/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2211443]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

Okay, I can understand The Little Prince and Lord of the Rings selling high, and even Dream of the Red Chamber (popular for China, I guess), but are A Tale of Two Cities and And Then There Were None really good enough to sell more than 100 million copies?

ITT We debate which best-selling books are actually good and which ones just benefit from peer pressure

[Anonymous No.2211475]

> The Da Vinci Code - 80 million
> The Catcher in the Rye - 65 million

[Anonymous No.2211482]

>Lolita
>Name of the Rose
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Gone With The Wind
>War and Peace
>Nineteen Eighty-Four
All sold over 20 million and are at least decent.

[Anonymous No.2211484]

>>2211443
I haven't read either of those op but my sister swears by a tale of two cities and she has good taste so I trust her opinion.

[Anonymous No.2211509]

wow, a list full of shit

[Anonymous No.2211512]

It makes me very happy to see Le Petit Prince at the top of dat list.

Also, is anyone else surprised that the Betty Crocker cookbook outsells the Joy of Cooking?

[Anonymous No.2211566]

Hm I gotta admit that I liked A Tale of Two Cities.
Its a damn good book, in comparishion to all the 'new bestsellers'

[Anonymous No.2211612]

>>2211512

Not at all, every single kitchen belonging to someone over 30 I have ever been in has had a Betty crocker cookbook.

[Anonymous No.2211619]

It's a goddamn shame that most of these authors are dead and probably got jipped out of royalties while they were still living.

Such is the price of being an artist.

[Anonymous No.2211623]

>>2211612
Weird. Must be an American thing. I'm in Canada, and every kitchen I can think of has a Joy of Cooking. I've never seen a Betty Crocker Cookbook in my life.

[Anonymous No.2211922]

bump

[qntn !!p3mpBqBwOeY No.2211943]

A Tale of Two Cities is a great book what are you talking about
easily one of my favorites

sydney carton is one of a kind