Bestselling books	

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This is a collection of writings by different people. Some tell the history of ancient Israel; some are poems about God; others were used to make laws. They were written over a period of about 1200 years. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is sacred to Jews, and the second part to Christians, although Christians also accept the first part.	2
The book is a collection of quotations from a famous Chinese leader. The English title describes the colour of the cover. One reason for its popularity is that every Chinese citizen was expected to own, read, and carry the book at all times towards the end of this leader's rule.	
3
The book is believed by Muslims to be ‘The 
Word of Allah (God)’. It is different from other religious texts because Muslims claim that it was written directly by God, through the prophet Muhammad. It has been written and read only in Arabic for more than 1,400 years. 	4
This is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was written in 1859 and set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The main characters include Charles Darnay, a member of the French upper class who is sympathetic to the ordinary people, and Sydney Carton, a heavy-drinking British lawyer.	
5
This is an epic fantasy novel written by Oxford 
University professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The title 
refers to the story's villain, the Dark Lord Sauron, who created the Ring as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer and rule all of Middle-Earth. 	6
This is a mystery-detective novel written by American author Dan Brown. The main characters are Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu. They investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between two religious orders over the possibility that Jesus Christ had been married to Mary Magdalene and was the father of her child.	
7
This is the seventh and final book of a series
that tells the adventures of a young wizard and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. They are all pupils at a school of witchcraft and wizardry. The central story concerns the hero's struggle against the evil wizard, Lord Voldemort, who killed his parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world. 	8
This book, first published in 1936, is a romantic novel. The story is set during the American Civil War and follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant plantation owner. Scarlett is a character who is always trying to fit into society, and this leads her to marry for money after the death of her first husband.
	
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Published in 1998, this is a motivational book by Spencer Johnson. It is written in the style of a parable or business fable and features four characters: two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people, Hem and Haw. They live in a maze, which is supposed to represent the environment we live in. They look for cheese, which represents happiness and success.
	10
This is a series of spy novels about a fictional British Secret Service agent who lives in London. 
He has a code number beginning with the digits '00', which means he has a licence to kill in the performance of his duties. He is famous for his womanizing, stylish dress  sense, and ordering his favourite drink, a vodka martini, ‘shaken, not stirred’. 	

Answers	

1	The Bible		
2	The Little Red Book	Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao)	
3	The Qur'an (The Koran)		
4	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	
5	The Lord of the Rings	J R R Tolkien	
6	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	
7	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J K Rowling	
8	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	
9	Who Moved my Cheese?	Spencer Johnson	
10	The James Bond novels (series)	Ian Fleming