Best-Selling Books of all Time

3. A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

Copies sold: 200 million

The second oldest book on our countdown was published in 1859 and is a standard requisite on most high school curriculums in the U.S. Charles Dickens takes a closer look at the class struggles that lead to the French Revolution and focuses particularly on the downside of being a revolutionary.

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