Best-Selling Books Worldwide - Free Download
The 172 best-selling books of all time ranked by estimated copies sold, with author, original language, and first publication year. Contains 172 records. Download in Excel, CSV, PDF formats.
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| Rank | Book | Author | Original Language | First Published | Approximate Sales | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | English | 1859 | >200 million | Historical fiction |
| 2 | The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | French | 1943 | 200 million | Fantasy |
| 3 | The Alchemist (O Alquimista) | Paulo Coelho | Portuguese | 1988 | 150 million | Fantasy |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J. K. Rowling | English | 1997 | 120 million | Fantasy |
| 5 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | English | 1939 | 100 million | Mystery |
| 6 | Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) | Cao Xueqin | Chinese | 1791 | 100 million | Family saga |
| 7 | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | English | 1937 | 100 million | Fantasy, children's fiction |
| 8 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 1865 | 100 million | Fantasy, absurdist fiction |
| 1 | She: A History of Adventure | H. Rider Haggard | English | 1887 | 83 million | Adventure |
| 2 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | English | 2003 | 80 million | Mystery thriller |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling | English | 1998 | 77 million | Fantasy |
| 4 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | English | 1951 | 65 million | Coming-of-age |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | English | 1999 | 65 million | Fantasy |
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. K. Rowling | English | 2000 | 65 million | Fantasy |
| 7 | Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix | J. K. Rowling | English | 2003 | 65 million | Fantasy |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J. K. Rowling | English | 2005 | 65 million | Fantasy |
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J. K. Rowling | English | 2007 | 65 million | Fantasy |
| 10 | The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller | English | 1992 | 60 million | Romance |
| 11 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) | Gabriel García Márquez | Spanish | 1967 | 50 million | Magic realism |
| 12 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | English | 1955 | 50 million | Novel |
| 13 | Heidi | Johanna Spyri | German | 1880 | 50 million | Children's fiction |
| 14 | The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | Benjamin Spock | English | 1946 | 50 million | Manual |
| 15 | Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery | English | 1908 | 50 million | Children's novel |
| 16 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | English | 1877 | 50 million | Children's literature |
| 17 | The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa) | Umberto Eco | Italian | 1980 | 50 million | Historical novel, mystery |
| 18 | The Eagle Has Landed | Jack Higgins | English | 1975 | 50 million | War, thriller |
| 19 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | English | 1972 | 50 million | Children's fiction |
| 20 | The Hite Report | Shere Hite | English | 1976 | 50 million | nonfiction |
| 21 | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | English | 1952 | 50 million | Children's fiction |
| 22 | The Ginger Man | J. P. Donleavy | English | 1955 | 50 million | Novel |
| 23 | The Purpose Driven Life | Rick Warren | English | 2002 | 50 million | Bible study |
| 1 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | English | 1902 | 45 million | Children's literature |
| 2 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | English | 1970 | 44 million | Novella, self-help |
| 3 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | English | 1969 | 43 million | Children's literature, picture book |
| 4 | A Message to Garcia | Elbert Hubbard | English | 1899 | 40 million | Essay/literature |
| 5 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | English | 1960 | 40 million | Southern Gothic, Bildungsroman |
| 6 | Flowers in the Attic | V. C. Andrews | English | 1979 | 40 million | Gothic horror, family saga |
| 7 | Cosmos | Carl Sagan | English | 1980 | 40 million | Popular science, anthropology, astrophysics, cosmology, philosophy, history |
| 8 | Sophie's World (Sofies verden) | Jostein Gaarder | Norwegian | 1991 | 40 million | Philosophical novel, Young adult |
| 9 | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown | English | 2000 | 39 million | mystery-thriller |
| 10 | Alcoholics Anonymous | William Griffith Wilson | English | 1939 | over 37 million | Self-help |
| 11 | Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | English | 1979 | 37 million | Novel |
| 12 | Fear of Flying | Erica Jong | English | 1973 | 37 million | Romantic novel |
| 13 | How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь) | Nikolai Ostrovsky | Russian | 1932 | 36.4 million copies in USSR | Socialist realist novel |
| 14 | War and Peace (Война и мир) | Leo Tolstoy | Russian | 1869 | 36 million copies in Russia | Historical novel |
| 15 | The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) | Carlo Collodi | Italian | 1881 | 35 million | Fantasy, children's fiction |
| 16 | The Diary of Anne Frank (Het Achterhuis) | Anne Frank | Dutch | 1947 | 35 million | Historical non-fiction, autobiography, memoir, bildungsroman / coming of age, Jewish literature |
| 17 | Your Erroneous Zones | Wayne Dyer | English | 1976 | 35 million | Self-help |
| 18 | The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | English | 1977 | 33 million | Romantic family saga |
| 19 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | English | 2003 | 31.5 million | Bildungsroman, historical fiction |
| 20 | Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann | English | 1966 | 31 million | Novel |
| 21 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | English | 1936 | Over 30 million | Self-help |
| 22 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | English | 1925 | 30 million ("around") | Novel, tragedy |
| 23 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | English | 1936 | 30 million (est.) | Historical fiction |
| 24 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | English | 1938 | 30 million (est.) | Gothic novel |
| 25 | The Revolt of Mamie Stover | William Bradford Huie | English | 1951 | 30 million | Fiction |
| 26 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) | Stieg Larsson | Swedish | 2005 | 30 million | Fiction |
| 27 | The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown | English | 2009 | 30 million | Fiction |
| 28 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | English | 2008 | 29 million in US | Young adult fiction |
| 29 | James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | English | 1961 | 28 million | Children's novel |
| 30 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Lew Wallace | English | 1880 | 26 million in 1946 | Novel |
| 31 | The Young Guard (Молодая гвардия) | Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev | Russian | 1945 | 26 million copies in USSR | Young adult historical novel |
| 32 | Who Moved My Cheese? | Spencer Johnson | English | 1998 | 28 – 30 million | Self-help, motivational, business fable, psychology, leadership, parable |
| 33 | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | English | 1988 | 25 million | Popular science |
| 34 | Paul et Virginie | Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | French | 1788 | 25 million | Novel |
| 35 | Lust for Life | Irving Stone | English | 1934 | 25 million | Biographical novel |
| 36 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | English | 1908 | 25 million | Children's literature |
| 37 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | English | 1989 | 25 million | Self-help |
| 38 | Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (窓ぎわのトットちゃん) | Tetsuko Kuroyanagi | Japanese | 1981 | 25 million | Autobiographical novel |
| 39 | Virgin Soil Upturned (Поднятая целина) | Mikhail Sholokhov | Russian | 1935 | 24 million copies in USSR | Novel |
| 40 | The Celestine Prophecy | James Redfield | English | 1993 | 23 million | New-age spiritual novel |
| 41 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | English | 2012 | 23 million | Young adult romantic novel |
| 42 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | English | 2015 | 23 million | Thriller |
| 43 | The Shack | William P. Young | English | 2007 | 22.5 million | Novel |
| 44 | Uncle Styopa (Дядя Стёпа) | Sergey Mikhalkov | Russian | 1936 | 21 million copies in USSR | Children's Literature, picture book |
| 45 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | English | 1969 | 21 million | Crime novel |
| 46 | Love Story | Erich Segal | English | 1970 | 21 million | Romance novel |
| 47 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | English | 2009 | 21 million in US | Young adult novel, adventure, dystopian, science fiction |
| 48 | Mockingjay | Suzanne Collins | English | 2010 | 20 million in US | Young Adult novel, adventure, war, science fiction, action thriller |
| 49 | Kitchen (キッチン) | Banana Yoshimoto | Japanese | 1988 | 20 million | Japanese novel |
| 50 | Andromeda Nebula (Туманность Андромеды) | Ivan Yefremov | Russian | 1957 | 20 million | Science fiction novel |
| 51 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | English | 2012 | 20 million | Crime thriller novel |
| 52 | The Bermuda Triangle | Charles Berlitz | English | 1974 | 20 million | |
| 53 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | English | 1958 | 20 million | Novel |
| 54 | Wolf Totem (狼图腾) | Jiang Rong | Chinese | 2004 | 20 million | Semi-autobiographical novel |
| 55 | The Happy Hooker: My Own Story | Xaviera Hollander | English | 1971 | 20 million | Memoir |
| 56 | Jaws | Peter Benchley | English | 1974 | 20 million | Thriller |
| 57 | Love You Forever | Robert Munsch | English | 1986 | 20 million | Children's literature, picture book, fiction |
| 58 | The Women's Room | Marilyn French | English | 1977 | 20 million | Feminist novel |
| 59 | What to Expect When You're Expecting | Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff | English | 1984 | 20 million | Pregnancy guide |
| 60 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | English | 1885 | 20 million | Picaresque novel, Bildungsroman, satire, Robinsonade |
| 61 | The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ | Sue Townsend | English | 1982 | 20 million | Young adult novel |
| 62 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | English | 1813 | 20 million | Classic regency novel, romance |
| 63 | Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen) | Thor Heyerdahl | Norwegian | 1950 | 20 million | Travel literature |
| 64 | The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války) | Jaroslav Hašek | Czech | 1923 | 20 million (printed) | Unfinished satirical dark comedy novel |
| 65 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | English | 1963 | 20 million | Children's picture book |
| 66 | The Power of Positive Thinking | Norman Vincent Peale | English | 1952 | 20 million | Self-help |
| 67 | The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | English | 2006 | 20 million | Self-help |
| 68 | Dune | Frank Herbert | English | 1965 | 20 million | Science fiction novel |
| 69 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | English | 1964 | 20 million | Children's fantasy novel |
| 70 | The Naked Ape | Desmond Morris | English | 1968 | 20 million | Social Science, Anthropology, Psychology |
| 71 | Kokoro (こゝろ) | Natsume Sōseki | Japanese | 1914 | 20 million (as of 1994) | Novel |
| 1 | Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | English | 2018 | 18 million | Coming-of-age, murder mystery |
| 2 | Follow Your Heart (Va' dove ti porta il cuore) | Susanna Tamaro | Italian | 1994 | 18 million | Sentimental, epistolary novel |
| 3 | Matilda | Roald Dahl | English | 1988 | 17 million | Children's literature |
| 4 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | English | 2005 | 16 million | Young adult fiction |
| 5 | The Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans | English | 1995 | 16 million | |
| 6 | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | English | 1947 | 16 million | Children's literature |
| 7 | The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte) | Michael Ende | German | 1979 | 16 million | Children's literature |
| 8 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | English | 2014 | 15.3 million | Historical fiction, war novel |
| 9 | Fifty Shades of Grey | E. L. James | English | 2011 | 15.2 million in the U.S. | Erotica |
| 10 | The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | English | 1967 | 15 million | |
| 11 | Guess How Much I Love You | Sam McBratney | English | 1994 | 15 million | |
| 12 | Shōgun | James Clavell | English | 1975 | 15 million | |
| 13 | The Poky Little Puppy | Janette Sebring Lowrey | English | 1942 | 15 million | |
| 14 | The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | English | 1989 | 15 million | Historical fiction |
| 15 | Perfume (Das Parfum) | Patrick Süskind | German | 1985 | 15 million | |
| 16 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | English | 1939 | 15 million | |
| 17 | The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento) | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Spanish | 2001 | 15 million | |
| 18 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | English | 2000 | 15 million | |
| 19 | Becoming | Michelle Obama | English | 2018 | 14 million | Memoir |
| 20 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | English | 1979 | 14 million | Science fiction |
| 21 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | English | 1997 | 14 million | |
| 22 | God's Little Acre | Erskine Caldwell | English | 1933 | 14 million | |
| 23 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | English | 1962 | 14 million | |
| 24 | Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | English | 1994 | 14 million | |
| 25 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | English | 1952 | 13 million | |
| 26 | Life After Life | Raymond Moody | English | 1975 | 13 million | |
| 27 | Momo | Michael Ende | German | 1973 | 13 million | Children's literature |
| 28 | Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | English | 1956 | 12.1 million | |
| 29 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | English | 1993 | 12 million | Dystopian fiction |
| 30 | Me Before You | Jojo Moyes | English | 2012 | 12 million | |
| 31 | Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森) | Haruki Murakami | Japanese | 1987 | 12 million | |
| 32 | The Plague (La Peste) | Albert Camus | French | 1947 | 12 million | |
| 33 | No Longer Human (人間失格) | Osamu Dazai | Japanese | 1948 | 12 million | |
| 34 | Man's Search for Meaning (Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager) | Viktor Frankl | German | 1946 | 12 million | |
| 35 | The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck | Mark Manson | English | 2016 | 12 million | |
| 36 | The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) | Dante Alighieri | Italian | 1304 | 11–12 million(during the 20th century) | |
| 37 | Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy | Lynley Dodd | English | 1983 | 11 million | Children's literature, picture book |
| 38 | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | English | 1923 | 11 million | |
| 39 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | John Boyne | English | 2006 | 11 million | |
| 40 | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | English | 1971 | 11 million | Horror |
| 41 | The Gruffalo | Julia Donaldson | English | 1999 | 10.5 million | Children's literature, picture book |
| 42 | Fifty Shades Darker | E. L. James | English | 2012 | 10.4 million in the U.S. | Erotica |
| 43 | Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell | English | 1932 | 10 million | |
| 44 | Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | Astrid Lindgren | Swedish | 1981 | 10 million | |
| 45 | The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss | English | 1957 | 10.5 million | Children's literature, picture book |
| 46 | Diana: Her True Story | Andrew Morton | English | 1992 | 10 million | |
| 47 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | English | 2009 | 10 million | |
| 48 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | English | 1961 | 10 million | |
| 49 | The Stranger (L'Étranger) | Albert Camus | French | 1942 | 10 million | |
| 50 | Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | English | 1978 | 10 million | |
| 51 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | English | 2002 | 10 million | |
| 52 | Wild Swans | Jung Chang | English | 1992 | 10 million | |
| 53 | Santa Evita | Tomás Eloy Martínez | Spanish | 1995 | 10 million | |
| 54 | Night (Un di Velt Hot Geshvign) | Elie Wiesel | Yiddish | 1958 | 10 million | |
| 55 | Confucius from the Heart (于丹《论语》心得) | Yu Dan | Chinese | 2006 | 10 million | |
| 56 | The Total Woman | Marabel Morgan | English | 1974 | 10 million | |
| 57 | Knowledge-value Revolution (知価革命) | Taichi Sakaiya | Japanese | 1985 | 10 million | |
| 58 | Problems in China's Socialist Economy (中国社会主义经济问题研究) | Xue Muqiao | Chinese | 1979 | 10 million | |
| 59 | What Color Is Your Parachute? | Richard Nelson Bolles | English | 1970 | 10 million | |
| 60 | The Dukan Diet | Pierre Dukan | French | 2000 | 10 million | |
| 61 | The Joy of Sex | Alex Comfort | English | 1972 | 10 million | |
| 62 | The Gospel According to Peanuts | Robert L. Short | English | 1965 | 10 million | |
| 63 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | English | 2001 | 10 million | |
| 64 | The Front Runner | Patricia Nell Warren | English | 1974 | 10 million | |
| 65 | The Goal | Eliyahu M. Goldratt | English | 1984 | 10 million | |
| 66 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | English | 1953 | 10 million | |
| 67 | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | English | 1996 | 10 million | |
| 68 | The Story of My Experiments with Truth (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા) | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Gujarati | 1925–1929 | 10 million | |
| 69 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding | English | 1996 | 10 million (as of 2005) | |
| 70 | It Ends with Us | Colleen Hoover | English | 2016 | 10 million | Romance, Fiction |