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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 ...
The Guardian asked readers a fortnight after the conclusion of McCrum's list to name the novels that they wish had been on the list. The book with the highest number of votes was Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the second Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and the third Toni Morrison's Beloved.
Book Author(s) Original language First published Approximate sales World Almanac (published every year) Various authors: English: 1868–76; 1886–present: 82 million [339] [340] Betty Crocker Cookbook: General Mills staff: English: 1950–2016 (12th edition) 75 million [341] Tung Shing (Chinese: 通勝) Choi Park Lai's family, among others ...
The List of Books. New York, NY: Harmony Books. pp. 160. ISBN 978-0517540176. OCLC 6649494. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written; Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint, 1913–2012), Miss Clare Remembers; Charles Reade (1814–1884), The Cloister and the Hearth; Douglas Reeman (1924–2017), historical naval novelist; Clara Reeve (1729–1807), The Old English Baron; Mary Renault (1905–1983), young-adult historical novels; Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine) (1930–2015), King ...
After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, [3] including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm.
Locke was the first self-published author in history to sell one million eBooks, making him one of only eight authors to sell this number of eBooks.(The other seven authors are Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins, and Michael Connelly.) [2] He releases his novels as eBooks via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.)