List of best-selling books
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There will be no comic books or textbooks included in this list. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling book in the world is the King James Bible.
Religious Books
change1) The Bible - between 5,000,000,000 and 7,000,000,000 copies [1]
2) The Quran - 800,000,000 copies [1]
3) The Bhagavad Gita - more than 200,000,000 copies (Gita Press & ISKCON combined) [2]
4) The Book of Mormon - 192,000,000 copies [2]
Political Books
changeThe Little Red Book - more than 900,000,000 copies [3]
List of Bestsellers that are not religious or political
change1) A Tale of Two Cities - more than 200,000,000 copies [3]
2) The Little Prince - 200,000,000 copies [4]
3) The_Lord_of_the_Rings 150,000,000 copies [4]
4) And Then There Were None - 100,000,000 copies [5]
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 [6]
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) 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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