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Book trivia Read the following book-related world records and complete the spaces with the words in the box. 14 1 The world’s is Agatha Christie, whose 78 crime novels have sold over 2 billion copies in 44 languages. Royalties from her books are estimated to be $3.7 million per year. 2 According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2010, Harry Potter author JK Rowling was worth £519 million in 2010, making her Britain’s 12th . 3 The in the world is the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at 105 Fifth Avenue, New York City, USA. It covers 14,330 sq m and has 20.7 km of shelving. 4 The world’s is “A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu” by the French writer Marcel Proust. It contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters (each letter and space counts as a character). 5 Excluding the Bible and the Koran, the world’s is “Guinness World Records”. Since it was first published in 1955, global sales in some 37 languages have reached 96 million (to August 2003). 6 The ever printed measures 0.95 x 0.95 mm. “The Twelve Horary Signs – Chinese Zodiac” is a 16-page book containing pictograms representing the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac. 7 The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA is the world’s . It contains 32 million books and has 850 km of shelving. 8 The record for the on the head was set by John Evans in 1998 in Sheffield, UK. He balanced 62 identical books. They had a total height of 185.4 cm and weighed 98.4 kg. 9 The world’s is an original copy of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”. It sold for a record £4,621,500 ($7,394,400) at Christies, London, in July 1998. The book was the first major work printed in England by William Caxton in 1477. longest book biggest library smallest book richest woman bestselling book bestselling fiction writer most valuable book largest bookstore most books balanced 62 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv