World's TOP 10

No matter how many internet sites or cellphone applications provide a person with novel stories but a book stays a Book! We all read books and some of us have this favorite hobby of reading and collecting our favorite story books. But how many of us really know which of our read books ranks as the top ten? So we have come up with an amazing list of Top Ten read books of the world. Now look up to the list and know which position does your favorite book hold?

On number 9 is a motivational book by Napoleon Hill, ‘Think and Grow rich’ about which the noble Charles Stanley writes ‘I began to apply the principles of ‘Think and Grow rich’ to my endeavors as a pastor, and I discovered they worked!’ Although the book was published in 1937 it kept on selling its copies even after 70 years and at the time of the death of Napoleon in 1970 it had sold its 20 million copies. Based on and inspired by the recommendation of a Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie, the book was based on how to make money and succeed in every field of life. Till now it had sold about 30 million of its copies. ‘Think and grow rich’ holds a position in John C. Maxwell’s ‘A lifetime must read Books’ list.

The novel ‘Gone with the wind’ written by Margaret Mitchell was first published in 1936. The number eighth on the list is a romantic novel depicting some historic variety. The book was written by Margaret during her healing time after an accident, a time that was hard to pass. Harold Latham was an editor who wanted a good fiction story to be published and approved Margaret’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ a story of Scarlett and Rhett. After the approval she wrote the final chapters several times to make it her best, and the book was her only writing of her lifetime. The book was also adopted by an American movie in the year 1939 and had sold 33 million copies till now.

A young vampire-romantic novel by Stephanie Meyer stands as the seventh most read books of all times. It was first published in 2005 and broke records; it made itself as number 5 on New York Times Bestseller in the same month of its release, was the biggest selling book in 2008 and the second biggest in 2009. Telling a story about a seventeen year old Isabella Swan who falls in love with a vampire, the book was translated into 37 different languages and was full of thrill and action too. The novel was highly popular among the youngsters and later the movies of Twilight- Saga had been some amazing movies. Total 43 million copies of the book are sold till now and is still making mark.

With selling out almost 57 million copies of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ it stands as the number sixth most read books. Dan Brown wrote a fictional, mysteriously investigating novel and published in 2003. The story revolves around a murder in Paris, Louvre Museum which is investigated by Robert Langdon who later gives a possibility that Jesus Christ may have been married to Mary Magdalene and had a son too. The book’s name is taken from Da Vinci’s painting that gives a clue to the investigation.

A well-known Brazilian author Paulo Coelho published his book in 1988 and eventually became Brazilian’s Best-seller. The book told a story about a young Andalusia shepherd who was named Santiago, was having a journey to Egypt and a dream about finding a treasure that would change his life forever. The novel was actually written in Portuguese and after its amazing response it was translated into 67 languages later, selling 65 million copies worldwide and was named as the most translated book by a living author in Guiness Book.

Actually the sequel of ‘The Hobbit’ of J. R. R. Tolkien, ‘Lord of the Rings’ holds the fourth position on the list. The novel is a fantasy story about a ring that was made by an old character that has to be passed on. The book was published in 1955 and became a favorite of millions. It has been translated into many languages and has been sold its 103 million copies worldwide.

The adventure of Harry Potter, the fantasies and the mysteries of the novels of ‘Harry Potter’ grabbed the attention of many people around the world. Being a children novel basically, it not only fascinated the children but adults too which led to some amazing movies that followed. J. K. Rowling has developed a non-fictional character of Harry Potter who studies in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is battling against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort who wants to become everlasting and wants to break down everyone that comes his way, including Harry Potter. It sold out almost 400 million of its copies.

The second most read book is ‘Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung’ which was written by Mao Tse-tung. It was also called as the ‘little red book’ and was published in 1964 to 1976. The book was a series of statements from the speeches and writings of Mao, a former leader of Chinese Communist Party and displayed the ideology of the party in the book. Around 820 million copies were sold out.

‘The Bible’ takes the lead. It is basically a book of account of God’s actions in the world and has God’s messages. The writings were completed in over sixteen centuries and are a wonderful compilation of 66 books altogether. The copies that are sold out till now are almost 3.9 billion.

The Quran is a book that is read almost all over the world by thousands of Muslims and non Muslims. The one version of the Holy Quran is translated into numerous other languages so it would be easy to understand. Muslims regard the Quran as the main miracle of Muhammad, the proof of his prophethood. According to the Islamic tradition  Muhammad(PBUH) received his first revelation in the Cave of Ḥirā during one of his isolated retreats to the mountains .The copies of the Quran that are sold out till now are almost 4.1 billion.

With the world undergoing a torrent of recession, tens of thousands of people are considering to start home-based businesses. During a lifetime, an average human being can take up-to two to three careers. Those who have one, often consider home businesses on top priority. Majority of the people working the nine-to-five job and on the verge of retiring consider home businesses as a means to earn a living. Here’s our list of the top 10 options that you can choose for, that require low cost investments.

Boats which are hauled out of the water need to be cleaned. Depending on the kind of boat other accessory equipment may also need cleaning along with the boat. These include decks, sleeping areas, the head and the holds. These may need thorough cleaning. People who have boat-sittings in their homes can be initially approached. Another way could be marketing the services through advertisement.

We all have items lurking around the house which we do not use, and can be sold out on eBay. The only task is to find out the asking price for the item and decide whether the item is worth auctioning or if it should be put in the eBay store? Then it should be decided if a minimum bid should be set up and the duration of the auction. For transactions, a Paypal account would be necessary.

This will include repairing all kinds of electronics. If you have this skill it is surely a golden opportunity for you to utilize your talent and have your own business. For smaller electronics such as laptops and cameras, you would also save up the cost of driving around to pick up broken equipment and returning it. You can also encourage people to give you old electronics so that you can use their spare parts.

This business has a lot of expansion possibilities. However, there is a need to do some homework first. You should be aware of locations that attract customers and which venue would be good for what kind of event. You may have to initially work with marketing managers to tour each site. Data may be organized in a database to sort venues according to some specific characteristics. Then while discussing an event with a client the key parameters can be considered for choosing a location.

People who purchase new homes may often be confused or overwhelmed about home decorating options. This is the time your business offers its services. To understand and comprehend the person’s lifestyle, a questionnaire may be designed for each major element. For example if the homeowner has children or pets? What kind of lightning would be appropriate for which rooms?

For this you need to be up-to-date about the latest styles, trends and fads; dress styles, color trends and everything about the wedding day. A good planner is one who takes care of even the littlest details. When you offer an ala carte menu of services the customer is bound to fall in your trap. The wedding day is a person’s most special day and naturally everyone who want to have it perfect for themselves.

If you have good grip in Macintosh and PC, then you should definitely consider training individuals in both. A good living could be made by training the senior citizens. Lessons could be given on the use of internet and e-mail to stay in touch with loved ones. These people often do not want professional training. They just want to be good with the basics, which is easy to start off with.

A lot of people who are moving from one house to another need help with shifting the heavy articles. You may skip long distance endeavors and large-scale shifting. However, those that are local could be managed. Advertisements on television and signs around the town will tempt the people to take benefit of your service. Old people and women would be largely interested.

If not good, at least all of us know how to take a photograph. Perhaps a short course may polish our aesthetic sense, specializing in a particular type of photography which may prove to be beneficial. Photographers remain in demand throughout the year; at parties, weddings, holiday events and other activities.

In this business, experience training or licensing may be essential requirements. However, this business has a lot of earning potential. If you tend to enjoy the company of children around the house then this is the career that you should opt for. Most parents often prefer a home- environment day care for their child rather than a professional institution.

If you are also one of those pupil thinking to start a business in this year, you should probably be aware that just because everybody’s doing something doesn’t guarantee success; markets never remain static and what is hot today might get cold tomorrow. So we have gathered here those top small business ideas that are going to provide you with the greatest profit and success this year.

In most places, you don’t need a license to run a babysitting service from home. With more parents needing to work, offering a home-based child care situation can be a great way to start a business and stay home with your own kids, too.

In some ways, the depression has made people busier than ever. Between long working hours and lots of responsibilities, there’s a lot that gets left undone. A service that runs everyday jobs and household tasks (including dropping off dry cleaning, paying bills, etc.) requires just a car and cell phone. Start small, do a good job and word of mouth will spread quickly.

Homeowners and businesses are looking for any way they can to cut costs, but figuring out how to lower energy expenses isn’t as easy as you might think. Anyone who has a background in utilities or construction and can advise homeowners or businesses on how to better insulate, install smart meters, reduce water usage, etc., has a valuable service to offer.

Your laptop could be a gold mine. Steel, copper and computer components are all worth more than ever. But, your average homeowner doesn’t always know where or how to recycle the stuff they’ve got. A good local advertising campaign and a pickup truck are all you’d need to start buying or simply offering to remove scrap metal, old computers, electronics, ink cartridges and other recyclable materials. You’ll be making a profit and doing the Earth a favor, too.

Most businesses can’t afford to keep a translator on staff, even though they may need one from time to time. As America becomes increasingly multilingual, everyone from doctors to insurance companies find themselves in need of foreign language speakers to help interact with their customers. If you can speak a foreign language, are organized and can come up with a good marketing plan, you may find you have more work than you can handle.

If you’re one of those pupil to whom using social media comes as naturally as breathing, you may have a career as a social media consultant . There’s no doubt that social media presents an unparalleled marketing opportunity for businesses. If you can help existing businesses add social media into their other marketing campaigns, you should have no trouble making a go of it.

If you have a technical study background; with the propagation of tablets, smart phones and laptops for every member of the family, there are lots of opportunities to provide private computer services such as anti-virus software installation, desktop cleanups, software downloads, printer hookups, and even hardware maintenance.

Most businesses have to offer health insurance to their employees; the problem is that many companies can’t afford a full- time human resources person. That’s why more and more companies look for outside services to help them. If you have a background in human resources or insurance, health insurance job could present big opportunities for you. You don’t need to be licensed if you’re not selling insurance; a health insurance consultant can simply help know the details to the customer.

Almost all the businesses use a very basic web presence to tell others about their business. Quite often, these businesses don’t have a large budget for keeping a web developer/designer for the whole term. That’s where you come in – get good expertise in web developing, and create sites for them, and maintain them for an adequate fee. In brief, you can have a nice business completely of your own.

Starting your own eldercare is a good proposal now days. The elderly population is booming; the need for elder care services in the up coming years is going to do nothing but increase. You can start your own elder care business as people are always looking for someone to take care of their elderly parents. You should have some experience or education in the area, but oftentimes, taking care of your own elderly parents is enough. If you have nursing experience, that helps as well.

We have seen a lot of movie FBIs running after the most wanted criminal who is never caught till the end. This story is definitely not limited to the movies, we have some real life dangerous criminals around the world that the FBI is still finding and could not catch them. We have the list of ten most wanted criminals which goes something like this:

Daniel has been on the FBI list for nine years, from 1954 to 1963. He was accused for drug trafficking and a murder. Daniel stands as the top tenth person being on the FBI most wanted list. The process was later dismissed as it was reported that he died.

Robert’s name was added to the list of FBI on the 29^th of June 2002 for murdering his wife and their two young children. Later the house was also blown up by the criminal, in which they lived, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The murder and the blowing off the house was done a year before his name was added to the list. Robert was born in New York in the year 1961, whereas FBI is offering an amount of $100,000 of price for the one who informs about him.

Arthur Lee Washington was accused for murdering a, New Jersey state trooper. Born in the year 1949, New Jersey, Arthur was also known to have killed the trooper with the handgun and may have more weapons. He was removed from the list in the year 2000.

James was added to the list in 1999 as he was involved in being a part of some corrupt organizations, Murder of 19 people, conspiracy in extortion and conspiracy of money laundering. A reward for the information related to James Joseph Bulger was a total of $2, 000,000. James got arrested in the year 2011 when he was 81 years old along with his longtime girl friend Catherine Greig.

Born in 1949, Katherine is the only female criminal in the Top ten FBI list. She was an ex-convict of America who later turned into a criminal by doing a robbery in a bank during which they killed a police officer too. Her name was placed in the list of the FBI in the year 1970. Katherine surrendered to the police in the year 1993 after which she started a new life. She completed her bachelor’s degree during her years of prison and when she came out after her punishment, did her Masters. While arrested in 1993 Katherine made a statement to the public and said “The illegal acts I committed arose not from any desire for personal gain but from a deep philosophical and spiritual commitment that if a wrong exists, one must take active steps to stop it, regardless of the consequences to oneself in comfort or security”.

Fredrick was a known gangster and criminal of America. He was put on the list of FBI most wanted in 1950. Having caught once, Fredrick ran away from the prison in a jailbreak, along with four other criminals. Since then he was not caught and later was dismissed from the list of the FBI after 14 years in 1964. The news was that the criminal was killed and clandestinely obscured.

Glen was added to the FBI list in 1996. He was accused for a murder and was serving a sentence in jail in California. Afterwards he was again caught for the crime of drug trafficking from where he escaped after killing his inmate in 1991. Born in Miami, Florida Glen might be involved in the distribution of narcotics, he knows Spanish, and must be travelling along South America and Mexico. FBI fixed the price of $100, 000 for the one who informs about the criminal.

Although FBI always needs a previous criminal record before putting up a name on the FBI most wanted list, but it was different in this case. Charles had murdered Nashville policeman and nothing else, as for the fact that he had racial literature in his car; the FBI put his name on the record in the year 1968 and later he was arrested in the year 1986.

Donald is the second longest on the FBI list; his name was entered in the list in 1981. Remaining on the list for almost 25 long years until 2007, when the FBI assumed his death and removed his name from the FBI list. He was accused for burglary, bank robbery, having dangerous, illegal weapons, murder of a police officer and a car theft. Born in 1931 Eugene was an American career criminal who murdered a police officer for the first time in his town.

Standing as the longest on the FBI list is Victor Manuel Gerena, who was born in New York in the year 1958. Victor is accused for a bank robbery, theft of an interstate shipment, unlawfully running away from the country and for taking hostage of two guards and injecting them a material which later disabled them. Victor has been on the list since 1983 and is still on the list. FBI has offered a price of $1000, 000 for giving information about him which can help them arrest the criminal.

All the countries worldwide have punishments, rules and death penalties for the criminals against the crimes accordingly but not all of them actually execute them. On the other hand where European Union thinks it’s an insult to the right of life, countries like China, Bangladesh and North Korea execute the justice strongly. Sometimes these executions take place secretly whereas in other cases it is public to show the people that the punishment to the certain crime is suppose to be this.

Somalis voted in favor of the execution resolution in the year 2008 and since then the people, who are related to crimes that give death penalties as the punishments, are being punished. In 2010 the number of people who were executed is 8. And more would have been executed secretly.

Obligatory death penalty was removed by the High Court Division of the Supreme Court but afterwards legislation was passed for the death punishment to be made legal. In the year of 2010 more than 9 people were executed in the country which still does not include the ones who are killed secretly.

The criminals who are given the punishment of death are normally hanged in front of people wrapped in scaffold which have the details of all the crimes they have done due to which they are executed. More than 17 people are executed in Syria in the year of 2010.

More than 18 people have been given death penalty in Libya in 2010. Most of the crimes due to which the guilty is killed are Murder and drug offenses. In Libya the punishment does not go with the hanging thing but the firing crew is maintained to fire the guilty and kill him.

Country like Saudi Arabia has its criminal justice in a public way. More than 27 have been executed in the year 2011 where the foreigners are not excluded. Saudi Arabia is one of the last five countries who still take out the death penalty in front of public, in places like Riyadh. Islam being the main religion of the country, it follows the Shariah. Crimes like Rape, murder, false prophecy, robbery; drug offense and adultery result in death penalty in the country. The way it is taken out are different, it can be done by the firing squad, by stoning or by the cutting the head with a sword.

Death penalty is a legal punishment in almost 32 states of America, whereas Texas has executed most of the people. Over the period of time the procedure of the penalty has been changed according to the crime and the place where it has been taken place. But the most common of all is still the lethal injection which is given to the guilty and he dies. States like Hawaii, Alaska and Michigan eliminated the death penalty. In the year 2010-2011 more than almost 46 people were executed in the USA.

Crimes like Murder, Rape, terrorism and (according to Islamic law) Sexual misconduct, drug trafficking and homosexuality result in a death penalty in Yemen. Shooting is the main procedure of how the penalty is carried out but according to the Islamic law stoning is also an option viable for adultery. Almost 53+ people have been executed in the country and some still might be secretly given the punishment.

North Korea is also one of those last five countries who perform the death penalty in front of the public. Crimes that result in execution are drug smuggling, disloyalty, piracy, murder, rape and grand theft. A firing squad is appointed for the death penalty which takes place in front of the public. In the year of 2010 total numbers of people executed in the country are more than 60.

A huge number of 252+ people were executed in Iran in the year 2011, in which most of the people were involved in drug trafficking, murder, deadly kidnapping and rape. These executions involved 5 women and 1 young person. Iran has been criticized for punishing children under the age of 18 which is illegal but the state claimed that the religion of the state which is Islam does not have that point. The second point that was raised against the state was that the procedure that they carry out the penalty with stoning is also painful and critical in which the state person of Iran claimed that it was propaganda against Iran. Iran stands second in the list of executioner countries.

China with the most population in the World has the highest executions too. It gives the punishment for the most violent crimes like, murder, drug trafficking and such. Having a number of 5000 people executed in 2009 it reduced to 1000 in 2011 because the Supreme People’s court ordered strictly to keep the Capital punishment to serious and extremely violent crimes. The actual number of people who are executed is always kept a secret and is not allowed to be public. The procedures of the death penalty are by shooting or injecting the guilty.