Despite the influx of mammy porn, mystery thrillers and Harry Potter, The Koran has been named the most popular book of all time.
The religious copy, which has been translated into more than 50 different languages, has also had more than three billion copies printed.
Rounding off the top 5 were The King James Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Mao Zedong, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and JK Rowling’s wizardry adventures of Harry Potter.
The top 10 list, devised by lovereading.com, takes into account the number of editions, translations and copies sold per title.
Need some inspiration for the bedside locker?
Why not grab one of these from the list…
- The Koran
- The King James Bible
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Mao Zedong
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
- Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin
