What is the most popular reading book?

The most read book in the World is Bible. This holy book so far has outsold any other in the world. During the last 50 years, a whopping 3.9 billion copies has been sold.
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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 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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What is the most common favorite book?

With nearly 8 million ratings, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is the most popular book of all time on Goodreads and has sold over 120 million copies.
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What are the 3 most popular books?

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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Top 10 BEST SELLING Books In History



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's the hottest book right now?

The 10 Most Popular Books Right Now
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer I Turned Pretty Series #1) ...
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (B&N Exclusive Edition) ...
  • It's Not Summer Without You (Summer I Turned Pretty Series #2) ...
  • It Starts with Us: A Novel. ...
  • It Ends with Us.
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What is the most read book in 2021?

Best of 2021: Our 15 Most Popular Books of the Year
  • The Last Thing He Told Me. by Laura Dave. ...
  • Lightning Strike. by William Kent Krueger. ...
  • The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton. by Eleanor Ray. ...
  • Yellow Wife. by Sadeqa Johnson. ...
  • In Five Years. by Rebecca Serle. ...
  • The Paris Library. ...
  • In a Book Club Far Away. ...
  • The Night She Disappeared.
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What is the most selling book?

The Bible. The Bible is the best-selling book of all time, having sold around 5 billion copies to date. The book had several authors and can be roughly divided into two parts: The Old Testament and the New Testament. The Bible was written somewhere in the period between the 8th BC and the 1st Century CE.
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What is the 2nd most read book?

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.
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What is the most famous story in the world?

Here they explain why.
  1. The Odyssey (Homer, 8th Century BC) ...
  2. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852) ...
  3. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818) ...
  4. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) ...
  5. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958) ...
  6. One Thousand and One Nights (various authors, 8th-18th Centuries)
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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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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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Who read the 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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What are the current top 10 books?

FICTION
  • Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson; Dolly Parton. ...
  • Dream Town by David Baldacci. ...
  • The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner. ...
  • The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. ...
  • Nightwork by Nora Roberts. ...
  • 22 Seconds by James Patterson; Maxine Paetro. ...
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. ...
  • One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle.
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What books are trending now?

8 Trending Books That Live Up to the Hype
  • Ugly Love. by Colleen Hoover. ...
  • These Violent Delights. by Chloe Gong. ...
  • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. by Dawnie Walton. ...
  • The Song of Achilles. by Madeline Miller. ...
  • Yellow Wife. by Sadeqa Johnson. ...
  • Six of Crows. by Leigh Bardugo. ...
  • Ordinary Grace. ...
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
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What should I read today?

30 Best Books to Read
  1. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. ...
  2. 1984, by George Orwell. ...
  3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J.K. Rowling. ...
  4. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
  5. The Great Gatsby, by F. ...
  6. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. ...
  7. The Diary Of A Young Girl, by Anne Frank. ...
  8. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.
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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 is the most sold 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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Who is the best author of all time?

The 10 Greatest Authors of All Time
  • Leo Tolstoy – 327.
  • William Shakespeare – 293.
  • James Joyce – 194.
  • Vladimir Nabokov – 190.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky – 177.
  • William Faulkner – 173.
  • Charles Dickens – 168.
  • Anton Checkhov – 165.
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What is everyone reading now 2022?

  • "To Paradise," by Hanya Yanagihara. "To Paradise" ...
  • "Violeta," by Isabel Allende. "Violeta" ...
  • "Black Cake," by Charmaine Wilkerson. "Black Cake" ...
  • "The Paris Apartment," by Lucy Foley. ...
  • "Young Mungo," by Douglas Stuart. ...
  • "The Candy House," by Jennifer Egan. ...
  • "Memphis," by Tara M. ...
  • "Sea of Tranquility," by Emily St.
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What book sold the most in 2020?

Yes, as reported by Publishers Weekly earlier today, A Promised Land was the top print title in 2020, moving nearly 2.6 million copies in just six weeks—a staggering number, though notably less than Michelle Obama's Becoming, which sold 3.4 million copies in the same period back in 2018 (and which quietly moved another ...
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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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Who is the richest author?

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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