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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Zen » Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:35 am

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part II
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Zombie » Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:26 am

Round 2:

Eli - Sense and Sensibility - Didn't make it on the list
Phoebe - HP: Chamber of Secrets - 13th, 77m, (13 points)
Tahlvin - Three Musketeers - Didn't make the list
Stan - And Then There Were None - Well played! 7th, 100m, (19 points)
DMDarcs - Oh the Places You'll Go - Didn't make it on the list, which I'm surprised by.
Pete - HP: Deathly Hollows - 23rd, 50m, (3 points)
Buckett - How to Win Friends and Influence People - Made the list but short of 25, sold 30m
Kyle - The Joy of Cooking - Made the list but short of 25, sold 18m
Zen - HP: Deathly Hollows - Pete beat you to it
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Tahlvin » Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:30 am

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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Tahlvin » Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:31 am

WTF, I'll try another classic, just for poops and giggles.

The Hobbit.
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Zombie » Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:32 am

Oh, and there aren't any regularly updated books. They aren't eligible even though their cumulative sales are all in the 100s of millions. So no Webster's Dictionary, Guinness Book of World Records, or the Boy Scout's book.
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Stan » Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:33 am

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain.

I'm thinking that books that everyone reads in school will show up somewhere on the list.
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby poorpete » Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:42 am

This is worldwide, right? How about Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book"?
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Kyle » Fri Aug 04, 2017 12:01 pm

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (I'm not sure of the spelling)
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby buckett » Fri Aug 04, 2017 12:06 pm

The Fellowship of the Ring
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Zen » Fri Aug 04, 2017 1:48 pm

"The lines between kindness, apathy, and thickheadedness can be very thin." - Nakatani Nio Sensei
“The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?” - Ursula K. Le Guin
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Eliahad » Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:05 pm

The Things They Carried
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby DMDarcs » Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:52 pm

Fifty Shades of Grey
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Phoebe » Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:04 pm

A Tale of Two Cities
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Zombie » Sat Aug 05, 2017 10:49 am

Round 3:

Tahlvin - The Hobbit - #6 (20 pts)
Stan - Huck Finn - Made the list but fell short with 20m
Pete - Little Red Book - See below
Kyle - HP: Azkaban - #20 (6 pts)
Buckett - Fellowship (they include Lord of the Rings as one book) - #3 (23 pts)
Zen - Mien Kampf - Didn't make the list and they don't seem to mention it anywhere, which is odd
Eli - The Things They Carried - Didn't make the list
DMDarcs - For some reason (they did this with Twilight too) they only include series numbers and don't put it on the list. But a breakdown of the books has it at around 40m and falls just short of the list.
Phoebe - Tale of Two Cities - #2 (24 pts)


On the little red book: "However, the Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures — with some sources claiming over 6.5 billion printed volumes,[3] others claiming the distribution ran into the "billions,"[4] and others citing "over a billion" official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as "untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations."

I guess they decided to not include this in the list. They mentioned it up with the bible but I completely missed it or else I would have warned you all about it. My bad Pete.
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Bluedevyl » Sat Aug 05, 2017 11:26 am

I know this one!

Don Quixote
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Kyle » Sat Aug 05, 2017 11:37 am

Moby Dick.
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Stan » Sat Aug 05, 2017 11:53 am

The DaVinci Code
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby DMDarcs » Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:09 pm

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Re: Best Selling Books of All Time

Postby Phoebe » Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:31 pm

A Christmas Carol

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