List of best-selling books
This list of best-selling books does not include comic books or textbooks. The sources for the numbers are different for each book but, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling book in the world is the King James Bible.
Religious Books
1) The Bible - between 5,000,000,000 and 7,000,000,000 copies [1]
2) The Quran - between 800,000,000 and 3,000,000,000 copies
3) The Bhagavad Gita - more than 200,000,000 copies (Gita Press & ISKCON combined) [2]
4) The Book of Mormon - 192,000,000 copies
Political Books
The Little Red Book - more than 900,000,000 copies
List of Bestsellers that are not religious or political
0) Don Quixote (Might have sold more than 500,000,000 copies but it’s debated if it actually did.)
1) A Tale of Two Cities - more than 200,000,000 copies [3]
2) The Little Prince - 200,000,000 copies
3) The Lord of the Rings 150,000,000 copies [4]
4) And Then There Were None - 100,000,000 copies
5) Dream of the Red Chamber - 100,000,000 copies
6) The Hobbit - 100,000,000 copies [5]
7) She: A History of Adventure - 83,000,000 copies
8) The Da Vinci Code - 80,000,000 copies
9) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 77,000,000 copies [6]
10) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 65,000,000 copies [7]
11) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 65,000,000 copies [7]
12) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 65,000,000 copies [7]
13) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 65,000,000 copies [7]
14) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 65,000,000 copies [8]
15) The Alchemist - 65,000,000 copies
16) The Catcher in the Rye - 65,000,000 copies
17) The Bridges of Madison County - 60,000,00 copies
18) One Hundred Years of Solitude - 50,000,000 copies
19) Lolita - 50,000,000 copies
20) Heidi - 50,000,000 copies
21) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - 50,000,000 copies
22) Anne of Green Gables - 50,000,000 copies
23) Black Beauty - 50,000,000 copies
24) The Name of the Rose - 50,000,000 copies
25) The Eagle Has Landed - 50,000,000 copies
26) Watership Down - 50,000,000 copies
27) Charlotte's Web - 50,000,000 copies
28) The Ginger Man - 50,000,000 copies
29) The Tale of Peter Rabbit - 45,000,000 copies
30) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 44,000,000 copies
31) The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 43,000,000 copies
32) A Message to Garcia - 40,000,000 copies
33) To Kill a Mockingbird - 40,000,000 copies [9]
34) Flowers in the Attic - 40,000,000 copies
35) Cosmos - 40,000,000 copies
36) Sophie’s World, - 40,000,000 copies
37) Angels & Demons - 39,000,000 copies
38) Alcoholics Anonymous - 37,000,000 copies
39) Kane and Abel - 37,000,000 copies
40) How the Street was Tempered - 36,400,000 copies
41) War and Peace - 36,000,000 copies
42) The Adventures of Pinocchio - 35,000,000 copies
43) The Diary of a Young Girl - 35,000,000 copies
44) Your Erroneous Zones - 35,000,000 copies
45) The Thorn Birds - 33,000,000 copies
46) The Kite Runner - 31,500,000 copies
47) Valley of the Dolls - 31,000,000 copies
48) How to Win Friends and Influence People - 30,000,000 copies
49) The Great Gatsby - 30,000,000 copies
50) Gone with the Wind - 30,000,000 copies
51) Rebecca - 30,000,000 copies
52) The Revolt of Mamie Stover - 30,000,000 copies
53) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 30,000,000 copies
54) The Lost Symbol - 30,000,000 copies
55) The Hunger Games - 29,000,000 copies
56) IT - 28,500,000 copies
57) James and the Giant Peach - 28,000,000 copies [10]
58) The Young Guard - 26,000,000 copies
59) A Brief History of Time - 25,000,000 copies [11]
60) Paul and Virginia - 25,000,000 copies
61) Lust for Life - 25,000,000 copies
62) The Shining - 25,000,000 copies
63) The Wind in the Willows - 25,000,000 copies
64) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 25,000,000 copies
65) Toto-Chan: The Little Girl and the Window - 25,000,000 copies
66) Virgin Soil Upturned - 24,000,000 copies
67) The Celestine Prophecy -, 23,000,000 copies
68) The Fault in Our Stars - 23,000,000 copies
69) The Girl on the Train - 23,000,000 copies
70) The Shack - 22,500,000 copies
71) Uncle Sytopa - 21,000,000 copies
72) The Godfather - 21,000,000 copies
73) Love Story - 21,000,000 copies
74) Catching Fire - 21,000,000 copies
75) Mockingjay - 20,000,000 copies
76) Kitchen - 20,000,000 copies
77) The Andromeda Nebula - 20,000,000 copies
78) Gone Girl - 20,000,000 copies
79) The Bermuda Triangle - 20,000,000 copies
80) Things Fall Apart - 20,000,000 copies
81) Wolf Totem - 20,000,000 copies
82) The Happy Hooker - 20,000,000 copies
83) Jaws - 20,000,000 copies
84) Love You Forever - 20,000,000 copies
85) The Women’s Room - 20,000,000 copies
86) What to Expect When You're Expecting - 20,000,000 copies
87) Huckleberry Finn - 20,000,000 copies [12]
88) The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - 20,000,000 copies
89) Pride and Prejudice - 20,000,000 copies
90) The Kon-Tiki Expedition - 20,000,000 copies
91) The Good Soldier - 20,000,000 copies
92) Where the Wild Things Are - 20,000,000 copies
93) The Power of Positive Thinking - 20,000,000 copies
94) The Secret - 20,000,000 copies
95) Fear of Flying - 20,000,000 copies
96) Dune - 20,000,000 copies
97) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 20,000,000 copies [13]
98) The Naked Ape - 20,000,000 copies
99) Where the Crawdads Sing - 18,000,000 copies
100) Matilda - 17,000,000 copies
References
- ↑ "Best-selling book | Guinness World Records". Retrieved Feb 23, 2024.
- ↑ Today, Hinduism (Apr 1, 2021). "Gita Press Runs into Its Next Century". Retrieved Feb 23, 2024.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-04-05. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
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- ↑ "The Hobbit: What has made the book such an enduring success?". The Telegraph. Sep 20, 2012. Retrieved Feb 23, 2024.
- ↑ "Harry Potter – History of the Books : Hypable". Archived from the original on 2020-10-05. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- 1 2 3 4 "Harry Potter/JK Rowling - Fandom 250 - 2016". Archived from the original on 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
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- ↑ "Harper Lee to publish sequel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015.
- ↑ Spangler, Todd (May 18, 2020). "Taika Waititi Helms 'James and the Giant Peach' Charity Reading With Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett". Retrieved Feb 23, 2024.
- ↑ "A brief history of Stephen Hawking". cosmosmagazine.com. Aug 1, 2007. Retrieved Feb 23, 2024.
- ↑ "The New York Times Upfront | The news magazine for high school". Archived from the original on 5 Nov 2013.
- ↑ Brill |, Pamela. "How Sweet It Is: The 50th Anniversary of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 23 Feb 2024.
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