Books
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01 / Books 3 years Youngest male author to publish a book Advay Jain · Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, USA See record ↗ -
02 / Books 24′ 6.5″ Largest published book iWRITE Literacy Organization, The Bryan Museum, and Ordinary People Change the World, for I Am Texas · Houston, Texas, USA See record ↗ -
03 / Books 1,075 novels Most prolific novelist Ryoki Inoue · Brazil See record ↗ -
04 / Books 913 weeks Most weeks on The New York Times best-seller list Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney See record ↗ -
05 / Books $65 million Largest book advance Barack Obama and Michelle Obama See record ↗ -
06 / Books 9.6 million characters Longest novel Marcel Proust, for À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) See record ↗ -
07 / Books 5 billion copies Best-selling book of all time The Bible · Worldwide See record ↗ -
08 / Books 2 billion copies Best-selling fiction author Agatha Christie · United Kingdom See record ↗ -
09 / Books 7,236 translations Most translated author Agatha Christie · United Kingdom See record ↗ -
10 / Books 600 million copies Best-selling book series Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling · United Kingdom See record ↗
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