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by Anonymous on July 17th, 2005

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What is the best selling fictional book of all time?

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  • by webgrunt on May 26th, 2006

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    I'd suspect that "Journey to the West" is the bestselling work of fiction. It has been very popular in Asia for over five hundred years and is still gaining popularity throughout the world.

    It was written in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty in China, and has remained extremely popular in China ever since. In the last century, it became increasingly popular in many other Asian countries and has even started selling reasonably well in the West.

    There have been a number of movies made from it, several of which are in English including a SciFi Channel's TV adaptation. There's even a stage musical of it, called "Journey to the West: The Musical" -- Currently in development by the creators of Gorillaz, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, which received its world premiere at the New York Musical Theatre Festival on September 25, 2006.

    The book has been translated into just about every language including numerous English translations. It has also made appearances as comics, cartoons, children's books, board games, video games, toy figurines, plays, etc.

    Given the book's 500 years of popularity in the most populated areas of the planet, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume sales of over one billion copies by now, and is still increasing in popularity as more readers in the western hemisphere are becoming more and more aware of it.

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