There are a total of 1,605 Books that have been compiled and organized in this comprehensive list. The selection includes influential, award-winning, bestselling, regional, and genre-defining titles chosen from library catalogs, publisher lists, and bibliographic databases.
Books are physical or digital collections of written, printed, or illustrated content bound as a single work. They cover fiction, non-fiction, reference, academic, and visual formats across many lengths and styles. Books offer information, entertainment, education, and cultural memory. They support learning, research, storytelling, and the preservation of ideas across communities and disciplines.
Interesting and little-known facts about Books:
– The Library of Congress holds more than 17,000,000 books and printed materials, making it one of the largest collections in the world.
– The oldest known dated printed book is the Diamond Sutra from 868 CE, recovered from a Chinese cave library.
– About 2,200,000 new titles are published worldwide each year, spanning thousands of languages and formats.
– Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time totals about 1,200,000 words, placing it among the longest novels ever written.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince appears in over 300 translations, making it one of the most translated secular books.
The alphabetical index groups titles by their starting letter and links to dedicated lists for each letter. Each entry lists Title, Author, First publication year (first edition when available), Primary genre, Notable awards or recognition, and ISBN or standard identifiers.