Can you name the best selling books* that begin with 'The'?

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Author and date published	The Book	Sales (million)
J. R. R. Tolkien 1954-5		150
J. R. R. Tolkien 1937		100+
C. S. Lewis 1950		85
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943		80
Dan Brown 2003		80
Paulo Coelho 1988		65
J. D. Salinger 1951		65
Umberto Eco 1980		50
Beatrix Potter 1902		45
Anne Frank 1947		30
Colleen McCullough 1977		30

Author and date published	The Book	Sales (million)
Stieg Larsson 2005		30
Eric Carle 1969		30
Kenneth Grahame 1908		25
Mario Puzo 1969		21
Douglas Adams 1979		14
Desmond Morris 1968		12
Robert James Waller 1992		12
William Peter Blatty 1971		11
Dr. Seuss 1957		10
Alice Sebold 2002		10
Khaled Hosseini 2003		10

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'The' Books Quiz

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Created Feb 6, 2011 in Literature
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	midnightdj:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 16:36 GMT		1 point
	Surprised that so few remember The Exorcist!

	beatrixkiddo:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 16:40 GMT		-3 points
	couldn't work out the correct formatting of the anne frank answer. nice quiz. bet jk rowling would be on this list if she hadn't started every book with 'harry potter & the ......'

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	MatCiccarella:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 17:01 GMT		41 points
	@bournelove: Just so YOU know, you're wrong.

	Austerlitz:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 17:07 GMT		16 points
	What about "The Bible"? ;)

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	loopDloop:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 17:21 GMT		5 points
	Can't believe I forgot "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," read it so many times as a kid. Good job :)

	jawa88:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 17:37 GMT		24 points
	I love that you don't have to type the word this quiz is based upon. If that makes any sense =)

	moviegoer74:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 17:44 GMT		11 points
	I always type The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar on these things and I always miss it. I think I'm confusing it with Hungry Hungry Hippos. Also, until this quiz I always thought the title of the book was The Thornbirds, one word. I thought Thornbird was the last name of the main family in the book. (Obviously I have never read it or seen the miniseries).

	Riko:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 18:17 GMT		0 points
	@bournelove: http://americanthings.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/catcher-by-manhattanrarebooks-literaturedotcom.jpg

	poppysmom:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 18:23 GMT		5 points
	Hmmmm...I find it listed as THE Catcher in the Rye!!!

	basilutter:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 18:46 GMT		10 points
	It's good that both are counted, but I'm pretty sure the title is "The Diary of a Young Girl".

	hamstrung:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 18:47 GMT		12 points
	For the sake of posterity, Bob Uecker's autobiography was entitled "Catcher in the Wry", should it ever come up.

	caramba:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 19:05 GMT		7 points
	I can't believe the Seuss book is so low. I thought everybody (at least in the US/Canada) had that one!

	orbit:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 19:26 GMT		0 points
	Is there a source for this quiz?

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	_DB:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 20:01 GMT		-2 points
	why is the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe listed by itself while the lord of the rings trilogy is all rolled into a single answer?

	juviejay:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 20:22 GMT		2 points
	Got Desmond Morris. Knew all that reading of Elaine Morgan would one day pay off.

	Bobzco:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 20:47 GMT		8 points
	I saw Beatrix Potter and immediately thought of Bellatrix Lestrange. Maybe I'm reading the Harry Potter series a little too much.

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	eab21:	Feb 20th, 2011 at 23:20 GMT		5 points
	@bournelove: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

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	Iscah:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 00:26 GMT		3 points
	It's such a shame that the Waller book was so awful. The film was really very good. An unusual occurence!

	eab21:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 00:52 GMT		1 point
	Can someone explain why was I voted down for my previous comment?

	moviegoer74:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 01:13 GMT		4 points
	@eab21...because 3 other people (MatCiccarella, Riko and poppysmom) already pointed out bournelove's wrongness. No need for you to clutter up the comments section by being the 4th.

	tulliuscicero:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 01:22 GMT		15 points
	@hercules3076: Because Lord of the Rings is actually one book divided up into three volumes for publishing purposes.

	NightOwl:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 01:25 GMT		9 points
	@ser101: Four of the twenty-two books, or 18%, were written in the last decade. Most of the really old ones are children's classics which just about everyone has read. What's your gripe?

	briskt:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 01:51 GMT		5 points
	Ironically, you do not have to type the word "the" at all to do this quiz.

	MilanaWSoleil:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 02:00 GMT		2 points
	i forgot the cat in the hat.... fail.

	kingstony:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 03:57 GMT		1 point
	Can't believe that 'The diary of Anne Frank' has sold only 30 million copies.

	Athena13:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 10:08 GMT		6 points
	Regardless of the fact that Tolkien intended The Lord of the Rings to be one volume, I thought it was a little misleading to put them as one book, given the fact that they were in fact published as three. I ended up trying all three, as well as The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, and a bunch of other books from The History of Middle Earth series before deciding to see if LOTR would work as a whole. The fact that I can name so many Tolkien books also served as a reminder of just how geeky I really am.

	BobMillahhh:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 11:04 GMT		1 point
	Where is "The Silmarillion"? Downvote me... make my day.

	JamesSnell:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 11:44 GMT		3 points
	brilliant quiz Flick, just one question, what sources could I use if I wanted to make a similar best-selling books quiz?

	BlueSomehow:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 16:06 GMT		7 points
	Darn you, Peter Rabbit, for only having one tale rather than adventures!

	mkushar:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 19:15 GMT		0 points
	Cat in the hat, o that takes me back

	wilsonhubbell:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 02:55 GMT		7 points
	One of my favorite things to do on Sporcle is type "lionwitchwardrobe."

	Chocolatl:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 03:49 GMT		7 points
	Athena13--there is nothing misleading about calling the single novel LOTR a single novel. In fact, there are several editions that are in a single volume, including a 1960s Canadian edition. Someone who truly knows Tolkien's works would know that.