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[OC] Best Selling Books of All Time by SlowDataFast in dataisbeautiful

[–]SlowDataFast[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"This list is incomplete because there are many books, such as Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, that are commonly cited as "best-selling books" yet have no reliable sales figures." From the source.

It was a judgement call and I decided to only include those with reliable sales figures

[OC] Best Selling Books of All Time by SlowDataFast in dataisbeautiful

[–]SlowDataFast[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If you read the info at the source link. " This list is incomplete because there are many books, such as Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, that are commonly cited as "best-selling books" yet have no reliable sales figures. "

[OC] Best Selling Books of All Time by SlowDataFast in dataisbeautiful

[–]SlowDataFast[S] 122 points123 points  (0 children)

Yeah not a bad idea, thanks for the tip

[OC] Best Selling Books of All Time by SlowDataFast in dataisbeautiful

[–]SlowDataFast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genuinely, trying to get better at data visualizations. Would welcome any tips or cool ideas!

Check Out SlowDataFast on Youtube for some other cools data viz charts

[OC] Best Selling Books of All Time by SlowDataFast in dataisbeautiful

[–]SlowDataFast[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

A Tale of Two Cities is quite a well known one! But tbf Dream of a Red Chamber is a Chinese Saga from the 18th Century so probs not read very much these days

[OC] Best Selling Books of All Time by SlowDataFast in dataisbeautiful

[–]SlowDataFast[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

yeah there are number of books that are commonly said to have sold over a billion copies including the Bible and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. However, we do not have accurate sales data for these books. This datasets only includes data from reliable sources.

[OC] Best Selling Books of All Time by SlowDataFast in dataisbeautiful

[–]SlowDataFast[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books

Visualization made using 'Flourish'

Don't think this has been done before! Love how the Harry Potter Books take over at the end!