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

8. Gone With the Wind(author: Margaret Mitchell) - 33 million copies read

Another book that has been turned into a successful film, it tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant plantation owner in Georgia during the American Civil War. This novel has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and the film adaptation won an Oscar at the Academy Awards.