100M Shades of Grey

Sales figures for the erotic best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy have broken the 100 million mark.

A pile of Fifty Shades of Grey books

(AAP) Source: Press Association

Fifty Shades of Grey has joined the 100 million club.

Vintage Books says sales for E L James' sexually explicit trilogy have reached 100 million copies and have spent 100 weeks on The New York Times' paperback best-seller list.

The novels have been translated into 51 languages, including Hebrew, Icelandic and Korean. With a film adaptation planned for 2015, many more sales are likely.

James' books, which originated as fan fiction inspired by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books, immediately topped best-seller lists after Vintage acquired them in 2012. Vintage is an imprint of Penguin Random House.


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