The all-time most popular books in the world revealed
The all-time most popular books in the world revealed09 Dec 2014
The numbers have been crunched and the list for the best selling books of all time has been revealed.
Website lovereading.co.uk collated the figures for the number of editions, translations and copies sold of the world's most popular books, including fiction and non-fiction.
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.Rowling's Harry Potter series at fifth place with 450m copies sold.
Homer's epic Odyssey has been translated the most amount of time into 250 languages, followed by French Children's classic Le Petit Prince.
To make for easy reading we've 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
You can view the original infographic by lovereading.co.uk below. Please note, Jane Austen’s name is misspelled as “Jane Austin”.
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http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/the-all-time-most-popular-books-in-the-world-revealed It only shows that humans love fictional work like Al Quran. :lol:
Not as fiction as Final Fantasy- have some respects to other people beliefs
gotham replied at 2-1-2015 12:26 PM
Not as fiction as Final Fantasy- have some respects to other people beliefs
Go and educate those terrorists and extreme Muslims about respect BEFORE telling non-Muslim to do so. {:1_541:} Sephiroth replied at 2-1-2015 01:55 PM
Go and educate those terrorists and extreme Muslims about respect BEFORE telling non-Muslim to do...
What about the terror from extreme non-mulsim communists Russia and China that have killed millions of people (including their own)? You should read more www.juancole.com..May Allah blessed you with hidayah if not today-someday-just like Balbeer Singh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ6bESsQIJo
Why not read the whole Quran rather than taking peacemeal portions..
gotham replied at 16-1-2015 11:06 AM
What about the terror from extreme non-mulsim communists Russia and China that have killed m ...
Whatever ... {:1_550:}
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