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Limits Registry'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung,' commonly known as the Little Red Book, is estimated to have had somewhere between 800 million and over 1 billion copies printed and distributed in China from 1964 onward, making it, by most estimates, the best-selling secular book of all time (excluding religious texts such as the Bible and Quran, whose collective print histories are even harder to total precisely).
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'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung,' commonly known as the Little Red Book, is estimated to have had somewhere between 800 million and over 1 billion copies printed and distributed in China from 1964 onward, making it, by most estimates, the best-selling secular book of all time (excluding religious texts such as the Bible and Quran, whose collective print histories are even harder to total precisely).
The greatest estimated total number of copies ever printed and distributed of a single non-religious book.
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Limits Registry. LR-BEST-SELLING-SECULAR-BOOK. Best-selling secular (non-religious) book of all time. 2026.