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Do you know who wrote 17 of the most popular books of all time?

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*Blows dust off* (Picture: Getty)

As revealed this week, the most popular book of all time isn’t Harry Potter. It’s the Koran, with 3 billion copies sold. The Bible comes a close second, with 2.5m.

And while it’s not entirely clear who wrote the Koran (because Muslims believe it was verbally related by God to Mohammed via the angel Jibril), and the bible was effectively crowdsourced, we all know who wrote Harry Potter.

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