It was previously suggested that the best selling book in the world was a tie between the Bible and the Qur'an. However in the 21st century we know this is in fact not true.
There have been so many different versions of both books that to say they are the best selling is false, because they are not all the same variation. They may have the same title, but the contents have been twisted over time, so they are no longer "original". Unfortunately religious schools will still tell you that the bible is the best selling, which is false and incorrect.
The best selling legitimate book of all time is A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
The top 10 selling books of all time are:
The Christian Bible has always been, and still is the most widely distributed book in the world.
Harry Potter: 65 languages and 450,000,000 copies.
Quotations from Chairman Mao: 68 languages and 1 Billion copies.
The Bible: 2,400 languages and 7.1 Billion copies.
The Bible.
The Bible is by far the most widely purchased book.
Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung is the second most widely read book in the world. It is commonly known as the Little Red Book. There have been 820 million copies sold in the last 50 years.
The most widely read and studied book of the renaissance was the Baldassare Castiglione.
The Bible so far has been translated into most major languages (approximately 2,500). People around the world are still working on translating the Bible into more languages (there are about 4,000 left without a Bible).
The Diary of Anne Frank
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The most popular book in the world is the Guinness World Records of 2008.
The Bible is the most published book in the world.
The New England Primer
Yes, you can borrow the book from a friend. Otherwise, you can't legally read it for free: This is a commercial book, not distributed for free.Yes, you can borrow the book from a friend. Otherwise, you can't legally read it for free: This is a commercial book, not distributed for free.Yes, you can borrow the book from a friend. Otherwise, you can't legally read it for free: This is a commercial book, not distributed for free.Yes, you can borrow the book from a friend. Otherwise, you can't legally read it for free: This is a commercial book, not distributed for free.
Strangely, the world's most shoplifted book is the Holy Bible. It is also the best selling book now and in the history of the world.
In the terms of natural sciences, one book that shook the world was Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species." This book proposed the theory of evolution at a time when creationism was widely viewed as the source of all current life.