Highest Selling Books Of All Time
As I do enjoy reading, I was wonder what the highest selling books of all time were. Here is the list below, for single volume books, not series. Some of the results are quite surprising!
| Title | Author | Language | Year Released | Copies sold (Millions) |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | English | 1859 | 200+ |
| The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | English | 1954–1955 | 150 |
| The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | English | 1937 | 100+ |
| Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin | Chinese | 1759-1791 | 100+ |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | English | 1939 | 100 |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | English | 1950 | 85 |
| She | H. Rider Haggard | English | 1887 | 83 |
| Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | French | 1943 | 80 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | English | 2003 | 80 |
| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | English | 1937 | 70 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | English | 1951 | 65 |
| O Alquimista (The Alchemist) | Paulo Coelho | Portuguese | 1988 | 65 |
| Steps to Christ | Ellen G. White | English | 1892 | 60 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | English | 1955 | 50 |
| Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre (Heidi’s Years of Wandering and Learning) | Johanna Spyri | German | 1880 | 50 |
| The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | Dr. Benjamin Spock | English | 1946 | 50 |
| Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery | English | 1908 | 50 |
| Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions: The autobiography of a horse | Anna Sewell | English | 1877 | 50 |
| Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) | Umberto Eco | Italian | 1980 | 50 |
| The Hite Report | Shere Hite | English | 1976 | 48 |
| Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams | English | 1952 | 45 |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | English | 1902 | 45 |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J. K. Rowling | English | 2007 | 44 |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | English | 1970 | 40 |
| A Message to Garcia | Elbert Hubbard | English | 1899 | 40 |
| Angels and Demons | Dan Brown | English | 2000 | 39 |
| Kak zakalyalas’ stal’; How the Steel Was Tempered | Nikolai Ostrovsky | Russian | 1932 | 36 |
| Voyna i mir; War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Russian | 1869 | 36 |
| Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (The Adventures of Pinocchio) | Carlo Collodi | Italian | 1881 | 35 |
| You Can Heal Your Life | Louise Hay | English | 1984 | 35 |
| Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | English | 1979 | 34 |
| Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank) | Anne Frank | Dutch | 1947 | 30 |
| In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? | Charles M. Sheldon | English | 1896 | 30 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | English | 1960 | 30 |
| Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann | English | 1966 | 30 |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | English | 1936 | 30 |
| Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) | Gabriel García Márquez | Spanish | 1967 | 30 |
| The Purpose Driven Life | Rick Warren | English | 2002 | 30 |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | English | 1977 | 30 |
| The Revolt of Mamie Stover | William Bradford Huie | English | 1951 | 30 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title: Män som hatar kvinnor) | Stieg Larsson | Swedish | 2005 | 30 |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | English | 1969 | 30 |
| The Late, Great Planet Earth | Hal Lindsey, C. C. Carlson | English | 1970 | 28 |
| Who Moved My Cheese? | Spencer Johnson | English | 1998 | 26 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | English | 1908 | 25 |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | English | 1949 | 25 |
| The Celestine Prophecy | James Redfield | English | 1993 | 23 |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo | English | 1969 | 21 |
| Love Story | Erich Segal | English | 1970 | 21 |
| Wolf Totem | Jiang Rong | Chinese | 2004 | 20 |
| The Happy Hooker: Her Own Story | Xaviera Hollander | English | 1971 | 20 |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley | English | 1974 | 20 |
| Love You Forever | Robert Munsch | English | 1986 | 20 |
| Sophie’s World | Jostein Gaarder | Norwegian | 1991 | 20 |
| The Women’s Room | Marilyn French | English | 1977 | 20 |
| What to Expect When You’re Expecting | Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff | English | 1984 | 20 |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | English | 1963 | 19 |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | English | 2006 | 19 |
| Fear of Flying | Erica Jong | English | 1973 | 18 |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | English | 1947 | 16 |
| Guess How Much I Love You | Sam McBratney | English | 1994 | 15 |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | English | 1989 | 15 |
| Sho-gun | James Clavell | English | 1975 | 15 |
| The Poky Little Puppy | Janette Sebring Lowrey | English | 1942 | 15 |
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | English | 1989 | 15 |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | English | 1936 | 15 |
| Das Parfum (Perfume) | Patrick Süskind | German | 1985 | 15 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | English | 1939 | 15 |
| The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans | English | 1995 | 15 |
| La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Spanish | 2001 | 15 |
| The Shack | William P. Young | English | 2007 | 15 |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | English | 1979 | 14 |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | English | 1997 | 14 |
| God’s Little Acre | Erskine Caldwell | English | 1933 | 14 |
| Va’ dove ti porta il cuore (Follow Your Heart) | Susanna Tamaro | Italian | 1994 | 14 |
| The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | English | 1967 | 13 |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | English | 1964 | 13 |
| Noruwei no Mori (Norwegian Wood) | Haruki Murakami | Japanese | 1987 | 12+ |
| Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | English | 1956 | 12 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | English | 1965 | 12 |
| La Peste (The Plague) | Albert Camus | French | 1947 | 12 |
| No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai | Japanese | 1948 | 12 |
| The Naked Ape | Desmond Morris | English | 1968 | 12 |
| The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller | English | 1992 | 12 |
| Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | Italian | 1304 | 12 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | English | 1958 | 11 |
| The Prophet | Khalil Gibran | English | 1923 | 11 |
| The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | English | 1971 | 11 |
| The Gruffalo | Julia Donaldson | English | 1999 | 11 |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | English | 1961 | 10 |
| Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | English | 1978 | 10 |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | English | 1988 | 10 |
| The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss | English | 1957 | 10 |
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | English | 2002 | 10 |
| Wild Swans | Jung Chang | English | 1992 | 10 |
| Santa Evita | Tomás Eloy Martínez | Spanish | 1995 | 10 |
| Night | Elie Wiesel | Yiddish | 1958 | 10 |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | English | 2003 | 10 |
| Yu Dan’s gain from the Analects | Yu Dan | Chinese | 2006 | 10 |
| The Total Woman | Marabel Morgan | English | 1974 | 10 |
| Knowledge-value Revolution | Taichi Sakaiya | Japanese | 1985 | 10 |
| Problems in China’s Socialist Economy | Xue Muqiao | Chinese | 1979 | 10 |
| What Color is Your Parachute? | Richard Nelson Bolles | English | 1970 | 10 |
| The Dukan Diet | Pierre Dukan | French | 2010 | 10 |
I found all this data here. Some of them sound quite interesting, I will have to get onto those.
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Hi there, just stumbled on this web site from digg. It is not an article I would normally read, but I liked your spin on it. Thanx for creating a piece worth reading!
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Thanks, I try to add in information that people will find interesting. Have a look around the rest of my posts, there are plenty!
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