If people are buying a book, it must be good, right? Or when it comes to modern ones, they could just have a good marketing campaign, in which case we should reward those who came up with it anyway. Let's have a look on top ten books that made a killing and sort them based on the number of sold copies:
人們買書，總是買好的書，對吧？也許會買些僅僅是營銷做得好的書，那就當是給想出這主意的人的酬謝吧。下面列出了10本最成功的書，以銷量排序。

1. The Lord of the Rings, Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
《指環(huán)王》，作者：約翰.羅納爾多.魯埃爾. 托爾金

# of sold copies: 150 million
售出：1.5億本

First edition: 1954
第一版： 1954

Although this series has become even more famous after being filmed, it's fair to say that the tale of Middle Earth is an ingenious work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. It reaches deep inside of us and plays on our imagination, wishes and inspiration.
盡管魔戒系列在拍成電影后更加有名了，不得不說這個中土傳說是托爾金的天才之作。它觸及了我們的內心深處，激發(fā)了我們的想象，愿望和靈感。

The story of one little hobbit named Frodo Baggins succeeding where immortal elves or noble kings have failed gives us a very truthful message that literally nothing is impossible. Tolkien did a wonderful job in creating a living world and it will take a long time before his legacy is forgotten - if it will ever come to that.
這個故事講述了一個叫弗羅多巴金斯的霍比特小矮人做到了精靈或者國王都沒能做到的事，給我們的啟示就是，沒有什么是不可能的。托爾金創(chuàng)建的這個精彩的中土世界，人們即使過了很長時間都不會忘了它 - 如果有一天真的會忘的話。

2. Dream of the Red Chamber, Author: Cao Xueqin
《紅樓夢》，作者：曹雪芹

# of sold copies: 100 million
售出：1億本

First edition: 1759
第一版：1759

Let's not forget that China is indeed a big country and consequently, so being successful on the Chinese market has its charms. Although I personally never heard about this book in particular before, the numbers do not lie and over one hundred million sold copies seized the second place in our list.
別忘了中國是個大國，《紅樓夢》在中國市場上如此的成功自有它的魅力。盡管我個人之前從沒聽說過這本書，數(shù)字是不會騙人的，1億多本的銷量使它排在第二的位置。

Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the Four Great Classical Novels, as they call them in China. It depicts traditional Chinese cuisine, mythology, proverbs etc. It is based on the author's own experience with the Chinese aristocracy in the 18th century.
紅樓夢是中國四大名著之一， 它描述了中國傳統(tǒng)的飲食，神話，格言等等。是18世紀作者根據(jù)自己在貴族社會的經(jīng)歷而寫成的。

3. And Then There Were None，Author: Agatha Christie
《無人生還》，作者：阿加莎 克里斯蒂

# of sold copies: 100 million
售出：1億本

First edition: 1939
第一版：1939

It's hardly a surprise that Agatha Christie as one of the best authors of detective novels out there made it to our top ten books list. She is well known for her excellent plots and surprising endings. She created a bit of a fuss by originally calling this book "Ten Little Niggers" - the name was changed to the current And Then There Were None so that it is not offensive towards Afro-Americans.
作為最好的偵探小說家之一的阿加莎克里斯蒂，她的書在我們前十的名單中并不意外。她的書以優(yōu)秀的情節(jié)和意外的結局而聞名。 該書最初的名字叫《十個小黑人》，這給她帶來了些麻煩。- 后來書名改成了《無人生還》,這樣就不會有冒犯非裔美國人之嫌了。（譯者注：Niggers在美國黑人中是個非常忌諱的詞）

And what's going on in this book? Simply put, ten people of different social classes are invited to an island where they are accused of murders and they start dying, one by one - but you'll have to read it yourself, we all know it's a bad idea to talk about plots too much when it comes to detective stories.
這本書到底講了什么？簡單的說，就是10個來自不同階層的人被邀請到一個島上，在那里，他們被指控謀殺，開始一個一個的死去 - 你得自己去看，討論過多的情節(jié)對偵探小說來說可不是個好主意，你懂得。