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MOST SOLD, READ BOOKS EVER

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Realistic Fiction

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All This Could Be Yours

Jami Attenberg

Doxology

Nell Zink

Ducks, Newburyport

Lucy Ellmann

The Dutch House

Ann Patchett

Find Me

André Aciman

Fleishman Is In Trouble

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Girl, Woman, Other

Bernardine Evaristo

Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

The Man Who Saw Everything

Deborah Levy

Miracle Creek

Angie Kim

Mostly Dead Things

Kristen Arnett

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

Normal People

Sally Rooney

Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson

Olive, Again

Elizabeth Strout

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

The Other Americans

Laila Lalami

Patsy

Nicole Dennis-Benn

Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams

Red at the Bone

Jacqueline Woodson

Searching for Sylvie Lee

Jean Kwok

Supper Club

Lara Williams

The Revisioners

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste

The Topeka School

Ben Lerner

Trust Exercise

Susan Choi

The Unpassing

Chia-Chia Lin

Women Talking

Miriam Toews

Suspense & Altered Worlds

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American Spy

Lauren Wilkinson

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James

Bunny

Mona Awad

The Chain

Adrian McKinty

The Farm

Joanne Ramos

Inland

Téa Obreht

The Need

Helen Phillips

Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo

The Old Drift

Namwali Serpell

An Orchestra of Minorities

Chigozie Obioma

Quichotte

Salman Rushdie

Recursion

Blake Crouch

The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Where Reasons End

Yiyun Li

Literature in Translation

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The Capital

Robert Menasse, trans. Jamie Bulloch

China Dream

Ma Jian, trans. Flora Drew

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

It Would Be Night in Caracas

Karina Sainz Borgo, trans. Elizabeth Bryer

The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder

Stalingrad

Vasily Grossman, trans. Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler

Short Stories & Poetry

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Everything Inside

Edwidge Danticat

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Lot

Bryan Washington

Magical Negro

Morgan Parker

Oculus

Sally Wen Mao

Sing to It

Amy Hempel

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

Memoir & Essays

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The Collected Schizophrenias

Esmé Weijun Wang

Dear Girls

Ali Wong

Good Talk

Mira Jacob

How We Fight For Our Lives

Saeed Jones

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

Once More We Saw Stars

Jayson Greene

Over the Top

Jonathan Van Ness

The Source of Self-Regard

Toni Morrison

Survival Math

Mitchell S. Jackson

Thick

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino

The Undying

Anne Boyer

The Unwinding of the Miracle

Julie Yip-Williams

The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom

History & Politics

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Edison

Edmund Morris

The Education of an Idealist

Samantha Power

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

David Treuer

Midnight in Chernobyl

Adam Higginbotham

The Mueller Report

Robert Mueller

Places and Names

Elliot Ackerman

Stony the Road

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

This Land Is Our Land

Suketu Mehta

A Warning

Anonymous

Society & Science

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff

Because Internet

Gretchen McCulloch

Diversity, Inc.

Pamela Newkirk

The Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan

How to Be An Anti-Racist

Ibram X. Kendi

How to Do Nothing

Jenny Odell

How to Hold a Grudge

Sophie Hannah

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb

The Moment of Lift

Melinda Gates

Self-Portrait in Black and White

Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo

Underland

Robert Macfarlane

True Crime & Journalism

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Catch and Kill

Ronan Farrow

Furious Hours

Casey Cep

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

My Friend Anna

Rachel DeLoache Williams

Say Nothing

Patrick Radden Keefe

She Said

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

Jeannie Vanasco

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Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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Books, books, books. They will increase your lifespan, lower your stress and boost your intelligence. They will give you fuller, thicker hair.

Whatever the breathless claims about reading, one thing is certain: losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s most enduring and dependable joys. Job satisfaction comes and goes, partners enrapture and abscond, but you can always fall back on the timeless ability of literature to transport you to a different world. From Jane Austen’s mannered drawing rooms to the airless tower blocks of 1984, novels do something unique. They simultaneously speak to the heart and mind. They teach you about the history of our world, the possibilities of our future and the fabric of our souls.

So where do you start? It’s a fraught question, because the obvious answer – “the literary canon” – means a pantheon of predominantly dead, white dudes. The power structures at play for centuries have meant that a very narrow band of people have been given the opportunity to say something universal about the human condition. It’s impossible to ignore these biases: the least we can do is acknowledge them, include different perspectives, and point to some excellent resources here, here and here to discover more writers we should be reading.

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As it stands, whittling this list down to 40 novels has been a process that makes Brexit negotiations look simple and amicable. We hope you enjoy the selection – or at least enjoy arguing about who should or should not have made the cut.

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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

It is a fact universally acknowledged that every list of great books must include Pride and Prejudice. Don’t be fooled by the bonnets and balls: beneath the sugary surface is a tart exposé of the marriage market in Georgian England. For every lucky Elizabeth, who tames the haughty, handsome Mr Darcy and learns to know herself in the process, there’s a Charlotte, resigned to life with a drivelling buffoon for want of a pretty face. CR

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend

Read this one when you’re decrepit enough, and chances are you’ll die laughing. No one has lampooned the self-absorption, delusions of grandeur and sexual frustration of adolescence as brilliantly as Sue Townsend, and no one ever will. Beyond the majestic poetry and the pimples, there’s also a sharp satire of Thatcherist Britain. CR

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

Harry Potter may be more popular, but Willy Wonka is altogether weirder. From the overwhelming poverty experienced by Charlie Bucket and his family, to the spoilt, greedy, brattish children who join Charlie on his trip to Willy Wonka’s phantasmagorical sweet factory there is nothing artificially sweetened in Roald Dahl’s startling work of fantasy. CH

Catch 22, by Joseph Heller

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

A classic exposé of colonialism, Achebe’s novel explores what happens to a Nigerian village when European missionaries arrive. The main character, warrior-like Okonkwo, embodies the traditional values that are ultimately doomed. By the time Achebe was born in 1930, missionaries had been settled in his village for decades. He wrote in English and took the title of his novel from a Yeats poem, but wove Igbo proverbs throughout this lyrical work. CR

1984, George Orwell

The ultimate piece of dystopian fiction, 1984 was so prescient that it’s become a cliché. But forget TV’s Big Brother or the trite travesty of Room 101: the original has lost none of its furious force. Orwell was interested in the mechanics of totalitarianism, imagining a society that took the paranoid surveillance of the Soviets to chilling conclusions. Our hero, Winston, tries to resist a grey world where a screen watches your every move, but bravery is ultimately futile when the state worms its way inside your mind. CR

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

The second Mrs de Winter is the narrator of Du Maurier’s marvellously gothic tale about a young woman who replaces the deceased Rebecca as wife to the wealthy Maxim de Winter and mistress of the Manderley estate. There she meets the housekeeper Mrs Danvers, formerly devoted to Rebecca, who proceeds to torment her. As atmospheric, psychological horror it just gets darker and darker. CH

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Dickens was the social conscience of the Victorian age, but don’t let that put you off. Great Expectations is the roiling tale of the orphaned Pip, the lovely Estella, and the thwarted Miss Havisham. First written in serial form, you barely have time to recover from one cliffhanger before the next one beckons, all told in Dickens’ luxuriant, humorous, heartfelt prose. CR

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

A timeless plea for justice in the setting of America’s racist South during the depression years, Lee’s novel caused a sensation. Her device was simple but incendiary: look at the world through the eyes of a six-year-old, in this case, Jean Louise Finch, whose father is a lawyer defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Lee hoped for nothing but “a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers”: she won the Pulitzer and a place on the curriculum. CR

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

In an astonishing act of literary ventriloquism, Mantel inhabits a fictionalised version of Thomas Cromwell, a working-class boy who rose through his own fierce intelligence to be a key player in the treacherous world of Tudor politics. Historical fiction so immersive you can smell the fear and ambition. CR

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

Dashiell Hammett may have been harder boiled, his plots more intricate but, wow, does Raymond Chandler have style. The push and pull at the start of The Big Sleep between private detective Philip Marlowe, in his powder-blue suit and dark blue shirt, and Miss Carmen Sternwood, with her “little sharp predatory teeth” and lashes that she lowers and raises like a theatre curtain, sets the tone for a story of bad girls and bad men. CH

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Shelley was just 18 when she wrote Frankenstein as part of a challenge with her future husband, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron, to concoct the best horror story. Put down the green face paint: Frankenstein’s monster is a complex creation who yearns for sympathy and companionship. Some 200 years after it was first published, the gothic tale feels more relevant than ever as genetic science pushes the boundaries of what it means to create life. CR

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Will there ever be a novel that burns with more passionate intensity than Wuthering Heights? The forces that bring together its fierce heroine Catherine Earnshaw and cruel hero Heathcliff are violent and untameable, yet rooted in a childhood devotion to one another, when Heathcliff obeyed Cathy’s every command. It’s impossible to imagine this novel ever provoking quiet slumbers; Emily Brontë’s vision of nature blazes with poetry. CH

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Anyone who has ever suspected that children are primitive little beasties will nod sagely as they read Golding’s classic. His theory is this: maroon a bunch of schoolboys on an island, and watch how quickly the trappings of decent behaviour fall away. Never has a broken pair of spectacles seemed so sinister, or civilisation so fragile. CR

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Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

All the teeming life of 19th century London is here in Thackeray’s masterpiece, right down to the curry houses frequented by Jos Sedley, who has gained a taste for the hot stuff as an officer in the East India Trading Company. But it is Becky Sharp, one of literature’s great characters, who gives this novel its enduring fascination. As a woman on the make, Becky is the perfect blend of wit, cunning and cold-hearted ruthlessness. Try as film and TV might to humanise and make excuses for her, Becky needs victims to thrive! And she’s all the more compelling for that. CH

Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

The protagonist of Rushdie’s most celebrated novel is born at the exact moment India gains independence. He’s also born with superpowers, and he’s not the only one. In an audacious and poetic piece of magical realism, Rushdie tells the story of India’s blood-soaked resurgence via a swathe of children born at midnight with uncanny abilities. CR

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Banned from entering the UK in its year of publication, 1955, Vladimir Nabokov’s astonishingly skilful and enduringly controversial work of fiction introduces us to literary professor and self-confessed hebephile Humbert Humbert, the perhaps unreliable narrator of the novel. He marries widow Charlotte Haze only to get access to her daughter, 12-year-old Dolores, nicknamed Lo by her mother, or as Humbert calls her “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” Cloaking his abuse in the allusive language of idealised love does not lessen Humbert’s crimes, but allows Nabokov to skewer him where he hides. CH

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

You will need a cold, dead heart not to be moved by one of literature’s steeliest heroines. From the institutional cruelty of her boarding school, the “small, plain” Jane Eyre becomes a governess who demands a right to think and feel. Not many love stories take in a mad woman in the attic and a spot of therapeutic disfigurement, but this one somehow carries it off with mythic aplomb. CR

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A subtle and engrossing look at racial identity, through the story of a charismatic young Nigerian woman who leaves her comfortable Lagos home for a world of struggles in the United States. Capturing both the hard-scrabble life of US immigrants and the brash divisions of a rising Nigeria, Adichie crosses continents with all her usual depth of feeling and lightness of touch. CR

Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

An absolute unadulterated comic joy of a novel. Stella Gibbons neatly pokes fun at sentimental navel-gazing with her zesty heroine Flora, who is more interested in basic hygiene than histrionics. In other words, if you’ve “seen something nasty in the woodshed”, just shut the door. CR

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Dedicated to the “60 million and more” Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the slave trade, this is a cultural milestone and a Pulitzer-winning tour de force. Morrison was inspired by the real-life story of an enslaved woman who killed her own daughter rather than see her return to slavery. In her plot, the murdered child returns to haunt a black community, suggesting the inescapable taint of America’s history. CR

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh bottles the intoxicating vapour of a vanished era in this novel about middle-class Charles Ryder, who meets upper-class Sebastian Flyte at Oxford University in the 1920s. Scrap the wartime prologue, and Charles’s entire relationship with Sebastian’s sister Julia (Dear Evelyn, thank you for your latest manuscript, a few suggested cuts…) and you’re looking at one of the most affecting love affairs in the English language. CH

Dune, Frank Herbert

You can almost feel your mouth dry with thirst as you enter the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune and encounter the desert planet of Arrakis, with its giant sandworms and mind-altering spice. It’s the setting for an epic saga of warring feudal houses, but it’s as much eco-parable as thrilling adventure story. Rarely has a fictional world been so completely realised. CH

The Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse

If you haven’t read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whisky and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven’t lived. Wallow in this sublimely silly tale of the ultimate comic double act: bumbling aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his omniscient butler, Jeeves. A book that’s a sheer joy to read and also manages to satirise British fascist leader Oswald Mosley as a querulous grump in black shorts. CR

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

The savage reviews that greeted F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel – “no more than a glorified anecdote”; “for the season only” – failed to recognise something truly great; a near-perfect distillation of the hope, ambition, cynicism and desire at the heart of the American Dream. Other novels capture the allure of the invented self, from Stendhal’s The Red and the Black to Thomas Mann’s Confessions of Felix Krull, but Fitzgerald’s enigmatic Jay Gatsby casts a shadow that reaches to Mad Men’s Don Draper and beyond. CH

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A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

From the moment we meet Alex and his three droogs in the Korova milk bar, drinking moloko with vellocet or synthemesc and wondering whether to chat up the devotchkas at the counter or tolchock some old veck in an alley, it’s clear that normal novelistic conventions do not apply. Anthony Burgess’s slim volume about a violent near-future where aversion therapy is used on feral youth who speak Nadsat and commit rape and murder, is a dystopian masterpiece. CH

Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

A good 125 years before #MeToo, Thomas Hardy skewered the sexual hypocrisy of the Victorian age in this melodramatic but immensely moving novel. Tess is a naïve girl from a poor family who is raped by a wealthy landowner. After the death of her baby, she tries to build a new life, but the “shame” of her past casts a long shadow. Read this if you want to understand the rotten culture at the root of victim blaming. CR

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K Dick

Here be Roy Baty, Rick Deckard and Rachael Rosen – the novel that inspired Blade Runner is stranger even than the film it became. Back in an age before artificial intelligence could teach itself in a few hours to play chess better than any grandmaster that ever lived, Philip K Dick was using the concept of android life to explore what it meant to be human, and what it is to be left behind on a compromised planet. That he could do it in 250 pages that set the mind spinning and engage the emotions with every page-turn make this a rare science-fiction indeed. CH

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize with her debut novel, a powerful intergenerational tale of love that crosses caste lines in southern India, and the appalling consequences for those who break the taboos dictating “who should be loved, and how. And how much.” Sex, death, religion, the ambivalent pull of motherhood: it’s all there in this beautiful and haunting book. CR

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Inspired by Conrad’s own experiences of captaining a trading steamer up the Congo River, Heart of Darkness is part adventure, part psychological voyage into the unknown, as the narrator Marlow relays the story of his journey into the jungle to meet the mysterious ivory trader Mr Kurtz. The novel – although debate continues to rage about whether its attitude to Africa and colonialism is racist – is deeply involving and demands to be read. CH

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Stick another log on the fire and curl up with this dark, peculiar and quite brilliant literary murder tale. A group of classics students become entranced by Greek mythology – and then take it up a level. Remember, kids: never try your own delirious Dionysian ritual at home. CR

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Whatever passed between Irish theatre manager Bram Stoker and the Hungarian traveller and writer Ármin Vámbéry when they met in London and talked of the Carpathian Mountains, it incubated in the Gothic imagination of Stoker into a work that has had an incalculable influence on Western culture. It’s not hard to read the Count as a shadowy sexual figure surprising straitlaced Victorian England in their beds, but in Stoker’s hands he’s also bloody creepy. CH

Middlemarch, George Eliot

This is a richly satisfying slow burn of a novel that follows the lives and loves of the inhabitants of a small town in England through the years 1829–32. The acerbic wit and timeless truth of its observations mark this out as a work of genius; but at the time the author, Mary Anne Evans, had to turn to a male pen name to be taken seriously. CR

The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

It only takes one sentence, written in the first person, for Salinger’s Holden Caulfield to announce himself in all his teenage nihilism, sneering at you for wanting to know his biographical details “and all that David Copperfield kind of crap”. The Catcher in the Rye is the quintessential novel of the adolescent experience, captured in deathless prose. CH

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

The only novel written by the poet Sylvia Plath is a semi-autobiographical account of a descent into depression that the book’s narrator Esther Greenwood describes as like being trapped under a bell jar – used to create a vacuum in scientific experiments – struggling to breathe. Almost every word is arresting, and the way that Plath captures the vivid life happening around Esther – news events and magazine parties – accentuates the deadening illness that drives her towards suicidal feelings. Plath herself would commit suicide one month after the novel’s publication in 1963. CH

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Andrew Davies’s recent TV adaptation of War and Peace reminded those of us who can’t quite face returning to the novel’s monstrous demands just how brilliantly Tolstoy delineates affairs of the heart, even if the war passages will always be a struggle. In Anna Karenina – enormous, too! – the great Russian novelist captures the erotic charge between the married Anna and the bachelor Vronsky, then drags his heroine through society’s scorn as their affair takes shape, without ever suggesting we move from her side. CH

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

It’s not often an idiom coined in a novel becomes a catchphrase, but Joseph Heller managed it with his madcap, savage and hilarious tour de force. War is the ultimate dead end for logic, and this novel explores all its absurdities as we follow US bombardier pilot Captain John Yossarian. While Heller drew on his own experience as a WWII pilot, it was the McCarthyism of the Fifties that fuelled the book’s glorious rage. CR

Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The most deliciously wicked experience in literature, this epistolary novel introduces us to the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont, who play cruel games of sexual conquest on their unwitting victims. The Marquise’s justification for her behaviour – “I, who was born to revenge my sex and master yours” – will strike a chord in the #MeToo era, but emotions, even love, intrude, to the point where Laclos’s amorality becomes untenable. Sexy but very, very bad. CH

100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The energy and enchantment of Garcia Marquez’s story of seven generations of the Buendia family in a small town in Colombia continue to enthral half a century on. Hauntings and premonitions allied to a journalistic eye for detail and a poetic sensibility make Marquez’s magical realism unique. CH

The Trial, Franz Kafka

“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K…” So begins Kafka’s nightmarish tale of a man trapped in an unfathomable bureaucratic process after being arrested by two agents from an unidentified office for a crime they’re not allowed to tell him about. Foreshadowing the antisemitism of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as the methods of the Stasi, KGB, and StB, it’s an unsettling, at times bewildering, tale with chilling resonance. CH

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1/27 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

2/27 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

3/27 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

4/27 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

5/27 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

6/27 The Go-Between by LP Hartley

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

7/27 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

8/27 Peter Pan by JM Barrie

“All children, except one, grow up.”

9/27 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

“All this happened, more or less.”

10/27 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

11/27 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

12/27 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”

13/27 Beloved by Toni Morrison

“124 was spiteful.”

14/27 The Stranger by Albert Camus

“Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

15/27 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

16/27 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

17/27 High-Rise by JG Ballard

“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.”

18/27 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

“It was love at first sight.”

19/27 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.”

20/27 Pride and Prejudice

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

21/27 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

22/27 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

23/27 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”

24/27 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”

25/27 Murphy by Samuel Beckett

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

26/27 The Crow Road by Iain Banks

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

27/27 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

1/27 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

2/27 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

3/27 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

4/27 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

5/27 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

6/27 The Go-Between by LP Hartley

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

7/27 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

8/27 Peter Pan by JM Barrie

“All children, except one, grow up.”

9/27 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

“All this happened, more or less.”

10/27 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

11/27 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

12/27 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”

13/27 Beloved by Toni Morrison

“124 was spiteful.”

14/27 The Stranger by Albert Camus

“Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.”

15/27 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

16/27 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

17/27 High-Rise by JG Ballard

“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.”

18/27 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

“It was love at first sight.”

19/27 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.”

20/27 Pride and Prejudice

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

21/27 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

22/27 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

23/27 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”

24/27 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”

25/27 Murphy by Samuel Beckett

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

26/27 The Crow Road by Iain Banks

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

27/27 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Published posthumously in 1958, Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel is set in 19th century Sicily, where revolution is in the air. The imposing Prince Don Fabrizio presides over a town close to Palermo during the last days of an old world in which class stratifications are stable and understood. Garibaldi’s forces have taken the island and a new world will follow. It’s a deep and poetic meditation on political change and the characters that it produces. CH

This article was originally published on 13 October 2019

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5 weeks on the list

White Fragility

by Robin J. DiAngelo

PUBLISHER: Beacon Press

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4.2 / 2,442 REVIEWS

Highly QuotableCustomers highlighted passages in White Fragility more frequently than other books on this week’s list.

ABOUT THE BOOKIn this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

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6 weeks on the list

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

PUBLISHER: One World

AGENT: Ayesha Pande

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4.7 / 833 REVIEWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKAntiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it’s core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilites—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their posionous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.

Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

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2 weeks on the list

Too Much and Never Enough

by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster

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ABOUT THE BOOKIn this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

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16 weeks on the list

Untamed

by Glennon Doyle

PUBLISHER: The Dial Press

AGENT: Margaret Riley King

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4.6 / 2,680 REVIEWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKThis is how you find yourself.

There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful. We hide our simmering discontent—even from ourselves. Until we reach our boiling point.

Four years ago, Glennon Doyle—bestselling Oprah-endorsed author, renowned activist and humanitarian, wife and mother of three—was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. Soon she realized that they came to her from within.

Glennon was finally hearing her own voice—the voice that had been silenced by decades of cultural conditioning, numbing addictions, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl Glennon had been before the world told her who to be. She vowed to never again abandon herself. She decided to build a life of her own—one based on her individual desire, intuition, and imagination. She would reclaim her true, untamed self.

Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both a memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It offers a piercing, electrifying examination of the restrictive expectations women are issued from birth; shows how hustling to meet those expectations leaves women feeling dissatisfied and lost; and reveals that when we quit abandoning ourselves and instead abandon the world’s expectations of us, we become women who can finally look at ourselves and recognize: There She Is.

Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get.

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4 weeks on the list

Stamped from the Beginning

by Ibram X. Kendi

PUBLISHER: Bold Type Books

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4.7 / 727 REVIEWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKThe history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America–it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.

As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation’s racial inequities.

In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.

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5 weeks on the list

So You Want to Talk About Race

by Ijeoma Oluo

PUBLISHER: Seal Press

AGENT: Lauren Abramo

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4.7 / 703 REVIEWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKWidespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy–from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans–has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair–and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.

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51 weeks on the list

Born a Crime

by Trevor Noah

PUBLISHER: Spiegel & Grau

AGENT: Peter McGuigan

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ABOUT THE BOOKTrevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

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5 weeks on the list

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

PUBLISHER: Spiegel & Grau

AGENT: Gloria Loomis

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4.7 / 5,774 REVIEWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKIn a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

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4 weeks on the list

The Color of Law

by Richard Rothstein

PUBLISHER: Liveright

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4.8 / 1,005 REVIEWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKWidely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.

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92 weeks on the list

Becoming

by Michelle Obama

PUBLISHER: Crown

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ABOUT THE BOOKAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former first lady of the United States

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As first lady of the United States of America – the first African American to serve in that role – she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the US and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her – from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it – in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations – and whose story inspires us to do the same.

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2 weeks on the list

Stamped

by Ibram X. Kendi & Jason Reynolds

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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ABOUT THE BOOKA timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism–and antiracism–in America

This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race.

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited.

Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas–and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives.

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75 weeks on the list

Atomic Habits

by James Clear

PUBLISHER: Avery

AGENT: Lisa DiMona

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ABOUT THE BOOKTiny Changes, Remarkable Results

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving–every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to: * make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); * overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; * design your environment to make success easier; * get back on track when you fall off course; …and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits–whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

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18 weeks on the list

The Splendid and the Vile

by Erik Larson

PUBLISHER: Crown

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4.6 / 1,732 REVIEWS

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ABOUT THE BOOKOn Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end.

In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments.

The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.

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3 weeks on the list

Chaos

by Tom O’Neill

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company

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ABOUT THE BOOKA journalist’s twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI’s involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.

Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader’s every order — their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history’s most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia — or dystopia — was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O’Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the “official” story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi — prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter — turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O’Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: Who were Manson’s real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn’t law enforcement, including Manson’s own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him? And how did Manson — an illiterate ex-con — turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O’Neill’s quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco’s summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA’s mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.

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First week on the list

BLITZ

by David Horowitz

PUBLISHER: Humanix Books

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4.4

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ABOUT THE BOOKBLITZ reveals the attacks made against Trump have been the most brutal ever mounted against a sitting president of the United States. Blinded by deep-seated hatred of his person and his policies, the left even desperately tried to oust Trump in a failed impeachment bid. Horowitz shows that their very attacks—targeting a man whose mission has been to “Drain the Swamp” and “Make America Great Again” backfired, turning Trump himself into a near martyrwhile igniting the fervor of his “base.” With the 2020 election upon us, the author David Horowitz chronicles the brutal battles, bitter backlash, and leftwing lies Trump has faced as Democrats repeatedly try to sabotage his presidency. You’ll discover the left’s terrifying socialist and, in some cases, communist agendas as you’ve never seen them before. Trump’s response? In the meantime, he’s going to steamroll this opposition in November using the same playbook he has used to win before. In BLITZ you will find shocking revelations: The 9 biggest dangers to America the left poses—their agenda will blow your mind. Show me the money: naming the billionaires and fat cats really out to get Trump. How patriotism suddenly became “white nationalism” linking Trump to Hitler and the KKK . The growing secularism of the left and how the hate pushed against Christians will backfire. Why every effort to demonize Trump and his supporters is failing like crazy. Obama’s agenda: how the former president casts a much greater shadow over Trump’s political woes than you ever imagined. The Genius: how Trump’s brilliant strategy has worked and will continue to work, making him president again in 2021! The effort to remove and destroy our duly elected President may be the greatest challenge America has faced since the Civil War, explains Horowitz. For the first time BLITZ exposes the left’s strategy to take down Trump, and how Trump not only beat them at their own game, but how he’s turning the tables on them to achieve a stunning reelection win come November. “An indispensable book—BLITZ— explaining why today’s Democrats are so dangerous and why President Trump is their nemesis.” — Mark R. Levin, the author of Unfreedom of the Press “BLITZ is the latest must-read from Horowitz: insightful, hard-hitting, controversial, and uncompromising. Ignore him at your peril.” — Peter Schweizer, the author of Clinton Cash and Profiles in Corruption “This is the book your anti-Trump relatives and friends should read…as clear a moral indictment of the anti-Trump left as has been written.

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34 weeks on the list

If You Tell

by Gregg Olsen

PUBLISHER: Thomas & Mercer

AGENT: Susan Raihofer

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4.3 / 8,904 REVIEWS

4.3

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ABOUT THE BOOKAfter more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.

For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.

Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor’s story of absolute evil—and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today—loving, loved, and moving on.

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7 weeks on the list

Just Mercy

by Bryan Stevenson

PUBLISHER: Spiegel & Grau

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Conversation Starter

4.8 / 6,018 REVIEWS

Conversation StarterReaders can’t wait to share their thoughts on Just Mercy — of all books on this list, Just Mercy clocks the shortest time between when readers finish and leave a review.

ABOUT THE BOOKBryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

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First week on the list

The Biggest Bluff

by Maria Konnikova

PUBLISHER: Penguin Press

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ABOUT THE BOOKIt’s true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn’t even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn’t interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can’t. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold’em, their initial end point the following year’s World Series of Poker.

But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel’s guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn’t. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like “How one writer’s book deal turned her into a professional poker player.” She even learned to like Las Vegas.

But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.

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The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

PUBLISHER: The New Press

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ABOUT THE BOOK“Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.” As the United States celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status–much like their grandparents before them.

In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community–and all of us–to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

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by John Bolton

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by Robin J. DiAngelo

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ABOUT THE BOOKThe history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation’s racial inequities.

In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.

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1 . In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way, the first part of A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust’s seven-part cycle, was published in 1913. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work. The narr…

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2 . Ulysses by James Joyce

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3 . Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

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4 . The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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5 . One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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6 . Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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8 . Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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9 . Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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10 . The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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11 . The Odyssey by Homer

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12 . The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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13 . Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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14 . Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for “offenses against morality and religion.” What shoc…

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15 . The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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16 . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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17 . Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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18 . Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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19 . Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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20 . To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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23 . Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

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24 . Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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26 . Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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28 . Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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29 . To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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30 . Middlemarch by George Eliot

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31 . Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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32 . Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

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34 . Beloved by Toni Morrison

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38 . The Trial by Franz Kafka

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39 . The Red and the Black by Stendhal

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40 . Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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41 . The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

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42 . The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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43 . David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The story of the abandoned waif who learns to survive through challenging encounters with distress and misfortune.

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44 . A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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45 . Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

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46 . Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges

From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges’…

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47 . Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

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48 . Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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49 . The Aeneid by Virgil

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50 . Candide by Voltaire

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30 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lives

The greatest books are defined as classics for a reason. Written by the greatest literary minds of their time, they have universal themes, characters, experiences, emotions and perspectives that are still relevant today. Some of them are the very inspiration from which entire modern genres of literary fiction have sprung up from. If you love reading, here’s a perfect reading list for you. Even if you aren’t so much into reading, here’re 10 reasons to love reading. Everyone should read at least once for these 30 books — some are well known classics, others are modern giants. All are well worth reading at least once in your life! 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Published in 1960, this timeless classic explores human behaviour and the collective conscience of The Deep South in the early 20th century. Humour entwines the delicate strands of prejudice, hatred, hypocrisy, love and innocence to create one of the best novels ever written. Print | eBook | Audiobook 2. 1984, by George Orwell

Although 1984 has passed us by, George Orwell’s dystopian, totalitarian world of control, fear and lies has never been more relevant. Delve into the life of Winston Smith as he struggles with his developing human nature in a world where individuality, freewill and love are forbidden. Print | eBook | Audiobook 3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling

I’m willing to bet you’ve heard of Harry Potter, but have you read the books? Join Harry Potter as he begins his journey into the world of magic, where he is the celebrated Boy Who Lived. Visit Hogwarts, meet your favourite characters and watch Harry grow into the one of the most famous literary characters in the world. Print | eBook | Audiobook 4. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Middle Earth is a wonderful, expansive fantasy world filled with turmoil, heroes, evil and innocence. Although our protagonist Frodo Baggins’ quest seems impossible to complete, this trilogy is a tale of triumph in the most impossible circumstances. Print | eBook | Audiobook 5. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This page provides lists of best-selling individual books and book series to date and in any language. “Best selling” refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. This list is incomplete because there are many books, such as Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, that are commonly cited as “best-selling books” yet have no reliable sales figures.[citation needed]

According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.[1] The Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures — with estimates ranging from 800 million[1] to over 6.5 billion printed volumes,[2] with some claiming the distribution ran into the “billions”[3] and some citing “over a billion” official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as “untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations.”[4][5] Exact print figures for these and other books may also be missing or unreliable since these kinds of books may be produced by many different and unrelated publishers, in some cases over many centuries. All books of a religious, ideological, philosophical or political nature have thus been excluded from the below lists of best-selling books for these reasons.

Having sold more than 500 million copies worldwide,[6][7][8] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies,[9] making it one of the best-selling books of all time. As of June 2017, the series has been translated into 80 languages,[10] placing Harry Potter among history’s most translated literary works. The last four books in the series consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books of all time, where the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold roughly fifteen million copies worldwide within twenty-four hours of its release.[11][12] With twelve million books printed in the first U.S. run, it also holds the record for the highest initial print run for any book in history.[13][14]

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Figures are inexact, and methods vary by source; the list is incomplete, since sources are unavailable for many books. For instance, last known to public data of The Lord of the Rings worldwide sold copies comes from 2007, the same applies for older titles and authors. It is impossible to reliably estimate sale figures of classic works by William Shakespeare, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, or A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, despite the fact that it is more than plausible that we should assume they were sold in hundreds of millions of copies. [9]

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List of best-selling individual books[edit]

More than 100 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesGenreA Tale of Two Cities Charles DickensEnglish1859200 million[15]Historical fiction The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)Antoine de Saint-ExupéryFrench1943150 million[16][17][18][19][20][21]fantasy (picture book)Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J. K. RowlingEnglish1997120 million[9][22]fantasy, mystery The Hobbit J. R. R. TolkienEnglish1937100+ million [15]fantasy And Then There Were None Agatha ChristieEnglish1939100 million[15]mystery Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢)Cao XueqinChinese1791100 million[23]family saga

Between 50 million and 100 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesGenreThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. LewisEnglish195085 million[24]fantasy She: A History of Adventure H. Rider HaggardEnglish188783 million[25]adventure The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)Carlo CollodiItalian1881>80 million[26][27]fantasy The Da Vinci Code Dan BrownEnglish200380 million[28]mystery thriller Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. RowlingEnglish199877 million[29]fantasy Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. RowlingEnglish199965 million[30]fantasy Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. RowlingEnglish200065 million[30]fantasy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. RowlingEnglish200365 million[30]fantasy Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. RowlingEnglish200565 million[30]fantasy Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. RowlingEnglish200765 million[30]fantasy The Alchemist (O Alquimista)Paulo CoelhoPortuguese198865 million[31]fantasy The Catcher in the Rye J. D. SalingerEnglish195165 millioncoming-of-age The Bridges of Madison County Robert James WallerEnglish199260 million[32]romance Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lew WallaceEnglish188050 million[33]historical You Can Heal Your Life Louise HayEnglish198450 million[34]self-improvement One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)Gabriel García MárquezSpanish196750 million[35][36][37]magic realism Lolita Vladimir NabokovEnglish195550 million[38]generalHeidi Johanna SpyriSwiss German188050 million[39]children’s fiction The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child CareDr. Benjamin SpockEnglish194650 million[40]manualAnne of Green Gables Lucy Maud MontgomeryEnglish190850 million[41]generalBlack Beauty Anna SewellEnglish187750 million[42]children’s literature The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa)Umberto EcoItalian198050 million[43]historical novel, mystery The Eagle Has Landed Jack HigginsEnglish197550 million[44]war, thriller Watership Down Richard AdamsEnglish197250 million[45]fantasy The Hite Report Shere HiteEnglish197650 million[46]Charlotte’s Web E.B. White; illustrated by Garth WilliamsEnglish195250 million[47]children’s fiction The Ginger Man J. P. DonleavyEnglish195550 million[48]

Between 30 million and 50 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesThe Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix PotterEnglish190245 million[49]Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard BachEnglish197044 million[50]The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric CarleEnglish196943 million [51]A Message to Garcia Elbert HubbardEnglish189940 million[40]To Kill a Mockingbird Harper LeeEnglish196040 million[52]Flowers in the Attic V. C. AndrewsEnglish197940 million[53]Cosmos Carl SaganEnglish198040 million [54]Sophie’s World (Sofies verden)Jostein GaarderNorwegian199140 million[55]Angels & Demons Dan BrownEnglish200039 million[56]Kane and Abel Jeffrey ArcherEnglish197937 million[57]How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь)Nikolai OstrovskyRussian193236.4 million copies in USSR[58]War and Peace (Война и мир)Leo TolstoyRussian186936.0 million copies in Russia[58]The Diary of Anne Frank (Het Achterhuis)Anne FrankDutch194735 million[59]Your Erroneous Zones Wayne DyerEnglish197635 million[60][61]The Thorn Birds Colleen McCulloughEnglish197733 million[62]The Purpose Driven Life Rick WarrenEnglish200233 million[63]The Kite Runner Khaled HosseiniEnglish200331.5 million[64]Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline SusannEnglish196631 million[65]The Great Gatsby F. Scott FitzgeraldEnglish192530 million[66]Gone with the Wind Margaret MitchellEnglish193630 million[67]Rebecca Daphne du MaurierEnglish193830 million[68]Nineteen Eighty-Four George OrwellEnglish194930 million[69]The Revolt of Mamie Stover William Bradford HuieEnglish195130 million[70]The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)Stieg LarssonSwedish200530 million[71]The Lost Symbol Dan BrownEnglish200930 million[72]

Between 20 million and 30 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesThe Hunger Games Suzanne CollinsEnglish200829 million in U.S.[73]The Young Guard (Молодая гвардия)Alexander Alexandrovich FadeyevRussian194526 million copies in USSR[58]Who Moved My Cheese?Spencer JohnsonEnglish199826 million[74]A Brief History of Time Stephen HawkingEnglish198825 million[75]Paul et Virginie Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierreFrench178825 million[76]Lust for Life Irving StoneEnglish193425 million[77]The Wind in the Willows Kenneth GrahameEnglish190825 million[78]The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. CoveyEnglish198925 million[79]Virgin Soil Upturned (Поднятая целина)Mikhail SholokhovRussian193524 million copies in USSR[58]The Celestine Prophecy James RedfieldEnglish199323 million[80]The Fault in Our Stars John GreenEnglish201223 million[81]The Shack William P. YoungEnglish200722 million[82]Uncle Styopa (Дядя Степа)Sergey MikhalkovRussian193621 million copies in USSR[58]The Godfather Mario PuzoEnglish196921 million[83]Love Story Erich SegalEnglish197021 million[84]Catching Fire Suzanne CollinsEnglish200921 million in U.S.[73]Mockingjay Suzanne CollinsEnglish201020 million in U.S.[73]Kitchen Banana YoshimotoJapanese198820 million [85]Andromeda Nebula Ivan YefremovRussian195720 million[86]Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa YoganandaHindi194620 million[87]Gone Girl Gillian FlynnEnglish201220 million[88]The Girl on the Train Paula HawkinsEnglish201520 million[89]All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)Erich Maria RemarqueGerman192920 million[90]The Bermuda Triangle Charles BerlitzEnglish197420 million[91]Things Fall Apart Chinua AchebeEnglish195820 million[92]Animal Farm George OrwellEnglish194520 million[93]Wolf Totem (狼图腾)Jiang RongChinese200420 million[94]The Happy Hooker: My Own Story Xaviera HollanderEnglish197120 million[95]Jaws Peter BenchleyEnglish197420 million[96]Love You Forever Robert MunschEnglish198620 million[97]The Women’s Room Marilyn FrenchEnglish197720 million[98]What to Expect When You’re Expecting Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi MurkoffEnglish198420 million[99]Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TwainEnglish188520 million[100]The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ Sue TownsendEnglish198220 million[101]Pride and Prejudice Jane AustenEnglish181320 million[102][103]Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen)Thor HeyerdahlNorwegian195020 million[104]The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války)Jaroslav HašekCzech192320 million[105]Where the Wild Things Are Maurice SendakEnglish196320 million[106]The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent PealeEnglish195220 million[107]The Secret Rhonda ByrneEnglish200620 million[108]Fear of Flying Erica JongEnglish197320 million[109]Dune Frank HerbertEnglish196520 million[110]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald DahlEnglish196420 million[111]The Naked Ape Desmond MorrisEnglish196820 million[112]

Between 10 million and 20 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesTotto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window (窓ぎわのトットちゃん)Tetsuko KuroyanagiJapanese198118 million (in Japan and China)[113]Matilda Roald Dahl English198817 million [114]The Book Thief Markus ZusakEnglish200516 million [115]The Horse Whisperer Nicholas EvansEnglish199516 million[116]Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise BrownEnglish194716 million[117]The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte)Michael EndeGerman197916 million[118]Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. JamesEnglish201115.2 million in U.S. [119]The Outsiders S. E. HintonEnglish196715 million[120]Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratneyEnglish199415 million[121]Shōgun James ClavellEnglish197515 million[122]The Poky Little Puppy Janette Sebring LowreyEnglish194215 million[123]The Pillars of the Earth Ken FollettEnglish198915 million[124]How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale CarnegieEnglish193615 million[125]Perfume (Das Parfum)Patrick SüskindGerman198515 million[126]The Grapes of Wrath John SteinbeckEnglish193915 million[127]The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento)Carlos Ruiz ZafónSpanish200115 million[128]Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa LahiriEnglish200015 million[129]The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas AdamsEnglish197914 million[130]Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch AlbomEnglish199714 million[131]God’s Little Acre Erskine CaldwellEnglish193314 million[132]Follow Your Heart (Va’ dove ti porta il cuore)Susanna TamaroItalian199414 million[133]A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’EngleEnglish196214 million[134]Long Walk to Freedom Nelson MandelaEnglish199414 million[135]The Old Man and the Sea Ernest HemingwayEnglish195213 million[58]Life After Life Raymond MoodyEnglish197513 million[136]Me Before You Jojo MoyesEnglish201212 million[137]Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森)Haruki MurakamiJapanese198712 million[138]Peyton Place Grace MetaliousEnglish195612.1 million[139]The Plague (La Peste)Albert CamusFrench194712 million[140]No Longer Human (人間失格)Osamu DazaiJapanese194812 million[141]Man’s Search for Meaning (Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager)Viktor FranklGerman194612 million[142]The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia)Dante AlighieriItalian130411–12 million (during 20th century)[143]Becoming Michelle ObamaEnglish201811.5 million[144]The Prophet Kahlil GibranEnglish192311 million[145]The Exorcist William Peter BlattyEnglish197111 million[146]The Gruffalo Julia DonaldsonEnglish199910.5 million[147]Fifty Shades Darker E. L. JamesEnglish201210.4 million in U.S. [119]Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter Astrid Lindgren Swedish198110 million [148]The Cat in the Hat Dr. SeussEnglish195710.5 million[149]Diana: Her True StoryAndrew MortonEnglish199210 million[150]The Help Kathryn StockettEnglish200910 million[151]Catch-22 Joseph HellerEnglish196110 million[152]The Stranger (L’Étranger)Albert CamusFrench194210 million[153]Eye of the Needle Ken FollettEnglish197810 million[154]The Lovely Bones Alice SeboldEnglish200210 million[155]Wild Swans Jung ChangEnglish199210 million[156]Santa Evita Tomás Eloy MartínezSpanish199510 million[157]Night (Un di Velt Hot Geshvign)Elie WieselYiddish195810 million[158]Confucius from the Heart (于丹《论语》心得)Yu DanChinese200610 million[159]The Total Woman Marabel MorganEnglish197410 million[160]Knowledge-value Revolution (知価革命)Taichi SakaiyaJapanese198510 million[161]Problems in China’s Socialist Economy (中国社会主义经济问题研究)Xue MuqiaoChinese197910 million[162]What Color Is Your Parachute?Richard Nelson BollesEnglish197010 million[163]The Dukan Diet Pierre DukanFrench200010 million[164]The Joy of Sex Alex ComfortEnglish197210 million[165]The Gospel According to Peanuts Robert L. ShortEnglish196510 million[166]Life of Pi Yann MartelEnglish200110 million[167]The Giver Lois LowryEnglish199310 million[168]The Front Runner Patricia Nell WarrenEnglish197410 million[169]The Goal Eliyahu M. GoldrattEnglish198410 million[170]Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradburyEnglish195310 million[171]Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourtEnglish199610 million[172]The Story of My Experiments with Truth (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા)Mohandas Karamchand GandhiGujarati1925-192910 million[173]

List of best-selling book series[edit]

More than 100 million copies[edit]Book seriesAuthor(s)Original languageNo. of installmentsFirst publishedApproximate salesHarry Potter J. K. RowlingEnglish71997-2007500 million[6][174]Goosebumps R. L. StineEnglish62 + spin-off series1992–present480 million[175]Perry Mason Erle Stanley GardnerEnglish82 + 4 short stories1933–1973300 million[176]Berenstain Bears Stan and Jan BerenstainEnglishover 3001962–present260 million[177]Choose Your Own AdventureVarious authorsEnglish1851979–1998250 million[178]Sweet Valley High Francine Pascal and ghostwritersEnglish4001983–2003250 million[179]Noddy Enid BlytonEnglish241949–present200 million[180]Nancy DrewVarious authors as Carolyn KeeneEnglish1751930–present200 million[181]The Railway Series Rev. W. Awdry, Christopher AwdryEnglish421945–2011200 million[182]San-Antonio Frédéric DardFrench1731949–2001200 million[183]Robert Langdon Dan BrownEnglish52000–present200 million[184]Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff KinneyEnglish14 + 4 Spin-offs2007–present200 million[185]The Baby-sitters Club Ann MartinEnglish3351986–present172 million[186]Star WarsVarious authorsEnglishover 3001977–present160 million[187]Little Critter Mercer MayerEnglishover 2001975–present150 million[188]Peter Rabbit Beatrix PotterEnglish61902–1930150 million[189]Fifty Shades E. L. JamesEnglish32011–2015150 million[190]The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. TolkienEnglish31954150 millionAmerican GirlVarious authorsEnglish141 + spin-off series1986–present140 million[191]Geronimo Stilton Elisabetta Dami and ghostwritersItalianover 2002000–present140 million[192]Chicken Soup for the Soul Jack Canfield, Mark Victor HansenEnglish1051997–present130 million[193]Clifford the Big Red Dog Norman BridwellEnglishover 80 [194]1963–2014129 million[195]Frank Merriwell Gilbert PattenEnglish2091896–1936125 million[196]Dirk Pitt Clive CusslerEnglish241973–present120 million[197]宮本武蔵 (Musashi)Eiji YoshikawaJapanese71935–1939120 million[198]The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. LewisEnglish71949–1954120 million[199]Mr. Men Roger Hargreaves, Adam HargreavesEnglish431971–present120 million[200]Twilight Stephenie MeyerEnglish4 + 1 Novella + 1 Guide2005–2015120 million[201]The Hunger Games trilogy Suzanne CollinsEnglish32008–2010100 million[202]James Bond Ian FlemingEnglish141953–1966100 million[203]Martine Gilbert Delahaye, Marcel MarlierFrench601954–2014100 million[204]Millennium Stieg Larsson, David LagercrantzSwedish62005–2019100 million[205]

Between 50 million and 100 million copies[edit]Book seriesAuthor(s)Original languageNo. of installmentsFirst publishedApproximate salesA Song of Ice and Fire George R. R. MartinEnglishCurrently 5; 7 Planned; 3 novellas + 1 guide1996–present90 million[206]Discworld Terry PratchettEnglish411983–201590 million[207]Nijntje (Miffy)Dick BrunaDutch1191955–present85 million[208]Alex Cross James PattersonEnglish211993–present81 million[209]Anpanman (アンパンマン)Takashi YanaseJapanese150 picture books1973–201380 million[210]Captain Underpants Dav PilkeyEnglish12 plus spinoffs1997–201580 million[211]Fear Street R. L. StineEnglish1141989–present80 million[212]Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking)Astrid LindgrenSwedish3 + 3 picture books1945–200180 million[213]The Vampire Chronicles Anne RiceEnglish131976–present80 million[214]The Wheel of Time Robert Jordan, Brandon SandersonEnglish151990–201380 million[215]OSS 117 Jean BruceFrench2651949–199275 million[216]Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne; illustrated by E. H. ShepardEnglish21926–192870 million[217]Magic Tree House series Mary Pope OsborneEnglish56[218]1992–present70 million[219]Left Behind Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. JenkinsEnglish161996–200765 million[220]A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket aka Daniel HandlerEnglish131999–200665 million[221]Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls WilderEnglish121932–200660 million[222]Jack Reacher Lee ChildEnglish22 Novels + 11 Short Stories1997–present60 million[223]The Magic School Bus Joanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce DegenEnglish1311986–201058 million[224]Where’s Wally?[225]Martin HandfordEnglish131987–present55 million[226]Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus John GrayEnglish151992–present50 million[227]The Hardy BoysVarious authors as Franklin W. DixonEnglish1901927–present50 million[228]The Bobbsey TwinsVarious authors as Laura Lee HopeEnglish721904–197950 million[229]Tarzan Edgar Rice BurroughsEnglish261914–199550 million[230]

Between 30 million and 50 million copies[edit]Book seriesAuthor(s)Original languageNo. of installmentsFirst publishedApproximate salesEarth’s Children Jean M. AuelEnglish61980–201145 million[231]A Child’s First Library Of LearningVarious authorsEnglish291980–45 million[232]Junie B. Jones Barbara ParkEnglish301992–44 million[233]Harry Bosch Michael ConnellyEnglish151992–42 million[234]Harry Hole Jo NesbøNorwegian91997–present40 million[235]Warriors Erin HunterEnglish782003-present40 million[236]连环画铁道游击队 (Picture-and-story book Railway Guerilla)original author: Liu ZhixiaChinese101955–196236.52 million[237]The Shadowhunter Chronicles Cassandra ClareEnglish11 + 3 companion books2007–present36 million[238]かいけつゾロリ (Kaiketsu Zorori)Yutaka HaraJapanese601987–present35 million[239]Paddington Bear Michael BondEnglish701958–present35 million[240]Divergent trilogy Veronica RothEnglish32011–201335 million[241]The Inheritance Cycle Christopher PaoliniEnglish42002–201133 million[242]とある魔術の禁書目録 (Toaru Majutsu no Index)Kazuma KamachiJapanese462004–30 million[243]グイン・サーガ (Guin Saga)Kaoru KurimotoJapanese1181979–200930 million[244]徳川家康 (Tokugawa Ieyasu)Sohachi YamaokaJapanese261950–196730 million[245]Ramona Beverly ClearyEnglish81955–199930 million[246]The Dark Tower Stephen KingEnglish81982–201230 million[247]Dork Diaries Rachel Renée RussellEnglish152009–present30 million[248]The Destroyer Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, various authorsEnglish1501971–present30 million[249]

Between 20 million and 30 million copies[edit]Book seriesAuthor(s)Original languageNo. of installmentsFirst publishedApproximate salesノンタン (Nontan)Sachiko KiyonoJapanese251976–200628 million[250]Curious George Hans Augusto Rey and Margret ReyEnglish581941–present27 million[251]三毛猫ホームズシリーズ (Calico Cat Holmes series)Jirō AkagawaJapanese431978–present26 million[252]Rich Dad, Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon LechterEnglish181997–26 million[253]Shannara Terry BrooksEnglish201977–present26 million[254]Kurt Wallander Henning MankellSwedish101991–200225 million[255]Sagaen om Isfolket (The Legend of the Ice People)Margit SandemoNorwegian471982–198925 million[256]The Sword of Truth Terry GoodkindEnglish121998–present25 million[257]Outlander Diana GabaldonEnglish81991–present25 million[258]鬼平犯科帳 (Onihei Hankachō)Shōtarō IkenamiJapanese241968–199024.4 million, only bunkobon [259]Brain QuestVarious authorsEnglish1992–present23.7 million[260]South Beach Diet Arthur AgatstonEnglish62003–present22 million[261]ソードアート・オンライン (Sword Art Online)Reki KawaharaJapanese272009–present22 million[262]竜馬がゆく (Ryoma ga Yuku)Ryōtarō ShibaJapanese51963–196621.5 million[263]Artemis Fowl Eoin ColferEnglish82001–201221 million[264]ズッコケ三人組 (Zukkoke Sanningumi)Masamoto NasuJapanese501978–200421 million[265]Découvertes GallimardVarious authorsFrenchmore than 7001986–presentmore than 20 million[266][267]Redwall Brian JacquesEnglish221986–201120 million[268]Maisy Lucy CousinsEnglish231990–present20 million[121]DragonlanceVarious authorsEnglishmore than 1501984–present20 million[269]幻魔大戦 (Genma Taisen)Kazumasa HiraiJapanese201979–198320 million[270]青春の門 (The Gate of Youth)Hiroyuki ItsukiJapanese1970–present20 million[271]スレイヤーズ (Slayers)Hajime KanzakaJapanese501989–present20 million[272]The Foundation Trilogy Isaac AsimovEnglish3[273]1950–195320 million[274]Percy Jackson & the Olympians Rick RiordanEnglish52005–200920 million[275]Horrible Histories Terry DearyEnglish241993–present20 million[276]Rainbow Magic Daisy MeadowsEnglish80+2003–present20 million[277]Morgan Kane Louis MastersonNorwegian901966–20 million[278]The Southern Vampire Mysteries Charlaine HarrisEnglish132001–201320 million[279]

Between 15 million and 20 million copies[edit]Book seriesAuthor(s)Original languageNo. of installmentsFirst publishedApproximate salesDoc Savage Lester Dent, various authorsEnglish2031933–present20 million[280]涼宮ハルヒシリーズ (Haruhi Suzumiya Series)Nagaru TanigawaJapanese112003–present20 million[281]科学のアルバム (Kagaku no album)Various authorsJapanese1970–present19 million[282]剣客商売 (Kenkaku Shobai)Shotaro IkenamiJapanese181972–198918 million[283]Erast Fandorin seriesBoris AkuninRussian121998–present18 million[284]Dragonriders of Pern Anne McCaffreyEnglish231967–present18 million[285]吸血鬼ハンターD (Vampire Hunter D)Hideyuki KikuchiJapanese171983–present17 million[286]The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, plus a final book by Eoin ColferEnglish61979–200816 million[287]Bridget Jones Helen FieldingEnglish31996–present15 million[288]The Riftwar Cycle Raymond E. FeistEnglish251982–present15 million[289]The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander McCall SmithEnglish91999–present15 million[290]ぼくらシリーズ (Bokura series)Osamu SodaJapanese361985–present15 million[291]His Dark Materials Philip PullmanEnglish31995–200015 million[292]銀河英雄伝説 (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)Yoshiki TanakaJapanese141982–198915 million[293]Der Regenbogenfisch (Rainbow Fish)Marcus PfisterGerman1992–present15 million[294]

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The Perry Rhodan series has sold more than 1 billion copies,[295] but is not listed because that figure includes magazine sales, not novels alone.[citation needed] Similarly, the Jerry Cotton series has sold over 300 million copies, but most of these were in magazine format.[296]

The figures given for some books are for the number printed instead of confirmed sales.[which?]

List of best-selling regularly updated books[edit]

More than 100 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate sales新华字典 (Xinhua Zidian / Xinhua Dictionary)Chief editor: Wei JiangongChinese1957567 million[297]Scouting for Boys Robert Baden-PowellEnglish1908100–150 million[298]The McGuffey Readers William Holmes McGuffeyEnglish1853125 million[299]Guinness World Records (published every year)Various authorsEnglish1955–present115 million[300]六星占術によるあなたの運命 (Rokusei Senjutsu (Six-Star Astrology) Tells Your Fortune)Kazuko Hosoki Kaori HosokiJapanese1986–present101.2 million[301]American Spelling Book (Webster’s Dictionary)Noah WebsterEnglish1783100 million[40]

Between 50 million and 100 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesWorld Almanac (published every year)Various authorsEnglish1868–76; 1886–present82 million[302][303]Betty Crocker CookbookGeneral Mills StaffEnglish1950-2016 (12th edition)75 million[304]Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Merriam-WebsterEnglish189855 million[305]

Between 30 million and 50 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesRoget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark RogetEnglish1852–40 million[306]できるシリーズ (Dekiru Series)Impress Dekiru Series Editorial DeskJapanese1994–present40 million[307]Better Homes and Gardens New Cook BookVarious authorsEnglish1930–38 million[308]수학의 정석 (The Art of Mathematics)Hong Sung-daeKorean1966–present37 million[309] ~ 40 million[310]Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary A. S. HornbyEnglish194830 million[311]Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Bill WilsonEnglish193930 million[312][313]Le guide Michelin France (The Michelin Guide France) (published every year)Various authorsFrench1900–present30 million[314]

Between 20 million and 30 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesBetty Crocker CookbookVarious authors as Betty CrockerEnglish1955–75 million[315]超図解シリーズ (Cho-Zukai series)X mediaJapanese1996–200725 million[316]自由自在 (Jiyu Jizai)Various authorsJapanese1953–present24 million[317]新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai kokugo jiten)Tadao YamadaJapanese197220.4 million[318]English Grammar Lindley MurrayEnglish179520 million[319]

Between 10 million and 20 million copies[edit]BookAuthor(s)Original languageFirst publishedApproximate salesThe Joy of CookingVarious authorsEnglish193618 million[320]スーパーマップル (Super Mapple)Various authorsJapanese1991–present18 million[321]チャート式 (Chart Shiki)Various authorsJapanese1927–present17.44 million, only for the first grade of high-school[322]英語基本単語集 (Eigo Kihon Tangoshu) “Compilation of basic English vocabulary”Yoshio AkaoJapanese, English194217.2 million[322]Merriam-Webster Pocket DictionaryEnglish(Up to 1965)15,110,000[323]試験に出る英単語 (Siken Ni Deru Eitango) “English vocabulary in examinations”Ichiro MoriJapanese, English196715 million[324]新英和中辞典 (Shin Eiwa Chu Jiten) “New English-Japanese Dictionary”Shigeru TakebayashiJapanese, English196712 million[325]広辞苑 (Kōjien)Izuru ShinmuraJapanese195511.9 million[326]旺文社古語辞典 (Obunsha Kogo Jiten) “Obunsha Dictionary of Archaisms”Akira MatsumuraJapanese196011 million[327]Hammond’s Pocket AtlasEnglish(Up to 1965)11,000,000[328]三省堂国語辞典 (Sanseido Kokugo Jiten) “Sanseido Dictionary of the Japanese Language”Kenbō HidetoshiJapanese196010 million[329]家庭に於ける實際的看護の秘訣 (Katei Ni Okeru Jissaiteki Kango No Hiketsu) “Key to Practical Personal Care at Home”Takichi TsukudaJapanese192510 million[330]C程序设计 (C Program Design)Tan, HaoqiangChinese199110 million[331]

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13/27 Beloved by Toni Morrison

14/27 The Stranger by Albert Camus

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27/27 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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2/27 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

3/27 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

4/27 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

5/27 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

6/27 The Go-Between by LP Hartley

7/27 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

8/27 Peter Pan by JM Barrie

9/27 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

10/27 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

11/27 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

12/27 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

13/27 Beloved by Toni Morrison

14/27 The Stranger by Albert Camus

15/27 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

16/27 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

17/27 High-Rise by JG Ballard

18/27 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

19/27 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

20/27 Pride and Prejudice

21/27 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

22/27 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

23/27 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

24/27 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

25/27 Murphy by Samuel Beckett

26/27 The Crow Road by Iain Banks

27/27 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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