Prominent Book Records



Prominent Book Records

Record Name of the book Notes
Best Selling Book of Non-Fiction The Bible Though the number is disputed, over 5 billion copies of The Bible have been printed till date.
Best Selling Book of Fiction A Tale of Two Cities Over 200 million copies have been sold till date!
Best Selling Copyright Book Guinness World Records Sold over 100 million copies in 37 languages, since it was first published in October, 1955.
Largest Book (Non-Published) The Prophet Muhammad It measures 5 m x 8.06 m, weighs approximately 1,500 kg and consists of 429 pages.
Largest Published Book The Little Prince It measured 2.01 m high and 3.0 m wide when open, and contains 128 pages
Longest Novel A la recherché du temps perdu Author- Marcel Proust It contains an estimated 96,09,000 characters!
Most Expensive Book Sold At Auction Birds of America Author - John James Audubon It was sold for £7.3 million in December, 2010!

Record Name of the book Notes
Most Translated Author for the Same Book The Way To Happiness. Author — L. Ron Hubbard Translated in 70 languages
Oldest Mechanically Printed Book Gutenberg Bible Printed in Germany around 1,455
Smallest Printed Book Flowers of the Four Season Contains only 22 pages and only 250 copies of this book were printed.
Thickest Book Published The Complete Miss Marple Publisher— HarperCollins It is a collection of all Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories—12 novels and 20 short stories. It measures 322 mm (12.67 inches) and contains 4,032 pages.
Youngest Person to Write a Published Book Adauto Kovalski da Silva (Brazil) Name of the book—Aprender e Facil His age when the book was published—5 years and 302 days!