Which book is the most read book of this world?
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It used to be the Holy Bible but it is possible that the Koran has surpassed the Bible in popularity.
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Escapist literature\n\ndeals with fantasy. There is nothing like happily-ever-after in real world :)
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the best one is one you havent heard before :)\n\nbut I like this following classic.\n\nWhat stays in a corner but travels all over the world.
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The link that I am providing is the American Library Association's list of the 100 most banned books for 1990-2000.\n\nNOTE: The Bible is not is not among those banned.  The first person who responded first does not have a clue as to what they are talking about.
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The Bible\nChronicles of Narnia\nHobbit
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She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb. Greatest read ever! Then there's always the Harry Potter books, there's 6 of them now, so they should keep you pretty busy.
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Besides the Harry Potter books, I would have to say "Mama" by Terry McMillian.\n\nThe struggles Mildred go through trying to raise her children- Frida, Bootsee, Angel, Money and two others that I've feel for her. The abusive relationship with the childrens father, the neighbor that rapes her oldest. The men that Mildred runs through and the growing pains of life. Great book. Must read.
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that would DEFINATLY  be Robert Fitzgerald, hes the best i think. i loved loved both the iliad and the odyssey by him, they're not like college this and this happened at all, almost fiction BUT ITS NOT. translations of homer's and hes awsome too. id really reccomend them. FITZGERALD ROCKS MY SOCKS!
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Currently reading London by Edward Rutherfurd. It is about the life in London from BC to present day...it is a great book!
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The "Yongle Dadian", an encyclopedia of the Chinese Ming dynasty, had 22,937 chapters in 10,000 volumes. Over 2,000 Chinese scholars worked on the book for 5 years before it was finished. The world's largest nonfiction work and its earliest encyclopedia is going to be given a new lease of life when it gets reprinted for the first time in 600 years ...\n\nIn modern times, the Spanish encyclopedia "La Enciclopedia" "Univeral Ilustada Europeo-Americana" has 105,000 pages. The longest modern work of fiction is the 40-volume novel "To-kugawa leyasu" by Sohachi Yamaoka.
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Gone With the Wind is truely my favorite. You have to stick with it though, because Margaret Mitchell moves the story at a sometimes-slow pace... It is a classic! My very favorite. Another great older book would be basically, anything by Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, or, another one of my favorites, Arthur Miller. (Arthur Miller is a playwright, but his plays are amazing.) \n\nEnjoy reading!!!
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Actually to answer peace, it is perhaps the most translated book in history next to the bible and is known by the whole of china which makes up a 1/5 of the world's population, + lots of scholars and philosophy interested people, + taoists of course.  As one of the main 3 texts of taoism it is indeed an important book (Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu)\n\nYes I was aware of this, did you know the I-Ching is even older still!  And perhaps contains some really startling information.\n\nA lot of what would have gone into the Tao Te Ching would also have survived in other texts or by oral tradition before becoming the works we know today as the Tao Te Ching.  The Hua Hu Ching is a good read too, again with some interesting thoughts on the nature of things. (i think they pioneered quantum physics millenia ago!)\n\nIt is a wonderful book that everyone should have a look at!\nYou can get it off the internet easy enough.
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Red dragon, tom harris. though da vinci code might just top that, haven't finished reading it yet though
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:}\nMany people do read it.  I reread it at least one time per year, \nThere are new and easy to read modern English versions available.  Let me recommend the New Living or the Holman Christian Standard, even the message or a little more difficult but still about a 9th grade level the New American standard (a very accurate word for word translation)\n\nIt is not read and understood because it takes spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear. Spiritual things are discerned spiritually.
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Terry Pratchette: Disc world series including, Lords & Ladies, Witches Abroad, Guards, Guards, The Fifth Elephant and many, many, many more. \nTheir histerical! Love these fantasy/humor books! \nThey all take place on this planet that really is flat and flies through space on the back of the great Turtle, A'Tuain who holds up the world on top of four great elephants. (Steeling from Hindu mythology) \nA world where Vampires, Dwarves, Trolls, Werewolves and the whole mythological lot all are real and all live as friends, neighbors and coworkers. \nAll the different adventures and stupid stunts that occur are so funny you just can't put these books down.\n\nCaution, they're addictive!
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So many to choose from, but I can honestly say that all Harry Potter books are my favorite, but there are classics that I love too!  This is a hard question!!!  What is your fave?\n\nHarry Potter's author is JK Rowlings.  The books are about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard and attends wizarding school.  It is a children's book, but I know tons of adults that read them.  They are impossible to put down and JK is a great author!
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Just one? I can't choose, so here's a few:\n\n"The Mote in God's Eye" by Niven and Pournelle\n"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card\n"The Forge of God" by Greg Bear\n"Dune" by Frank Herbert\n\nAll those books have sequels, but they stand on their own and the sequels are less satisfactory in my opinion.  SF and Fantasy really suffer as genres in my opinion from the churning out of endless sequels whenever a book meets with some success.