Top best-selling books all time

This article provides lists of best-selling individual Books to date and in any language. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources.

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	Don Quixote By: Miguel de Cervantes Sales: 500 million
	A Tale of Two Cities By: Charles Dickens Sales: 200 million
	The Lord of the Rings By: J. R. R. Tolkien Sales: 150 million
	Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sales: 140 million
	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 120 million
	The Hobbit By: J. R. R. Tolkien Sales: 100 million
	And Then There Were None By: Agatha Christie Sales: 100 million
	紅樓夢/红楼梦 (Dream of the Red Chamber) By: Cao Xueqin Sales: 100 million
	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By: Lewis Carroll Sales: 100 million
	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe By: C. S. Lewis Sales: 85 million
	She: A History of Adventure By: H. Rider Haggard Sales: 83 million
	Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (The Adventures of Pinocchio) By: Carlo Collodi Sales: >80 million
	Vardi Wala Gunda By: Ved Prakash Sharma Sales: >80 million
	The Da Vinci Code By: Dan Brown Sales: 80 million
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 77 million
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million
	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million
	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million
	The Alchemist By: Paulo Coelho Sales: 65 million
	The Catcher in the Rye By: J. D. Salinger Sales: 65 million
	Think and Grow Rich By: Napoleon Hill Sales: 60 million
	The Bridges of Madison County By: Robert James Waller Sales: 60 million
	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By: Arthur Conan Doyle Sales: 60 million
	20,000 Leagues under the Sea By: Jules Verne Sales: 60 million
	You Can Heal Your Life By: Louise Hay Sales: 50 million
	Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) By: Gabriel García Márquez Sales: 50 million
	Lolita By: Vladimir Nabokov Sales: 50 million
	Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre (Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel) By: Johanna Spyri Sales: 50 million
	The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care By: Dr. Benjamin Spock Sales: 50 million
	Anne of Green Gables By: Lucy Maud Montgomery Sales: 50 million
	Black Beauty By: Anna Sewell Sales: 50 million
	Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) By: Umberto Eco Sales: 50 million
	Watership Down By: Richard Adams Sales: 50 million
	The Hite Report By: Shere Hite Sales: 50 million
	Charlotte's Web By: E.B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams Sales: 50 million
	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ By: Lew Wallace Sales: 50 million
	The Curse of Capistrano (also known as The Mark of Zorro) By: Johnston McCulley Sales: 50 million
	The Tale of Peter Rabbit By: Beatrix Potter Sales: 45 million
	The Odyssey By: Homer Sales: 45 million
	Jonathan Livingston Seagull By: Richard Bach Sales: 44 million
	The Very Hungry Caterpillar By: Eric Carle Sales: 43 million
	A Message to Garcia By: Elbert Hubbard Sales: 40 million
	Sofies verden (Sophie's World) By: Jostein Gaarder Sales: 40 million
	Flowers in the Attic By: V. C. Andrews Sales: 40 million
	To Kill a Mockingbird By: Harper Lee Sales: 40 million
	Angels & Demons By: Dan Brown Sales: 39 million
	Kane and Abel By: Jeffrey Archer Sales: 37 million
	Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas' stal'; How the Steel Was Tempered) By: Nikolai Ostrovsky Sales: 36.4 million copies in USSR
	Война и мир (Voyna i mir; War and Peace) By: Leo Tolstoy Sales: 36.0 million copies in USSR
	Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank) By: Anne Frank Sales: 35 million
	Your Erroneous Zones By: Wayne Dyer Sales: 35 million
	The Thorn Birds By: Colleen McCullough Sales: 33 million
	The Kite Runner By: Khaled Hosseini Sales: 31.5 million
	In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? By: Charles M. Sheldon Sales: 30 million
	The Lost Symbol By: Dan Brown Sales: 30 million
	Gone with the Wind By: Margaret Mitchell Sales: 30 million
	Nineteen Eighty-Four By: George Orwell Sales: 30 million
	The Purpose Driven Life By: Rick Warren Sales: 30 million
	Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) By: Stieg Larsson Sales: 30 million
	Молодая гвардия (Molodaya Gvardiya; The Young Guard) By: Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev Sales: 26 million copies in USSR
	Who Moved My Cheese? By: Spencer Johnson Sales: 26 million
	The Great Gatsby By: F. Scott Fitzgerald Sales: 25 million
	The Wind in the Willows By: Kenneth Grahame Sales: 25 million
	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People By: Stephen R. Covey Sales: 25 million
	Поднятая целина (Podnyataya Tselina; Virgin Soil Upturned) By: Mikhail Sholokhov Sales: 24 million copies in USSR
	The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins Sales: 23 million
	The Fault in Our Stars By: John Green Sales: 23 million
	The Shack By: William P. Young Sales: 22 million
	Дядя Степа (Dyadya Styopa; Uncle Styopa) By: Sergey Mikhalkov Sales: 21 million copies in USSR
	The Godfather By: Mario Puzo Sales: 21 million
	Love Story By: Erich Segal Sales: 21 million
	Gone Girl By: Gillian Flynn Sales: 20 million
	The Girl on the Train By: Paula Hawkins Sales: 20 million
	All Quiet on the Western Front By: Erich Maria Remarque Sales: 20 million
	The Bermuda Triangle By: Charles Berlitz Sales: 20 million
	Things Fall Apart By: Chinua Achebe Sales: 20 million
	Animal Farm By: George Orwell Sales: 20 million
	Jaws By: Peter Benchley Sales: 20 million
	Love You Forever By: Robert Munsch Sales: 20 million
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By: Mark Twain Sales: 20 million
	Pride and Prejudice By: Jane Austen Sales: 20 million
	Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války (The Good Soldier Švejk) By: Jaroslav Hašek Sales: 20 million
	Where the Wild Things Are By: Maurice Sendak Sales: 20 million
	The Power of Positive Thinking By: Norman Vincent Peale Sales: 20 million
	The Secret By: Rhonda Byrne Sales: 20 million
	Dune By: Frank Herbert Sales: 20 million
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory By: Roald Dahl Sales: 20 million
	The Naked Ape By: Desmond Morris Sales: 20 million
	Goodnight Moon By: Margaret Wise Brown Sales: 16 million
	Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) By: Michael Ende Sales: 16 million
	The Outsiders By: S. E. Hinton Sales: 15 million
	Guess How Much I Love You By: Sam McBratney Sales: 15 million
	Shōgun By: James Clavell Sales: 15 million
	The Poky Little Puppy By: Janette Sebring Lowrey Sales: 15 million
	The Pillars of the Earth By: Ken Follett Sales: 15 million
	How to Win Friends and Influence People By: Dale Carnegie Sales: 15 million
	Das Parfum (Perfume) By: Patrick Süskind Sales: 15 million
	The Grapes of Wrath By: John Steinbeck Sales: 15 million
	La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón Sales: 15 million
	Interpreter of Maladies By: Jhumpa Lahiri Sales: 15 million
	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By: Douglas Adams Sales: 14 million
	Tuesdays with Morrie By: Mitch Albom Sales: 14 million
	God's Little Acre By: Erskine Caldwell Sales: 14 million
	A Wrinkle in Time By: Madeleine L'Engle Sales: 14 million
	Long Walk to Freedom By: Nelson Mandela Sales: 14 million
	Life After Life By: Raymond Moody Sales: 13 million
	Me Before You By: Jojo Moyes Sales: 12 million
	ノルウェイの森 (Noruwei no Mori; Norwegian Wood) By: Haruki Murakami Sales: 12 million
	Peyton Place By: Grace Metalious Sales: 12 million
	La Peste (The Plague) By: Albert Camus Sales: 12 million
	人間失格 (Ningen Shikkaku; No Longer Human) By: Osamu Dazai Sales: 12 million
	Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager (Man's Search for Meaning) By: Viktor Frankl Sales: 12 million
	Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) By: Dante Alighieri Sales: 11-12 million (during 20th century)
	The Prophet By: Kahlil Gibran Sales: 11 million
	The Exorcist By: William Peter Blatty Sales: 11 million
	The Gruffalo By: Julia Donaldson Sales: 10.5 million
	The Cat in the Hat By: Dr. Seuss Sales: 10.5 million
	The Help By: Kathryn Stockett Sales: 10 million
	Catch-22 By: Joseph Heller Sales: 10 million
	L'Étranger (The Stranger (novel)) By: Albert Camus Sales: 10 million
	A Brief History of Time By: Stephen Hawking Sales: 10 million
	The Lovely Bones By: Alice Sebold Sales: 10 million
	Wild Swans By: Jung Chang Sales: 10 million
	Santa Evita By: Tomás Eloy Martínez Sales: 10 million
	中国社会主义经济问题研究 (Problems in China's Socialist Economy) By: Xue Muqiao Sales: 10 million
	The Joy of Sex By: Alex Comfort Sales: 10 million
	Life of Pi By: Yann Martel Sales: 10 million
	The Giver By: Lois Lowry Sales: 10 million
	The Magic of Thinking Big By: David Schwartz Sales: 4 million