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List of best-selling books

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This is a list of best-selling books that are not comic books or textbooks. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling book in the world is The Bible.

Religious Books[change | change source]

1) The Bible - between 5,000,000,000 and 7,000,000,000 copies [1]

2) The Quran - 800,000,000 copies [1]

3) The Book of Mormon - 192, 000,000 copies [2]

4) The Bhagavad Gita - 140,000,000 copies [2]

Political Books[change | change source]

The Little Red Book - more than 900,000,000 copies [3]

List of Bestsellers that are not religious or political[change | change source]

1) A Tale of Two Cities - more than 200,000,000 copies [3]

2) The Little Prince - 200,000,000 copies [4]

3) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 120,000,000 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 | change source]

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