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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
With all due respect, I seriously doubt that The Divine Comedy, The Odyssey, A Tale of Two Cities, or Don Quixote, despite their literary merits, would make the list of most frequently read books.
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Actually, if you look at the Wikipedia link posted above, "A Tale of Two Cities" is right at the top of the list, with sales estimated at 200 million copies, compared to LOTR's paltry 150 million! Of course, it's had a century of so more time to sell than LOTR has.