With each passing year, the Guinness World Records get bigger and better — as more records and categories pile up each year. If you want to know how amazing and weird this world and its people are, then you need to open the pages of Guinness World Records 2017 and marvel at all the information it holds.

 The ultimate illustrated reference book published annually, has evolved over the years to include many new categories of world records and national records, both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. It is now in its 63rd year of publication, published in 100 countries and 23 languages. The most notable change is the focus shifting from text-based content to more illustrations and pictures depicting the record, making the each subsequent edition more interesting. Interestingly, Guinness World Records is the world’s best selling copyright book ever

The current 2017 edition gives special focus to space, travel and adventure, and the limits of human endeavour extending like never before.

For instance it features records such as the highest anyone has travelled on a skateboard, or the largest loop-the-loop completed in a car. And do you know the record of most bounces of basketball in one minute? It is 444 times in a minute and to know who did it, you will have to look it up yourself. And there is a person who holds the world record of controlling the ping-pong ball on table tennis bat for the longest time, 4 hour 39 minute and 52 seconds! Now that requires some concentration!

The records are organised very well, with each section containing records very closely relate to each other and lots of other information that will leave you dumbfounded.

Guinness World Records 2017 is just the right book to start the New Year with and place it by your bedside table and enjoy enhancing your knowledge of records all through the year.

Available at Paramount Books

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 7th, 2017