List of best-selling books (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of best-selling books" in English language version.

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  • ABC Australia Archived 2014-04-26 at the Wayback Machine on Heidi: "Johanna Spyri's story has been translated into fifty languages and sold fifty million copies, but the marketing juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down – fat from it. Heidi now has her own theme park." (5 August 2002)

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  • The Alameda Sun Archived 2008-09-18 at the Wayback Machine on Junie B. Jones: "The series, launched in 1992, offers 27 books and an interactive journal, and has sold 44 million copies around the world." (27 June 2008)

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  • The Invasion: A Graphic Novel (Animorphs #1): Volume 1 (Animorphs Graphic Novels). ASIN 1338226487.

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  • The Telegraph on Wild Swans: "Selling more than 10 million copies and topping the "most borrowed historical biography" chart in British libraries year after year, it proved a publishing phenomenon" (21 July 2007)

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  • Sunday World Archived 2014-01-18 at archive.today on The Ginger Man: "Donleavy, who lives near Mullingar, has previously rejected repeated attempts by Hollywood to make a film version of his book, which has sold 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages." (5 August 2008)
  • The Columbus Dispatch on The Wind in the Willows: "More than 25 million copies of the book have been sold in 70 countries since 1908, according to the Copyrights Group, which is presently promoting a new edition." (4 May 2008)
  • "Golden Books : Poky Little Puppy (Little Golden Book)". Jp.bookmooch.com. 1992-06-01. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  • The Globe and Mail on Choose Your Own Adventure: "The Choose Your Own Adventure DVD movies are adaptations of the original books, which sold more than 250 million copies. " (22 August 2006)
  • Keslassy, Elsa (20 February 2012). "AB lines up 'Waterloo' miniseries: English-lingo battle drama to cost up to $15 million". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2012. Published between 1949 and 2001, the San Antonio anthology is one of the best-selling French novel series of all times, having sold an estimated 200 million copies.
  • The Globe and Mail on A Series of Unfortunate Events: "whose 13 "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books for children have sold an astonishing 65 million copies." (10 January 2012)

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  • "Carlo Collodi, il papà del burattino più conformista della letteratura". artspecialday (in Italian). October 26, 2017. Archived from the original on April 3, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2018. Il resto, è storia nota: allo stato attuale delle cose, è inutile elencare le lingue in cui è stato tradotto Pinocchio ed è praticamente impossibile calcolare il numero delle copie vendute nel mondo – alcune fonti riportano 35 milioni, altre 80, ma è soltanto un modo, anche abbastanza ozioso, di quantificare un successo inquantificabile.

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  • BBC Archived 2008-11-28 at the Wayback Machine on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "The book had a print run of 12 million in the US, compared with 10.8 million for the last book, according to Lisa Holton of the book's US publisher Scholastic." (23 July 2007)
  • "Happy 50th birthday Noddy". BBC News. 1999-11-22. Archived from the original on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  • "Peter Rabbit in China copyright stew". BBC News. 2003-06-23. Archived from the original on 2009-02-04. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  • BBC Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine on The Hitchhiker's Guide: "About 16 million copies of the books have been sold worldwide" (17 September 2008)
  • BBC Archived 2008-03-13 at the Wayback Machine on Alexander McCall Smith: "His books, featuring the unconventional No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, have sold 15 million copies in English, not counting the 42 languages they've been published in elsewhere." 7 March 2008

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  • Belfast Telegraph on The Secret: "Publishers Simon & Schuster expect sales to be on a par with – if not bigger than – 'The Secret', which has so far notched up 20 million copies in 46 languages." (19 August 2010)
  • The Belfast Telegraph on the Jack Reacher books: "2012 marks a landmark year for Lee Child, whose Jack Reacher thrillers have now sold in excess of 60 million copies worldwide." (7 September 2012)

biography.com

  • "Stephenie Meyer". Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-07-18. on Twilight: "Stephanie Meyer dwarfed the success of Brown's work with the Twilight series, selling over 120 million copies in less than seven years." (26 April 2012)

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  • Books Apart Archived 2017-08-19 at the Wayback Machine on The Goal: "The Goal is one of the best selling business novels. It has sold around 10 million copies and has been translated in over 35 languages."

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  • Brandeton.com [permanent dead link] on Rainbow Magic: "A publishing phenomenon, "Rainbow Magic" has sold 20+ million copies in 31 languages worldwide, including over 6 million books in print in the U.S." (23 November 2010)

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    • Lowne, Cathy. "The Little Prince". britannica.com. Archived from the original on October 31, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2022. Translated into hundreds of languages, some 150 million copies of the novella have sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history.
    • Britannica Archived 2007-08-31 at the Wayback Machine on Santa Evita: "Martínez was best known as the author of two classics of Argentine and Latin American literature: La novela de Perón (1985, The Perón Novel, 1988) and Santa Evita (1995, Eng. trans., 1995); the latter was translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 million copies." (22 November 2007)

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    • "A Tale of Two Cities". broadway.com. Archived from the original on April 5, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2008. Since its inaugural publication on August 30, 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has sold over 200 million copies in several languages, making it one of the most famous books in the history of fictional literature.

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  • CBC on The Women's Room: "It sold 20 million copies and was widely translated, despite poor reviews." (5 May 2009)

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  • CBS Archived 2008-04-13 at the Wayback Machine on Ken Follett: "But since it was published in 1989, "The Pillars of the Earth" has become an international sensation, selling 15 million copies worldwide." (7 October 2007)

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  • "Betting on The Red Mansions". china.org.cn. China Internet Information Center. December 14, 2005. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved April 26, 2022. Sun Yuming, the vice director of A Dream of Red Mansions Research Institute...said that the book has sold over 100 million copies worldwide so far.

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  • CityWire on Chicken Soup: "His Chicken Soup for the Soul series, co-authored with Jack Canfield, has sold over 130 million copies in 54 languages and spans 105 different titles." (17 August 2008)

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  • Forbes on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "The final one, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has sold 44 million since it was published last July, including 15 million in the first 24 hours." (19 December 2008)
  • Forbes Archived 2017-03-29 at the Wayback Machine on Covey: "Stephen Covey will be remembered most as the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which sold over 25 million copies." (16 July 2012)
  • Forbes Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine on Sweet Valley High: "But despite 250 million copies in print, in 25 languages, Sweet Valley's sugar rush has been on the decline. " (28 October 2002)

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  • ABC News Archived 2008-04-16 at the Wayback Machine on The Total Woman: "One of the first books to address the issue was Marabel Morgan's "The Total Woman," which sold more than 10 million copies to women of all religious persuasions, making it the best-selling nonfiction book of 1974." (15 April 2008)
  • ABC News Archived 2010-09-15 at the Wayback Machine on Ramona: "The film is adapted from Beverly Cleary's series of "Ramona" books, which go back more than 50 years and have sold 30 million copies." (23 July 2010)

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  • The Green Bay Press Gazette[permanent dead link] on Little House on the Prairie: "If there was any doubt that a love for Little House is an everlasting one, consider not only that 60 million copies of the Wisconsin-born Wilder's books have been sold since 1932[...]" (24 July 2010)

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guinnessworldrecords.com

  • "Best selling book of non-fiction". Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  • "Guinness World Records Announces Xinhua Dictionary as the "Most Popular Dictionary" and the "Best-Selling book (regularly updated)" | Guinness World Records".

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  • "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  • Mercer Mayer, HarperCollins, archived from the original on 24 October 2014, retrieved 24 October 2014, His most recognized character, the lovable and charismatic Little Critter®, was born in 1975 in the book Just for You. Mercer's Little Critter has since starred in more than two hundred books, which have sold over one hundred and fifty million copies.

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  • The Huntsville Forester on Love You Forever: "The children's classic Love You Forever has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is in its 65th printing." (29 October 2008)

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  • Inshorts on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "The final instalment of the Harry Potter series, 'The Deathly Hallows' is recognised by Guinness World Records as 'the fastest selling book of fiction in 24 hours' with a total of 15 million books sold. With 12 million books printed in the first run, it also holds a record for the 'highest initial print run for a fiction book'." (4 July 2016)

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  • Lexington Herald-Leader [dead link] on the Magic Tree House series: "The series has sold 70 million copies in North America and has been translated into 28 different languages in 31 countries." (25 November 2010)

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  • Kidscreen on Erin Hunter: "Created by Coolabi Group's company Working Partners, the Warriors fantasy book series has sold more than 40 million copies around the world." (7 January 2019)

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  • Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye (2001-09-11). "Home". Left Behind. Archived from the original on 2009-08-30. Retrieved 2009-08-31.

licensing.biz

  • "Guinness World Records earmarks licensing growth", Licensing, 26 October 2010, archived from the original on 2010-10-29, retrieved 2010-10-29, The Guinness Book of World Records has been published in 30 languages in more than 100 countries and has sold in excess of 115 million copies, becoming the biggest selling copyright book of all time.

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  • "Frank Herbert". Archived from the original on 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2015-02-06.Macmillan on Dune: "Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies;"

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  • San José Mercury News Archived 2012-01-13 at the Wayback Machine on The Da Vinci Code: "That earlier book has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, was adapted into a movie and made hits out of Brown's previous novels, including "Angels & Demons," whose film version is now in theaters." (5 June 2009)

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  • The Miami Herald on the South Beach Diet books: "The South Beach Diet became a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller and the six books in the series have sold 22 million copies." (15 January 2008)

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  • John J. Miller on Thor Heyerdahl on National Review Online Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine on Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft: ""Our intention was to test the performance and quality of the Inca raft, its seaworthiness and loading capacity, and to ascertain whether the elements would really propel it across the sea to Polynesia with its crew still on board," he wrote in Kon-Tiki, a book that has sold 20 million copies." (April 19, 2002)

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  • ORICON NEWS Archived 2017-06-19 at the Wayback Machine (13 March 2017)
  • ORICON NEWS: Light novel light novel "Toaru Majutsu no Index" series published in 2004 by Dengeki Bunko has exceeded the cumulative issue number of 30 million copies, [...] (9 June 2018)

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  • Playbill Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine on The Kite Runner: "The Kite Runner, which has been published in 70 countries, selling 31.5 million copies in 60 languages." (2 September 2016)
  • Playbill Archived 2010-07-26 at the Wayback Machine on Love Story: "Erich Segal's best-selling novel, which has sold 21 million copies worldwide in 33 languages[...]" (23 July 2010)

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  • Pocono Record Archived 2014-01-21 at the Wayback Machine on Charlotte's Web: " It has sold over 50 million copies, been translated into 23 languages, and shown in three major movie versions." (06 July 2007)

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  • "Le avventure di Pinocchio". la Repubblica Letteraria Italiana (in Italian). July 1, 2001. Archived from the original on January 27, 2006. Retrieved February 4, 2010. Con i suoi trentacinque milioni di copie, Le Avventure di Pinocchio è il nostro romanzo più letto e più tradotto, dopo I promessi sposi.

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  • Reuters Archived 2010-01-13 at the Wayback Machine on Anne of Green Gables: ""Anne of Green Gables" has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into 20 languages, according to Penguin." (19 March 2008)

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  • RTBF Archived 2011-01-24 at the Wayback Machine on Martine: "Soixante albums de "Martine" ont été publiés dans la collection "Farandole" et 100 millions d'exemplaires vendus dans le monde." (21 January 2011)

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  • "Sanseido". Sanseido-publ.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2009-08-31.

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  • New York Times Upfront Archived 2013-11-05 at the Wayback Machine on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "This year marks the 125th anniversary of the publication of Huckleberry Finn in the U.S., and the book is still selling—more than 20 million copies worldwide to date—and still generating controversy." (10 March 2010)

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  • "Peter Mark Roget", The San Francisco Chronicle, 25 March 2008, archived from the original on 14 September 2010, More than 40 million copies have been sold

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  • Simon and Schuster Archived 2024-08-11 at simonandschuster.com (Error: unknown archive URL) on The Purpose Driven Life: "Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the world, with campuses in the US and around the globe. He is the author of The Purpose Driven Life, one of the bestselling nonfiction books in publishing history. It has been translated into 137 languages and sold more than 50 million copies in multiple formats." (11 August 2024)
  • Simon & Schuster. Cassandra Clare Retrieved 2022-10-28.

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  • The Patriot Ledger [permanent dead link] on Perfume: "Yet the scene, like the movie, is so daring, so challenging, you cannot help but respect Tykwer's unerring desire to remain true to the source novel, a book that has sold 15 million copies and has been credited with inspiring Kurt Cobain to write the Nirvana classic ‘‘Scentless Apprentice.’’" (5 January 2007)

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  • Sunday World Archived 2014-01-18 at archive.today on The Ginger Man: "Donleavy, who lives near Mullingar, has previously rejected repeated attempts by Hollywood to make a film version of his book, which has sold 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages." (5 August 2008)

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theaustralian.com.au

  • The Australian Archived 2012-01-09 at the Wayback Machine on What to Expect When You're Expecting: "What to Expect When You're Expecting, in its fourth edition, was first published in 1984 and has sold more than 20 million copies." (27 October 2010)
  • The Australian Archived 2012-01-09 at the Wayback Machine on Man's Search for Meaning: "It's the 75th edition of a book that has sold 12 million copies and is one of the most read Holocaust texts." (14 May 2011)

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thestage.co.uk

  • The Stage Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine on Horrible Histories: "[...] based on the hugely successful (20 million copies sold worldwide) series of children's books by Terry Deary, who also wrote this adaptation." (1 October 2008)

thestar.com

  • The Toronto Star Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine on Mario Puzo: "According to the Official Mario Puzo Library website, the book sold 21 million copies in hardback and paper by 1997." (21 July 2007)
  • The Toronto Star Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine on Grace Metalious: "It sold 100,000 copies in its first month and went on to sell another 12 million copies, was made into a film and eventually into a prime-time television series that made the young Mia Farrow a star." (21 July 2007)
  • The Toronto Star Archived 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine on The Dukan Diet: "The book has sold 10 million copies worldwide, but didn't really make an impression on North America until [...]" (18 April 2011)

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  • The Star Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine on the Mars Venus series: " You must be from another planet if you have not heard of Gray and his Mars Venus universe. Fifty million of his books have been sold in 40 different languages." (24 February 2008)

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time.com

    • "Waiting for Leo". Time Magazine. September 17, 1965. Archived from the original on March 12, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2008. Since then it has sold 83 million copies in 44 languages.
    • Grossman, Lev (2002-12-02). "Feeding On Fantasy". TIME. Retrieved 2024-08-05.

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entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

  • The Times Archived 2008-07-18 at the Wayback Machine on Black Beauty: "Fifty million copies of Black Beauty have been sold in the years since Anna Sewell's publisher paid her £20 for the story." (29 February 2008)

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  • The Times Archived 2007-03-09 at the Wayback Machine on Jaws: "Jaws stayed for 40 weeks in the bestseller charts of The New York Times, eventually selling 20 million copies [...]" (13 February 2006)

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tvnz.co.nz

  • TVNZ Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine on The Lovely Bones: "Published in 2002, Lovely Bones is the second novel by Alice Sebold, and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide, remaining on the New York Times hardback bestseller list for over a year." (5 May 2007)

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usatoday.com

  • "Tolkien's Hobbit celebrates 75th anniversary". USA Today. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2022. The prelude to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit has been translated in to more than 50 languages and has sold 100 million copies worldwide.
  • USA Today Archived 2016-04-14 at the Wayback Machine on Where the Wild Things are: "More than 20 million copies have been sold in 32 languages." (November 21, 2013)
  • USA Today Archived 2012-01-05 at the Wayback Machine on Tuesdays with Morrie: "The book has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide since 1997 and became an Oprah Winfrey-produced TV movie. " (8 April 2008)
  • USA Today Archived 2012-01-05 at the Wayback Machine on Nancy Drew: "The series is still in print and has sold over 200 million books in 17 languages." (29 May 2002)
  • USA Today Archived 2016-06-10 at the Wayback Machine on James Patterson's Alex Cross by the numbers: "81 million: Copies sold of series, starting with Along Came a Spider in 1993.""with Alex, it just seems to come together so naturally that I've kept him for myself. I suppose you could say Alex is the co-author." (27 November 2013)

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  • U.S. News & World Report Archived 2009-05-08 at the Wayback Machine on What Color is Your Parachute: "Today, Parachute is one of the all-time bestselling careers books, with more than 10 million copies of 37 editions snapped up since 1970. " (1 October 2008)

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wikipedia.org

ja.wikipedia.org

  • Matsumoto, Kenichi [in Japanese] (December 1994). 二千万部売れた漱石『こゝろ』の謎. 新潮45 [Shincho 45] (in Japanese). Shinchosha. p. 198.

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worldrecordacademy.com

  • World Record Academy on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – the seventh and last novel in the series – sold around 15 million copies worldwide in its first day and set the new world record for the fastest selling book." (23 July 2007)

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wsj.com

  • The Wall Street Journal Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine on A Wrinkle in Time: "Madeleine L’Engle's ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ has sold 14 million copies since its publication in 1962." (16 April 2015)
  • The Wall Street Journal on The Exorcist: "Back in the 1970s, those smaller, rack-sized paperbacks were the blockbusters of the business, led by such best sellers as William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" (11 million copies sold); Peter Benchley's "Jaws" (more than nine million copies), and Sidney Sheldon's "The Other Side of Midnight" (six million copies plus)." (14 September 2007)
  • The Wall Street Journal on the Star Wars books: "According to a Random House spokesman, the publisher has more than 160 million copies of "Star Wars" books in print." (1 April 2005)

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  • China View Archived 2009-01-10 at the Wayback Machine on La Peste: "Translated into 28 languages, the book has sold more than 12 million copies around the world." (9 April 2008)

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youtube.com

  • [1] Library of Congress, 2018 National Book Festival. "Rachel Renee Russell has sold over 30 million copies of the New York Times bestselling series, Dork Diaries," Monica Valentine. (10 October 2018)

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