Timeless Tales: Top 20 Novels That Have Captivated Millions

What makes a book immortal? Is it the number of copies sold, the languages it's translated into, or its unshakable place in our cultural consciousness? Defining the "most-read" novel is a complex task, blending staggering sales figures with centuries of sustained readership.

However, based on aggregated data from sources like Guinness World Records, Wikipedia's best-seller lists, and literary rankings from The Guardian, BBC, and The Greatest Books, we've curated this list of 20 novels renowned for their massive global readership. These selections prioritize fiction with estimated sales exceeding 50 million copies each, focusing on enduring popularity rather than critical acclaim alone.

Wayback Machine: Your Time Machine to the Internet’s Past

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web, allowing users to access snapshots of websites from various points in time, effectively letting them "go back in time" to see how sites looked in the past. It’s a flagship project of the Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to preserving digital content.

Launched publicly in 2001, the Wayback Machine has become a vital tool for researchers, historians, journalists, and the public to explore the internet’s history, troubleshoot website issues, or recover lost content. As of November 2024, it has archived over 916 billion web pages and stores more than 100 petabytes of data, with captures dating back to at least 1995.

10 Self-Publishing Book Houses in India

Here are some of the prominent self-publishing book houses operating in India. This list focuses on well-established platforms frequently mentioned in top rankings and reviews.

Note that some are hybrid (offering both free and paid options), and details are drawn from their official sites and analyses.

1. Notion Press
   • Services: Print-on-demand (POD) for paperbacks and eBooks, cover design tools, ISBN allocation, global distribution to 30,000+ stores in 150+ countries (including Amazon.in, Flipkart, and international platforms). Authors retain 100% copyrights and can use an online editor for formatting.
   • Fees: Basic "Xpress Publishing" is used to be free earlier but charging Rs.4000 plus GST with Three Author Copies Free. Paid plans add editing, formatting, marketing, and enhanced distribution (pricing not publicly detailed but customizable; royalties up to 100% net profits via Outpublish program or 80% otherwise). Production costs depend on pages, format, and type (use their royalty calculator for estimates).
   • Promotion: Distribution-focused (Amazon, Flipkart, Notion Press store); paid plans include marketing support (efficiency varies per user reviews). Not the widest, but good for online visibility.
   • Contact: +91 44 46315631 or +91 7358790879 (support); email: publish@notionpress.com.

Types of Landforms on Earth

Landforms are natural features on solid surface of the planet Earth that make up the terrain such as Oceans, Plains, Plateaus and Mountains.

Several related landforms together make up landscapes, (large tracts of earth’s surface). Each landform has its own physical shape, size, materials and is a result of the action of certain geomorphic processes and agent(s).   Landforms once formed may change in their shape, size and nature slowly or fast due to continued action of geomorphic processes and agents.

Due to changes in climatic conditions and vertical or horizontal movements of landmasses, either the intensity of processes or the processes themselves might change leading to new modifications in the landforms. 

A landmass passes through stages of development somewhat comparable to the stages of life — youth, mature and old age.

There are major 3 types of Landforms:
A) First-Order Landforms (Continental & Oceans)
B) Second-Order Landforms (Plains, Plateaus & Mountains)
C) Third-Order Landforms (Volcanoes, Rivers, Glacier, Desert, etc.)

There are 2 types of Forces responsible for formation of Landforms:
a) Endogenic [Earthquake, Volcanic eruptions, Landslides, etc.]
b) Exogenic [Erosion, Winds, Sea Waves, etc.]

Endogenic and Exogenic forces are the geomorphic processes that bring changes in the earth’s surface internally and externally. Earth's surface is not flat as it goes through a lot of formation and deformation. The main reason why the earth's crust is so uneven is because of the influence of external and internal forces, known as exogenic and endogenic forces, respectively.

Measurement of TIME

If the TIME was not defined and quantified, nothing could have orderly done by Us on Earth. Length and Duration of Time differ from place to place. So, it's almost impossible to measure time.

All the celestial objects are ‘energy units’ in the universe (which itself is energy in the form of Akash) and are in “motion” always. They “rotate” (Atma Pradakshina or Bhramana) and also “revolve” (Pradakshina or Paribhramana) around a higher energy unit as its ‘centre’.

Earth, where we ALL live on also is an energy unit in Universe. It rotates (spins) and revolves around the SUN. All other grahas in Solar System also do the same. (Moon revolves TIME concept through observation of MOTION around the Earth).

The spinning or rotation of Earth ‘generates’ the feeling of something progressively happening to those who are on it. We, therefore, witness the “change” in what we see around us from morning through next morning. This has caused the concept of TIME in human minds in ancient times only.

Thus, the time between two sun rises in sequence, is taken as ‘one day’. As this period consists ‘sun appearing period’ (aha) and ‘sun not appearing period’ (ratra), the DAY is also came to be known as “ahoratra”.

“Time” must be measured/quantified to understand and experience it.

Books to Read about Extraterrestrials

Many of you may wonder if ETs exist, then how would they look like and from where do they come ?. Why their existence are hidden from us? Why are their purpose of  visiting Earth? What are their connections with the past history of our Planet? How many different kind of Alien species exist in the Universe?

If you are looking for answers to above questions , the books given below reveals all your answers. Most of the books available freely in the form of PDF, which you can downloaded in internet, while some you may need to purchase.

Need of Superhero to tackle our Social Problems

With the rise of Crimes like Rape, Theft, Murder, Kidnap, etc in Society, it looks like we need a SuperHero as we see in movies such as Spider-man, Superman, Batman, etc.

This thought may arise in the minds of certain kind of people like me when Government fails to run the system properly, Police fails to take responsibility, even GOD fails to heed our prayers and finally as an Individual we fails to change ourselves for betterment of society and country.

It is common that each and every person has Right to Speech [Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression] . This doesn't mean we have to Right to interfere in other's personal movements and acts. We [some people] keep on discriminating other's actions in the name of Freedom of Speech even though those are not affecting community and nation.

We spoke about outside crimes but what about Hidden crimes like Bribes, Dowry, Torture, Cyber attacks, Negligence of daily responsibility, Suicides, Porn, etc which are basic things to handle, otherwise it affects on Country's development.

Powerful Opposite Forces of Nature

I am not here to mention Good and Bad because they inter-exchange places based upon attitude of Human perception. Below are just like Antonyms of Powerful forces exist around the Universes.

What we see Good in Others in-time reflect Bad to us , because the change in our needs and thinking process.

There is a saying that Opposite Forces attract each other , but forces below never meant to attract , always in constant War [lets say Cold War] towards each other.

Versus [Vs.]

1) Gods Vs Demons [Devils]

2) Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia) 

 Vs

Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) in World War II (1939–1945).

A Quick Glance on GST of India

GST popularly known as Goods and Service Tax is a major step towards the country’s economic reform and a multi-stage destination-based tax that will be levied on every valued addition.

GST remarked as “Good and Simple Tax” by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the India’s most ambitious tax reform since independence launched by BJP government at the stroke of midnight of Friday (30th June) which is going to applicable from 1^st July, 2017 in all over India.

The Government has opted for 4 broad slabs for both Goods & Services – 5%, 12%, 18% and 28% apart from several items faces Zero levy.

With the launch of GST, the following taxes are subsumed (replaced) at both the Central and State level:

1. Central Excise Duty,
2. Service Tax,
3. Customs Duty,
4. State Value Added Tax,
5. Entertainment Tax,
6. Purchase Tax,
7. Luxury Tax,
8. Taxes on Lottery, Betting and Gambling.