Top 10 Most Read Books In the World (For the Past 50 Years) Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (author: Mao Tse-tung) - 820 million copies read Also called Mao Tse-tung's "Little Red Book." This book explained the Chinese Communist Party ideology to the Chinese. Previous Next Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Most Read Books In the World 2015-09-28 ash