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Books of this magnitude are usually produced by large teams of people in order to be made. The thickest single-volume book in the world, World-2023 ESN Publications and London Organisation of Skills Development Ltd, with a page count of 100,100 containing and 7,862 articles, required a team of 292 participants. [12]
Examples of books with claimed high sales include The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, [10] Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, [11] Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en [12] and The Lord of the Rings [13] (which has been sold as both a three volume series, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, as a ...
As of 2018, the largest public library in the United States and second-largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the de facto national library of the United States, [2] which holds over 167 million items, including over 39 million books and other printed materials, 3.6 million recordings, 14.8 million ...
According to the 2003 Guinness World Records, the largest book in the world was Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom by Michael Hawley. Its size is 1.5 m × 2.1 m (5 ft × 7 ft). [13] According to the 2007 Guinness World Records, the largest published book in the world was The Little Prince printed in Brazil in 2007. Its ...
This is a list of lists of bestselling novels in the United States as determined by Publishers Weekly.The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1895 through 2020.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Popular books in the 19th century included Sheldon's In His Steps (1896). 20th century bestsellers included Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937), Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946), Harris' I'm OK – You're OK (1969), Woodward and Bernstein's All the President's Men (1974).
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover with 10 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros with 9 weeks.