movement blog. I can't freaking believe that there are two Harry Potter books on there. Madness!

Enjoy:-)

Title/Author Copies Sold (millions)
1. The Bible by Various Authors - 5,000 - 6,000 Million
2. Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong by Mao Zedong 900 Million
3. The Qur'an by Muhammed 800 Million
4. Xinhua Zidian Author Unknown 400 Million
5. The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith, Jr. 120 Million
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling 107 Million

7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 100 Million
8. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 100 Million
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling 65 Million
10. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - 65 Million
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  1. Shelby S.October 20, 2009 at 9:57 PM

    Interesting.

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  2. Gwil WOctober 24, 2009 at 4:43 PM

    If those are really the 10 best-selling books of all time it's no small wonder that the world is almost completly bonkers. I don't see Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan or Albert Einstein on the list or even William Shakespeare or Goethe, not to mention for example The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens.

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