What is the most read book on Goodreads?

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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 highest rated novels on Goodreads?

The highest rated books on Goodreads
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett. ...
  • A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin. ...
  • A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. ...
  • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson.
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What is the #1 read book in the world?

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 most popular reading book?

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.
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What is the most read book in 2020?

Kay, Maybe This Year Wasn't *All* Bad: Here Are the Best-Selling Books of 2020
  • A Promised Land' by Barack Obama. ...
  • The Return' by Nicholas Sparks. ...
  • Untamed' by Glennon Doyle. ...
  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' by Suzanne Collins. ...
  • The Vanishing Half' by Brit Bennett. ...
  • One by One' by Ruth Ware.
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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 #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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What is the #1 best-selling book of all time?

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 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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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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Which book has most readers?

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.
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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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How old is the Bible?

The first Biblical stories were passed down orally and only written down later by various authors. Most Biblical scholars believe the Book of Genesis was the first book to be written down. This would have happened around 1450 BC to 1400 BC. So perhaps about 3400 years or so ago.
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Is there a 5 star book on Goodreads?

If you are looking for the best books to read, where do you begin? You could search for “five star books on Goodreads”, but then you'll get Twilight in the top five. While many of you might love Twilight, you have to admit it's not exactly the epitome of top-notch writing.
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What books are 5 5 Goodreads?

5 5 5 Books
  • The Matisse Stories (Paperback) ...
  • Airs Above the Ground (Paperback) ...
  • The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Kindle Edition) ...
  • My Notorious Life (ebook) ...
  • The Lady and the Unicorn (Paperback) ...
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
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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 #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 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 book has the most pages?

Infinite Jest

It's the novel you suspect you should have read by now but, most likely, haven't. Published in 1996 at a length of 1,079 pages, Infinite Jest took David Foster Wallace four years to write.
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How many books sold 100000 copies?

The average book in America sells about 500 copies. Those blockbusters are a minute anomaly: only 10 books sold more than a million copies last year, and fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000. So are all the rest of the books simply failed blockbusters? Of course not.
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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 are the top 3 purchased books in 2020?

Book bestsellers 2020: Most purchased books we covered
  1. “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama. ...
  2. “Migrations: A Novel” by Charlotte McConaghy. ...
  3. “A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom” by Brittany K. ...
  4. “Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari.
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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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How old is Adam and Eve?

They used these variations to create a more reliable molecular clock and found that Adam lived between 120,000 and 156,000 years ago. A comparable analysis of the same men's mtDNA sequences suggested that Eve lived between 99,000 and 148,000 years ago1.
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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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