The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020

According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.

Here’s the full, ranked list:

• “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee.
• “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.
• “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank.
• “1984” by George Orwell.
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling.
• “The Lord of the Rings” (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien.
• “The Great Gatsby” by F.

1. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett.
2. Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart.
3. The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel.
4. A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet.
5. Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar.
6. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg.
7. A Burning, Megha Majumdar.
8. Deacon King Kong, James McBride.

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• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
• Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu.
• Ulysses by James Joyce.
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

10 books to read in your lifetime

• 1 of 10. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
• 2 of 10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
• 3 of 10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
• 4 of 10. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
• 5 of 10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• 6 of 10. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
• 7 of 10. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• 8 of 10.

The Most Life-Changing Books

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
• Mindset by Carol Dweck.
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
• The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod.
• Start With Why by Simon Sinek.

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Agatha Christie book is the world’s thickest. A book with a collection of all of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the thickest book published. More than a foot thick, the 4,032-pages book weighs 8.04kg, and has 12 novels and 20 short stories.

For reference that is over 100,000 more words than the King James Bible and, if published, It would be the 5th longest novel (by word count) in the English language.

Homestuck cosplayers have a reputation for being insensitive, rude, elitist and sometimes unintelligent. Many cosplayers take the role of being “in-character” too seriously, or they over-exaggerate it. The characters in Homestuck, especially the trolls, can be quite rude.

The Subspace Emissary’s Worlds Conquest is a fanfic loosely based on Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and it’s over 3,500,000 words long. That’s longer than In Search of Lost Time, a seven-volume and 1,267,069 word long novel that’s considered by some to be the longest ever published.

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, this 45-letter word for a disease is the longest English word that is defined in a major dictionary. It’s a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.

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1. 10 Longest Words in the English Language.
2. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
3. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)
4. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)
5. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters)
6. Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters)
7. Antiestablishmentarian (22 letters)

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Fear of Friday the 13th is suffered by approximately 17-21 million Americans, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, N.C. The phobia is referred to as friggatriskaidekaphobia, a 99-year-old word made up of a combination of the Norse and Greek roots words for ‘Friday’ (Paraskeví), ‘ …

1. Kakorrhaphiophobia. Pronunciation: kak·or·rhaph·io·pho·bia.
2. Tintinnabulation. Pronunciation: tin·tin·nab·u·la·tion.
3. Rhinotillexomania. Pronunciation: rhi-no-til-ek-so-ma-ne-a.
4. Pluviophile. Pronunciation: plu-vi-o-file.
5. Apodyopsis. Pronunciation: apo-dI-opsis.
6. Dentiloquent. Pronunciation: denti-lo-quent.
7. Nyctophilia.

The word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in Mary Poppins is said to be simply a word used as “something to say when you have nothing to say,” but the mouthful of nonsensical syllables certainly has brought cheer to audiences for decades.