These books have the ultimate recommendation: the hard earned vote paid for by the greenbacks of everyday readers. How people spend their money says a lot. Here are the Top 100 Best Selling Books of All Time According to Wikipedia:
1. The Bible ~ Christian Scripture Written by Christ’s Apostles and Disciples ~ 6 Billion Copies *FREE COPY
2. Quotations From Chairman Mao ~ Quotations from Mao Zedong; collected by the PLA Daily of the People’s Liberation Army and signed by Lin Biao ~ 900 Million Copies
3. The Koran ~ Traditional Muslim view: Revelation by Allah (God) through Angel Gabriel to Prophet Muhammad ~ 800 million
4. Xinhua Zidian ~ Wei Jiangong ~ 400 million
5. Chairman Mao’s Poems ~ Mao Zedong ~ 400 million
6. Harry Potter (Complete Series) ~ 400 million ~ *Wikipedia
7. Selected Works of Mao Zedong ~ Mao Zedong ~ 326.22 million
8. The New Park Street Pulpit and The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Penny Sermons ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~ 300 million
9. Goosebumps ~ R.L.Stine ~ 300 million *Wikipedia
10. Perry Mason ~ Erle Stanley Gardner ~ 300 million *Wikipedia
11. Berenstain Bears ~ Stan and Jan Berenstain ~ 260 million *Wikipedia
12. Choose Your Own Adventure ~ various authors ~ 250 million *Wikipedia
13. Sweet Valley High ~Francine Pascal and ghostwriters ~ 250 million *Wikipedia
14. A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens ~ 200 million *Wikipedia
15. Noddy ~ Enid Blyton ~ 200 million
16. Nancy Drew ~ various authors as Carolyn Keene ~ 200 million *Wikipedia
17. The Railway Series ~ Rev. W. Awdry, Christopher Awdry ~ 200 million
18. The Baby-sitters Club ~ Ann Martin ~ 172 million *Wikipedia
19. Star Wars ~ various authors ~ 160 million
20. The Book of Mormon ~ Multiple Authors; translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. ~ 150 million *FREE COPY
21. Peter Rabbit ~ Beatrix Potter ~ 150 million *Wikipedia
22. Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship ~ Robert Baden-Powell ~150 million
23. The Lord of the Rings ~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~ 150 million *Wikipedia
24. Chicken Soup for the Soul ~ Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen ~ 130 million
25. The McGuffey Readers ~ William Holmes McGuffey ~ 125 million
26. Frank Merriwell ~ Gilbert Patten ~ 125 million *Wikipedia
27. Dirk Pitt ~ Clive Cussler ~ 120 million ~ *Wikipedia
28. Musashi ~ Eiji Yoshikawa ~ 120 million ~ *Wikipedia
29. American Girl ~ various authors ~ 120 million *Wikipedia
30. The Chronicles of Narnia ~ C. S. Lewis ~ 120 million *Wikipedia
31. Clifford the Big Red Dog ~ Norman Bridwell ~ 110 million *Wikipedia
32. The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life ~ Jehovah’s Witnesses ~ 107 million
33. James Bond ~ Ian Fleming ~ more than 100 million *Wikipedia
34. Twilight ~ Stephenie Meyer ~ 100 million *Wikipedia
35. Mr. Men ~Roger Hargreaves, Adam Hargreaves ~ 100 million *Wikipedia
36. Guinness World Records ~ various authors ~ 100 million *Wikipedia
37. Webster’s Dictionary ~ Noah Webster ~ 100 million
38. On the Three Representations ~ Jiang Zemin ~ 100 million
39. And Then There Were None ~ Agatha Christie ~ 100 million *Wikipedia
40. The Hobbit ~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~ 100 million *Wikipedia
41. Dream of the Red Chamber ~ Cao Xueqin ~ 100 million
42. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ~ C. S. Lewis ~ 85 million *Wikipedia
43. Miffy ~ Dick Bruna ~ 85 million
44. She ~ H. Rider Haggard ~ 83 million *Wikipedia
45. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ~ 80 million *Wikipedia
46. The Da Vinci Code ~ Dan Brown ~ 80 million *Wikipedia
47. World Almanac ~ various authors ~ 80 million
48. Fear Street ~ R. L. Stine ~ 80 million
49. Rokusei Senjutsu (Six-Star Astrology) ~ Kazuko Hosoki ~ 79 million
50. OSS 117 ~ Jean Bruce ~ 75 million
51. Winnie-the-Pooh ~ A. A. Milne ~ 70 million *Wikipedia
52. The Catcher in the Rye ~ J. D. Salinger ~ 65 million *Wikipedia
53. O Alquimista (The Alchemist) ~ Paulo Coelho ~ 65 million *Wikipedia
54. Left Behind ~ Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins ~ 65 million
55. A Series of Unfortunate Events ~ Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler ~ 60 million *Wikipedia
56. Steps to Christ ~ Ellen G. White ~ 60 million
57. Arch Books (Lantern Books) ~ various authors ~58 million
58. Discworld ~ Terry Pratchett ~ 55 million
59. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary ~ Merriam-Webster ~ 55 million
60. Magic Tree House series ~ Mary Pope Osborne ~ 53 million
61. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus ~ John Gray ~50 million
62. The Hardy Boys ~ various authors as Franklin W. Dixon ~ 50 million
63. The Bobbsey Twins ~ various authors as Laura Lee Hope ~ 50 million
64. Tarzan ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ 50 million
65. Heidi ~ Johanna Spyri ~ 50 million ~ *Wikipedia
66. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ~ Benjamin Spock ~ 50 million
67. Anne of Green Gables ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery ~ 50 million *Wikipedia
68. Black Beauty ~ Anna Sewell ~ 50 million *Wikipedia
69. Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) ~ Umberto Eco ~ 50 million *Wikipedia
70. Where’s Wally? ~ Martin Handford ~ 46 million
71. Charlotte’s Web ~ E.B. White ~ 45 million *Wikipedia
72. The Tale of Peter Rabbit ~ Beatrix Potter ~ 45 million *Wikipedia
73. A Child’s First Library Of Learning ~ various authors ~ 45 million
75. Junie B. Jones ~ Barbara Park ~ 44 million
76. The Wheel of Time ~ Robert Jordan ~ 44 million
77. Jonathan Livingston Seagull ~ Richard Bach ~ 40 million *Wikipedia
78. A Message to Garcia ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ 40 million *Wikipedia
79. Roget’s Thesaurus ~ Peter Mark Roget ~ 40 million
80. The principle of Mathematics ~ Hong Sung-dae ~ 40 million
81. Millennium Trilogy ~ Stieg Larsson ~ 40 million
82. Angels and Demons ~ Dan Brown ~ 39 million *Wikipedia
83. Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book ~ various authors ~ 38 million
84. How the Steel Was Tempered ~ Nikolai Ostrovsky ~ 36.4 million
85. War and Peace ~ Leo Tolstoy ~ 36 million *Wikipedia
86. The Adventures of Pinocchio ~ Carlo Collodi ~ 35 million *Wikipedia
87. You Can Heal Your Life ~ Louise Hay ~ 35 million
84. Paddington Bear ~ Michael Bond ~ 35 million
85. Kane and Abel ~ Jeffrey Archer ~ 34 million *Wikipedia
86. The Diary of Anne Frank ~ Anne Frank ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
87. In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? ~ Charles M. Sheldon ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
88. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary ~ A. S. Hornby ~ 30 million
89. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
90. Gone with the Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
91. One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel García Márquez ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
92. The Purpose Driven Life ~ Rick Warren ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
93. The Thorn Birds ~ Colleen McCullough ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
94. Think and Grow Rich ~ Napoleon Hill ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
95. Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book ~ Bill Wilson ~ 30 million
96. The Very Hungry Caterpillar ~ Eric Carle ~ 30 million *Wikipedia
97. The Late, Great Planet Earth ~ Hal Lindsey ~ 28 million *Wikipedia
98. Betty Crocker Cookbook ~ various authors as Betty Crocker ~ 27 million
99. Curious George ~ Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey ~ 27 million
100. Who Moved My Cheese? ~ Spencer Johnson ~ 26 million *Wikipedia
Book |
Author(s) |
Original language |
First published |
Approximate sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| القرآن (The Qur’ān) (Koran) | Traditional Muslim view: Revelation by Allah (God) through Angel Gabriel to Prophet Muhammad | Classical Arabic | 610-632 A.D | 3.5 billion to more than 6.5 Billion (this reference doesn’t support the claim)[1] |
| Bible[2] (Koine Greek τὰ Βιβλία –hebrew ” התנ”ך ” ) | Authors of the Bible | Hebrew, Koine Greek, Aramaic, Latin | 300 BC- 95 AD,
Further information: dating of the Bible
|
2.5 billion[3] to more than 6 billion[4] |