What was Shakespeare's top 10 books?

Answer 1

Shakespeare wrote very little for publication: his long poems Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece to be precise. Only in these two cases can Shakespeare be legitimately said to have written "books" at all. Of course his plays and poetry were published even during his lifetime, but he did not write poetry intending it to be published and he did not intend his plays to be read by anyone at all except the actors who were performing it.

Venus and Adonis, apart from being one of the two works written for publication, was far and away the most successful published work by Shakespeare during his lifetime, going into several editions.