Get to know which book has sold how many copies worldwide. And which book sits on the top position.

Top 100 best selling books of all time

500 million copies

• She: A History of Adventure.
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
• The Hobbit.
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
• The Little Prince.
• The Lord of the Rings.
• A Tale of Two Cities.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tsung, also known as the “Little Red Book”, is the world’s second best-selling book, having sold around 1.1 billion copies worldwide.

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Banned and forbidden from discussion for referring to magic and witchcraft, for containing actual cursed and spells, and for characters that use “nefarious means” to attain goals. A pastor at St. Edward Catholic School in Nashville (TN) expressed concern about the heretical lessons students could learn from the series.

James La Rue, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, speculated to Associated Press that its inclusion was down to “people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, it’s a violation of church and state”. …

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Examples of “banned” books

• Brave New World.
• Of Mice and Men.
• To Kill a Mockingbird.
• The Catcher in the Rye.
• The Harry Potter series.
• Fun Home.

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It was banned as abolitionist propaganda in the South, and a number of pro-slavery writers responded with so-called “Anti-Tom literature.” These novels portrayed slavery from the southern point of view, in an attempt to show that Stowe exaggerated her depiction of slavery’s evils.

Banned & Challenged Classics

• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger.
• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
• The Color Purple, by Alice Walker.
• Ulysses, by James Joyce.
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison.
• The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding.

A first edition (1852) in good condition can command $15,000. Later editions can still be quite valuable if they are in good condition and are a special printing — for example, if the book is the first illustrated edition, one that is illustrated by a famous artist or one that has especially lovely leather binding.

Stowe herself received many threatening letters from Southern critics – one included the severed ear of a slave. Today, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is banned for a variety of other reasons. In 1984, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was ”forbidden” in a Waukegan, Illinois school district for its inclusion of racial slurs.

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