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Top 10 BEST SELLING Books In History
the top 10 best-selling books in history
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channel today we're discussing and
ranking the best-selling books in
history and give you guys some of the
best titles and authors that should be
on your reading list if they aren't
already we also know that most of you
don't like to waste time reading bad
books so if you want to try the all-time
bestsellers here's your chance we did
our homework and put together ten of the
best-selling books that were ever
written and our classic books and
all-time favorites
unlike most religious writings and
medieval manuscripts that only depicted
life at the castle and the daily
struggles of ordinary people more recent
books especially after printers were
invented are fictional masterpieces that
managed to stay relevant for years and
to multiple generations reading is still
viewed as one of the most relaxing and
beneficial hobbies or habits that people
can easily pick up reading books can
significantly improve vocabulary
imagination and communication with
others you constantly learn something
new while you unwind and most
importantly you don't do any damage to
your eyes or your brain there's nothing
more sad than seeing people waste time
and refuse to hook up was a good book
that could possibly change their life or
at least the way they think and did we
mention that this is the best pick-up
line and conversation starter yes books
are amazing and we can't stop preaching
about reading since it's also a habit of
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without further adieu let's see which
authors made it into the Hall of Fame
list of the best-selling books in
history we have both women and men and
different genres but all in all only the
best books number 10 Dan Brown DaVinci
Code
80 million copies starting was a
best-seller from 15 years and the book
that made Dan Brown a best-selling
author The Da Vinci Code yes you've
definitely heard about this famous book
that was released back in 2003 it's been
15 years since then and the book is
still making people doubt the church and
Jesus Christ the subject is indeed
highly sensitive and Dan Brown has
conducted years of studies to get his
facts checked and write the whole story
although it's full of information cleric
mentions and plot twists it's a semi
fiction story because most characters
are not real Dan Brown has a few other
books that kind of tackle this subject
and with the same character Robert
Langdon but this one was a hugely
controversial story for months TV shows
and lots of people criticized the book
and began taking sides because the way
he wrote the book and the facts that
were presented are simply making you
doubt everything you already know we're
not giving away any spoilers don't worry
guys we're not that kind of people since
it's huge release the book has been
trending and ranking like crazy it sold
over 80 million copies it's been made
into a successful film adaptation some
parodies and of course lawsuits at 54
years old Dan Brown still writes books
about controversial subjects and has a
net worth between 20 to 100 million
dollars depending on which source you
read and since he released another
robert langdon book last year
origins it looks like we're about to
hear more and more about him and his
famous professor number 9 H rider
Haggard Shi a history of adventure
83 million copies moving on we changed
the theme a little since we're now
talking about a different book xi the
history of adventure is the kind of book
that keeps you glued to the pages for
hours and hours
the story is about Horace Holley and his
ward
Leo Vincey wandering in a lost kingdom
in the African interior there they meet
an indigenous tribe and their white
queen aisha who reigns as the
all-powerful she or she who must be
obeyed as they call her sometimes the
story is inspired by two major themes
the lost world sub-genre and the British
colonialism in Africa since its
publication in 1887 the book has been a
massive influence for future English
novelists and a worldwide success so far
over 83 million copies have been sold
and it's now available in print audio
book and ebook options for those who
want to read it what makes the book so
great is that the author H rider Haggard
was inspired by a lot of personal
travels and childhood memories while
writing the story it's a story about
romance adventure fantasy and gothic
elements which makes it so much more
relevant and unique some great writers
such as Henry Miller or j.r.r tolkien
admitted to have being inspired by it
and that's why it's on our exclusive
list
there's also around eleven screen
adaptations of the story so feel free to
watch any of those as well number eight
CS Lewis The Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe eighty-five million copies
because we like a little fantasy
sprinkled here and there and a damn good
story we have the best childhood story
by CS Lewis The Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe the book is a part of The
Chronicles of Narnia and is by far one
of the most famous and best selling out
of all seven books it follows the story
of children that are staying in an old
countryside home and discovers a land of
Narnia from that moment on they embark
on a journey of self-discovery fighting
the Evil Queen and the mythical
creatures that help them along the way
it's a beautiful story that keeps that
young fantasy spirit alive some books
have beautifully made illustrations that
help depict all the craziness that
happens in Narnia and even though the
movies made after the book are really
good the book is still better
we will always go with the book and
encourage you guys to read and then
watch the movie some say the book
depicts a strong allegory to Jesus
Christ's crucifixion and connections to
other stories such as Snow White
altogether this book that means so much
to so many kids has sold over 85 million
copies so far and is still one of the
most kept books in libraries and
bookstores if you're not so much into
fantasy books then we strongly advise
you to see the movie instead because
they follow the story quite accurately
and have advanced CGI graphics number
seven ouch ooch in the dream of the red
chamber 100 million copies heading to
China we find one of the greatest novels
to ever come from the country this book
is one of the four greatest classical
novels even though the book is published
with many titles such as dream of the
red chamber the story of the stone red
chamber dream and a dream of red
mansions as you'd expect all writers are
inspired by their families and the times
in which they live this one is also semi
autobiographical where the action
follows house family the Ching dynasty
from the 18th century marvellous details
of daily life the Chinese culture and
psychology are depicted in this book
some of the first manuscripts were
handwritten and passed down for a good
period of time so a few edits might have
sneaked in
but since the modern printers were
invented the book sold in over 100
million copies worldwide making it
available in multiple languages and
audiobook versions if you plan on
reading this book which we strongly
advise you to do get ready for a complex
story with over 40 main characters a lot
of Chinese names and beautiful ancient
Chinese legends and since it won't give
away too much about the story we'll
leave you with this quote from the
opening chapter so you get a little
taste truth becomes fiction when the
fictions true real becomes not real
where the unreal real
number six JK Rowling Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone 120 million copies
we couldn't have done this ranking
without mentioning this contemporary
female writer JK Rowling is the kind of
girl boss that makes other females be
more confident and follow their dreams
she's the first author to become a
billionaire and one of the greatest
philanthropists our world has her famous
series Harry Potter brought her
international recognition and plenty of
opportunities out of all of the seven
books Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone is the one that made it to our
list since it sold over 120 million
copies the whole series has over 520
million copies sold worldwide and is of
course one of the best-selling series of
all time there's a lot of Records around
this famous series as well and the
author so we're not even going to bother
telling you the plot since you guys 100%
know it already we would even bet that
at least half of our subscribers are
Harry Potter fans and have seen the
movies The Sorcerer's Stone is the first
book in the series and it can be found
under two different names Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US
version and Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone in the UK version
with this first book and the first movie
all the world fell in love with the
magical characters and let's be honest
this series was a major career breaker
for Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson
since the series was released a lot of
people visited the places mentioned in
the book such as the platform 9 and 3/4
sign on London's Kings Cross railway
station or Gringotts wizarding in London
and a Luxor since we're talking about
Harry Potter and JK Rowling we can't
stretch it too far since we have five
other best-selling books on our list but
if you're interested we have a video all
about JK Rowling and the book that made
her famous click in the top right corner
to check it out
number five Antoine de saint-exupéry the
little prince 100 or 40 million copies
getting closer to number one we stumble
upon another cute children's book the
little prince or La Petite France as so
many call it by its original French name
even though it's mostly a children's
story in some critics opinions since
it's pretty short only 96 pages the book
is a magical story and has been
translated into 250 languages and
dialects so everyone can enjoy it the
book has surpassed the 100 million
copies sold milestone and is now at 140
million copies and still counting after
the 2015 cinematic adaptation of the
book which had major Hollywood names
like Rachel McAdams James Franco or
Marion cottilard and a box office of
97.5 million dollars the story came back
again into the public eye with their
cute and symbolic characters the story
of the little prince is now so famous
that all over the world museums and
statues are attributed to it the
original manuscript of the story written
by Antoine de saint-exupery can be found
in Morgan Museum and Library in New York
as well as other personal objects of the
author and a signed edition of the book
since this prince is so famous you might
wonder who ellis trated him and how he
always looked the same in all of the
books and movies well when the author
wrote the book he also illustrated the
characters and the main sets up to this
day 75 years after its first publication
the original drawings are still used to
depict the little prince number 4 j.r.r
tolkien the Lord of the Rings series 150
million copies we all remember the 2003
Oscar Awards ceremony when the Lord of
the Rings The Return of the King took
home no more than 11 Oscars therefore
holding the record for the biggest Oscar
sweep of all time the same movie also
passed the 1 billion dollar milestone in
box offices and is now among the 10 best
movies of all time among classics like
Titanic or Ben Hur but what about the
books inspired Peter Jackson to move to
New Zealand for a few years to film this
masterpiece the Lord of the Rings series
written by JRR tolkien are the best
fantasy books of all time even better
than Harry Potter as sales show they've
sold over 150 million copies worldwide
translated in multiple languages and are
offed by millions of fans the movies the
comics the books and the memes are
simply more reasons why this story is so
epic we can all relate to Gandalf and
the hobbits in our lives and we have to
admit that for a movie marathon the Lord
of the Rings extended version is the
best option it's the kind of trilogy
that can be watched over and over again
until you know all the lines and still
get to sob or hesitate at some scenes
but one doesn't simply watch the trilogy
right getting back to our books they are
simply more detailed and elaborate than
the movies Tolkien has created this
incredible universe from scratch and it
would be a pity not to fully understand
the story and the universe and on top of
all of that the books are also packed
with maps songs and elvish dictionary
just read the books they'll be amazing
even if you've seen the movies already
number three Charles Dickens A Tale of
Two Cities two hundred million copies
classics like Charles Dickens will
always have a special place in
everyone's heart and The Tale of Two
Cities is certainly that one book that
defined the English literature and gave
us one of the best characters ever it
begins with the famous line it was the
best of times it was the worst of times
and it's about one of the two most
beautiful cities London and Paris the
story takes place before the French
Revolution and it's divided into forty
five chapters the first edition was in
fact published in thirty-one weekly
installments in Dickens new literary
periodical titled all the year round and
then later put together as a Tale of Two
Cities although there are some
controversies that follow this great
masterpiece of English literature like
people criticizing Dickens of writing a
tale about the French Revolution while
he was a resident of London meaning he
had little knowledge about what actually
happened in France or that the book
didn't do so well in sales multiple
sources say that a Tale of Two Cities
was sold in more than two hundred
million copies and we stand by that
affirmation the book is epic by all
means and it actually served as the
inspiration for the character of Bane
from Batman The Dark Knight Rises not to
mention that the next novel Dickens
wrote after the success was Great
Expectations
which is another great book sorry haters
you can't bring down this classic writer
number two Miguel de Cervantes Don
Quixote 500 million copies has always
the second to last story and author is
one that will never die if you've never
heard about this book then maybe you do
live under a rock or simply don't read
Don Quixote is the story of a nobleman
or Hidalgo as they're called in Spain
and his journey to bring back chivalry
the story is cited by many people and
fellow writers as a stepping stone to
Western literature and the best ever
written book Don Quixote also inspired a
lot of movie characters and cartoons
even though the book was released in
1605 by Miguel de Cervantes his book is
viewed as the most influential work of
literature from the Spanish Golden Age
and possibly the entire country a lot of
statues with Don Quixote are placed
throughout Spain and all over the world
this famous character will never die
because he represents hope and the lost
faith in humanity we all look for he's
timeless and just like Arthur
Schopenhauer said it's one of the four
greatest novels ever you would think 500
million copies sold would give you a
bigger image number one the Bible over
five billion copies we hope you don't
think that this list of best-selling
books would go down without the Holy
Bible out of all the books in the world
that have been written the Bible is by
far the most popular but that might be
because for a long time it was the only
thing being printed with a printing
press it's been translated in all
languages and dialects I can be found in
most households the Quran is also very
popular and widely distributed but the
Bible and Christianity reached more
people there are Christians in China and
African countries so it's safe to say
that it's the most popular religion in
the world since the Holy Bible has been
around for so many years and the fact
the church distributes plenty of copies
to people it makes it hard to count all
of the Bibles that have been distributed
so far the Guinness world record book
said that over five billion copies have
been sold but there are chances that the
numbers are much higher certainly the
Bible was all of its versions and edits
his one book that has power influence
and can change a man's thinking process
there have been Wars and mass killings
made in the name of God and the Bible
but we're curious to see how it will
survive in the years to come given that
people are less religious these days on
the flip side the Quran is also
massively distributed across the world
among Muslims and libraries but again
the problem of unreported copies from
multiple publishers or synagogues does
exist since there are no official
numbers it's safe to say that more than
1 billion copies of the Quran have been
sold or distributed across the world to
Muslims
another important book is the Vedas the
holy book of Hinduism and one of the
oldest scriptures in the world
the Vedas is a collection of four books
and can be originally found at the bank
at our Oriental research institute in
prune India there now a UNESCO memory of
the world heritage since these
scriptures have been transmitted for
over hundreds of years verbally and a
lot of them burned during the religious
wars and it's complicated to estimate
how many copies have been distributed
most sources assume that around 1
billion of them exist even though they
are hard to read or understand due to
the old Sanskrit language and the lack
of gurus available to interpret them now
a Luxor's
this is the end this was our
best-selling books list along with some
of the greatest authors of all time and
it kind of got us wanting to read some
more and discover other authors but
until we need other great books to read
we realize we mentioned two world-famous
series in this top list
Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings
and we're curious to find out which
one's your favorite are you guys Harry
Potter fans or Lord of the Rings fans
let's see which one wins leave us your
answers in the comment section below and
as always for sticking with us all the
way to the end for being a true a lexer
you get a bonus book now this next book
is definitely a great mystery story with
thrilling kills and
ders and if you're a fan of the writer
you know what we're talking about this
one is definitely a best-seller to
Agatha Christie and then there were none
100 million copies for our bonus book we
took a lot of good books into
consideration and it was quite a tough
choice it was a tie between The Hobbit
Harry Potter or Lolita some really good
classic books in the end a fourth option
came in and outnumbered them and that
was a book most of you probably read or
at least heard about and then there were
none by Agatha Christie the book follows
her signature style of writing where
mystery is kept until the very end of
the book and often the killer or the
suspect is not the one you thought it
would be it's similar to Sherlock Holmes
or her signature detective Hercule
Poirot the short story is about ten
people that are lured to an island
apparently was nothing in common and
then one by one they're killed off by a
mysterious killer that doesn't seem to
be present in the end everything becomes
clear but the thrilling way she keeps
people hanging on to every page is
amazing and that's why it sold over 100
million copies worldwide and it's one of
the best-selling mystery books of all
time variations of the book can be found
for as little as two dollars on Amazon
or originally titled versions 10 little
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