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All-time best selling authors: how many have you bought?


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I have bought books by these (seriously, no Jane Austen or Charles Dickens???):

 

William Shakespeare
Enid Blyton 
Dean Koontz 
Stephen King
James Patterson (only one book though, and I didn't like it)
Jeffrey Archer 
John Grisham
J. R. R. Tolkien
Paulo Coelho
Roald Dahl
Anne Rice
Lewis Carroll
Ken Follett

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I've contributed to the fortunes of these authors (and/or their estates and publishing companies):

 

Dan Brown

Lewis Carroll

Agatha Christie 

Paulo Coelho

Roald Dahl

Hermann Hesse

Stephen King

C. S. Lewis

Astrid Lindgren

Ann M. Martin

Beatrix Potter

Alexander Pushkin 

J. K. Rowling

William Shakespeare

R. L. Stine 

J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy  

 

I really wish I hadn't helped line the pockets of Paulo Coelho!

 

I didn't include the authors whose books I've bought second-hand (although there were only a few of them).

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I've contributed to the fortunes of these authors (and/or their estates and publishing companies):

 

Paulo Coelho

 

I really wish I hadn't helped line the pockets of Paulo Coelho!

Did you read The Alchemist?

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I have bought books from these authors:

 

Agatha Christie 

Enid Blyton 

Dr. Seuss

Leo Tolstoy   

R. L. Stine 

Dean Koontz 

Stephen King 

Robert Ludlum

C. S. Lewis

Kyotaro Nishimura

Dan Brown

Beatrix Potter

Clive Cussler

Alistair MacLean

Paulo Coelho

Roald Dahl

Anne Rice

Ken Follett

Mary Higgins Clark

Patricia Cornwell

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