10 Most Read Books In The World (2012)

Over the last half century hundreds of thousands of books have been produced, but only a select few have become the most popular and most read books in the world. This is a list of the 10 most read books in the world over the last fifty years. The figures show the number of books printed and sold but does not take into account multiple readings of the same book.

10 Most Read Books In The World (2012)

10. Diary of Anne Frank - 27 Million Copies
9. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill - 30 Million Copies
8. Gone With the Wind - 33 Million Copies
7. Twilight - The Saga - 43 Million Copies
6. The Da Vinci Code - 57 Million Copies
5. The Alchemist - 65 Million Copies
4. Lord of the Rings - 103 Million Copies
3. Harry Potter - 400 Million Copies
2. Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung, aka the 'little red book' of Mao Tse-tung,- 820 Million Copies

and the No. 1 Most Read in the world is...

1. The Bible - 3.9 Billion Copies!

How about you? Have you ever read one of them? I bet you did!