Why The 5 Best-Selling Books of All Time Give Me Hope for Humanity
Plus, the books I didn’t include.
If you’re a reader, you understand that when a book takes wings, selling millions of copies, that book often gives us a peek into the collective conscious.
There’s a reason so many people bought and read that book.
It taps into something at the core of our being.
So I was curious to know which books are the best selling of all time. Curious to know if they say something about humanity as a whole.
They do. I see it. I wonder if you will, too.
But first… the books I didn’t include
If you Google best selling books of all time, you’ll find some books I didn’t include on this list. For example? Some sites say Don Quixote is the top selling book of all time. Some sites estimate sales at 500 million.
Know what that’s based on? The fact that it was published in 1612. Surely, since it was the first fiction book published, it must be the best selling, they say. But we don’t know that. There are no documented sales. It’s a guess.
Same with A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. It was published over 150 years ago and no one has any idea how many copies it…
