What is America's best-selling book?

Best Sellers in American Literature
  • #1. It Ends with Us: A Novel (1) Colleen Hoover. ...
  • #2. The Brighter the Light. Mary Ellen Taylor. ...
  • #3. Where the Crawdads Sing. ...
  • #4. Ugly Love: A Novel. ...
  • #5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel. ...
  • #6. Meditations: A New Translation. ...
  • #7. It Ends with Us: A Novel. ...
  • #8. The Winter Guest: A Novel.
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What is the most sold book in America?

The Bible. The Bible is the best-selling book of all time, having sold around 5 billion copies to date.
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What is the #1 book ever sold?

According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.
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What is the #1 best-selling book 2021?

2021 was a pretty good year for author Dav Pilkey. Not only is his children's book "Dog Man: Mothering Heights" USA TODAY's bestselling book of the year, but he also followed up the achievement with four more of his books landing in the Top 100 for 2021, more than any other author.
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What is the #1 best-selling book 2020?

Best Sellers in Books for 2020
  • #1. A Promised Land. ...
  • #2. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. ...
  • #3. Where the Crawdads Sing. ...
  • #4. My First Learn-to-Write Workbook: Practice for Kids with Pen Control, Line Tracing, Letters, and More! ...
  • #5. Midnight Sun. ...
  • #6. Untamed. ...
  • #7. ...
  • #8.
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Top 10 BEST SELLING Books In History



What is a USA Today bestselling author?

One of the top achievements for an author is hitting the USA Today best-seller list. It's considered such a noteworthy accomplishment because it ranks best-selling books based on sales, not editorial preferences, and only 150 top-selling books are featured every week, among millions of books available for purchase.
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Who is the #1 best-selling author?

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.
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What is the hottest book right now?

The 23 most popular books right now, according to Goodreads members:
  • "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig. ...
  • "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" by V.E. ...
  • "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. ...
  • "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. ...
  • "The Great Gatsby" by F. ...
  • "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens.
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What is the most popular book today?

The 10 Most Popular Books Right Now
  • It Starts with Us: A Novel. Paperback $13.99 $17.99. ...
  • It Ends with Us. Paperback $12.99 $16.99. ...
  • The Hotel Nantucket (Signed Book) ...
  • Book Lovers. ...
  • Her Majesty's Royal Coven. ...
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer I Turned Pretty Series #1) ...
  • The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. ...
  • Love on the Brain.
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What is the 2nd most sold book in the world?

He found that the Bible far outsold any other book, with a whopping 3.9 billion copies sold over the last 50 years. "Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung" came in second with 820 million copies sold, and "Harry Potter" came in third with 400 million copies sold.
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What is the most read book in history?

The Holy Bible is the most read book in the world. In the past 50 years, the Bible has sold over 3.9 billion copies. It is the most recognizable and famous book that has ever been published. The Bible is a collective book with many different preachings based on God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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What should I read in 2021?

The Best Books to Read in 2021
  • Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (January)
  • Nora by Nuala O'Connor (January)
  • Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu.
  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (January)
  • Milk Fed by Melissa Broder (February)
  • My Year Abroad by Chang Rae Lee (February)
  • Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin (February)
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Has one piece outsold the Bible?

While 454 million copies and counting is a massive achievement, especially when you consider that the first issue was released on Oct. 20, 1999, no, it hasn't outsold the Bible. In fact, it hasn't even come close to touching the Adventures of Jesus and Friends (alternate title, probably.)
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Is every book a New York Times bestseller?

According to Vox, if you want your book to be on any best-seller list, you should be able to sell at least 5,000 or 10,000 books within a week. But that's just a general tip, since best-seller lists don't use the same methods for gathering data.
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What are the top 10 selling books of 2021?

These are the bestselling books of 2021.
  • Bill Martin Jr., Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? ( ...
  • Jeff Kinney, The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #15) (543,624 copies sold)
  • Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me (531,404 copies sold)
  • John Grisham, The Judge's List (517,436 copies sold)
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What is the 10 most read book in the world?

Have You Read The 10 Most-Read Books In The World?
  • THE HOLY BIBLE. ...
  • QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG by Mao Tse-Tung. ...
  • HARRY POTTER by J.K. Rowling. ...
  • THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
  • THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho. ...
  • THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown. ...
  • THE TWILIGHT SAGA by Stephanie Meyer.
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Who is the richest writer in the world?

FAQs on Richest Writers

J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is the richest writer in the world with a net worth of $1 billion.
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What is the biggest selling book of all time?

25 Best-Selling Books of All-Time
  • #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)
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Who is the highest paid author of all time?

  • 1.4 8. Paula Hawkins ($ 13 million)
  • 1.5 7. Nora Roberts ($ 14 million)
  • 1.6 6. John Grisham ($ 14 million)
  • 1.7 5. Stephen King ($ 15 million)
  • 1.8 4. Dan Brown ($ 20 million)
  • 1.9 3. Jeff Kinney ($ 21 million)
  • 1.10 2. James Patterson ($ 87 million)
  • 1.11 1. JK Rowling ($ 95 million)
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What is the top selling book this week?

Hardcover Fiction
  • New this week. THE HOTEL NANTUCKET. by Elin Hilderbrand. ...
  • 3 weeks on the list. SPARRING PARTNERS. by John Grisham. ...
  • New this week. HORSE. by Geraldine Brooks. ...
  • 3 weeks on the list. MEANT TO BE. by Emily Giffin. ...
  • 80 weeks on the list. THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY. by Matt Haig.
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Is the Bible the most sold book?

At the top of the list, unsurprisingly, is the Bible. The Guinness Book of World Records estimates that more than 5 billion copies of the Bible have been printed. Other religious texts are also high on the list: the Quran with 800 million copies, the Book of Mormon with 120 million.
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Who read most books in the world?

Which countries read the most?
  • India, 10:42. With its citizens reading 10 hours and 42 minutes per week on average, India tops our list. ...
  • Thailand, 9:24. Thailand is second on our list, with a time of 9 hours and 24 minutes on average per week. ...
  • China, 8:00. China ranks third with eight hours on average.
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Who Wrote the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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What are the current top 10 books?

FICTION
  • Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley. ...
  • 22 Seconds by James Patterson; Maxine Paetro. ...
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. ...
  • The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner. ...
  • The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave. ...
  • One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle. ...
  • Dream Town by David Baldacci. ...
  • The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley.
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