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Top 10 most read fiction books/book series/comics

Discussion in 'History & Literature' started by Garrincha, Nov 9, 2022.

  1. Garrincha

    Garrincha Not British

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    By sales. Approximate figures.

    8. Lucky Luke (300 million)
    8. Golgo 13 (300 million)
    8. Peanuts (300 million)
    8. Dragon Ball (300 million)
    8. Perry Mason (300 million)
    7. Goosebumps (350 million)
    6. Asterix (385 million)
    5. Spiderman (387 million)
    4. Batman (484 million)
    3. Harry Potter (500 million)
    2. One Piece (516.5 million)
    1. Superman (600 million)

    Interesting...

    List of best-selling books - Wikipedia
    List of best-selling comic series - Wikipedia
     
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  2. Sandsy

    Sandsy Formerly known as manojob

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    Unrealistic to put comics and manga in the same list as books/novels. They are two very different things and the sale of one is not equal to the sale of the other.
     
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  3. Marty_LFC

    Marty_LFC Acknowledge Me

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    Pretty sure the bible is #1
     
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  4. Sandsy

    Sandsy Formerly known as manojob

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    Nice burn on the Bible. Good luck convincing your countrymen it is fiction though.
     
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    Wow, you've gone all right-wing lately.
     
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    I've been watching too much Hank Pecker.
     
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  7. Garrincha

    Garrincha Not British

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    True.
    No individual book made it to the top 10
     
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  8. Sandsy

    Sandsy Formerly known as manojob

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    Because it isa list of series, not a list of individual books
     
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  9. Garrincha

    Garrincha Not British

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    Here's top 10 individual books
    9. The Da Vinci Code (80 million)
    9. Vardi Wala Gunda (80 million)
    8. She: A History of Adventure (83 million)
    7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (85 million)
    4. The Hobbit (100 million)
    4. 紅樓夢 (100 million)
    4. And Then There Were None (100 million)
    3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (120 million)
    1. Le Petit Prince (200 million)
    1. A Tale of Two Cities (200 million)

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  10. Panja

    Panja In a land down under

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    Fiction.
     
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    I've only read 2 of these The Da Vinci Code and The Hobbit.
     
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  12. Garrincha

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    Vardi Wala Gunda is Hindi, so doubt you've read it before.

    I've only read 1, with intentions to read another in the future (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and 紅樓夢 respectively)
     
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  13. Dirk

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    3 for me here. Your 2 plus A Tale of Two Cities. I'm a big Dickens fan (:hmmm that sounds a bit wrong :laugh: )

    And what does it mean?
     
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    Sandsy Formerly known as manojob

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    Highlighted are the ones I have read.
     
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    I'm a bit shocked that @Dirk and @Mowgli have never read Harry Potter before. It's a good series.
    dream of the red chamber
     
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    Sandsy Formerly known as manojob

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    Think that is because they were old before it was released :duke
     
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    I've seen the movies (had to watch them, better said, with my youngest daughter back then.)

    :hmmm sounds like it's not for 13 year olds ;)


    :finger


    Overlooked this Agatha Christie novel in the list. Read it, too. So I've read 4 of the list
     
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    It's one of the big 4 chinese books, along with 西遊記, 三國演義 and 水滸傳

    I've read the 1st 2 and the 2nd is one of my favourite books of all time

    (Of course because the chinese involved is extremely complex I read English versions)
     
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    Never heard of it until I saw it in the thread. There's an old Bollywood movie by that name. I am obviously curious now and will give this a look. I usually prefer books in English or Marathi. Never read a book in Hindi. So this might be my first book in Hindi, not counting the school Hindi textbooks.
     
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