According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 190 million copies for the Book of Mormon.
The most read book in the world is the Bible. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years. He found that the Bible far outsold any other book, with a whopping 3.9 billion copies sold over the last 50 years.
The Bible. Easily the most read book in the world is the Bible for obvious reasons. It is estimated to have sold over 40 million copies in the last 60 years. You can even find it at most hotels.
Best-selling religious books of all time
As of 2015, the Guinness Book of World Records estimated that the Bible is the best-selling religious book of all time and the best-selling book overall. It is estimated that between 5 and 7 billion copies of the Bible have been sold.
And now, particularly thanks to TikTok, Colleen (43) has become one of the most successful authors in the world. Last year the author, who's from Texas in the US, sold more books than James Patterson and John Grisham combined and outsold The Bible by more than three million copies.
It has been printed in just about every known language (including braille) and each year, since it was first written, it has been the world's greatest bestseller year after year. As time marches on it is continually printed in yet more languages. Collectors of rare books treasure it in every form.
Traditionally these books were considered to have been dictated to Moses by God himself. Since the 17th century, scholars have viewed the original sources as being the product of multiple anonymous authors while also allowing the possibility that Moses first assembled the separate sources.
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Non-Hispanic Whites (76%) outpace non-Hispanic Blacks (69%) and Hispanics (58%) in book-reading incidence, while there's a clear age trend in play, with Millennials (18-28) being the most likely to read books (80%) and Boomers (65+) the least likely (67%).
According to Guinness World Records, L. Ron Hubbard is the most prolific writer of all time. In addition to founding the controversial religion Scientology, the sci-fi author published 1084 works between 1934 and 2006. Of those works, more than 250 were fiction.
According to Guinness World Records, Agatha Christie has the title of “world's best-selling fiction writer,” with estimated sales of over 2 billion. UNESCO also lists Christie as the most translated author in history.
“Old enough to know better” springs to mind. Surprisingly, the name most often cited as the last person to have read every book existing in his day is the English poet SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772 – 1834).
India – Ranking at number one, India spends approximately 10 hours and 42 minutes reading per week.
Christianity. According to the American publication, the Orthodox Study Bible, 777 represents the threefold perfection of the Trinity.
Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.
The Bible's origin is both human and divine—not just from God and not just from humans. The Bible's narratives, poems, histories, letters, prophecies, and other writings come from a profound collaboration between humanity and God.
A handwritten 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that just sold for $38 million is among the most expensive manuscripts ever. The 1,100-year-old Codex Sassoon Hebrew Bible, which is one of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, sold at auction for $38.1 million, on May 17, 2023, in New York.
The earliest portion of the Bible was written over 3,500 years ago. The first five books of the Bible are attributed to Moses and are commonly called the Pentateuch (literally meaning “five scrolls”).
Bringing the Bible directly to the people
“The translation into English, the language of the land, made it accessible to all those people who could read English, and who could afford a printed Bible.” Whereas before, the Bible had been the sole property of the Church, now more and more people could read it themselves.
At the top of the list, unsurprisingly, is the Bible. The Guinness Book of World Records estimates that more than 5 billion copies of the Bible have been printed. Other religious texts are also high on the list: the Quran with 800 million copies, the Book of Mormon with 120 million.