Poll of the Day > What's the most popular book you've read?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

I skipped all the other Harry Potter books because presumably you'd read the highest selling first book before reading the less popular sequels.

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Harry Potter from that list

I dunno how much the Bible has been sold or just read by people but Ive read a good portion of that

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The holy fucking Bible becayse Jesus is lord

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From the list - the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
however, I have also read the Lord of the Rings which has sold more than 150 million copies

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Of the books from that link, I've read:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Black Beauty
Watership Down
Charlotte's Web
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Great Gatsby (didn't finish)
Animal Farm
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Where the Wild Things Are
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Cat in the Hat

I read a lot of books, just not many of the super mega best sellers.

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Probably Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight.

The very hungry caterpillar of this list. I read semi often, but I've never cared about any of these top ones

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Bible

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captpackrat posted...

I skipped all the other Harry Potter books because presumably you'd read the highest selling first book before reading the less popular sequels.

I read a less popular sequel first in the case of Harry Potter >_> The first one I read was Deathly Hallows. Possibly the only one I read, too.

captpackrat posted...

Of the books from that link, I've read:

Let's see... I've read (and excluding others I might have read but can't 100% remember):

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Catcher in the Rye
Charlotte's Web
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cosmos
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Great Gatsby
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Wind in the Willows
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pride and Prejudice
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Wrinkle in Time
The Old Man and the Sea
Life of Pi

I'm not 100% sure I read:
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Jaws

On top of that, I started:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The Power of Positive Thinking
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Catch-22


captpackrat posted...

I read a lot of books, just not many of the super mega best sellers.

I used to read a lot more than I do now.

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Naruto

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I don't read a lot

Various Discworld books
The early Redwall books
The movie novelization of Willow (which might be the best novelization of the movie)
Worlds of Power: Megaman (makes me cry every time)

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I've read several of those. I think The Lord of the Rings is/are the most popular book/books I've read.

Recently, I've been slowly simultaneously reading and listening to the first of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. The prose is extraordinary, and the characters feel like like walked straight out of Dark Souls... the setting does to a degree, too:

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. They sprawled over the sloping arch, each one half way over its neighbour until, held back by the castle ramparts, the innermost of these hovels laid hold on the great walls, clamping themselves thereto like limpets to a rock. These dwellings, by ancient law, were granted this chill intimacy with the stronghold that loomed above them. Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses, of broken and lofty turrets, and, most enormous of all, the shadow of the Tower of Flints. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

The castle is so massive that there are parts of it that people haven't seen for centuries.

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I'm gonna say LotR because while it's not on that list for an incomplete record it is probably higher than all except maybe hp which I haven't read

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Muscles posted...

I'm gonna say LotR because while it's not on that list for an incomplete record it is probably higher than all except maybe hp which I haven't read

The other problem with the list is that it kinda conflates sales with popularity. The fact that something sells well doesn't necessarily mean that it's well-liked, and some of those clearly sold heavily because they're used in classrooms. The other problem is the market at large has grown so, even if we had early sales figures, it paints an incomplete picture.

All that aside, the exercise is more fun than anything else.

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The hobbit

also a few terry pratchett books ( and games)

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The list is weird. From that list and the Wiki list, I dont think I read any. Though, I was trying to read the whole bible once. Started out ok, but got kind of boring. Maybe if they stopped talk nag the fun parts out...

That being said, from the popular series section, I did read some of those. I have a huge collection of Goosebumps books, Berenstain Bears books, and Chicken Soup for the Soul books...

Zeus posted...

I used to read a lot more than I do now.

Same. Trying to get back into it, though... the fire is helping a little, too...
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Of that list catcher in the rye is likely the only ive read and that was for school. Dont remember a thing about it.

Right now just started neuromancer

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Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", Nevil Shute's "On The Beach", and George Orwell's "1984"

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Probably some manga

Harry Potter I guess. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is popular but not as popular I don't think.

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Shouldn't Twilight be on that list?

I chose Harry Potter.

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Harry Potter, read it in class.

Far-Queue posted...

The holy fucking Bible becayse Jesus is lord

https://youtu.be/DucceoUPlxY?t=120

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ChimeraBlue posted...

Shouldn't Twilight be on that list?

Under the "List of best-selling book series" section, the entire Twilight series -- listed as 4 books, a novella, a companion novel, and a guide -- is noted as having collectively sold 160m copies so... it kinda seems like logically it should be there? Even if all 7 items old equally, that'd be like 20m copies each and it lists books with over 10m.


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I'm surprised Lord of the Rings isn't on there or any Dr Seuss

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Among that list, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone but outside of that list would be The Lord of the Rings.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

I'm surprised Lord of the Rings isn't on there

Same. Per Google, that sold 150 million copies. Granted LotRs has been around much longer.

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

I'm surprised Lord of the Rings isn't on there or any Dr Seuss

The list only covers books with known sales figures. Some books just don't have that data, the publisher's didn't make it available, or they were sold in too many variants or by too many publishers to get an accurate count.

The Lord of the Rings was sold both as a combined single volume as well as separate individual books. They had at least 4 different publishers in the UK and US, and there were several different editions with different text.

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GetMagnaCarter posted...

however, I have also read the Lord of the Rings which has sold more than 150 million copies

I am quite willing to the assume my answer is probably LotR, But from the given list, it has to be the Harry Potter book. Series wise from the further list it would be the Wheel of Time.

I also feel the need to mention an honourable mention, I am surprised and delighted LoGH/Gineiden made the list of series.

Edit: and yes, I am eagerly waiting for any news about the American publisher/localizer to localize the four gaidens.

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captpackrat posted...

The list only covers books with known sales figures. Some books just don't have that data, the publisher's didn't make it available, or they were sold in too many variants or by too many publishers to get an accurate count.

The Lord of the Rings was sold both as a combined single volume as well as separate individual books. They had at least 4 different publishers in the UK and US, and there were several different editions with different text.

Which also is why the Bible isn't there, which is likely the all-time best-selling book (and other religious texts would also rank).

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Catcher and the rye in school, Im not much for reading books of my own choice unless the topic really interests me.

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a song of ice and fire has 45 million sales. Just under Ben-Hur

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lord of the rings, but off of that list, harry potter.

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Zeus posted...

Which also is why the Bible isn't there, which is likely the all-time best-selling book (and other religious texts would also rank).

Wonder how many have a bible but never actually read it. As in at least the whole thing. Ive skimmed through and read a little but it never interested me

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Harry Potter series
Lord of the Rings and accompanying literature
Dresdan Files
Many Stephen King novels
Hitchhikers Guide series
Most Hermann Hesse novels
Many philosophy and religious books
Many Hemingway
And many, many more...

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I've read 1,2,4,7 from that list.

I don't get the hype for catcher in the rye
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Zeus posted...

Under the "List of best-selling book series" section, the entire Twilight series -- listed as 4 books, a novella, a companion novel, and a guide -- is noted as having collectively sold 160m copies so... it kinda seems like logically it should be there? Even if all 7 items old equally, that'd be like 20m copies each and it lists books with over 10m.

Oh, god... I actually own the first book. My oldest sister bought it for me. It's the combination of poor writing and the atrocious pacing... it is so goddamn boring. I just do not get why people like it; there are probably far better romance books for that age demographic out there, though I haven't read any, lol.

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To Kill a Mockingbird.

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