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1<\/td>\nA Tale of Two Cities<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nThe Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nThe Hobbit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nThe Little Prince<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nHarry Potter and the Philosophers Stone<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAnd Then There Were None<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nDream of the Red Chamber<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nShe: A History of Adventure<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Any book can be popular. Any book can have best seller written on the cover with a font bigger than its actual title. Any book can be in the bags of half of the citizens from your town.<\/p>\n

But there are only 8 books in the entire world \u2013 in single volume format because we are not counting dictionaries \u2013 which managed to grab people\u2019s attention and conquer their hearts till they were sold in more than 100 copies.<\/p>\n

It might sound crazy but indeed, there are (only) 8 volumes so good whose uniqueness got them this far. These tomes demonstrate how fiction can embrace reality, how can true aspects about this world can easily be put in a imaginative and original story with a pretty cover.<\/p>\n

Timeless<\/h2>\n

You know one amazing aspect about the best sold books of all times? They really put an emphasis on time, because they come from different time periods.<\/p>\n

We are talking about books written in the contemporary age but also hundreds of years ago, when ladies wore puffy gowns or traditional clothing now seen only in grandmothers\u2019 coffers, and gentlemen were all stiff and a little too obsessed with honour; books whose action is set in the contemporary era and mention computers, consoles and typical nowadays problems.<\/p>\n

Then there are those tomes set in the future or a dystopian world in which the past and the present intertwine and give you something new, something taken from the purest imagination to drag the reader into something new, away from the daily stress and worries, to drag him into a world full of drama, adventures and supernatural<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Out of Ordinary<\/h2>\n

A good book \u2013 like those which we are about to present to you \u2013 introduce something out of the ordinary. The writers usually succeed in inserting supernatural elements in what seemed to be a mirrored image of reality. They take a boy and give him powers, a wand, a ring, a box or a planet and they build magical worlds around him. They send away the boy from his regular life to a new place where adventures await him.<\/p>\n

\"imagineThe boy finds himself in a castle with dragons, witches and ghosts, on a new larger planet, in a new country where he is somewhere between new types of people \u2013 he is above the simple men, but beneath the gods, he has culture unlike the others, but he has no concept of magic and eternal life. And exactly when he seems to be doing better, that he adapted and something good awaits him, plot twists happen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The evil surfaces, the ordinary and supernatural clash and not in a good way, something ruins all his evolution. This 360 degrees change can only end in two ways and it is up to each author to decide which one is better in order to please both the fans and himself.<\/p>\n

So… are you ready to discover which are the 8 most amazing books in this entire world which sold more than you will ever make in your entire life? Read our list and discover if any of them are to be soon added to your collection. You might also consider writing yourself the next best seller and in a couple of years, you will be added to this list.<\/p>\n

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8. \u201cShe: A History of Adventure\u201d \u2013 H. Rider Heggard<\/h2>\n

\"She:<\/p>\n

A book which broke the records right from the very first beginning and published as a series in 1887, \u201cShe: A History of Adventure\u201d is a mix of genres \u2013 fantasy, romance<\/a>, adventure and gothic. Centred on the Cambridge professor Horace Holly, the young man is asked by his dying colleague to take her of his son and gives him a box.<\/p>\n

When the boy, Leo, turns 25, they open the box and discover a story which leads them to Africa. But the odds are not in their favour and they are captured by a native people. There they meet their ruler, the white enchantress Ayesha, the \u201cshe\u201d in the title, a woman who has lived for more than 2000 years and who is waiting for her beloved one to return to her. And perhaps he has. Sales: ~100 million copies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten\u201d<\/h2>\n

With such a line, you can already assume that \u201cShe: A History of Adventure\u201d is amazingly written. Also, similar to other works such as \u201cHeart of Darkness<\/a>\u201d, the novel discusses themes such imperialism, race and evolution, all of them portrayed as an analogy to the power of Englishmen over Africans; the idea of the unknown and the complex of superiority were also perfectly depicted as fear.<\/p>\n

The two most important female characters, Ustane and Ayesha, are relatively the typical faithful women from the Victorian literature, but their sex appeal and the status as foreign exotic femmes fatales is something unusual to the 19th<\/sup> century novel readers.<\/p>\n

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7. \u201cDream of the Red Chamber\u201d \u2013 Cao Xuequin<\/h2>\n

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\u201cH\u00f3ng L\u00f3u M\u00e8ng\u201d (1810 \u2013 1873), in English \u201cDream of the Red Chamber\u201d, or \u201cSh\u00edt\u00f3uj\u00ec\u201d, \u201cThe Story of the Stone\u201d is the most recent one of the 4 main masterpieces of the Chinese literature as it announce the failure and collapse of the feudal system and society.<\/p>\n

Describing the aristocratic Jia family of noble ancestry, clan which eventually falls from its high status, \u201cDream of the Red Chamber\u201d has a number of almost 500 characters, the main one being Jia Baoyu, a special adolescent torn between two girls. The frame story is about a stone wanting to see the world with a Taoist priest<\/a> and a Buddhist monk, learning how it is like to be human. Sales: ~100 million copies.<\/p>\n

Autobiography?<\/h2>\n
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“ The writer experienced and lived the events ”<\/p>\n

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Cao Xuequin<\/a> succeeding in writing such detailed masterpiece is actually due not to his talent, but due to the fact that he experienced and lived the events mentioned. The writer himself came from a honourable aristocratic family which eventually lost everything.<\/p>\n

His grandfather was one of the most influential nobleman of his times and a favourite of the emperor, but because of intrigues, the family lost its fortune.<\/p>\n

The characters coming from different families and with various social statuses are the best example of how the Empire\u2019s social order<\/a> was built and what was each person\u2019s role in the family and the community during those times. One must read \u201cH\u00f3ng L\u00f3u M\u00e8ng\u201d many times in order to understand its true value.<\/p>\n

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6. \u201cAnd Then There Were None\u201d \u2013 Agatha Christie<\/h2>\n

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Agatha Christie is worldwide known as one of the best crime novels writers, if not the best. Out of her many novels, the one which is officially the best sold does not feature our beloved detectives \u2013 the charming moustached Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot<\/a> and the loveable always knitting old lady Jane Marple.<\/p>\n

Published in 1939, \u201cAnd Then There Were None\u201d depicts a group of people lured to an island. All came with a purpose, all have a dark past and it is time to pay. The price? Their own lives.<\/p>\n

None of them can escape the island and fate and one by one, they are doomed to die like the ten little men from a famous nursery song. Sales: ~100 million copies.<\/p>\n

Worth it<\/h2>\n
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The people\u2019s love and fascination for \u201cAnd Then There Were None\u201d is so big that and the novel itself is so genuinely smart and intriguing that it had to be adapted under various forms. Agatha<\/a> herself turned the novel into a play version and gave it an ending more suitable for a stage adaptation.<\/p>\n

The films surfaced in different decades from different countries and so did the versions for the small screen which are in a larger number. The radio \u201cAnd Then There Were None\u201d was popular in the 40s and still is in this decade.<\/p>\n

Also, if you are into games, there are both a video and a board game<\/a> following the story. Did we mention the graphic novel? Yes, there is a graphic novel, too. Should we expect a cartoon anytime soon?<\/p>\n

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5. \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u201d \u2013 J. K. Rowling<\/h2>\n

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Of course the first novel of the Harry Potter franchise could not be omitted in any of our articles. The Boy Who Lived was introduced to us for the first time in 1997. \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u201d starts with an orphan being left at his only living relatives.<\/p>\n

Years later, the boy, Harry Potter, is shown living a Cinderella life. Soon, he is told that he is a wizard and is taken to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft<\/a> and Wizardy where he learns more about his abilities, makes friends and also enemies.<\/p>\n

Many people are not happy to see that the legendary Potter child has survived and returned. With him, the wizard world\u2019s worst enemy also attempts to return and of course, it is up to Harry to show he really deserves his renown and protect the Philosopher\u2019s Stone<\/a>. Sales: ~107 million copies.<\/p>\n

Movie Differences<\/h2>\n

For a book with a relative small number of pages compared to the later volumes of the series, \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u201d was shortened for the 2001 movie and some scenes were changed, as well as some characters were left out.<\/p>\n

The famous encounter with Hagrid\u2019s three headed demon dog<\/a> is quite different, in the movie being the famous staircase mix up the one that leads the trio to the secret chamber where the dog was, while in the book the children are find the chamber when hiding from Flinch, because they were fooled to get out of their dorm at night by Malfoy.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Draco, in the book, he and Harry almost became friends due to their often encounters, while in the movie they meet and they instantly do not like each other.<\/p>\n