Brilliant Bits for Bibliophiles Vol #1

As Manager of the Book Nook at Hazel's, I'm an unabashed book nerd, so I love to read book trivia. This for those who enjoy the same!

1

With 1.3 million words spread across 13 volumes, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is the longest book. Sorry, War & Peace!

2 As of 2010, there were over 129 million books in existenc

3 The most expensive book ever purchased was Codex Leicester by Leonardo Da Vinci and it sold for $30.8 million to Bill Gates.

4

The Harry Potter books are allegedly the most banned books in America due to religious complaints.

5

The most expensive printed book in the world is the 1640 Bay Psalm book from America. It sold in November 2013 for USD 14.2 million. 6 "Bibliosmia" is the condition for loving the smell of old books.

7 The longest sentence ever printed is 823 words, found in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables.

8 Author’s names were not usually printed on the covers of their books! The covers of the first printed books were considered artwork, so there wasn’t a place for the author’s name.

9 The first book ever written using a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 10 The three most read books in the world are The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, and Harry Potter. For a list of the Top 10, view the pic below!