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The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. According to Guinness World Records , as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [ 1 ]
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
20th-Century American Bestsellers, database of 20th-century American bestsellers via Publishers Weekly, with expanded information including cover images, synopsis, literary history, &c., by John Unsworth of University of Illinois; American Bestsellers, 1895–1923 from Project Gutenberg
A book industry report in the 1940s found that best-seller lists were a poor indicator of sales, since they were based on misleading data and were only measuring fast sales. A 2004 report quoted a senior book marketing executive who said the rankings were "smoke and mirrors"; while a report in Book History found that many professionals in the ...
Issue date Title Author(s) Publisher Ref. January 1: It Starts with Us: Colleen Hoover: Atria Books [1] January 8 [2] January 15 [3] January 22 [4] January 29 [5] February 5 [6] February 12: It Ends with Us [7] February 19 [8] February 26: Encore in Death: J. D. Robb: St. Martin's Press [9] March 5: It Starts with Us: Colleen Hoover: Atria ...
BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by Circana in the United States and NIQ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Poland. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah with 5 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by The Duke and I by Julia Quinn with 4 weeks.
Titles Notes References 1 United States: 2013 275,232 New titles and re-editions [3] 2 China: 2013 208,418 New titles and re-editions [3] 3 United Kingdom: 2018 188,000 [4] 4 Japan: 2017 139,078 New titles and re-editions [5] 5 Indonesia: 2020 135,081 [6] 6 Russia: 2019 115,171 [7] 7 Iran: 2018 102,691 New and revised [8] 8 France: 2018 106,799 ...