Posted: May 13, 2018 6:50 pm
Anyway, here's a few links to data, since evidence is under discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... ling_books
http://blog.lovereading.co.uk/special-f ... viFtYoh2Ul
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com ... llers1.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/news/databl ... ey-compare
https://jamesclear.com/best-books/best-selling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
It seems the Quran and the bible do rather well, along with good ol' mass murdering Chairman Mao, while the great works of laissez-faire capitalism and poor old Adam Smith lag way, way behind on the sales stakes.
It's tougher to find data about "favourite" as opposed to "best selling" books, so there's a bit of a culturally biased BBC page and not much else in my preliminary search+filter attempt. It does appear there's a lot of correspondence between favourite and best selling, although favourite seems to centre a lot more on fiction (or at least a different kind of fiction to the Bible or Quran).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... ling_books
http://blog.lovereading.co.uk/special-f ... viFtYoh2Ul
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com ... llers1.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/news/databl ... ey-compare
https://jamesclear.com/best-books/best-selling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
It seems the Quran and the bible do rather well, along with good ol' mass murdering Chairman Mao, while the great works of laissez-faire capitalism and poor old Adam Smith lag way, way behind on the sales stakes.
It's tougher to find data about "favourite" as opposed to "best selling" books, so there's a bit of a culturally biased BBC page and not much else in my preliminary search+filter attempt. It does appear there's a lot of correspondence between favourite and best selling, although favourite seems to centre a lot more on fiction (or at least a different kind of fiction to the Bible or Quran).