| 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! |
| 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! |