The Guardian (U.K.) reports in Greed is Good: A Guide to Radical Individualism:

In 1991, a survey carried out by the American Library of Congress and the Book of the Month club declared Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, “the most influential book on American lives after the Bible”. It has sold more than 6m copies in the US alone and continues to sell at a rate of about 130,000 a year.

The book was published in 1957 and was Rand’s fourth and final novel.

It was more than 1,000 pages long and when Rand was asked by her publishers for suggested cuts, she apparently responded: “Would you cut the Bible?”