00:00Believe it or not, books were the dominant form of entertainment for several centuries before movies, TV, and video games came along and stole the show.
00:07Here are the top five best-selling novels of all time.
00:10Agatha Christie is unquestionably a legend of the mystery genre.
00:14She's listed as the best-selling author of all time, according to Guinness World Records.
00:18Her top-selling book is also her masterpiece, And Then There Were None, which has sold 100 million copies in its 78 years since publication.
00:26J.K. Rowling's magical coming-of-age tale Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the most recent release on our list.
00:33It almost single-handedly revived the literary industry in 1997, selling close to 107 million copies worldwide.
00:41Written by a French aristocrat in 1943, The Little Prince is the third most translated book in history, printed in over 250 languages and dialects.
00:50Numbers vary on the sales of the allegorical children's tale, ranging from 80 million to 140 million copies sold.
00:57In 1859, Charles Dickens critiqued English society with a story of the lead-up to the French Revolution.
01:03The result is the internationally renowned A Tale of Two Cities, which has sold an estimated 200 million copies over its 158-year lifespan.
01:12Published in 1612, Don Quixote is one of the first novels ever published.
01:18The book is widely acknowledged as possibly the most influential work for this reason.
01:22The collection of Misadventures of a Wannabe Knight has likely sold upwards of 500 million copies,
01:28giving it bragging rights as one of the foundational texts of Western civilization.
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