Publishing World Records

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Records

India

Most Books Published By A Writer In One Calendar Month

Rajesh Sarswat

Rajesh Sarswat published 31 books in a span of one month. His books were listed in Amazon, an e-commerce platform.

06:26 England

Most Quiz Books Published By A Single Author

Chris Cowlin

Chris Cowlin published 119 quiz books. Read more about the feat here.

02:29 The Internet

Most Books Published By A Writer In One Year

James Giammatteo

James Giammatteo published 37 books in a span of one year.

03:21 Lebanon

Most Research Papers Published In One Year

Youssef Bassil

Youssef Bassil published 37 research papers in one year. His work was funded by the Lebanese Association for Computational Sciences.

03:14 England

Most Quiz Books Based On British Football Clubs Published By A Single Author

Chris Cowlin

Chris Cowlin published 61 quiz books based on British Football Clubs.

02:08 England

Most Quiz Books Based On Musicians Published By A Single Author

Chris Cowlin

Chris Cowlin published 39 quiz books based on musicians.

India

Most Newspaper Publishers Published An Article By A Single Author In The Same Day

Ganesh Kelagina Beedu Shenoy

Ganesh Kelagina Beedu Shenoy wrote an article titled "Kinetic Pointillism, an emerging Art movement" which was published in 80 newspapers on December 2, 2023.

Australia

Most Peer-Reviewed Theological Articles Accepted for Publication by a Tongan Independent Researcher

Christopher Burns

Christopher Charles Burns, a researcher of Tongan descent from Browns Plains, Queensland, had six theology articles accepted by peer-reviewed journals in 2026: three in The Expository Times, two in the Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies and one in Studies in Christian Ethics. He wrote all six as an independent researcher, without a university theology appointment. RecordSetter checked the editors' acceptance letters and the accepted manuscripts, and confirmed three of the articles in print. Serious scholarship, from outside the academy.

The Internet

Most OET Preparation Books Published By A Single Author

Jobin Thomas

Jobin Thomas of Southampton, England, published 167 distinct preparation books for the Occupational English Test (OET), an English-language exam for healthcare professionals. His evidence video presents catalogue captures and individual purchase pages showing books for nursing, medicine, dentistry and other healthcare professions. The total was checked against his numbered title list and public store listings, with duplicate listings, editions and formats counted only once.

India

Most Words of Fiction Published by a Teenager

Debarkhi Borah

Debarkhi Borah of Guwahati, India, who writes as St. Piter Arnstain, published eight paperback volumes of original fiction on Amazon between August 11 and October 18, 2026, at age 18: six novels, two of them split into two volumes each. A screen recording walks through each manuscript in Reedsy Studio with its word count on screen, then shows the paperbacks live in the author's Kindle Direct Publishing account and on their public Amazon listings. RecordSetter matched all eight listings, ISBNs and page counts (5,595 pages in all) to the author's tally of 1,199,086 words of story text, with front and back matter left out. The author wrote every book and used ChatGPT for spelling, grammar and occasional editing suggestions.

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