List of best-selling books
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This is a list of best-selling books that are not comic books or textbooks. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling book in the world is The Bible.
Religious Books change
1) The Bible - 5,000,000,000[1]
2) The Quran - 800,000,000 [1]
3) The Book of Mormon - 192, 000,000[2]
4) The Bhagavad-Gita - 140,000,000[2]
Political Books change
The Little Red Book - between more than 900,000,000 [3]
List of Bestsellers that are not religious or political change
1) A Tale of Two Cities - more than 200,000,000[3]
2) The Little Prince - 200,000,000 [4]
3) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 120,000,000[4]
4) And Then There Were None - 100,000,000[5]
5) Dream of the Red Chamber - 100,000,000
6) The Hobbit - 100,000,000[5]
7) She: A History of Adventure - 83,000,000
8) The Da Vinci Code - 80,000,000[6]
9) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 77,000,000[6]
10) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 65,000,000[7]
11) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 65,000,000 [7]
12) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 65,000,000[7]
13) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 65,000,000[7]
14) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 65,000,000[8]
15) The Alchemist - 65,000,000
16) The Catcher in the Rye - 65,000,000
17) The Bridges of Madison County - 60,000,00
18) One Hundred Years of Solitude - 50,000,000
19) Lolita - 50,000,000
20) Heidi - 50,000,000
21) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - 50,000,000
22) Anne of Green Gables - 50,000,000
23) Black Beauty - 50,000,000
24) The Name of the Rose - 50,000,000
25) The Eagle Has Landed, 50,000,000
26) Watership Down - 50,000,000
27) Charlotte's Web - 50,000,000
28) The Ginger Man - 50,000,000
29) The Tale of Peter Rabbit - 45,000,000
30) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 44,000,000
31) The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 43,000,000
32) A Message to Garcia - 40,000,000
33) To Kill a Mockingbird - 40,000,000[9]
34) Flowers in the Attic - 40,000,000
35) Cosmos - 40,000,000
36) Sophie’s World, - 40,000,000
37) Angels & Demons - 39,000,000
38) Alcoholics Anonymous - 37,000,000
39) Kane and Abel - 37,000,000
40) How the Street was Tempered - 36,400,000
41) War and Peace - 36,000,000
42) The Adventures of Pinocchio - 35,000,000
43) The Diary of a Young Girl - 35,000,000
44) Your erroneous zones - 35,000,000
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) James and the Giant Peach, 28,000,000 copies [10]
57) The Young Guard, 26,000,000 copies
58) A Brief History of Time, 25,000,000 copies [11]
59) Paul and Virginia, 25,000,000 copies
60) Lust for Life, 25,000,000 copies
61) The Wind in the Willows, 25,000,000 copies
62) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 25,000,000 copies
63) Toto-chan: The Little Girl and the Window , 25,000,000 copies
64) Virgin Soil Upturned, 24,000,000 copies
65) The Celestine Prophecy, 23,000,000 copies
66) The Fault in Our Stars, 23,000,000 copies
67) The Girl on the Train, 23,000,000 copies
68) The Shack, 22,500,000 copies
69) Uncle Sytopa, 21,000,000 copies
70) The Godfather, 21,000,000 copies
71) Love Story, 21,000,000 copies
72) Catching Fire, 21,000,000 copies
73) Mockingjay, 20,000,000 copies
74) Kitchen, 20,000,000 copies
75) The Andromeda Nebula, 20,000,000 copies
76) Gone Girl, 20,000,000 copies
77) The Bermuda Triangle, 20,000,000 copies
78) Things Fall Apart, 20,000,000 copies
79) Wolf Totem, 20,000,000 copies
80) The Happy Hooker, 20,000,000 copies
81) Jaws, 20,000,000 copies
82) Love You Forever, 20,000,000 copies
83) The Women’s Room, 20,000,000 copies
84) What to Expect When You're Expecting, 20,000,000 copies
85) Huckleberry Finn, 20,000,000 copies [12]
86) The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, 20,000,000 copies
87) Pride and Prejudice, 20,000,000 copies
88) The Kon-Tiki Expedition ,20,000,000 copies
89) The Good Soldier, 20,000,000 copies
90) Where the Wild Things Are, 20,000,000 copies
91) The Power of Positive Thinking, 20,000,000 copies
92) The Secret, 20,000,000 copies
93) Fear of Flying , 20,000,000 copies
94) Dune, 20,000,000 copies
95) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 20,000,000 copies [13]
96) The Naked Ape, 20,000,000 copies
97) Where the Crawdads Sing, 18,000,000 copies
98) Matilda, 17,000,000 copies
99) The Book Thief, 16,000,000 copies
100) The Horse Whisperer, 16,000,000 copies
References change
- ↑ "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.
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