Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Another list ...

Wikipedia has a list of the world's best selling books ... And I was curious, how many have I read?!

Over 100 million

1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
3. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
4. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xuegin
5. On the Three Representations by Jiang Zemin
6. And The There Were None by Agatha Christie

Between 50 and 100 million

7. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
8. She by H. Rider Haggard
9. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
10. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
11. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
12. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
13. Steps to Christ by Ellen G White
14. Heidi's Years of Wandering and Longing by Johanna Spyri
15. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock
16. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
17. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
18. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Between 30 and 50 million copies

I've read the following:
- Charlotte's Web by EB White
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

I find these lists very interesting. Glad to know I've read some good books in my time.

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