List of best-selling books

This article maintains lists of printed books and book series. For some books a flawless accounting of sales is impossible, which is why such a book is not listed or provided with an expert estimate. " Best selling " refers to the estimated number of copies sold of a book, not on the number of existing copies. Comics are not included in these lists.

List of best-selling books

List of best-selling book series

Over 100 million copies sold

326.22 million to 3.37 billion

Less than 100 million copies sold

Notes

The Lord of the Rings was the author J.R.R. Tolkien wrote it as a standalone book, but published in three volumes. It counts for this reason, to books and not to the book series.

Book frontispiece Bible Koine Greek 1st century BC 1st century Muhammad Charles Dickens Joseph Smith Three Represents Jiang Zemin Agatha Christie The Hobbit Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill Dan Brown Johanna Spyri Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery Charlotte's Web E. B. White Beatrix Potter Richard Bach Elbert Hubbard Louise Hay Wayne Dyer The Alchemist (novel) Paulo Coelho Oxford English Dictionary Harper Lee Jacqueline Susann Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield The Godfather (novel) Mario Puzo Perfume (novel) Lindley Murray All Quiet on the Western Front Erica Jong Shōgun (novel) Ken Follett Dale Carnegie Tuesdays with Morrie Erskine Caldwell The Outsiders (novel) Haruki Murakami Grace Metalious Frank Herbert The Plague Albert Camus The Naked Ape Robert James Waller The Exorcist (novel) Catch-22 Joseph Heller Eye of the Needle Stephen Hawking Alice Sebold Jung Chang Elie Wiesel Yiddish language Khaled Hosseini The Shadow of the Wind Standard Chinese Adolf Hitler Harry Potter Quidditch Through the Ages Enid Blyton Nancy Drew Clive Cussler Musashi (novel) Eiji Yoshikawa Ian Fleming Jack Canfield Noah Webster Dick Bruna Fear Street Tim LaHaye Stephenie Meyer John Gray (U.S. author) Edgar Rice Burroughs J. R. R. Tolkien Novel 1993 April 24 2008 April 16 2007 December 14 2005 May 14 2006 August 5 2002 May 15 May 4 May 31 June 3 June 11 April 4 July 21 June 26 April 14 April 7 Nihon Keizai Shimbun April 1 2003 October 6 October 7 April 5 April 8 September 29 November 24 April 9 September 14 April 27 May 5 November 22 April 11 April 15 April 25 August 22 October 28 May 29 November 20 August 17 1987
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