Posted by Jay Livingston
Tyler Cowen asks his readers to guess the best-selling book of all time (“And I mean the best-selling real book, not linked to either religion or communism?”)
Here is his answer:
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, two hundred million copies.Note that Tyler tactfully refers to Baden-Powell’s 1908 classic in the generic rather than by its actual title, which is so much more delightfully ambiguous: Scouting for Boys.
Next in line is Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts book and then Lord of the Rings.
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(Wikipedia has the full list.)
1 comment:
I'm afraid that your suggestions of the top selling books are wildly inaccurate (except Dickens).
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