Books Statistics

Chad has the lowest adult literacy rate in this ranking at about 22.3 percent, meaning only around one in five adults ca...

The Bible stands far above every other book, with an estimated 5 billion or more copies printed and distributed, several...

The British Library holds the largest collection in the world at about 200 million items, narrowly ahead of the United S...

China leads the world in new book titles at around 470,000 per year, far ahead of the United States at roughly 339,000....

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester tops this ranking at about 66.9 million dollars, the notebook famously bought by Bil...

Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit leads at about 45 million copies, just ahead of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry C...

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece is the best-selling manga ever at roughly 600 million copies, twice the total of the series tie...

William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie top this ranking together, each with an estimated 4 billion copies sold, far ahe...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter dominates all book series at an estimated 600 million copies, 200 million ahead of R.L. Stin...

Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince share the top of this list at ar...

The disparity in translation numbers between the Bible and other literary works is striking. While the Bible's 3,500 tra...

The gap between the top two publishers and the rest is significant, with RELX and Thomson Reuters generating revenues th...

The data reveals a significant lead for Romance Fiction, which outpaces its nearest competitor, Crime & Thriller, by $32...

Agatha Christie's dominance in the translation arena, with 103 languages, illustrates her unparalleled global appeal, pa...

The disparity in translation numbers among these literary works is striking. The Bible's dominance with 3,500 translatio...