Hmm …

… 10 of the Best-Selling Books in History (Minus Religious Texts) | Mental Floss. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

I don’t think Mao’s book should count, since he had, shall we say, a captive audience. The success of The Da Vinci Code is dismaying. But there’s still a sucker born every minute. As for Dickens, in my day at least he was on an awful lot of school reading lists.