1. The word "bookworm" originally referred to an actual insect that devours books.
2. The longest sentence ever written in a book belongs to *The Rotters' Club* by Jonathan Coe, with 13,955 words.
3. The first book bought on Amazon was *Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies* by Douglas Hofstadter.
4. The world’s smallest book, *Teeny Ted from Turnip Town*, measures .07 mm by .10 mm and can only be read under a microscope.
5. The most expensive book ever sold is Leonardo da Vinci’s *Codex Leicester*, purchased by Bill Gates for $30.8 million.
6. Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction author, with over 2 billion copies of her books sold worldwide.
7. The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., which has the largest catalogue size with 173,731,463 items
8. The first novel written on a typewriter was *Tom Sawyer* by Mark Twain.
9. The original *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland* manuscript was only 15,500 words, much shorter than the final version.
10. William Shakespeare is credited with inventing over 1,700 common English words.
11. There are over 3.5 million books published annually across the globe.
12. The world’s largest book is *This is the Prophet Mohammed*, which measures 16.4 feet by 26.4 feet and weighs over 3,300 pounds.
13.The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438).
14. *Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes is often cited as the first modern novel.
15. In Taiwan, libraries allow patrons to “borrow” people for conversations to learn from their life experiences, known as "human books."
16. A bibliophile is a person who loves or collects books, but abibliophobia is someone who fears books.
