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- Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $15.30. Copies sold: 500 million. The highest selling and most translated book of all time, "Don Quixote", is also considered the first modern novel, published in two parts, one in 1605 and the other in 1615.
- A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $7.36. Copies sold: 200 million. In a story that famously begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," Dr. Manette has just spent 18 years as a political prisoner, finally released to be with his daughter, Lucie, in London.
- The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $10.09. Copies sold: 150 million. "The Fellowship of the Ring" is the first installment of the epic fantasy series "The Lord of the Rings."
- Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, available at Amazon and Bookshop, from $6. Copies sold: 140 million. "Le Petit Prince" ("The Little Prince") is a beloved French children's book that uses elements of fantasy to tell an emotional and reflective story of life's greatest lessons.
According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best sold book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 190 million copies for the Book of Mormon.
BookAuthor (s)Original LanguageFirst PublishedEnglish1902English1970English1969English1899- Anne of Green Gables
- Heidi
- Lolita
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ
- The Bridges of Madison County
- The Catcher in The Rye
- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix
Author: L.M. Montgomery Country: Canada Publication Date: 1908 Estimated Sales: 50 million copies The tale of a free-spirited orphan girl who comes to live in Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, Canada is a classic children's story. The relationship between her and her foster parents—who were expecting a boy, but grow to adore her anyway—made the book a...
Author: Johanna Spyri Country: Switzerland Publication Date: 1880-1881 Estimated Sales: 50 million copies Heidi is a children's novel about a young girl, orphaned at a young age and raised by her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. She gains exposure to the outside world through her relationship with Klara, a wealthy girl in Frankfurt who's lost the abi...
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Country: United States Publication Date: 1955 Estimated Sales: 50 million copies Publishers were originally afraid to touch Nabokov's most famous novel, about an English professor who becomes sexually infatuated with a 12-year-old girl. Since then, it's been turned into a play, an opera, and two films, the first of which wa...
Author: Gabriel García Márquez Country: Colombia Publication Date: 1967 Estimated Sales: 50 million copies A dark, dramatic novel filled with magical realism, Marquez's magnus opus tells the story of the Buendía family, which founded the fictional town of Macondo. It is an epic tale that follows the family for seven generations, as family members a...
Author: Lew Wallace Country: United States Publication Date: 1880 Estimated Sales: 50 million copies The central conceit of the novel is a fantastic one. The reader follows the life of Judah Ben-Hur, a man who lives at the same time as Jesus, meets him, and bears witness to his Crucifixion. Today, the book is best known in popular culture via its m...
Author: Robert James Waller Country:United States Publication Date:1992 Estimated Sales: 60 million copies This is a romance novel about an Italian American war bride, who carries on a passionate affair with a traveling photographer while her family is at the State Fair. In 1995, Clint Eastwood turned it into a romantic drama starring himself and M...
Author: J.D. Salinger Country: United States Publication Date: 1951 Estimated Sales: 65 million copies The definitive coming-of-age tale of an adolescent male, The Catcher in the Ryewas Salinger's only full-length novel. It made Holden Caulfield, expelled prep student and hater of all things "phony," a literary hero—or antihero, depending on how mu...
Author: J.K. Rowling Country: United Kingdom Publication Date: 2007 Estimated Sales: 65 million copies In the seventh and final book in the Potter series, Harry, Hermione, and Ron are on the run, on a mission to weaken and defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all. Its launch was accompanied by a massive anti-spoiler campaign, and debates about Snape'...
Author: J.K. Rowling Country: United Kingdom Publication Date: 2005 Estimated Sales: 65 million copies The sixth and seventh Potter books are companions of sorts; Half-Blood Prince is the exposition, with lots of talking, explanation, and setting of stakes—and Deathly Hallowsis the follow-through. In Book 6, Harry learns all he can about Lord Volde...
Author: J.K. Rowling Country: United Kingdom Publication Date: 2003 Estimated Sales: 65 million copies Book 5 is the longest of the seven, and when it initially launched, it was considered by many to be the weakest link; it takes awhile for the plot to get rolling, and Harry is really angry for the entire book. But time has been kind to it. It's th...
25 Best-Selling Books of All-Time. #1 – Don Quixote ( 500 million copies sold) by Miguel de Cervantes. Print | eBook | Audiobook. #2 – A Tale of Two Cities ( 200 million copies sold) by Charles Dickens. Print | eBook | Audiobook. #3 – The Lord of the Rings ( 150 million copies sold) by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. Since October 12, 1931, The New York Times Book Review has published the list weekly.
Nov 8, 2022 · With these caveats in mind, here is a current list of the 22 best-selling books of all time, as far as we can tell. Contents. "Xinhua Zidian" – 567 million. "Don Quixote de la Mancha" – 500 million. "A Tale of Two Cities" – 200 million. "The Lord of the Rings" – 150 million.
The best-selling book of all time is the Christian Bible. It is impossible to know exactly how many copies have been printed in the roughly 1,500 years since its contents were standardized, but research conducted by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 2021 suggests that the total number probably lies between 5 and 7 billion copies.
