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The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1895 through 2020. The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
[1] unknown dates. Fedor Emin's Nepostoyannaya fortuna, the first Russian novel, is published. [2] The atheist English printer John Baskerville produces an edition of The Holy Bible for Cambridge University Press in his Baskerville typeface.
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]
[1] The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible ), the Iliad and Odyssey , the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching , the Avesta , the Analects , the ...
Printable version; In other projects ... 1569 books (1 C, 5 P) (previous page) Pages in category "Books by year"
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros Written in short, powerful vignettes, this classic novel reveals the world of Esperanza Cordero, a young Chicana growing in Chicago.
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
The latter in 1761 spoke of her to Mrs. Montague as 'writing for the support of her family,' which, she adds, 'is a laudable employment.' [1] Mrs. Collyer afterwards translated part of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock ’s The Messiah but dying in 1763, before it was completed, the remainder was translated and published by her husband about the end ...