What Are The Top 10 Most Popular Books?

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  • #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)

What are the top 10 best-selling books right now?

  • Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty. …
  • Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. …
  • Enemy at the Gates by Vince Flynn; Kyle Mills. …
  • Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney. …
  • Billy Summers by Stephen King. …
  • The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. …
  • A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins.

What are the top 10 books to read in 2020?

  • A Promised Land by Barack Obama. …
  • What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez. …
  • Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford. …
  • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. …
  • Writers & Lovers by Lily King. …
  • Monogamy by Sue Miller. …
  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. …
  • The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante.

What are the top 5 most read books in the world?

  • The Holy Bible.
  • The Holy Quran.
  • The Harry Potter Series: J.K. Rowling.
  • The Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse Tung.
  • The Lord of the Rings.
  • The Alchemist.
  • The Diary of Anne Frank: Anne Frank.
  • The Twilight SagA: Stephenie Meyer.

What is the #1 best-selling book?

Rank Title Author SOURCE: NIELSEN BOOK SCAN 1

Da Vinci Code,The


Brown

, Dan
2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J.K. 3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rowling, J.K.

What is the hottest book right now?

  • Insurgent (Divergent, #2) …
  • Bossypants (Kindle Edition) …
  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) …
  • Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1) …
  • Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) …
  • The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) …
  • Room (Kindle Edition)

What book sold the most 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)

What is the #1 best selling book 2021?

Rank Title Author 1

Dog Man: Mothering Heights


Dav

Pilkey
2 American Marxism Mark R. Levin 3 The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse Charlie Mackesy 4 Oh, The Places You'll Go! Dr Seuss

What is the world most read book?

The most read book in the world is

the Bible

. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read 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 is the 2 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.

Who is the best religion book in the world?

  • Kitáb-i-Aqdas – The Most Holy Book.
  • Kitáb-i-Íqán – The Book of Certitude.
  • The Hidden Words.
  • Days of Remembrance.
  • Epistle to the Son of the Wolf.
  • The Four Valleys.
  • Gems of Divine Mysteries.
  • Gleanings.

Who has sold the most books ever?

Having sold more than 500 million copies worldwide,

Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling

is the best-selling book series in history.

What book took the longest to write?

  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (10 Years) …
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (10 Years) …
  • No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (13 Years) …
  • The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (12-17 Years) …
  • Sphere by Michael Crichton (20 Years)

What is the second most sold book of all time?


Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tsung, also known as the “Little Red Book”, is the world's second best-selling book, having sold around 1.1 billion copies worldwide.

What is the number one book of 2021?

The Best Books of 2021 (So Far):


Dusk, Night, Dawn:

On Revival and Courage by Anne Lamott. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.

What books are better than Harry Potter?

  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. …
  • The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. …
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. …
  • Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. …
  • The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen. …
  • The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. …
  • City of Bones by Cassandra Clare.
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