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With over 742 selections, from 100 different ceos and entrepreneurs, the highest total was eight. These top selling books of all time span multiple centuries, covering many genres like horror and romance, writers, and original languages. As more people seek education, the demand for knowledge increases and authors are striving to fulfill the demand. The alchemist is the magical story of santiago, an andalusian shepherd boy who wants to travel in search of an extravagant treasure.
For the record, the excluded books have sold an estimated hundreds of millions of copies each several billion, in the bibles case and would have taken most of the top positions on the list. She is an american romance novelist and has written 120 romance novels. Best business books of all time as voted by 100 famous. So in order to decrease the confusion we have narrowed the choice by considering only top 10 all time most popular and best selling books under fiction and nonfiction categories. As comic book sales data from 1938 to the 1980s was a little harder to come by, when we say of all time we really mean the. The 50 best marketing books of all time best marketing. A book edited by peter boxall, and written by over 100 hundred international critics. Comic books have been a staple for decades, allowing young kids to fantasize about an alternate universe where they can play the crimefighting, worldsaving hero. The best books of the year so far, according to amazon.
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