Best-Selling Books of All-Time
This page includes a list of the 25 best-selling books of all-time as well as the 25 best-selling book series of all-time. Best-selling books are ranked by number of copies sold, not my personal ratings.
Also, it is worth noting that some religious and political books such as The Bible, Quran, and Quotations from Chairman Mao are believed to have more than a billion copies each in existence. However, sales numbers for these books are nearly impossible to track because many are given away by churches or governments. Additionally, these books have often been printed by a wide range of publishers over centuries, many of them unreported. For these reasons, major religious and political texts are not listed here, but we can all agree that they are among the top selling books of all-time.
25 Best-Selling Books of All-Time
#1 – Don Quixote
#2 – A Tale of Two Cities
#3 – The Lord of the Rings
#4 – The Little Prince
#5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
#6 – And Then There Were None
#7 – The Dream of the Red Chamber
#9 – She: A History of Adventure
#10 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
#11 – The Da Vinci Code
#12 – Think and Grow Rich
#13 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
#14 – The Catcher in the Rye
#16 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
#17 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
#18 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
#19 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
#20 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
#21 – One Hundred Years of Solitude
#23 – Anne of Green Gables
#24 – Charlotte’s Web
25 Best-Selling Book Series of All-Time
#1 – Harry Potter series
#2 – Goosebumps series
#3 – Perry Mason series
#4 – Berenstain Bears series
#5 – Choose Your Own Adventure series
#7 – Noddy series
#9 – Thomas the Tank Engine series
#10 – San-Antonio series
#11 – Robert Langdon series
#12 – The Baby-sitters Club
#13 – Star Wars series
#14 – Little Critter series
#16 – Chicken Soup for the Soul series
#17 – American Girl series
#18 – The Chronicles of Narnia series
#19 – Mr. Men
#20 – The Twilight Saga
#21 – Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
#22 – Clifford the Big Red Dog series
#23 – James Bond 007 series
#24 – Martine
The Best Books of All-Time
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