Question: What was the birth year of the author of the best-selling book The Tale of Peter Rabbit ?

text: List of best-selling books
List of best-selling individual books -- Between 30 million and 50 million copies

This page provides lists of best-selling individual books and book series to date and in any language. Best selling refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. This list is incomplete because there are many books, such as The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, that are commonly cited as best-selling books yet have no reliable sales figures. Similarly, many notable book series that sold very widely are poorly documented (Land of Oz) or consist of multiple sub-series (Tom Swift). 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. The Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures - with estimates ranging from 800 million to over 6.5 billion printed volumes, with some claiming the distribution ran into the billions and some citing over a billion official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations. Exact print figures for these and other books may also be missing or unreliable since these kinds of books may be produced by many different and unrelated publishers, in some cases over many centuries. All books of a religious, ideological, philosophical or political nature have thus been excluded from the below lists of best-selling books for these reasons. Having sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
Book Author ( s ) Original language First published Approximate sales
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter English 1902 45 million
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach English 1970 44 million
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle English 1969 43 million
Cosmos Carl Sagan English 1980 40 million < https : //www.nationalgeographicpartners.com/press/2020/1/cosmos -- possible-worlds/ >
A Message to Garcia Elbert Hubbard English 1899 40 million
Sophie 's World ( Sofies verden ) Jostein Gaarder Norwegian 1991 40 million
Flowers in the Attic V. C. Andrews English 1979 40 million
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee English 1960 40 million
Angels & Demons Dan Brown English 2000 39 million
Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer English 1979 37 million
How the Steel Was Tempered ( Как закалялась сталь ) Nikolai Ostrovsky Russian 1932 36.4 million copies in USSR
War and Peace ( Война и мир ) Leo Tolstoy Russian 1869 36.0 million copies in USSR
The Diary of Anne Frank ( Het Achterhuis ) Anne Frank Dutch 1947 35 million
Your Erroneous Zones Wayne Dyer English 1976 35 million
The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren English 2002 33 million
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough English 1977 33 million
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini English 2003 31.5 million
Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann English 1966 31 million
The Lost Symbol Dan Brown English 2009 30 million
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell English 1936 30 million