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Originally Posted by Catlady;2075247The two inclusions that really surprise me are [I
The Alchemist[/I], which I had no idea was such a phenomenon...
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While it's a phenomenon either way you slice it, there's some conflicting sales numbers out there.
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According to AFP, it has sold more than 65 million copies in more than 160 countries, becoming one of the best-selling books in history. But according to the publisher HarperCollins, at the time of that paperback publication, all of Coelho's many books had sold 65 million copies total; according to the author's web site, twenty-one million copies of The Alchemist have been sold.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)