top 10 most famous books in the world for all time?

Question

please don't put lord of the rings harry potter ,
as far as i now
1. Bible
2.???????????????
3.????
4.???
5.???
6-10.??????

Answer 1

As the Internet Public Library points out:

"When we get asked these questions about bestselling books, we always have to remind our patrons that their question is basically unanswerable. No one really knows which books have sold the most copies in history, because we simply don’t have records that cover all of history! As such, any answer that we find is essentially just a "best guess" that is based upon estimates made by historians and other experts.

Probably the most often cited estimates come from a book titled The Top 10 of Everything by Russell Ash. The following lists come the The Top 10 of Everything, 1997 (DK Pub., 1996, pp 112-113.)

The Top 10 Bestselling Books of All Time:


The Bible

"No one really knows how many copies of the Bible have been printed, sold, or distributed. The Bible Society’s attempt to calculate the number printed between 1816 and 1975 produced the figure of 2,458,000,000. A more recent survey, for the years up to 1992, put it closer to 6,000,000,000 in more than 2,000 languages and dialects. Whatever the precise figure, the Bible is by far the bestselling book of all time."


Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book)

"Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book could scarcely fail to become a bestseller: between the years 1966 and 1971 it was compulsory for every Chinese adult to own a copy."


American Spelling Book by Noah Webster

"First published in 1783, this reference book by the American man of letters Noah Webster (1758-1843) remained a bestseller in the U.S. throughout the 19th century."


The Guinness Book of Records

"First published in 1955, The Guinness Book of Records stands out as the greatest contemporary publishing achievement. There have now been 37 editions in the UK alone (it was not published annually until 1964), as well as numerous foreign-language editions."


The McGuffey Readers by William Holmes McGuffey

"Published in numerous editions from 1853, some authorities have put the total sales of these educational textbooks, originally compiled by American anthologist William Holmes McGuffey (1800-73), as high as 122,000,000. It has also been claimed that 60,000,000 copies of the 1879 edition were printed, but - since this is some 10,000,000 more than the entire population of the U.S. at that time - the publishers must have been extremely optimistic about its success."


A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

"Now forgotten, Hubbard’s polemic on the subject of labor relations was published in 1899 and within a few years had achieved these phenomenal sales, largely because many American employers purchased bulk supplies to distribute to their employees."


The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock

"Dr. Spock’s 1946 manual became the bible of infant care for subsequent generations of parents. Most of the sales have been of the paperback edition of the book."


World Almanac

"Having been published annually since 1868 (with a break from 1876 to 1886), this wide-ranging reference book has remained a constant bestseller ever since."


The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

"This tale of sex, violence, and drugs by Jacqueline Susann (1921-74), first published in 1966, is perhaps surprisingly the world’s bestselling novel. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, which has achieved sales approaching 28,000,000, is its closest rival."


In His Steps: "What Would Jesus Do?" by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon

"Although virtually unknown today, American clergyman Charles Sheldon (1857-1946) achieved fame and fortune with this 1896 instructive religious treatise on moral dilemnas."

There are also lists available at the Internet Public Library for the worlds best-selling fiction and children's books. It's really quite fascinating to read.

Answer 2

1. The Iliad 2. The Odyssey 3. The Aeneid
4. Beowulf 5. The Divine Comedy 6. Travels of Marco Polo
7. The Canterbury Tales 8. Don Quixote 9. Paradise Lost
10. The Pilgrim's Progress 11. Robinson Crusoe 12. Moll Flanders
13. Gulliver's Travels 14. Tom Jones 15. Candide
16. Ancient Mariner 17. The Tragedy of Faust 18. The Lady of the Lake
19. Ivanhoe 20. Pride and Prejudice 21. Frankenstein
22. The Red and the Black 23. Last of the Mohicans 24. The Three Musketeers
25. Carmen 26. Jane Eyre 27. Wuthering Heights
28. Vanity Fair 29. David Copperfield 30. A Tale of Two Cities
31. Great Expectations 32. The Scarlet Letter 33. Camille
34. Moby Dick 35. Madame Bovary 36. Idyls of the King
37. Silas Marner 38. Middlemarch 39. Les Miserables
40. Fathers and Sons 41. Crime and Punishment 42. Brothers Karamazov
43. Little Women 44. Far from the Madding Crowd 45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
46. The Prince and the Pauper 47. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 48. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
49. Anna Karenina 50. War and Peace 51. The Return of the Native
52. Tess of the D'Urbervilles 53. The Portrait of a Lady 54. The Turn of the Screw
55. Treasure Island 56. The Picture of Dorian Gray 57. The Time Machine
58. Dracula 59. The Way of All Flesh 60. Call of the Wild
61. Babbitt 62. An American Tragedy 63. The Great Gatsby
64. A Farewell to Arms 65. For Whom the Bell Tolls 66. The Old Man and the Sea
67. The Maltese Falcon 68. Of Mice and Men 69. The Grapes of Wrath
70. To Kill a Mockingbird 71. The Republic 72. The Prince
73. The Social Contract 74. The Wealth of Nations 75. The Origin of Species
76. Das Kapital 77. The Decline of the West 78. Prometheus Bound
79. Oedipus Rex 80. The Taming of the Shrew 81. Hamlet
82. Othello 83. Macbeth 84. The Tempest
85. Tartuffe 86. Peer Gynt 87. A Doll's House
88. The Importance of Being Earnest 89. Cyrano de Bergerac 90. The Cherry Orchard
91. Our Town 92. Death of a Salesman 93. Nicomachean Ethics
94.Meditations 95. Critique of Pure Reason 96. The World as Will and Idea
97. Nature 98.Self-Reliance 99. Walden
100. How We Think

Answer 3

1. Bible
2. Harry Potter
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Series of Unfortunate Events
5. Huckleberry Finn
6. The Notebook
7. Gone With The Wind
8. The Da Vinci Code
9. Little Women
10. 1000 Little Pieces (because of the Oprah conspiracy.)

This was a hard question because you have to combine modern and past literature!

Answer 4

The Da Vinci Code

Answer 5

bhagvad gita
bible
the lord of the rings
harry potter & all the series
the da vinci code
romeo & juliat
not a penny less not a penny more
angels & demons
mahabharata
ramayana

Answer 6

Dragon Riders of Pern
All of the Darkover series, especially Thendara House

Answer 7

Numba 3: Da vinci code
numba 4: Angles and demonds

Answer 8

the Philokalia
The Egyptian book of the Dead
In Search of the Miraculuos
A Prayer for Owen Meaney

Answer 9

1. bible
2.quran
3.romeo and juliet
4. da vinci code
5. the alchemist
6.encyclopedia brittannica
7. the bhagvad gita

Answer 10

Moby Dick
Pride and Prejudice