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Question: What was the first American Novel book to sell over 100 million copies!?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible) and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s!. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold!.
Page 226 of Robert J!. Scarry's "Millard Fillmore" states that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the first American novel to sell one million copies and that Millard Fillmore had two copies of this book!.

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100 million copies is a heck of a lot; very few books have achieved sales of that magnitude!. In fact, only five novels (depending on how you define "novel") have sold 100 million copies or more, and none of them was written by an American!.

If, however, you meant to ask which was the first American Novel book to sell over *one* million copies, then Chris S is correct: Uncle Tom's Cabin!.Www@QuestionHome@Com