Jehovah's Witness Books in Guinness Book of World Records

by TerryWalstrom 10 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  TerryWalstrom

  http://ed5015.tripod.com/JwBooksCirculation.htm

  The Bible (All versions) 1815-1999	3,880,000,000
  Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung 1966-197	800,000,000
  Good News Bible 1976-1995	122,000,000
  The Highway Code (United Kingdom) 1931-1996	117,000,000
  The Truth that Leads to Eternal Life 1969/1981	108,000,000
  New World Translation (In whole or part) 1950s-2000	100,000,000
  American Spelling Book 1783 Noah Webster	100,000,000
  Automobile Association Handbook 1908-1991	98,000,000
  Guinness Book of Records 1955-1999	85,000,000
  The McGuffey Reader 1853-1879 William H McGuffey	60,000,000
  A Message to Garcia 1899 Elbert Hubbard	50,000,000
  Knowledge that Leads to Everlasting Life 1995	46,000,000
  The Living Bible	45,000,000
  Deutsche Bundespost 1993 (Initial print)	42,000,000
  You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth 1982/1989	42,000,000
  World Almanac 1868-1980s	40,000,000
  True Peace and Security 1986	37,000,000
  Your Erroneous Zones 1876 Wayne W Dyer	34,000,000
  In His Steps 1896 Rev. C M Sheldon	30,000,000
  To Kill A Mockingbird 1960 Harper Lee	30,000,000
  Gone With the Wind 1936 Margaret Mitchell	30,000,000
  Valley of the Dolls 1966 Jacqueline Susann	29,000,000
  The Diary of Anne Frank	25,000,000
  The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care 1946 Benjamin Spock	25,000,000
  Let God be True 1946/1952	19,000,000
  The Late Great Planet Earth 1970 H Lindsey	18,000,000
  American Red Cross First Aid Book	16,000,000
  Is the Bible Really the Word of God? 1969	15,000,000
  Roots 1976 A Haley	12,500,000
  From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained 1958	12,000,000
  Sophie’s World 1996 J Gaardner & P Moller	12,000,000
  Life – How Did It Get Here? 1985	11,000,000
  The Bermuda Triangle 1975 Charles Berlitz	10,000,000
  What’s the World Coming To? D E Stanton	10,000,000
  Things In Which It Is Impossible For God To Lie 1965	10,000,000
  Member’s Handbook, Auto. Assoc. 1990-91 (Initial print)	6,000,000
  Worldwide Security Under the Prince of Peace 1986	6,000,000
  Divine Plan of the Ages 1886
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  slimboyfat

  I don't know how accurate this list is. It doesn't mention the New International Version, for example, which I think is the most common Bible after the King James. More common than the Good News Bible which is listed. Plus the list is obviously dated as it shows only 100 million copies of the NWT, whereas the latest figure is over 200 million. No mention of Lord of the Rings or Catcher in the Rye either, which should be near the top of any such list.
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  darkspilver

  That's a weird list, which appears have been posted by an anti-JW website (if you follow the links on the page)

  Wonder why you posted the link here?, which also appears to date from 2001?

  I suspect the list has been made up in order to try to get active JWs to visit it.
  

  Anyway, here's the list from Wikipedia:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
  
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  WhatshallIcallmyself

  Also, it's worth bearing in mind that most of those on that list have been produced due to a real world commercial demand.

  In contrast, the WT crowd simply mass produced their publications and distributed them to all the KHs where they stayed until they could fob them off onto an interested party.
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  Fred Franztone

  The JWs don't appear on any record-breaking list as far as I'm aware
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  TerryWalstrom

  The use of the word "Popular" is aberrant, IMHO.
  Every JW in the world is required to own publications published by headquarters.
  Ah, but those were the good old bad old days when WT was a publisher.
  Now, I'd modify that word. It is more a purveyor.
  
  How may "Popular" books are out of print, discarded, expunged and considered improper the same way JW books become--it must be said--because the contents are embarrassing to those claiming "truth" as the boilerplate of their mission?
  
  This obsolescence is not planned!
  It is intrinsic due to the nature of its origin: imaginary communication to an invisible being.
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  scratchme1010

  It doesn't look like a reliable source of information, nor does it say anything about the Guinness Book of World Records. Also, the Guinness Book of World Records does not have a category for "Most Popular Book". They have a lot of categories that describe different people an ways of publishing and printing books (i.e., "Most published works by one" author and "Thickest book published").
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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I find it funny that, although the blue Truth book was ubiquitous at one time, it’s hard to even find one now. There should be a list of books ‘most copies thrown in the garbage’.
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  ttdtt

  Remember the other lists are books sold, not books given away and later tossed in the garbage, or given for a small donation.
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  NewYork44M

  printing vs circulation is two totally different concepts. The Wt is known to do "channel stuffing."