The 10 bestselling books of all time

  1. “The Bible” (about 100 AD) – 5-6 billion
  2. “Quotations From Chairman Mao” (Little Red Book) by Mao Zedong (1966) – 900 million
  3. “The Koran” (about 610) – 800 million
  4. “Don Quixote” by Cervantes (1605) – 500 million
  5. “Xinhua Dictionary” by Wei Jiangong (1957) – 400 million
  6. “Book Of Common Prayer” by Thomas Cranmer (1549) – 300 million
  7. “The Pilgrim’s progress” by John Bunyan (1678) – 250 million
  8. “The Count Of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas (1844) – 200 million
  9. “Scouting For Boys” by Robert Baden-Powell (1908) – 150 million
  10. “Foxe’s Book Of Martyrs” by John Foxe (1563) – 150 million

From “Top Ten Of Everything 2008” by Russelll Ash

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One Comment

  • Eric Lee
    June 12th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Only the Christian Bible dates from 100 A.D. The Jewish Bible, known to Christians as the “Old Testament”, is considerably older than that.

 




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