The Best Sellers of 1896
Description
This page provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language. "Best-selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. According to Guinness World Records, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 to 7 billion copies sold and distributed as of 2021.
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Books in this Series
A Lady of Quality
High-spirited Vivian Reddington dreads the upcoming London season, until she meets the mysterious Lord Winter. Vivian thinks he's perfect - for the romantic hero of her secret novel. But as she gets to know him, she finds herself swept into a world of smugglers, spies and intrigue.
A House-Boat on the Styx
The souls of the dead must cross the Styx, to pass into a Hades-like afterworld. In the first of the twelve stories compiled in A House-Boat on the Styx, the man who ferries the souls across sees a houseboat floating downriver and fears for his livelihood. He is appointed janitor on the boat, where the remaining stories take place between characters from history and mythology.