Top 10 Most Read Books In the World (For the Past 50 Years)

5. The Alchemist (author: Paulo Coelho) - 65 million copies read

 A novel originally written in Portuguese, it has been translated as of September 2012 into 56 languages. Paulo Coelho, the book's author even tweeted about his book being the top 5 on the list of the top 10 most read books in the world for the past 50 years.