He has sold more than 200 million books since 1992 and in the 12 months to 1 June 2010 alone earned $70 million (£46.5 million).įastest selling book of fiction in 24 hours In terms of book sales and earnings, James Patterson (USA) is the most successful author of adult fiction. The most books signed by one author in a single session is 4,649 by Sammy Lee (Hong Kong) who signed "Autopilot Leadership Model " by Sammy Lee in Shenyang, Liaoning, China on 19 January 2013. Pepys, who commissioned the bookcase, had asked his joiner to build him a set of free-standing bookcases with protective glass doors while instructing his bookbinder to gild the spines of his books ".to make them handsome". The first free-standing bookcases were built for the noted diarist Samuel Pepys (UK) in 1666, and one is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. It was published in August 1964 by Pantheon Books. ), of Washington, DC, USA, who wroteHow the World Began in 1962, aged 4. The youngest commercially published female author is Dorothy Straight (b. Youngest person to write a published book
To celebrate, here below we list ten of the best book-related world records. Today marks World Book Day, an annual event designed to encourage parents to read to their children.Īs well as hundreds of reading events taking place around the world, many schools have also been marking the event by encouraging pupils to dress up as their favourite characters from literature, with Harry Potter and the Gruffalo being among the most popular costumes.
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