Throughout history hundreds of thousands have been the books that have been published in each country of the world, but only a few have managed to sell a few million copies and only a select few have managed to be present in the list of the 100 best-selling books in history that we offer you today and that will surely surprise many of you.
The list is topped with more than 200 million copies sold an authentic work of art of literature, "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens and followed by "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Little Prince." In the list we can find a few very famous books worldwide, but also some works that may be somewhat unknown to most.
Without further ado we leave you with the list of the 100 best-selling books in history so that you can browse, observe and scrutinize it slowly and calmly.
1. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (UK) - Over 200 million
2. The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien (UK) - 150 million
3. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery (France) - More than 100 million
4. The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien (UK) - Over 100 million
5. Dream in the Red Pavilion, by Cao Xueqi (China) - More than 100 million
6. Triple representation, of Jiang Zeming (China) - More than 100 million
7. Ten Little Blacks, by Agatha Christie (UK) - 100 million
8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by CS Lewis (UK) - 85 million
9. Ella, by Henry Rider Haggard (UK) - 83 million
10. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (USA.) - 80 million
11. Catcher in the Rye, by JDSalinger (USA.) - 65 million
12. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (Brazil) - 65 million
13. The Way to Christ, by Ellen G. White (USA.) - 60 million
14. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri (Switzerland) - 50 million
15. Your Son, by Dr. Benjamin Spock (USA.) - 50 million
16. Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canada) - 50 million
17. Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell (UK) - 50 million
18. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco (Italy) - 50 million
19. The Hite report, by Shere Hite (USA.) - 48 million
20. The Mischievous Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter (UK) - 45 million
21. Harry Potter and the Hallows…, by JK Rowlling (UK) - 44 million
22. Juan Salvador Gaviota, by Richard Bach (USA.) - 40 million
23. A Message to Garcia, by Elbert Hubbard (USA.) - 40 million
24. Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown (USA.) - 39 million
25. This is how the steel was tempered, by Nikolai Ostrovsky (Russia) - 36,4 million
26. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (Russia) - 36 million
27. The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi (Italy) - 35 million
28. You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay (USA.) - 35 million
29. Kane and Abel, by Jeffrey Archer (UK) - 34 million
30. 50 Shades of Gray, by EL James (USA.) - 31 million
31. Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank (Netherlands) - 30 million
32. In His Steps, by Charles M. Sheldon (USA.) - 30 million
33. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) - 30 million
34. A Purpose Driven Life, by Rick Warren (USA.) - 30 million
35. The Thorn Bird, by Colleen McCullough (Australia) - 30 million
36. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (USA.) - 30 million
37. The Valley of the Dolls, by Jaqueline Susann (USA.) - 30 million
38. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (USA.) - 30 million
39. Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill (USA.) - 30 million
40. The rebelliousness of Mrs. Stover, by WB Huie (USA.) - 30 million
41. Men Who Didn't Love Women, by S. Larsson (Sweden) - 30 million
42. The gluttonous caterpillar, by Eric Carle (USA.) - 30 million
43. The Agony of the Great Planet Earth, by H. Lindsey (USA.) 28 million
44. Who Moved My Cheese ?, by Spencer Johnson (USA.) 26 million
45. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame (UK) - 25 million
46. 1984, by George Orwell (UK) - 25 million
47. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins (USA.) - More than 23 million
48. The Nine Revelations, by James Redfield (USA.) - 23 million
49. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo (USA.) - 21 million
50. Love Story, by Erich Segal (USA.) - 21 million
51. Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong (USA.) - 20 million
52. The happy prostitute, by Xaviera Hollander (Holland) - 20 million
53. Tiburon, by Peter Benchley (USA.) - 20 million
54. I will always love you, by Robert Munsch (Canada) - 20 million
55. For Women Only, by Marilyn French (USA.) - 20 million
56. Sofia's World, by Jostein Gaarder (Norway) - 20 million
57. What to Expect When You're Expecting, by H. Murkoff (USA.) - 20 million
58. Where the monsters live, by Maurice Sendak (USA.) - 19 million
59. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne (Australia) - 19 million
60. Fear of flying, by Erica Jong (USA.) - 18 million
61. Goodnight Luna, by Margaret Wise Brown (USA.) - 16 million
62. Shogun, by James Clavell (UK) - 15 million
70. The shadow of the wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spain) - 15 million
71. The Cabin, by William P. Young (Canada) - 15 million
72. On Fire, by Suzanne Collins (USA.) - More than 14 million
73. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (UK) - 14 million
74. Tuesday with my old teacher, by Mitch Albom (USA.) - 14 million
75. God's Plot, by Erskine Caldwell (USA.) - 14 million
76. Where the heart takes you, by Susanna Tamaro (Italy) - 14 million
77. Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (USA.) - More than 13 million
78. Rebeldes, by Susan E. Hinton (USA.) - 13 million
79. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl (UK) - 13 million
80. Tokio Blues, by Haruki Murakami (Japan) - 12 million
63. Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney (UK) - 15 million
64. The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett (UK) - 15 million
65. The 7 habits of people…, by SR Covey (USA.) - 15 million
66. How to Win Friends ... by Dale Carnegie (USA.) - 15 million
67. Little Poky Dog, by J. Sebring Lowrey (USA.) - 15 million
68. Perfume, by Patrick Süskind (Germany) - 15 million
81. Peyton Place, by Grace Metalious (USA.) - 12 million
82. Dune, by Frank Herbert (USA.) - 12 million
83. The Plague, by Albert Camus (France) - 12 million
84. Unworthy of being human, by Osamu Dazay (Japan) - 12 million
85. The Naked Monkey, by Desmond Morris (UK) - 12 million
86. The Bridges of Madison, by Robert James Waller (USA.) - 12 million
87. Everything Falls Apart, from Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) - 11 million
88. The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran (Lebanon) - 11 million
89. The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty (USA.) - 11 million
90. Trampa-22, by Joseph Heller (USA.) - 10 million
91. Island of Storms, by Ken Follett (UK) - 10 million
92. A History of Time, by Stephen Hawking (UK) - 10 million
93. The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss (USA.) - 10 million
94. From my sky, by Alice Sebold (USA.) - 10 million
95. Wild Swans, by Jung Chang (UK) - 10 million
96. Santa Evita, by Tomás Eloy Martínez (Argentina) - 10 million
97. The Night, by Elie Wiesel (Romania) - 10 million
98. Kites in the Sky, by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) - 10 million
99. The Analects of Confucius, by Yu Dan (China) - 10 million
100. Future Story, by Taichi Sakaiya (Japan) - 10 million
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I suspect that the bible, or the quran, gives a review to any of those, but they should not be included because they are not published by the "mainstream" publishers.
There is also a significant bias towards old books. Logically, Dickens has had much more time to sell books than, say, Pérez-Reverte.
Hello Jesus.
I am the author of the blog from which the entry was taken. I invite you to read it and integrate it into my blog so that you understand why the Bible and the Koran are not included. I leave the link here in case you want to take a look at it: http://laslecturasdemrdavidmore.blogspot.com/2014/09/los-100-libros-mas-vendidos-del-mundo.html
It is curious to me that Shakespeare or Cervantes do not appear to name one.
I thought pride and prejudice would be there, or some of Jane Austen's. I understand that they are quite famous
And how many of those 100 have you read? I have counted 22.
I miss «Don Quixote» (Cervantes) and «Elements of Geometry» by Euclides
friend and and the 1000 million sold of the harry potter saga, has the earth swallowed them ??????
I follow this web page frequently and two weeks ago (we are in the middle of May 2015) I was bothered by both the tone and the way in which a user, in his comment, addressed the editor and, although it was not serious, This is how I stated in said article: https://www.todoereaders.com/por-que-leemos-a-diario-en-la-cama-y-no-en-otros-lugares.html. The fact is that today I came across this article, written by the same editor, and I understand the comments made by David Sánchez (from Mr DavidMore Readings) that allude to its authorship. I think it would be fair to put it on record. Thanks. All the best.