What is the most successful self-published book of all time? Which self-published book has been your favorite/s?

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Supposedly... ...the most successful self-published book of all time would be "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield. According to Publishing Trends, The Celestine Prophecy was the #1 international bestseller of 1996 (#2 in 1995). It spent over 3 years on the New York Times bestsellers list.As a completely self-published bppk it solf more than 100,000 by word of mouth, and was then picked up by Warner Brothers Books.

However, in my opinion the most successful self-published author would be DeWitt Wallace, who went on to found Reader's Digest and a huge fortune. Many now-famous authors opted for self-publishing at some point in their careers, including: Margaret Atwood, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Ken Blanchard, Robert Bly, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Willa Cather, Pat Conroy, Stephen Crane, e.e.

Cummings, W.E.B. DuBois, Alexander Dumas, T.S.Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Benjamin Franklin, Zane Grey, Thomas Hardy, E. Lynn Harris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Robinson Jeffers, Spencer Johnson, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, Louis L'Amour, D.H. Lawrence, Rod McKuen, Marlo Morgan, John Muir, Anais Nin, Thomas Paine, Tom Peters, Edgar Allen Poe, Alexander Pope, Beatrix Potter, Ezra Pound, Marcel Proust, Irma Rombauer, Carl Sandburg, Robert Service, George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, William Strunk, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoi, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf.My favorite self-published book would have to be "Crossing to Freedom" by Elizabeth Wells Bardwell (ISBN-10: 0595225985) which is the story of my mother's ancestors. I have a vested interest, I must admit.

BOOK DESCRIPTION"Crossing to Freedom assembles stirring stories of hundreds of kindred families. One of the lines is traced back to 540 A.D. , but most of the spacious chronicle is set in the centuries following 1630, when members of these families began flocking to America’s shores to escape religious persecution in many parts of the Old World. " Sources: http://www.celestinevision.com/jr_bio.html AND http://www.selfpublishinghalloffame.com/wallace.htm .

?... "What Color is Your Parachute" by Episcopal Clergymen Richard Nelson Bolles. 22 editions, 5 million copies and 288 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now published by Ten Speed Press.

Personally, my favorite self-published books are Understanding Apples and Gathering Leaves by JS Moore. amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3V6FYSED0H9OF\ profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction... understandingapples.com/ . Loving-long-island.Com/long-island-ice-tea-more-history.

Html http://www.target.com/Understanding-Apples-J-S-Moore/dp/1598009753 http://www.target.com/Gathering-Leaves-Understanding-Apples-Book/dp/1432721585 Sources: Google, My head Squirt's Recommendations Gathering Leaves: Understanding Apples Book Two Amazon List Price: $17.95 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Understanding Apples Amazon List Price: $13.95 Used from: $13.97 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 10 reviews) Great Readings... Squirt's Recommendations What Color Is Your Parachute Workbook: How to Create a Picture of Your Ideal Job or Next Career Amazon List Price: $9.95 Used from: $5.55 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 10 reviews) Most popular self-published book.

" "One of my favorite kids books was Mouse Cafe- I checked it out all the time. Anyone know why it is $60 ON Amazon now?" "Are there any current self-published novels that are deemed successful? " "how many science books are published each year?

What is title of book, published in 2002, about persons famous in one line of work, but also successful in a second one.

One of my favorite kids books was Mouse Cafe- I checked it out all the time. Anyone know why it is $60 ON Amazon now?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.