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This graphic is a word cloud made up from a list of the top 80 best-selling fiction authors & their genres of all time. Here are a few, including estimates of the number of volumes sold and the number of books they authored:
- #1 William Shakespeare: 2-4 billion (plays & poetry)
- #2 Agatha Christie: 2-4 billion (whodunits; 85 books)
- #3 Barbara Cartland: 500,000-1 billion (romance; 723 books)
- #4 Danielle Steel: 500-800 million (romance; 120 books)
- #5 Harold Robbins: 750 million (adventure; 23 books)
- #6 Georges Simenon: 500-700 million (detective; 570 books)
- #7 Sidney Sheldon: 370-600 million (suspense; 21 books)
- #8 Enid Blyton: 300-600 million (children’s literature; 800 books)
- #9 Dr. Seuss: 100-500 million (children’s literature; 44 books)
- #10 Gilbert Patten: 125-500 million (adolescent adventure; 209 books)
- #11 J. K. Rowling: 350-450 million (adolescent fantasy; 9 books)
- #12 Leo Tolstoy: 400-413 million (Russian novels; 48 books)
- #13 Jackie Collins: 250-400 million (romance; 25 books)
- Others on the list include Horatio Alger, R. L. Stine, Dean Koontz, Alexander Pushkin, Stephen King, Louis L’Amour, Janet Dailey, Nora Roberts, Edgar Wallace, Robert Ludlum, Stan & Jan Berenstain, John Grisham, Zane Gray, JrR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Charles Dickens, Ann Martin, Beatrix Potter, Richard Scarry, Michael Crichton, James Patterson, Astrid Lindgren, and more.
- Click here to read one of the top-seller lists: Enjoy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_authors