Any serious comic book collector be able to tell you that the world’s most
pricey comic book is DC’s Action Comics #1 (1938). Written by Jerry Siegel
and illustrated by Joe Shuster, this book contained our first 12-page quick look
of the iconic superhero– Superman. One can wonder why this comic would outsell,
say, the first look of Spider-Man, particularly considering the recent success
of the Spider-Man movie franchise and the box office flop that marked Superman’s
return to Hollywood. The answer lies not in the actuality that Action Comics #1
has the first appearance of Superman; however that it contains the first appearance
of the superhero.

All of the stereotypical devices of of the superhero type are combined for the
first time in this matter; secret identities, superpowers, pseudo-scientific
origins and, yes, even tights. Superman was the amalgamation of Greek myth with
Flash Gordan and now a smattering of daily life. At last, it was the same combination
that we still see today, to some level, in the greatly successful Batman, X-Men
and Spider-Man franchises.

A accordance with Scoop, a comics newsletter, a Comics Guaranty (CGC)-certified
4.0 (”very good” form) copy of Action Comics #1 was sold for $195,000
in May of 2006, out-pricing the 2004 pricey comic books sale of a CGC-certified
9.4 (”near mint” condition) copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, containing
Spider-Man’s first look, by more than $70,000.

A unique copy of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales sold for an evidence £4,621,500
(9 times the probable price) at Christies, London, UK on 8th July 1998 by a private
collector. The book was the first main work printed in England by William Caxton,
in 1477.

A rare first publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll rose $1.5m at auction in New York, making this the most valuable children's book increasingly sold. The book was Carroll's own working copy that he used to prepare the text for a basic version for younger children. Just 22 copies of the 1865 first edition are known to exist at present, 17 of which are in libraries and just five, together with the copy just sold, are in private hands.

The top-selling book lists included the following books:

* The Bible
* Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung
* The Harry Potter series
* The Lord of the Rings
* The Chronicles of Narnia series
* The Guinness Book of World Records
* The World Almanac
* The Da Vinci Code
* The McGuffey Readers
* American Spelling Book
* A Message to Garcia
* Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
* Valley of the Dolls
* In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?

Some of the top selling books are particularly absent. For instance, two publications by the Jehovah’s Witnesses have sold over 100 million copies, telling that they should be somewhere in the top ten. Additionally, many believe that The Three Musketeers may belong in top selling books list however counting copies sold may be impossible. Gone with the Wind is not with the top selling books. It ranks on 15th or 20th depending upon the list. The Little Prince as well may be among the top selling books, however this also is difficult to get an accurate count.

There are no “lost or missing books” of the Bible or books that were taken out of the Bible. There are lots of legends and rumors of “lost” books, however there is no truth whatsoever to these stories. All book that God intended and inspired to be in the Bible is in the Bible. There are literally hundreds of spiritual books that were written in the same time period as the books of the Bible. Few of these books hold true accounts of things that truly occurred (1 Maccabees for example). Some of them hold good spiritual teaching (the Wisdom of Solomon for example). But, these books are not inspired by God. If we read some of these books, the Apocrypha as an exemplar, we must treat them as fallible historical books, not as the inspired, inerrant Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

The gospel of Thomas, for instance, was a forgery written in the 3rd or 4th century A.D., claiming to have been printed by the Apostle Thomas. It was not written by Thomas. The early on church fathers roughly universally rejected the gospel of Thomas as being heretical. It contains lots of false and heretical things that Jesus evidently said and did. None of it (or at best very little of it) is true. The Epistle of Barnabas was not written by the Biblical Barnabas, however by an imposter. The similar can be said of the gospel of Philip, the apocalypse of Peter, the book of Enoch, etc.

There is only one God. The Bible has one Creator for all. It is one book. It has one plan of grace, recorded from initiation, throughout execution, to consummation. From predestination to praise, the Bible is the story of God redeeming His chosen people for the praise of His glory. As God’s redemptive purposes and plan open out in Scripture, the recurring themes continuously emphasized are: the character of God, the judgment for sin and disobedience, the blessing for faith and obedience, the Lord Savior and sacrifice for sin, and the upcoming kingdom and glory. It is God’s aim that we know and recognize these five themes since our lives and eternal destinies depend on them. It is thus unthinkable that God would let some of this vital information to be “lost” in any way. No, the Bible is full as it is so that we who read and know it might also be “complete, and equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

Total Books in the Bible: 66
Total Books in the Old Testament: 39
Total Books in the New Testament: 27
Total Shortest book in the Bible: 2 John
Total Longest book in the Bible: Psalms
Total Chapters in the Bible: 1189
Total Chapters in the Old Testament: 929
Total Chapters in the New Testament: 260
Total Middle chapter of the Bible: Psalm 117
Total Shortest chapter in the Bible: Psalm 117
Total Longest chapter in the Bible: Psalm 119
Total Verses in the Bible: 31,173
Total Verses in the Old Testament: 23,214
Total Verses in the New Testament: 7,959
Total Shortest verse in the Bible: John 11:35
Total Longest verse in the Bible: Esther 8:9
Total Words in the Bible: 773,692
Total Words in the Old Testament: 592,439
Total Words in the New Testament: 181,253

If you are looking for any sustainable change that facilitates positives matters about your day-to-day life, then, here is your list of choices.

For Coaching

Are you looking for any change in your life then read these books…

* David Rock - Personal Best, Coaching for Creating the Life you Want, Simon and Schuster

* David Rock - Quiet Leadership, Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work, HarperCollins

* John Whitmore - Coaching for Performance, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

For Positive Psychology

Do you looking for any Positive Psychology then here it is…

* Martin Seligman - Learned Optimism, Random House

* Martin Seligman - Authentic Happiness, Random House

* Christopher Peterson - A Primer in Positive Psychology, Oxford University PressBooks

For Career

If you want to have a good career in your life then, you must read these books…

* Richard Bolles - What Colour is your parachute? Ten Speed Press

* Nigel Beckford and Michael Fitzsimons - You Don't Make a Big Leap Without a Gulp, Fitzbeck Publishing

* Stephen Conway and Paul Meyer - The Naked Career, Your Journey to Emotional and Financial Fulfillment, Tate Publishing

* Dalai Lama and Howard C Cutler - The Art of Happiness at Work, Hodder

For Change

Are you looking for any change in life and from current situation, then you must read these awesome books

* Donald Pink - A Whole New Mind, Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, Allen & Unwin

* Robert Fritz - The Path of Least Resistance, Learning to be a Creative Force in Your Own Life, Fawcette Columbine

* Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway,

* John Kotter - Our Iceberg is Melting, St Martins Press

* CS Lewis - The Great Divorce

For Values

* Michael Henderson - Finding True North, Discover your Values, Enrich your Life, HarperCollins

* Michael Henderson & Douglas Thompson - Values at Work, HarperCollins

For Personal Effectiveness and relationships

These books will explain you that, how you should be in your life…

* Daniel Goleman - The New Leaders, Little, Brown

* Daniel Goleman - Social Intelligence, the New Science of Human Relationships, Hutchinson London

* Daniel Goleman - Working with Emotional Intelligence, Bloomsbury

* Victor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

* Stephen Covey - The Seven habits of Highly Effective People, The Business Library

For Travel

Want to know how your travel should be …Then read these books

* Rita Golden-Gelman - Tales of a Female Nomad

* Rolf Potts - Vagabonding

* Patricia Schultz - 1000 Places to See Before you Die

For Confidence and Self Esteem

These books will heighten your Confidence and Self Esteem…

* Bruce I Doyle 111, Before You Think another Thought, Hampton Roads

* Matthew McKay and Catherine Sutker- the Self Esteem Guided Journal, a 10-week program, New Harbinger Publications

For Social Change

* Carl Honore - In Praise of Slow, Orion

* Gail Sheehy - Passages, Predictable Crises of Adult Life, Ballantine Books

* Gail Sheehy - New Passages, Mapping your Life Accross Time, Random House Publishing Group

* Bernard Salt - The Big Picture, Hardy Grant Books

* Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point, How little things can make a big difference, Abacus

* Philip Ball - Critical Mass, How One Thing Leads to Another

* Paul Bailey - Think of an Elephant, Combining Science and Spirituality for a Better Life.