What is the number 1 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 is the 3 most read book in the world?

The Most Read Books of All Time
  • The Bible. ...
  • The Holy Quran. ...
  • The Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung. ...
  • Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling. ...
  • The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. ...
  • The Da Vince Code by Dan Brown. ...
  • The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Myers.
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What's the biggest selling book of all time?

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What's the most stolen book?

The Bible. Apparently, thieves missed the "Thou shalt not steal" part of the Ten Commandments. According to experts, the Bible is the most commonly stolen book. The Holy Bible is available for free at many places of worship, so perhaps there's less guilt associated with pilfering a copy.
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What is the greatest book to read?

The Greatest Books
  1. 1 . In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. ...
  2. 2 . Ulysses by James Joyce. ...
  3. 3 . Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. ...
  4. 4 . One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...
  5. 5 . The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
  6. 6 . Moby Dick by Herman Melville. ...
  7. 7 . War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. ...
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What is the number 1 book in the world 2022?

"House of Sky and Breath" by Sarah J.

Maas' "House of Earth and Blood" hit shelves in February 2022 and quickly rose to the top of the bestseller list.
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What is the most sold book this year?

Dog Man is the best selling book of 2021!
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What is the #1 best-selling fiction book 2022?

These are the bestselling books of 2022.
  • Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us (Atria) – 2,729,007 copies sold.
  • Colleen Hoover, Verity (Grand Central) – 2,000,418 copies sold.
  • Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us (Atria) – 1,885,351 copies sold.
  • Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing (Putnam) – 1,868,518 copies sold.
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Who is the most important book in the world?

The Bible.

This sacred text brought Christianity to the world and has continued to serve as a source of inspiration for millions of people. It is the most translated and the most frequently purchased book in the world.
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What is the most read story book in the world?

The Holy Bible: The Holy Bible is considered the most read book in the world.
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Which one is the book everyone should read?

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank. "1984" by George Orwell. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling.
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What is the most sold fiction book?

The highest selling and most translated book of all time, "Don Quixote", is also considered the first modern novel, published in two parts, one in 1605 and the other in 1615. Don Quixote decides to become a knight-errant after reading countless romantic tales.
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What is the fastest selling book in the world?

The fastest selling book overall is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final instalment of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Who is the #1 best-selling author?

Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976)

Dame Agatha Christie currently holds the title of the world's best-selling novelist, according to Guiness World Records, as well as the most-translated author in history.
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Which book no one can read?

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an otherwise unknown script, referred to as 'Voynichese'.
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What is the first book I should read?

The Diary of A Young Girl By Anne Frank

Read the book and find out. With the powerful reminder of the war, The Diary of A Young Girl is undoubtedly among the best books for beginning readers. The familiarity of the story (from our childhood textbooks) makes it even more interesting to read!
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Which is the most popular book Why?

Guinness World Records estimates that over five billion copies of the Bible have been sold, making it the best-selling book of all time. Because religious texts are often translated into many foreign languages and distributed widely by churches, however, precise figures are hard to come by.
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What is America's most read book?

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  • To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • Outlander (Series)
  • Harry Potter (Series)
  • Pride and Prejudice.
  • Lord of the Rings.
  • Gone with the Wind.
  • Charlotte's Web.
  • Little Women.
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What is the 2 most read 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. The second most read book in the world is the Holy Quran.
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What is the king of all books?

Ledger is called the king of all books of accounts because all entries from the books of original entry must be posted to the various accounts in the ledger.
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What are 7 books called?

A heptalogy (/hɛpˈtælədʒi/; from Greek ἑπτα- hepta-, "seven" and -λογία -logia, "discourse"), also known as a septology, is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works.
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Who wrote the biggest book in the world?

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters (each letter counts as one character. Spaces are also counted, as one character each).
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How many books are left in the world?

Using data from libraries, ISBNs, and more, they determined that the number is 129,864,880. But, that number doesn't include everything. The definition of a unique “novel” or book gets more complicated the harder you try to define it. The number doesn't include serials or most self-published books.
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Which country reads the most books?

The country that reads the most books is India! They led every country on the map with an average of 10 hours and 42 minutes. That is a good average amount for a country as a whole.
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