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Can you name the Best Selling Authors of All Time?
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sjunkins
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List of Best Selling Fiction Authors
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Best Known For
1
Romeo and Juliet
2
Murder on the Orient Express
3
A Hazard of Hearts
4
The Carpetbaggers
5
Tropic Moon
6
The Land of Far Beyond
7
Kaleidoscope
8
The Cat in the Hat
9
'Frank Merriwell' dime novels
10
War and Peace
11
'Harry Potter' series
12
Hollywood Wives
13
Ragged Dick
14
'Goosebumps' series
15
Luna Oculta
16
The Other Side of Midnight
17
The Bronze Horseman
18
It
19
'Hopalong Cassidy' series
20
The Servants of Twilight
21
The Case of the Velvet Claws
22
The Book and the Sword
23
Ghost Train
24
Touch the Wind
25
Carolina Moon
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Author
Best Known For
26
The Four Just Men
27
The Bourne Identity
28
'San Antonio' series
29
'Berenstain Bears' series
30
The Pelican Brief
31
Riders of the Purple Sage
32
The Chapman Report
33
The Hobbit
34
Winnetou
35
'Mike Hammer' series
36
The Chronicles of Narnia
37
The Terminal Murder Case
38
A Tale of Two Cities
39
'The Babysitters Club' series
40
Airport
41
'SAS' (Special Air Services) series
42
The Tale of Petter Rabbit
43
Jurassic Park
44
Best Word Book Ever
45
Along Came A Spider
46
Raise the Titanic!
47
The Guns of Navarone
48
'Pippi Longstocking' series
49
Kane and Abel
50
The Da Vinci Code
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50 Best Selling Authors Quiz
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SaraTheBrave
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Jan 10th, 2010 at 15:20 GMT
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Cool! Never been the first one to take a quiz before!
TheNoodler
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Jan 11th, 2010 at 16:03 GMT
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Interesting quiz, some very surprising results.
ladyj1131
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Jan 14th, 2010 at 02:04 GMT
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I don't know if I should be sad that I didn't know most of these or happy that I couldn't identify Louis L'Amour and Nora Roberts....
bulldog81
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Jan 17th, 2010 at 20:06 GMT
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great quiz - fyi alistair maclean, not mclean
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