Hi, and welcome to JA!
The book Alcoholics Anonymous is not in the top ten books of all time. Those books are:
- The Bible, ~5 to 6 billion
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong, 900 million
- The Qur'an, 800 million
- Xinhua Zidian, 400 million
- Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmer, unknown
- Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan, unknown
- Foxe's Book of Martyrs, John Foxe, unknown
- Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, Jr., 120 million
- Harry Potter Book 1, J.K. Rowling, 107 million
- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie, 100 million
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books)
There is a slightly different top ten here (but it also does not include AA): http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/bestsellerFARQ.html
There is another top ten list here (again, it doesn't include AA): http://uk.askmen.com/toys/top_10_60/62_top_10_list.html
Only about 22 million copies of AA have been sold, according to this press release: http://utahvalleyaa.org/index8.html.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you need more information.
Scott
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