10 Most Read Books In The World

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I recently found this list of Top Ten Books, which is based on the number of books printed and sold in the last 50 yrs.

1. Bible
2. Quotations of Chairman Mao – Mao TseTung
3. Harry Potter – JK Rowling
4. Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
5. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
6. DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
7. Twilight Saga – Stephenie Meyer
8. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
9. Think and grow rich – Napoleon Hill
10. Diary of Anne Frank –  Anne Frank

These lists are always problematic – my first problem was having The DaVinci Code and Twilight even appearing on a list of the ten best anything. But these are the most bought books, assumed to be the most read, not the finest efforts of literary expression.
Others felt the same but had other books they would have liked to see there, or were amazed had not been better represented by sales.
Here are some of the points raised by readers of this list:  [more....]
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