According to Guinness World Records, Agatha Christie has the title of “world's best-selling fiction writer,” with estimated sales of over 2 billion. UNESCO also lists Christie as the most translated author in history.
James Patterson
is the world's highest-paid author by a wide margin, and has been the world's best-selling author since 2001. He has sold more than 350 million books worldwide, and is most famous for the “Alex Cross” crime novel series.
What is the most sold book in history?
- #1 – Don Quixote (500 million copies sold) …
- #2 – A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold) …
- #3 – The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold) …
- #4 – The Little Prince (142 million copies sold) …
- #5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (107 million copies sold)
- J.K Rowling– 400 million copies.
- Leo Tolstoy – 413 Million copies.
- Gilbert Pattern(William George Gilbert Pattern) – 500 Million copies.
- Dr. …
- Danielle Steel – 570 million copies.
- Enid Blyton– 600 million copies.
- Georges Simenon– 700 million copies.
Who has sold more books King or Rowling?
James Patterson
David Burnett According to Nielsen BookScan, James Patterson has sold more books in the past decade than any other writer — more than Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling or horror master Stephen King. To date, Patterson has sold 300 million copies of 130 novels worldwide.
- Leo Tolstoy – 327.
- William Shakespeare – 293.
- James Joyce – 194.
- Vladimir Nabokov – 190.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – 177.
- William Faulkner – 173.
- Charles Dickens – 168.
- Anton Checkhov – 165.
Is JK Rowling a billionaire?
| J. K. Rowling CH OBE HonFRSE FRCPE FRSL | Notable works Harry Potter series Cormoran Strike series |
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What is the 2nd most read book in the world?
The second most read book in the world is
the Holy Quran
. As per survey the Quran is not only most read book of the Islamic world, but it also the most recited book of all time. The Third most read book is Quotation from the works of Mao Tse –tung.
What is most read book in the world?
The most read book in the world is
the Bible
. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years. He found that the Bible far outsold any other book, with a whopping 3.9 billion copies sold over the last 50 years.
What are the top 3 purchased books in 2020?
- Barack Obama, A Promised Land (2,574,531 copies sold)
- Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun (1,311,147 copies sold)
- Dav Pilkey, Dog Man (1,240,277 copies sold)
- Mary L. …
- Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (1,235,099 copies sold)
Who is the best writer in the world?
- William Shakespeare — 11.
- William Faulkner — 6.
- Henry James — 6.
- Jane Austen — 5.
- Charles Dickens — 5.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — 5.
- Ernest Hemingway — 5.
- Franz Kafka — 5.
- Enheduanna. Enheduanna was born in 2285 BCE. …
- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was born in 1928 in Missouri. …
- Beverly Cleary. Beverly Cleary grew up on a farm in Oregon before moving to Portland. …
- Willa Cather. …
- Sandra Cisneros. …
- Virginia Woolf. …
- Louisa May Alcott. …
- Toni Morrison.
- Danielle Steel.
- Stephen King.
- James A. Michener.
- Sidney Sheldon.
- Mary Higgins Clark.
- Robert Ludlum.
- Lloyd C. Douglas.
- Sinclair Lewis.
Who has sold the most books in the world?
| Book | The Little Prince | Author(s) | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Original language | French | First published | 1943 | Genre | Novella |
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What is Stephen King's most sold book?
Stephen King's top-selling novel is
The Shining
. The novel was first published in 1977, or 44 years ago (as of 2021). When you multiply 44 by the yearly book sales (15,732), you get 692,208 copies sold.
- James Baldwin. …
- Truman Capote. …
- Maya Angelou. …
- Joan Didion. …
- Michelle Obama. …
- Yuval Noah Harari. …
- Bill Bryson. …
- Stephen Hawking.
