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The Monday Morning Memo

More than one billion copies of the Bible have been sold, but I have no idea how many people are actually reading it today. Here are some other numbers:

25 Best-Selling Books
of All-Time

#1 – Don Quixote (500 million copies sold)
by Miguel de Cervantes

#2 – A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold)
by Charles Dickens

#3 – The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold)
by J.R.R. Tolkien

#4 – The Little Prince (142 million copies sold)
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (107 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling

#6 – And Then There Were None (100 million copies sold)
by Agatha Christie

#7 – The Dream of the Red Chamber (100 million copies sold)
by Cao Xueqin

#8 – The Hobbit (100 million copies sold)
by J.R.R. Tolkien

#9 – She: A History of Adventure (100 million copies sold)
by H. Rider Haggard

#10 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (85 million copies sold)
by C.S. Lewis

#11 – The Da Vinci Code (80 million copies sold)
by Dan Brown

#12 – Think and Grow Rich (70 million copies sold)
by Napoleon Hill

#13 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (65 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling

#14 – The Catcher in the Rye (65 million copies sold)
by J.D. Salinger

#15 – The Alchemist (65 million copies sold)
by Paulo Coelho

#16 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (60 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling

#17 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (55 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling

#18 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (55 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling

#19 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (55 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling

#20 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (50 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling

#21 – One Hundred Years of Solitude (50 million copies sold)
by Gabriel García Marquez

#22 – Lolita (50 million copies sold)
by Vladimir Nabokov

#23 – Anne of Green Gables (50 million copies sold)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

#24 – Charlotte’s Web (50 million copies sold)
by E.B. White

#25 – Black Beauty (50 million copies sold)
by Anna Sewell

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“There are some people at whom one has only to glance for one’s throat to tighten and one’s eyes to fill with tears of emotion. These people make us feel as if a stronger memory of our former innocence remains in them, as if they were a freak on nature, not entirely battered by the Fall. Perhaps they are messengers, like a servant who finds a lost prince who’s unaware of his origins, show him the robe that he wore in his native country, and remind him how to return home.”

- Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, p. 126, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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