:List of best-selling books

This page provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language. "Best-selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources.

According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5{{nbsp}}billion copies sold and distributed.{{cite web|title=Best selling book of non-fiction|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/best-selling-book-of-non-fiction|publisher=Guinness World Records|access-date=15 March 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315025558/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/best-selling-book-of-non-fiction|archive-date=15 March 2015}} Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least {{nowrap|800 million}} copies for the Qur'an and 200 million copies for the Book of Mormon.{{cite news |title=Episode 169: Elder Dale G. Renlund on his testimony of the Book of Mormon and the Church's distribution of 200 million copies of the sacred text |url=https://www.thechurchnews.com/podcast/2024/1/2/24022271/episode-169-elder-dale-g-renlund-testimony-book-of-mormon-200-million-copies/#:~:text=In%201830%2C%20the%20Church%20printed,doubled%20to%20200%20million%20copies. |access-date=October 14, 2024 |agency=Church News |publisher=Deseret News |date=February 1, 2024}} Also, a single publisher has produced more than 162.1 million copies of the Bhagavad Gita. The total number could be much higher considering the widespread distribution and publications by ISKCON. The ISKCON has distributed about 503.39 million Bhagavad Gita since 1965.{{Cite web |date=2014-02-12 |title=BBT Reaches Half a Billion Books Distributed Since 1965 |url=https://iskconnews.org/bbt-reaches-half-a-billion-books-distributed-since-1965/ |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=ISKCON News |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://gitapress.org//|title=World's Largest publisher of Hindu Religious Texts|first=Gita|last=Press|date=Aug 23, 2024}} Among non-religious texts, the Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures—with estimates ranging from 800{{nbsp}}million to over 6.5 billion printed volumes.Zhengyuan Fu, Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics, Cambridge University Press 1994, p. 186. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uGZIziWmlmsC&q=autocratic+tradition+and+chinese+politics Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112153604/https://books.google.com/books?id=uGZIziWmlmsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=autocratic+tradition+and+chinese+politics&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI56TJyKv6yAIViXE-Ch0DEQvm |date=2016-01-12 }} Some claim the distribution ran into the "billions"Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 22, CRC Press 1977, p.31. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_Library_and_Information/MV7d7q_weRkC?hl=en&gbpv=1 Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science] and some cite "over a billion" official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as "untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations".Alexander C. Cook, Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History, Cambridge University Press 2014, p. xiii [https://books.google.com/books?id=ttjSAgAAQBAJ&q=mao%27s+little+red+book%3A+a+global+history Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112153604/https://books.google.com/books?id=ttjSAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=mao%27s+little+red+book:+a+global+history&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIwsfq57T6yAIVSfI-Ch0XggzB |date=2016-01-12 }}Daniel Leese, Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution, Cambridge University Press 2013, p. 108 [https://books.google.com/books?id=iqjviY6aFloC&q=Mao+Cult%3A+Rhetoric+and+Ritual+in+China%27s+Cultural+Revolution Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112153604/https://books.google.com/books?id=iqjviY6aFloC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mao+Cult:+Rhetoric+and+Ritual+in+China%27s+Cultural+Revolution&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIzqqJwq_6yAIVgTI-Ch3k6wSv |date=2016-01-12 }} Exact print figures for these and other books may also be missing or unreliable since these kinds of books may be produced by many different and unrelated publishers, in some cases over many centuries. All books of a religious, ideological, philosophical or political nature have thus been excluded from the lists of best-selling books below for these reasons.

Many books lack comprehensive sales figures as book selling and reselling figures prior to the introduction of point of sale equipment was based on the estimates of book sellers, publishers or the authors themselves. For example, one of the one volume Harper Collins editions of The Lord of the Rings was recorded to have sold only 967,466 copies in the UK by 2009 (the source does not cite the start date),{{Cite web |last=Rogers |first=Simon |date=2012-08-09 |title=The top 100 bestselling books of all time: how does Fifty Shades of Grey compare? |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/aug/09/best-selling-books-all-time-fifty-shades-grey-compare |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=the Guardian |language=en}} but at the same time the author's estate claimed global sales figures of in excess of 150 million. Accurate figures are only available from the 1990s{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} and in western nations such as US, UK, Canada and Australia, although figures from the US are available from the 1940s. Further, e-books have not been included as out of copyright texts are often available free in this format. Examples of books with claimed high sales include The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas,{{cite book |last1=Bruzelius |first1=Margaret |title=Romancing the Novel: Adventure from Scott to Sebald |date=2007 |publisher=Bucknell University Press |location=Lewisburg |isbn=978-0-8387-5644-7 |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0AtzSUXSq4C |access-date=April 26, 2022 |quote=Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, like many of Scott's novels, was a runaway best-seller and is still widely available in abbreviated and entire editions and even in comic strip format.}} Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes,{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/manwhoinventedfi0000eggi/ |last=Egginton |first=William |author-link=William Egginton |title=The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |date=2016 |isbn=978-1-62040-175-0 |page=xxii–xxiii, 190–191 |quote=With the publication of Don Quixote, Cervantes created one of the world's first runaway, international bestsellers. From its publication in the early days of 1605 to the present, Don Quixote has become the most published work of literature in history...The truth is, though, that we cannot know how many copies have been made, sold, or, much less, read in the four hundred years since Don Quixote was first published; its influence has been, in every sense of the word, immeasurable.}} Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en{{Cite book|author=Kherdian, David|author-link=David Kherdian|title=Monkey: A Journey to the West|year=2005|pages=7|quote="is probably the most popular book in all of East Asia."}} and The Lord of the Rings{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Kristin |title=The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood |date=2007 |publisher=University of California Press |location=California |isbn=978-0-520-24774-1 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1odPDYvGBygC&dq=the+fellowship+of+the+ring+million+copies+sold&pg=PA2 |access-date=December 30, 2020}} (which has been sold as both a three volume series, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, as a single combined volume and as a six volume set in a slipcase) by J. R. R. Tolkien. Hence, in cases where there is too much uncertainty, they are excluded from the list.

Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies,{{cite book|last=Chalton|first=Nicola|author2=MacArdle, Meredith|title=20th Century in Bite-Sized Chunks|publisher=Chartwell Books|date=2017|page=129|isbn=978-0-7858-3510-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eF8HDgAAQBAJ&q=philosopher%27s+stone+120+million&pg=PA129|access-date=23 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114001005/https://books.google.com/books?id=eF8HDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=philosopher%27s+stone+120+million&source=bl&ots=xcuvqK2qLp&sig=GFDBLllrb6LEkISCOroWndKwemc&hl=no&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj69Nu5z-3VAhUyS5oKHftkBawQ6AEITDAL#v=onepage&q=philosopher's%20stone%20120%20million&f=false|archive-date=14 January 2018}} making it one of the best-selling books of all time. As of June 2017, the series has been translated into 85 languages,{{Cite web |title=Scholastic Marks 25 Year Anniversary of The Publication Of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone {{!}} Scholastic Media Room |url=http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/press-release/scholastic-marks-25-year-anniversary-publication-jk-rowling-s-harry-potter-and-sorcere |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=mediaroom.scholastic.com}} placing Harry Potter among history's most translated literary works. The last four books in the series consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books of all time, and the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold roughly fifteen million copies worldwide within twenty-four hours of its release.[https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/53/celebrities08_JK-Rowling_CRTT.html Forbes] on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "The final one, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has sold 44 million since it was published last July, including 15 million in the first 24 hours." (19 December 2008)[https://www.worldrecordacademy.com/business/fastest_selling_book_world_record_set_by_harry_potter_new_book_70663.htm World Record Academy] on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – the seventh and last novel in the series – sold around 15 million copies worldwide in its first day and set the new world record for the fastest selling book." (23 July 2007) With twelve million books printed in the first US run, it also holds the record for the highest initial print run for any book in history.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6912529.stm BBC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081128201059/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6912529.stm |date=2008-11-28 }} on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "The book had a print run of 12 million in the US, compared with 10.8 million for the last book, according to Lisa Holton of the book's US publisher Scholastic." (23 July 2007)[https://www.inshorts.com/news/deathly-hallows-sold-15-mn-copies-in-24-hours-1467645762711 Inshorts] on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "The final instalment of the Harry Potter series, 'The Deathly Hallows' is recognised by Guinness World Records as 'the fastest selling book of fiction in 24 hours' with a total of 15 million books sold. With 12 million books printed in the first run, it also holds a record for the 'highest initial print run for a fiction book'." (4 July 2016)

Key

List of best-selling individual books

= More than 100 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales !Genre
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	English	1859	>200 million {{cite web \|title=A Tale of Two Cities \|url=http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=562611 \|website=broadway.com \|access-date=April 24, 2008 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405204933/http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=562611 \|archive-date=April 5, 2008 \|quote=Since its inaugural publication on August 30, 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has sold over 200 million copies in several languages, making it one of the most famous books in the history of fictional literature.}} {{Cite news\|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/dickens-anniversary-idUSL5E8D25AP20120203\|title = Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens\|newspaper = Reuters\|date = 3 February 2012 \|quote=...some estimates say “A Tale of Two Cities” is the best-selling novel of all time at more than 200 million copies.}} {{cite web\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10340407/A-Tale-of-Two-Cities-Kings-Head-review.html\|title = A Tale of Two Cities, King's Head, review \|date=September 28, 2013 \|quote=According to Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the artistic director of the King’s Head Theatre, the prize goes to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, with sales of more than 200 million copies since its publication in 1859.}} {{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28854998\|title=Charles Dickens inscribed book offered for £275,000 sale\|work=BBC News\|date=19 August 2014 \|quote=A Tale of Two Cities is believed to be the best-selling novel of all time, having sold more than 200 million copies.}} {{cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/21/charles-dickens-george-eliot-a-tale-of-two-cities\|title = Charles Dickens novel inscribed to George Eliot up for sale\|website = TheGuardian.com\|date = 21 August 2014 \|quote="A Tale of Two Cities...," the bookseller [Peter Harrington] writes in its catalogue. "..., regularly cited as the all-time bestselling novel in any language, with over 200 million copies sold."}} \|Historical fiction
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	French	1943	200 million{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/03/the-little-prince-anniversary/317005/ \|last=Doll \|first=Jen \|title=You Can Learn to Love The Little Prince All Over Again \|magazine=The Atlantic \|date=March 25, 2013 \|access-date=May 1, 2024}} {{cite web \|last1=Lowne \|first1=Cathy \|title=The Little Prince \|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince \|website=britannica.com \|access-date=April 27, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031024948/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince \|archive-date=October 31, 2017 \|quote=Translated into hundreds of languages, some 150 million copies of the novella have sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history.}} {{cite web \|last1=Lohnes \|first1=Kate \|last2=Lowne \|first2=Cathy \|title=The Little Prince \|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince \|website=britannica.com \|access-date=March 24, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122012253/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince \|archive-date=January 22, 2019 \|date=December 27, 2018 \|quote=The novella has been translated into hundreds of languages and has sold some 200 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history.}}{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-statue-of-the-little-prince-unveiled-in-manhattan-180982981/ \|last=Park \|first=Christopher \|title=New 'Little Prince' Statue Sits Near Central Park and Gazes Up at the Stars \|magazine=Smithsonian \|date=September 29, 2023 \|access-date=May 1, 2024}} \|Fantasy, children's fiction
The Alchemist (O Alquimista)	Paulo Coelho	Portuguese	1988	150 million{{cite news \|url=https://www.startribune.com/harvey-mackay-lessons-of-persistence-from-author-paulo-coelho-the-alchemist-soichiro-honda/600167569/ \|last=Mackay \|first=Harvey \|title=Harvey Mackay: Lessons of persistence from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist \|work=The Star Tribune \|date=April 24, 2022 \|access-date=March 25, 2024}}{{cite web \|url=https://www.thewrap.com/the-alchemist-movie-jack-thorne/ \|last=Mendelson \|first=Scott \|title=The Alchemist Movie in the Works From Legendary and TriStar \|website=TheWrap \|date=October 3, 2023 \|access-date=March 25, 2024}}	Fantasy
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J. K. Rowling	English	1997	120 million{{cite web\|date=2018-09-05\|title=Burbank Public Library offering digital copies of first 'Harry Potter' novel to recognize the book's 20th anniversary\|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/tn-blr-me-burbank-library-harry-potter-20180831-story.html\|access-date=2020-09-03\|website=Burbank Leader\|language=en-US}}{{cite news \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/edinburgh-jk-rowling-lyon-harry-potter-bond-b2559835.html \|last=Paterson \|first=Laura \|title=Rare first edition Harry Potter book up for auction valued at up to £60,000 \|work=The Independent \|date=June 10, 2024 \|access-date=June 13, 2024}} \|Fantasy, children's fiction
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	English	1939	100 million{{cite news \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/01/and-then-there-were-none-declared-worlds-favourite-agatha-christie-novel \|last=Flood \|first=Allison \|title=And Then There Were None declared world's favourite Agatha Christie novel \|work=The Guardian \|date=September 1, 2015 \|access-date=October 26, 2022}} \|Mystery
Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢)	Cao Xueqin	Chinese	1791	100 million{{cite web \|title=Betting on The Red Mansions \|url=https://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/151884.htm \|website=china.org.cn \|publisher=China Internet Information Center \|access-date=April 26, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017115910/https://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/151884.htm \|archive-date=October 17, 2007 \|date=December 14, 2005 \|quote=Sun Yuming, the vice director of A Dream of Red Mansions Research Institute...said that the book has sold over 100 million copies worldwide so far.}}{{Cite book\|last1=Oswald\|first1=Godfrey\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZAwDwAAQBAJ&q=%22best+selling+books%22&pg=PA216\|title=Library World Records, 3d ed.\|date=2017\|publisher=McFarland\|isbn=9781476667775\|language=en\|quote=Five other books the [sic] have broken the 100 million barrier are as follows:...Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin...}} \|Family saga
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	English	1937	100 million{{cite news \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9555838/The-Hobbit-What-has-made-the-book-such-an-enduring-success.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127082027/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9555838/The-Hobbit-What-has-made-the-book-such-an-enduring-success.html \|last=Shippey \|first=Thomas \|title=The Hobbit: What has made the book such an enduring success? \|work=The Daily Telegraph \|date=20 September 2012 \|access-date=29 March 2022 \|archive-date=27 January 2021 \|url-status=live \|quote=Today The Hobbit has sold 100 million copies and been translated into something like fifty languages, including (two of Tolkien’s favourites) Icelandic and West Frisian.}}{{cite news \|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2012/09/20/hobbit-tolkien-75-anniversary-corey-olsen/1576943/ \|title=Tolkien's Hobbit celebrates 75th anniversary \|work=USA Today \|date=20 September 2012 \|access-date=29 March 2022 \|quote=The prelude to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit has been translated in to more than 50 languages and has sold 100 million copies worldwide.}}{{cite news \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19965058 \|title=JRR Tolkien letter reveals poor sales of The Hobbit \|work=BBC \|date=16 October 2012 \|access-date=29 March 2022 \|quote=Despite his concerns, The Hobbit went on to sell 100 million copies.}} \|Fantasy, children's fiction
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland \|Lewis Carroll \|English \|1865 \|100 million{{Cite web \|last=Features \|first=Ruth Emery last updated Contributions from Oojal Dhanjal in \|date=2023-09-15 \|title=First-edition vintage books worth up to £140,000 – is one on your bookshelf? \|url=https://moneyweek.com/investments/first-edition-books-thousands \|access-date=2024-08-05 \|website=moneyweekuk \|language=en}} \|Fantasy, absurdist fiction

= Between 50 million and 100 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales !! Genre
She: A History of Adventure	H. Rider Haggard	English	1887	83 million {{cite news \|title=Waiting for Leo \|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C842147%2C00.html \|access-date=August 22, 2008 \|work=Time Magazine \|date=September 17, 1965 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312201204/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842147,00.html \|archive-date=March 12, 2008 \|quote=Since then it has sold 83 million copies in 44 languages.}} {{cite news \|last1=Fowler \|first1=Christopher \|title=Invisible Ink no 309: Henry Rider Haggard \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-309-henry-rider-haggard-a6802696.html \|work=The Independent \|date=January 10, 2016 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129221558/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-309-henry-rider-haggard-a6802696.html \|archive-date=2016-01-29 \|quote=His next novel, She, about a beautiful ageless sorceress, was a smashing success, and by 1965 had sold 83 million copies.}}	Adventure
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	English	2003	80 million[http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_12530761 San José Mercury News] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113003131/http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_12530761 \|date=2012-01-13 }} on The Da Vinci Code: "That earlier book has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, was adapted into a movie and made hits out of Brown's previous novels, including "Angels & Demons," whose film version is now in theaters." (5 June 2009)	Mystery thriller
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets \|J. K. Rowling \|English \|1998 \|77 million{{Cite magazine \|last=Grossman \|first=Lev \|date=2002-12-02 \|title=Feeding On Fantasy \|url=https://time.com/archive/6667771/feeding-on-fantasy/ \|access-date=2024-08-05 \|magazine=TIME \|language=en}} \|Fantasy, children's fiction
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	English	1951	65 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sixty-years-and-65m-copies-on-holden-caulfield-and-the-great-american-novel-1.598801\|title=Sixty years and 65m copies on: Holden Caulfield and the great American novel\|newspaper=The Irish Times}}	Coming-of-age
The Bridges of Madison County	Robert James Waller	English	1992	60 million{{cite web\|url=http://triblive.com/aande/theaterarts/9886121-74/county-bridges-stanley\|title='The Bridges of Madison County' novel springs to life as a musical\|last=Carter\|first=Alice T.\|website=TribLIVE.com\|language=en-US\|access-date=2017-04-13\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414082053/http://triblive.com/aande/theaterarts/9886121-74/county-bridges-stanley\|archive-date=2017-04-14}}	Romance
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)	Gabriel García Márquez	Spanish	1967	50 million{{cite news \|url=https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21601223-gabriel-garc-m-rquez-latin-americas-literary-colossus-died-april-17th-aged-87 \|title=The magician in his labyrinth\|newspaper=The Economist \|access-date=2017-09-03 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906091425/https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21601223-gabriel-garc-m-rquez-latin-americas-literary-colossus-died-april-17th-aged-87 \|archive-date=2017-09-06 }} April 26, 2014[http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.12-books-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-marquez/ The Walrus] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513143403/http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.12-books-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-marquez/ \|date=2008-05-13 }} December 2007 issue[http://granmai.co.cu/ingles/2007/marzo/mar6/10gabo.html granma.cu] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163601/http://granmai.co.cu/ingles/2007/marzo/mar6/10gabo.html \|date=2011-07-18 }} March 6, 2007	Magic realism
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	English	1955	50 million{{cite book \|editor1-last=Woudhuysen \|editor1-first=H. R. \|editor2-last=Suarez \|editor2-first=Michael F. \|title=The Oxford Companion to the Book: D-Z \|date=2010 \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|page=892 \|isbn=978-0-19-860653-6 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URBIAQAAIAAJ \|access-date=May 11, 2022 \|quote=A landmark 20th-century novel, Lolita sold over 50 million copies by 2007.}}	Novel
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	German	1880	50 million[http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s549261.htm ABC Australia] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426211330/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s549261.htm \|date=2014-04-26 }} on Heidi: "Johanna Spyri's story has been translated into fifty languages and sold fifty million copies, but the marketing juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down – fat from it. Heidi now has her own theme park." (5 August 2002)	Children's fiction
style="background:lavender;" \|The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care	Benjamin Spock	English	1946	50 millionThe Top 10 of Everything 2002 by Russell Ash	Manual
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	English	1908	50 million[https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1754861220080319 Reuters] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113023844/http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1754861220080319 \|date=2010-01-13 }} on Anne of Green Gables: ""Anne of Green Gables" has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into 20 languages, according to Penguin." (19 March 2008)	Children's novel
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	English	1877	50 million[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article3459873.ece The Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080718203951/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article3459873.ece \|date=2008-07-18 }} on Black Beauty: "Fifty million copies of Black Beauty have been sold in the years since Anna Sewell's publisher paid her £20 for the story." (29 February 2008)	Children's literature
The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa)	Umberto Eco	Italian	1980	50 million[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Name-of-the-Rose/Umberto-Eco/e/9780156001311 Library Journal] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921060952/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Name-of-the-Rose/Umberto-Eco/e/9780156001311/ \|date=2008-09-21 }} (no date)	Historical novel, mystery
The Eagle Has Landed	Jack Higgins	English	1975	50 million{{Cite news\|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jul/31/jack-higgins-life-harry-patterson\|title=A life in writing: Jack Higgins\|last=Crace\|first=John\|date=2010-07-30\|newspaper=The Guardian\|language=en-GB\|issn=0261-3077\|access-date=2017-01-29\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124000958/http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jul/31/jack-higgins-life-harry-patterson\|archive-date=2012-01-24}}	War, thriller
Watership Down	Richard Adams	English	1972	50 million[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16142667 BBC News – Watership Down author Richard Adams criticises homes plan] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111162028/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16142667 \|date=2012-01-11 }} on Watership Down: "Watership Down sold more than 50 million copies." (13 December 2011)	Children's fiction
style="background:lavender;" \|The Hite Report	Shere Hite	English	1976	50 million[https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/then-now-shere-hite-sexologist-1.607279 Then & Now: Shere Hite, sexologist], The Irish Times. "The report went on to sell more than 50 million copies".	nonfiction
Charlotte's Web	E. B. White	English	1952	50 million[http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070706/NEWS/707060353 Pocono Record] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121035238/http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070706%2FNEWS%2F707060353 \|date=2014-01-21 }} on Charlotte's Web: " It has sold over 50 million copies, been translated into 23 languages, and shown in three major movie versions." (06 July 2007)	Children's fiction
The Ginger Man	J. P. Donleavy	English	1955	50 million[http://www.sundayworld.com/entertainment/showbiz/here-s-johnny-5-8-2008 Sunday World] {{webarchive\|url=https://archive.today/20140118200632/http://www.sundayworld.com/entertainment/showbiz/here-s-johnny-5-8-2008 \|date=2014-01-18 }} on The Ginger Man: "Donleavy, who lives near Mullingar, has previously rejected repeated attempts by Hollywood to make a film version of his book, which has sold 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages." (5 August 2008)	Novel
The Purpose Driven Life	Rick Warren	English	2002	50 million[https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Rick-Warren/39904606 Simon and Schuster] {{webarchive\|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Rick-Warren/39904606 \|date=2024-08-11 }} on The Purpose Driven Life: "Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the world, with campuses in the US and around the globe. He is the author of The Purpose Driven Life, one of the bestselling nonfiction books in publishing history. It has been translated into 137 languages and sold more than 50 million copies in multiple formats." (11 August 2024)	Philosophical Manual

= Between 20 million and 50 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales !! Genre
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	English	1902	45 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=105175 \|title=Worker's Press acknowledge Frederick Warne's intellectual property rights \|publisher=Prnewswire.co.uk \|date=2003-07-10 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608194807/http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=105175 \|archive-date=2011-06-08 }}	Children's literature
Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Richard Bach	English	1970	44 million{{cite web\|title = Best-Sellers Initially Rejected\|url = http://www.literaryrejections.com/best-sellers-initially-reject\|website = www.literaryrejections.com\|access-date = 2015-09-01}} {{dead link\|date=September 2017 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}	Novella, self-help
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	English	1969	43 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.hungrycaterpillarshow.com/about-the-show\|title=The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show\|website=The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show\|access-date=2017-04-13\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414081925/http://www.hungrycaterpillarshow.com/about-the-show\|archive-date=2017-04-14}}	Children's literature, picture book
A Message to Garcia	Elbert Hubbard	English	1899	40 million	Essay/literature
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	English	1960	40 million{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/02/03/harper-lee-to-publish-sequel-to-to-kill-a-mockingbird/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711201923/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/02/03/harper-lee-to-publish-sequel-to-to-kill-a-mockingbird/\|url-status= dead\|title=Harper Lee to publish sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'\|first=Ron\|last=Charles\|date=February 3, 2015\|archive-date=July 11, 2015\|newspaper=The Washington Post}}	Southern Gothic, Bildungsroman
Flowers in the Attic	V. C. Andrews	English	1979	40 million{{cite web\|last1=Locker \|first1=Melissa \|title=More Flowers In the Attic, Please: Which V.C. Andrews Nightmare Novel Should TV Adapt Next? \|url=http://people.com/tv/flowers-in-the-attic-gets-a-lifetime-tv-remake/ \|magazine=People \|access-date=February 1, 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201164025/http://people.com/tv/flowers-in-the-attic-gets-a-lifetime-tv-remake/ \|archive-date=February 1, 2018 \|date=January 17, 2014 \|url-status=live}}	Gothic horror, family saga
style="background:lavender;" \|Cosmos	Carl Sagan	English	1980	40 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.nationalgeographicpartners.com/press/2020/1/cosmos--possible-worlds/\|title='Cosmos: Possible Worlds,' By Ann Druyan\|date=January 23, 2020\|website=National Geographic}}	Popular science, anthropology, astrophysics, cosmology, philosophy, history
Sophie's World (Sofies verden)	Jostein Gaarder	Norwegian	1991	40 million[http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/sophies-world-author-turns-from-philosophy-to-climate-change The National: Sophie's World author turns from philosophy to climate change] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317013951/http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/sophies-world-author-turns-from-philosophy-to-climate-change \|date=2011-03-17 }} on Sophie's World: "The novel has now been translated into 59 languages, and has sold an estimated 40 million copies." (14 March 2011)	Philosophical novel, Young adult
Angels & Demons	Dan Brown	English	2000	39 million{{cite news \|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/columbia-moves-on-symbol-1118002603/ \|work=Variety Online \|title=Columbia moves on 'Symbol' \|first=Michael \|last=Fleming \|date=20 April 2009 \|access-date=1 November 2009 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424201251/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002603.html?categoryId=13&cs=1 \|archive-date=24 April 2009 }}	mystery-thriller
style="background:lavender;" \|Alcoholics Anonymous	William Griffith Wilson	English	1939	over 37 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/81440-writing-the-book-on-the-big-book-spotlight-on-william-h-schaberg.html\|title=Writing the Book on the Big Book: Spotlight on William H. Schaberg\|date=2019-10-14\|work=Publishers Weekly\|access-date=2024-01-16}}	Self-help
Kane and Abel	Jeffrey Archer	English	1979	37 million{{Cite news\|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/media/best-selling-novelist-charmed-the-audience-at-the-emirates-airline-festival-of-literature-1.1156025\|title=Best selling novelist charmed the audience at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature\|first=Noorhan\|last= Barakat\|date=2013-03-09\|work=GulfNews\|access-date=2017-05-27}}	Novel
How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь)	Nikolai Ostrovsky	Russian	1932	36.4 million copies in USSR{{cite web \|first=Евгений \|last=Немировский \|url=http://www.compuart.ru/article.aspx?id=8496&iid=346 \|title=Журнал "КомпьюАрт" \| Подводя итоги XX столетия: книгоиздание. Бестселлер – детище рекламы \|publisher=Compuart.ru \|date=2000-01-03 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222222238/http://www.compuart.ru/article.aspx?id=8496&iid=346 \|archive-date=2012-02-22 }}	Socialist realist novel
War and Peace (Война и мир)	Leo Tolstoy	Russian	1869	36 million copies in Russia	Historical novel
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)	Carlo Collodi	Italian	1881	data-sort-value="80.1 million" \| 35 million{{cite web \|title=Carlo Collodi, il papà del burattino più conformista della letteratura \|url=http://www.artspecialday.com/9art/2017/10/26/carlo-collodi/ \|website=artspecialday \|access-date=April 3, 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403234914/http://www.artspecialday.com/9art/2017/10/26/carlo-collodi/ \|archive-date=April 3, 2018 \|language=it \|date=October 26, 2017 \|quote=Il resto, è storia nota: allo stato attuale delle cose, è inutile elencare le lingue in cui è stato tradotto Pinocchio ed è praticamente impossibile calcolare il numero delle copie vendute nel mondo – alcune fonti riportano 35 milioni, altre 80, ma è soltanto un modo, anche abbastanza ozioso, di quantificare un successo inquantificabile.}}{{cite web \|title=Le avventure di Pinocchio \|url=http://www.repubblicaletteraria.it/Collodi_Pinocchio.htm \|website=la Repubblica Letteraria Italiana \|access-date=February 4, 2010 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127010017/http://www.repubblicaletteraria.it/Collodi_Pinocchio.htm \|archive-date=January 27, 2006 \|language=it \|date=July 1, 2001 \|quote=Con i suoi trentacinque milioni di copie, Le Avventure di Pinocchio è il nostro romanzo più letto e più tradotto, dopo I promessi sposi.}}{{Better source needed\|date=July 2021}}	Fantasy, children's fiction
style="background:lavender;" \| The Diary of Anne Frank (Het Achterhuis)	Anne Frank	Dutch	1947	35 million{{Cite news \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/nyregion/recalling-anne-frank-as-icon-and-human-being.html \|title=Recalling Anne Frank, as Icon and Human Being \|last=Berger \|first=Joseph \|date=2014-11-04 \|work=The New York Times \|access-date=2017-05-04 \|url-access=subscription \|issn=0362-4331 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119174139/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/nyregion/recalling-anne-frank-as-icon-and-human-being.html \|archive-date=2017-01-19}}	Historical non-fiction, autobiography, memoir, bildungsroman / coming of age, Jewish literature
style="background:lavender;" \|Your Erroneous Zones	Wayne Dyer	English	1976	35 million{{cite book\|last1=Comfort\|first1=David\|title=An Insider's Guide to Publishing\|date=14 November 2013\|publisher=Writer's Digest Books\|isbn=9781599637815\|page=[https://archive.org/details/insidersguidetop0000comf/page/244 244]\|url=https://archive.org/details/insidersguidetop0000comf\|url-access=registration\|access-date=30 September 2017}}[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/to-bryce-harper-and-davey-johnson-play-me-or-trade-me-is-just-a-healthy-joke/2013/07/07/80af5a18-e73c-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html To Bryce Harper and Davey Johnson, ‘play me or trade me’ is just a healthy joke] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426213218/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/to-bryce-harper-and-davey-johnson-play-me-or-trade-me-is-just-a-healthy-joke/2013/07/07/80af5a18-e73c-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html \|date=2014-04-26 }}. Thomas Boswell for The Washington Post: "If [Johnson] has to call on the wisdom of an old ’70s self-help bestseller like "Your Erroneous Zones," he'll whip it out. He's still got one of the 35 million copies sold." (8 July 2013)	Self-help
The Thorn Birds	Colleen McCullough	English	1977	33 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-are-going-nuts-over-this-obituary-for-author-colleen-mccullough-which-called-her-plain-and-overweight-2015-1\|title=People Are Going Nuts Over This Obituary For Author Colleen McCullough Which Called Her 'Plain' And 'Overweight'\|last=Thomsen\|first=Simon\|date=2015-01-30\|work=Business Insider Australia\|access-date=2017-04-13\|language=en\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414081440/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-are-going-nuts-over-this-obituary-for-author-colleen-mccullough-which-called-her-plain-and-overweight-2015-1\|archive-date=2017-04-14}}	Romantic family saga
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	English	2003	31.5 million[http://www.playbill.com/article/stage-version-of-the-kite-runner-to-have-west-end-run-in-january Playbill] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308220905/http://www.playbill.com/article/stage-version-of-the-kite-runner-to-have-west-end-run-in-january \|date=2017-03-08 }} on The Kite Runner: "The Kite Runner, which has been published in 70 countries, selling 31.5 million copies in 60 languages." (2 September 2016)	Bildungsroman, historical fiction
Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann	English	1966	31 millionSymonds, Alexandria. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/t-magazine/valley-of-the-dolls-book-by-the-numbers.html?_r=0 'Valley of the Dolls,' by the numbers.] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214105057/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/t-magazine/valley-of-the-dolls-book-by-the-numbers.html?_r=0 \|date=2016-02-14 }} T: The New York Times Style Magazine. February 9, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2017.	Novel
style="background:lavender;" \|How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	English	1936	Over 30 million{{cite news \|last1=Garner \|first1=Dwight \|title=Classic Advice: Please, Leave Well Enough Alone \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/books/books-of-the-times-classic-advice-please-leave-well-enough-alone.html \|work=The New York Times \|date=5 October 2011}}{{cite news \|title='How to Win Friends and Influence People' is now targeting Gen Z girls \|url=https://nypost.com/2020/08/08/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-is-now-targeting-gen-z-girls/ \|work=New York Post \|date=8 August 2020}}	Self-help
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	English	1925	30 million ("around"){{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/books/copyright-extension-literature-public-domain.html\|title=New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out\|first=Alexandra\|last=Alter\|newspaper=The New York Times\|date=December 29, 2018}}	Novel, tragedy
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	English	1936	30 million (est.)[http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/06/25/gone.with.the.wind.fans/index.html At 75, 'Gone with the Wind' still attracts fans, cash and controversy], CNN: "More than 30 million copies of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel are in print worldwide, according to most estimates".	Historical fiction
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	English	1938	30 million (est.){{cite web\|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/the-menacing-daphne-du-maurier-36182507.html\|title=The menacing Daphne du Maurier\|website=Independent.ie\|date=2 October 2017 \|language=en\|access-date=2019-03-16}}	Gothic novel
The Revolt of Mamie Stover	William Bradford Huie	English	1951	30 million[https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&q=%22million+copies%22&pg=PA421 The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012223302/http://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA421&dq=%22perry+mason%22+%22million+copies%22&as_brr=3&ei=Ve9CS-LFBYGGzgTx__WxBQ&cd=8 \|date=2013-10-12 }}, p. 559, on The Revolt of Mamie Stover: "The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1951), which sold almost thirty million copies worldwide, [...]" (2005)	Fiction
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)	Stieg Larsson	Swedish	2005	30 million[http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/the_tab/swede-success-or-tattooed-failure-90919119.html Winnipeg Free Press] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513022240/http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/the_tab/swede-success-or-tattooed-failure-90919119.html \|date=2010-05-13 }} on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: "The first book sold 30 million copies and is available in 44 languages." (15 April 2010)	Fiction
The Lost Symbol	Dan Brown	English	2009	30 million{{cite news \|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-xpm-2013-jan-15-la-et-mn-dan-brown-whats-the-film-status-of-his-last-book-the-lost-symbol-20130115-story.html \|work=Los Angeles Times \|title=Dan Brown: What's the film status of his book 'The Lost Symbol'? \|first=Nicole \|last=Sperling \|date=15 January 2013 \|access-date=1 November 2015 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208061401/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/15/entertainment/la-et-mn-dan-brown-whats-the-film-status-of-his-last-book-the-lost-symbol-20130115 \|archive-date=8 December 2015 }}	Fiction
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	English	2008	29 million in US{{cite web\|url=http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/hungergames\|title=The Hunger Games {{!}} Scholastic Media Room\|website=mediaroom.scholastic.com\|language=en\|access-date=2018-10-13\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311024401/http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/hungergames\|archive-date=2017-03-11}}	Young adult fiction
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl	English	1961	28 million{{Cite magazine \|last=Spangler \|first=Todd \|title=Taika Waititi Helms 'James and the Giant Peach' Charity Reading With Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett \|magazine=Variety \|date=May 18, 2020 \|url=https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/taika-waititi-james-and-the-giant-peach-reading-covid-19-1234609224/}}	Children's novel
The Young Guard (Молодая гвардия)	Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev	Russian	1945	26 million copies in USSR	Young adult historical novel
style="background:lavender;" \|Who Moved My Cheese?	Spencer Johnson	English	1998	28 {{cite news \|last1=Sandomir \|first1=Richard \|title=Spencer Johnson, 'Who Moved My Cheese?' Author, Dies at 78 \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/books/obituary-spencer-johnson-dead-who-moved-my-cheese-author.html \|work=The New York Times \|date=8 July 2017}} {{cite web \|title=Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson: 9780399144462 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books \|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/291680/who-moved-my-cheese-by-spencer-johnson/ \|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com}} – 30 {{cite news \|last1=Charles \|first1=Ron \|title=Perspective {{!}} Today is the 20th anniversary of 'Who Moved My Cheese?' Why does it still move us? \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/who-moved-my-cheese-became-a-monster-hit-twenty-years-later-were-still-wondering-why/2018/09/05/89a6e9aa-ac5e-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html \|newspaper=Washington Post \|date=September 2018 \|quote=almost 30 million}} {{cite web \|title=Spencer Johnson's WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Turns 20, Long-Awaited Sequel to Pub in November \|url=https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/spencer-johnsons-who-moved-my-cheese-turns-20-long-awaited-sequel-to-pub-in-november/ \|website=penguinrandomhouse.com \|date=September 2018 \|quote=almost 30 million}} million	Self-help, motivational, business fable, psychology, leadership, parable
style="background:lavender;" \|A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	English	1988	25 million{{cite web\|url=https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/a-brief-history-of-stephen-hawking/\|title=A brief history of Stephen Hawking\|date=July 31, 2007\|website=Cosmos Magazine}}	Popular science
Paul et Virginie	Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre	French	1788	25 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.gad-distribution.com/en/documentary-series/people-places/around-the-sea-1/the-wreck-of-the-saint-geran-the-legend-of-paul-and-virginie\|title=The Wreck of the Saint Geran – The Legend of Paul And Virginie – Around the sea\|website=GAD\|access-date=2019-12-29\|archive-date=2020-10-09\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009114854/https://www.gad-distribution.com/en/documentary-series/people-places/around-the-sea-1/the-wreck-of-the-saint-geran-the-legend-of-paul-and-virginie/\|url-status=dead}}	Novel
Lust for Life	Irving Stone	English	1934	25 million{{Cite web\|url=https://writenowcoach.com/dealing-with-rejection/\|title=Dealing with Rejection – Write Now Coach! Blog}}	Biographical novel
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	English	1908	25 million[https://archive.today/20120529130800/http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/arts/stories/2008/05/04/2_WILLOWS_100.ART_ART_05-04-08_E4_RPA2K8F.html?sid=101 The Columbus Dispatch] on The Wind in the Willows: "More than 25 million copies of the book have been sold in 70 countries since 1908, according to the Copyrights Group, which is presently promoting a new edition." (4 May 2008)	Children's literature
style="background:lavender;" \|The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen R. Covey	English	1989	25 million[https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/07/16/the-7-habits/ Forbes] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329041455/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/07/16/the-7-habits/ \|date=2017-03-29 }} on Covey: "Stephen Covey will be remembered most as the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which sold over 25 million copies." (16 July 2012)	Self-help
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (窓ぎわのトットちゃん)	Tetsuko Kuroyanagi	Japanese	1981	25 million [https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASR9162CYR91UCVL020.html 黒柳徹子さん「窓ぎわのトットちゃん」42年ぶりに続編　10月刊行], Asahi Shimbun (4 September 2023)	Autobiographical novel
Virgin Soil Upturned (Поднятая целина)	Mikhail Sholokhov	Russian	1935	24 million copies in USSR	Novel
The Celestine Prophecy	James Redfield	English	1993	23 million[http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/strongselfhelpstrong-celestine-prophecy-author-coming-to-town/2008/03/21/1205602651103.html The Age] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205125220/http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/strongselfhelpstrong-celestine-prophecy-author-coming-to-town/2008/03/21/1205602651103.html \|date=2008-12-05 }} on The Celestine Prophecy: "it has sold in the vicinity of 23 million copies since its publication in 1993" (22 March 2008)	New-age spiritual novel
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	English	2012	23 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/10/20/john-green-book-event-balances-anxiety-laughs/769477001/\|title=John Green 'Turtles' book tour balances anxiety, laughs\|work=Indianapolis Star\|access-date=2017-10-21\|language=en}}	Young adult romantic novel
The Girl on the Train \|Paula Hawkins \|English \|2015 \|23 million{{Cite news\|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/paula-hawkins-author-girl-on-the-train-slow-fire-burning-interview-1179654\|title=Paula Hawkins: 'I should have called it The Woman on the Train, not The Girl on the Train'\|work=iNews\|first=Susie\|last=Mesure\|access-date=2020-09-15}}	Thriller
The Shack	William P. Young	English	2007	22.5 million([http://www.gracewalkcanada.org/ Grace Walk Canada] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222110409/http://www.gracewalkcanada.org/ \|date=2017-02-22 }}) {{cite web \|url=http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/news/38-backstage/14634-ny-times-best-selling-christian-novel-the-shack-to-become-a-movie \|title=NY Times Best-Selling Christian Novel 'The Shack' To Become A Movie \|first=David \|last=Daniels \|date=December 9, 2016 \|website=Rapzilla \|access-date=2017-02-21 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222115222/http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/news/38-backstage/14634-ny-times-best-selling-christian-novel-the-shack-to-become-a-movie \|archive-date=2017-02-22 }} (21 February 2017)	Novel
Uncle Styopa (Дядя Стёпа)	Sergey Mikhalkov	Russian	1936	21 million copies in USSR	Children's Literature, picture book
The Godfather	Mario Puzo	English	1969	21 million[https://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 The Toronto Star] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105153437/http://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 \|date=2012-11-05 }} on Mario Puzo: "According to the Official Mario Puzo Library website, the book sold 21 million copies in hardback and paper by 1997." (21 July 2007)	Crime novel
Love Story \|Erich Segal \|English \|1970 \|21 million[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/141436-Michael-Ball-to-Make-Producing-Debut-with-Love-Story-at-West-Ends-Duchess Playbill] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726224620/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/141436-Michael-Ball-to-Make-Producing-Debut-with-Love-Story-at-West-Ends-Duchess\|date=2010-07-26}} on Love Story: "Erich Segal's best-selling novel, which has sold 21 million copies worldwide in 33 languages[...]" (23 July 2010)	Romance novel
Catching Fire	Suzanne Collins	English	2009	21 million in US	Young adult novel, adventure, dystopian, science fiction
Mockingjay	Suzanne Collins	English	2010	20 million in US	Young Adult novel, adventure, war, science fiction, action thriller
Kitchen (キッチン)	Banana Yoshimoto	Japanese	1988	20 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.gradesaver.com/kitchen\|title=Kitchen Study Guide \| GradeSaver\|website=www.gradesaver.com\|date=3 March 2021 }}	Japanese novel
Andromeda Nebula (Туманность Андромеды)	Ivan Yefremov	Russian	1957	20 million{{cite news \|title=Science-Fiction – Sowjets im Weltall \|url=https://www.freitag.de/autoren/florian-schmid/sowjets-im-weltall \|newspaper=Der Freitag \|language=de \|last1=Schmid \|first1=Florian }}	Science fiction novel
Gone Girl \|Gillian Flynn \|English \|2012 \|20 million{{Cite book\|title=Gone Girl\|last=Flynn\|first=Gillian\|date=2013-01-03\|publisher=W&N\|isbn=9780753827666\|location=London\|language=en}}	Crime thriller novel
style="background:lavender;" \|The Bermuda Triangle	Charles Berlitz	English	1974	20 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/12031649/Whatever-happened-to-the-Bermuda-Triangle.html\|title=The Bermuda Triangle: Whatever became of the myth\|work=The Telegraph\|access-date=2017-05-20\|language=en\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231000538/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/12031649/Whatever-happened-to-the-Bermuda-Triangle.html\|archive-date=2016-12-31}}
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	English	1958	20 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565351/things-fall-apart-by-chinua-achebe/9780385474542/ \|title=Things Fall Apart \|website=Penguin Random House \|access-date=2017-06-01 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019220047/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565351/things-fall-apart-by-chinua-achebe/9780385474542/ \|archive-date=2017-10-19 }}	Novel
Wolf Totem (狼图腾)	Jiang Rong	Chinese	2004	20 million[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/afc7e59c-ee43-11dc-a5c1-0000779fd2ac.html The Financial Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519011627/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/afc7e59c-ee43-11dc-a5c1-0000779fd2ac.html \|date=2008-05-19 }} on Wolf Totem: "Since it first appeared in 2004, Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem has sold as many as 20 million copies." (15 March 2008)	Semi-autobiographical novel
style="background:lavender;" \|The Happy Hooker: My Own Story	Xaviera Hollander	English	1971	20 million[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080626_Philmadelphia.html The Philadelphia Inquirer] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629004917/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080626_Philmadelphia.html \|date=2008-06-29 }} on The Happy Hooker: "He said he found it fascinating that her book, which has sold 20 million copies to date, is still being picked up today." (26 June 2008)	Memoir
Jaws	Peter Benchley	English	1974	20 million[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article730440.ece The Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309095335/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article730440.ece \|date=2007-03-09 }} on Jaws: "Jaws stayed for 40 weeks in the bestseller charts of The New York Times, eventually selling 20 million copies [...]" (13 February 2006)	Thriller
Love You Forever	Robert Munsch	English	1986	20 million[http://www.huntsvilleforester.com/article/120556 The Huntsville Forester] on Love You Forever: "The children's classic Love You Forever has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is in its 65th printing." (29 October 2008)	Children's literature, picture book, fiction
The Women's Room	Marilyn French	English	1977	20 million[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/author-and-feminist-marilyn-french-dies-at-79-1.798231 CBC] on The Women's Room: "It sold 20 million copies and was widely translated, despite poor reviews." (5 May 2009)	Feminist novel
style="background:lavender;" \|What to Expect When You're Expecting	Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff	English	1984	20 million[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/influential-pregnancy-book-what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-to-become-movie/story-fn3dxity-1225944076975 The Australian] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109202805/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/influential-pregnancy-book-what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-to-become-movie/story-fn3dxity-1225944076975 \|date=2012-01-09 }} on What to Expect When You're Expecting: "What to Expect When You're Expecting, in its fourth edition, was first published in 1984 and has sold more than 20 million copies." (27 October 2010)	Pregnancy guide
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	English	1885	20 million[http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f030110_twain New York Times Upfront] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105023218/http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f030110_twain \|date=2013-11-05 }} on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "This year marks the 125th anniversary of the publication of Huckleberry Finn in the U.S., and the book is still selling—more than 20 million copies worldwide to date—and still generating controversy." (10 March 2010)	Picaresque novel, Bildungsroman, satire, Robinsonade
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾	Sue Townsend	English	1982	20 million[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/eureka-inventors-describe-the-moment-they-realised-theyd-created-a-hit-6251893.html?pageToolsFontSize=130%25 Eureka!: Inventors describe the moment they realised they’d created a hit] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403144805/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/eureka-inventors-describe-the-moment-they-realised-theyd-created-a-hit-6251893.html?pageToolsFontSize=130%25 \|date=2015-04-03 }} on The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾: " 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾' has sold more than 20 million copies." (29 October 2011)	Young adult novel
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	English	1813	20 million{{cite news \|title=The Guardian view on Jane Austen: pride not prejudice \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/the-guardian-view-on-jane-austen-pride-not-prejudice \|access-date=November 21, 2018 \|work=The Guardian \|date=August 13, 2017 \|quote=Pride and Prejudice is the novel that simply will not die. Twenty million copies on, Mr Darcy has become so synonymous with the romantic hero that when researchers found a pheromone in male mouse urine irresistible to female mice, they named it "darcin".}}{{cite news \|last1=Lambert \|first1=Victoria \|title=Pride and Prejudice: universally acknowledged guide to the human heart \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9821363/Pride-and-Prejudice-universally-acknowledged-guide-to-the-human-heart.html \|access-date=November 21, 2018 \|work=The Telegraph \|date=January 24, 2013 \|quote=...having never been out of print, it is now believed to have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.}}	Classic regency novel, romance
style="background:lavender;" \|Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen)	Thor Heyerdahl	Norwegian	1950	20 million[http://old.nationalreview.com/miller/miller041902.asp John J. Miller on Thor Heyerdahl on National Review Online] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615071921/http://old.nationalreview.com/miller/miller041902.asp\|date=2013-06-15}} on Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft: ""Our intention was to test the performance and quality of the Inca raft, its seaworthiness and loading capacity, and to ascertain whether the elements would really propel it across the sea to Polynesia with its crew still on board," he wrote in Kon-Tiki, a book that has sold 20 million copies." (April 19, 2002)	Travel literature
The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války)	Jaroslav Hašek	Czech	1923	20 million (printed)[http://czech.ruvr.ru/2013_04_26/Svejkuv-otec-stoji-v-Moskve-mezi-svetovou-elitou/ The Voice of Russia: Švejkův otec stojí v Moskvě mezi světovou elitou] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503114759/http://czech.ruvr.ru/2013_04_26/Svejkuv-otec-stoji-v-Moskve-mezi-svetovou-elitou/ \|date=2013-05-03 }} "Jaroslav Hašek and his Švejk are still popular in Russia. More than 20 million copies were already produced."	Unfinished satirical dark comedy novel
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	English	1963	20 million[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/11/20/where-the-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak/3532135/ USA Today] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414021827/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/11/20/where-the-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak/3532135/ \|date=2016-04-14 }} on Where the Wild Things are: "More than 20 million copies have been sold in 32 languages." (November 21, 2013)	Children's picture book
style="background:lavender;" \|The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	English	1952	20 million[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500032.html The New York Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803074428/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500032.html \|date=2017-08-03 }} on The Power of Positive Thinking: "Ruth Stafford Peale, the author's widow (he died last Christmas Eve) feels that the book is as viable today as it was 20 million copies ago." (May 31, 1994)	Self-help
style="background:lavender;" \|The Secret	Rhonda Byrne	English	2006	20 million[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/booksellers-hoping-the-power-will-top-the-secret-28553596.html Belfast Telegraph] on The Secret: "Publishers Simon & Schuster expect sales to be on a par with – if not bigger than – 'The Secret', which has so far notched up 20 million copies in 46 languages." (19 August 2010)	Self-help
Fear of Flying	Erica Jong	English	1973	20 million[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fear-of-flying-author-erica-jong-zips-along-40-years-after-dropping-her-literary-bombshell/2013/10/07/23fb65f8-29ce-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html Washington Post] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426214716/http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fear-of-flying-author-erica-jong-zips-along-40-years-after-dropping-her-literary-bombshell/2013/10/07/23fb65f8-29ce-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html \|date=2014-04-26 }} on Fear of Flying : "It has been 40 years since "Fear" and its glamorous author landed like feminist blonde bombshells on American culture, selling 20 million copies here and abroad." (7 October 2013)	Romantic novel
Dune	Frank Herbert	English	1965	20 million{{cite web \|url=http://us.macmillan.com/mobile/author/frankherbert \|title=Frank Herbert \|access-date=2015-02-06 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112153604/http://us.macmillan.com/mobile/author/frankherbert \|archive-date=2016-01-12 }}Macmillan on Dune: "Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies;"	Science fiction novel
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory \|Roald Dahl \|English \|1964 \|20 million[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/61574-how-sweet-it-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory.html How Sweet It Is: The 50th Anniversary of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'], Publishers Weekly	Children's fantasy novel
style="background:lavender;" \|The Naked Ape \|Desmond Morris \|English \|1968 \|20 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/24/the-naked-ape-at-50-desmond-morris-four-experts-assess-impact\|title=The Naked Ape at 50: 'Its central claim has surely stood the test of time '\|last1=Dunbar\|first1=Robin\|date=2017-09-24\|work=The Observer\|access-date=2017-10-21\|last2=Saini\|first2=Angela\|language=en-GB\|issn=0029-7712\|last3=Garrod\|first3=Ben\|last4=Rutherford\|first4=Adam\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102084748/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/24/the-naked-ape-at-50-desmond-morris-four-experts-assess-impact\|archive-date=2017-11-02}}	Social Science, Anthropology, Psychology
Kokoro (こゝろ) \|Natsume Sōseki \|Japanese \|1914 \|20 million (as of 1994){{cite magazine \|last=Matsumoto \|first=Kenichi \|author-link=:ja:松本健一 \|date=December 1994 \|script-title=ja:二千万部売れた漱石『こゝろ』の謎 \|language=ja \|magazine=新潮45 \|trans-magazine=Shincho 45 \|publisher=Shinchosha \|page=198 }} \|Novel

= Between 10 million and 20 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approx. sales !! Genre
Where the Crawdads Sing \|Delia Owens \|English \|2018 \|18 million{{Cite web \|title=Delia Owens \|url=https://www.deliaowens.com/ \|access-date=2023-04-10 \|website=Delia Owens \|language=en-US}} \|Coming-of-age, murder mystery
Follow Your Heart (Va' dove ti porta il cuore)	Susanna Tamaro	Italian	1994	18 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.today.it/gossip/vip/susanna-tamaro-compagna-roberta-de-falco-lesbica.html\|title=Susanna Tamaro: 'La mia infanzia in un corpo sbagliato. A tre anni dissi che volevo chiamarmi Carlo'\|language=it\|date=2024-03-08\|work=Today\|access-date=2024-05-22}}	Sentimental, epistolary novel
Matilda	Roald Dahl	English	1988	17 million{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/15/matilda-at-30-roald-dahl-quentin-blake\|title=Matilda's new adventures at 30: astrophysicist, explorer or bookworm\|first=Donna\|last=Ferguson\|newspaper=The Observer \|date=September 15, 2018\|via=www.theguardian.com}}	Children's literature
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	English	2005	16 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/bridge-that-took-20-years-to-build\|title=Bridge that took 20 years to build\|date=November 20, 2018\|website=The Straits Times\|last1=Toh\|first1=Wen Li}}	Young adult fiction
The Horse Whisperer	Nicholas Evans	English	1995	16 million{{Cite news\|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=223415\|title=Nicholas Evans: The Smoke Jumper\|last=Hawtin\|first=Fiona\|date=2001-10-18\|work=New Zealand Herald\|access-date=2017-04-23\|language=en-NZ\|issn=1170-0777}}
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	English	1947	16 million"[http://www.playthings.com/article/CA6431998.html Playthings] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205013020/http://www.playthings.com/article/CA6431998.html \|date=2008-12-05 }}". Playthings. (1 April 2007)	Children's literature
The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte)	Michael Ende	German	1979	16 million[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarymichael-ende-1598926.html OBITUARY: Michael Ende – People – News – The Independent] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815200519/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarymichael-ende-1598926.html \|date=2017-08-15 }} on The Neverending Story: "Translated into 30 languages and selling over 16 million copies, it starts when 10-year-old Bastian, overweight and undervalued, decides he will read a fantastic book rather than endure another day's bullying at school." (Friday 01 September 1995)	Children's literature
All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	English	2014	15.3 million{{cite magazine \|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-greenlit-as-limited-series-on-netflix-1235071610/ \|last=Zorrila \|first=Mónica Marie \|title=All the Light We Cannot See Greenlit as Limited Series on Netflix \|magazine=Variety \|date=September 22, 2021 \|access-date=April 1, 2022}}	Historical fiction, war novel
Fifty Shades of Grey	E. L. James	English	2011	15.2 million in the U.S.{{cite web\|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/-fifty-shades-of-grey-was-the-best-selling-book-of-the-decade-in-the-u-s-the-npd-group-says-819844094.html\|title="Fifty Shades of Grey" Was the Best-Selling Book of the Decade in the U.S., The NPD Group Says\|website=PRWeb}}	Erotica
The Outsiders \|S. E. Hinton \|English \|1967 \|15 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/books/the-outsiders-s-e-hinton-book.html\|title=Why 'The Outsiders' Lives On: A Teenage Novel Turns 50\|last=Krischer\|first=Hayley\|date=2017-03-12\|work=The New York Times\|access-date=2017-05-27\|issn=0362-4331\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318134839/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/books/the-outsiders-s-e-hinton-book.html\|archive-date=2017-03-18}}
Guess How Much I Love You	Sam McBratney	English	1994	15 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.rjmlicensing.com/clients.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207214907/http://www.rjmlicensing.com/clients.html\|url-status= dead\|title=RJM Licensing\|archive-date=December 7, 2007}}
Shōgun	James Clavell	English	1975	15 millionTime 26 November 1990.
The Poky Little Puppy	Janette Sebring Lowrey	English	1942	15 million{{cite web \|url=http://jp.bookmooch.com/detail/0307748057 \|title=Golden Books : Poky Little Puppy (Little Golden Book) \|publisher=Jp.bookmooch.com \|date=1992-06-01 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529130750/http://jp.bookmooch.com/detail/0307748057 \|archive-date=2012-05-29 }}
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	English	1989	15 million[https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/07/sunday/main3339866.shtml?source=search_story CBS] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413092027/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/07/sunday/main3339866.shtml?source=search_story \|date=2008-04-13 }} on Ken Follett: "But since it was published in 1989, "The Pillars of the Earth" has become an international sensation, selling 15 million copies worldwide." (7 October 2007)	Historical fiction
Perfume (Das Parfum)	Patrick Süskind	German	1985	15 million[http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2007/01/05/life/life01.txt The Patriot Ledger] {{dead link\|date=September 2017 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }} on Perfume: "Yet the scene, like the movie, is so daring, so challenging, you cannot help but respect Tykwer's unerring desire to remain true to the source novel, a book that has sold 15 million copies and has been credited with inspiring Kurt Cobain to write the Nirvana classic ‘‘Scentless Apprentice.’’" (5 January 2007)
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	English	1939	15 million{{Cite book\|url=http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-grapes-of-wrath-john-steinbeck--ltsd/#gsc.tab=0\|title=Research The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – 1939 {{!}} Literary Themes: The American Dream\|website=www.bookrags.com\|language=en\|access-date=2017-01-29\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202060346/http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-grapes-of-wrath-john-steinbeck--ltsd/#gsc.tab=0\|archive-date=2017-02-02}}
The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento)	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	Spanish	2001	15 million[https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0613/1224248732329.html?via=mr Irish Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105211917/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0613/1224248732329.html?via=mr \|date=2012-01-05 }} on The Shadow of the Wind: "[...]his novel The Shadow of the Wind has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, writes Arminta Wallace" (13 June 2009)
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	English	2000	15 million[http://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0710/071098.feat.feat.4.html The 30 Best Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels and Short Story Collections] Paste (Magazine) 2017
style="background:lavender;" \|Becoming	Michelle Obama	English	2018	14 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/books/barack-obama-promised-land-memoir-publishing-bookstores.html\|title=Readers Have Been Eagerly Waiting for Barack Obama's New Memoir. Struggling Booksellers Have, Too.\|date=2019-03-26\|work=BBC\|access-date=2020-11-16\|language=en-GB}}
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	English	1979	14 million{{cite web \|url=http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/memoir/fr/dontPanic.htm \|title=Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman \|publisher=Contemporarylit.about.com \|date=2005-04-29 \|access-date=2011-05-26 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614175047/http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/memoir/fr/dontPanic.htm \|archive-date=2011-06-14 }}	Science fiction
style="background:lavender;" \|Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom	English	1997	14 million[https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-04-07-pausch_N.htm USA Today] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105175521/http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-04-07-pausch_N.htm \|date=2012-01-05 }} on Tuesdays with Morrie: "The book has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide since 1997 and became an Oprah Winfrey-produced TV movie. " (8 April 2008)
God's Little Acre	Erskine Caldwell	English	1933	14 million{{cite web \|url=http://id.mind.net/~fletch/biography.html \|title=Erskine Caldwell Biography \|publisher=Id.mind.net \|date=1987-04-11 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818004457/http://id.mind.net/~fletch/biography.html \|archive-date=2009-08-18 }}
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	English	1962	14 million[https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-wrinkle-in-time-1429219305 The Wall Street Journal] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308130954/https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-wrinkle-in-time-1429219305 \|date=2017-03-08 }} on A Wrinkle in Time: "Madeleine L’Engle's ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ has sold 14 million copies since its publication in 1962." (16 April 2015)
style="background:lavender;" \|Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	English	1994	14 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41674926\|title=New Mandela memoir launched in S Africa\|date=2017-10-19\|work=BBC News\|access-date=2017-10-21\|language=en-GB\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022041010/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41674926\|archive-date=2017-10-22}}
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	English	1952	13 million
style="background:lavender;" \|Life After Life	Raymond Moody	English	1975	13 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/22/1079939578423.html\|title=Towards the light\|work=The Age\|date=23 March 2004\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707110343/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/22/1079939578423.html\|archive-date=2011-07-07}}
Momo	Michael Ende	German	1973	13 million[https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/momo-michael-ende-bilderbuch-1.6158941? Sie hört zu], SZ 24 August 2023	Children's literature
Peyton Place	Grace Metalious	English	1956	12.1 million[https://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 The Toronto Star] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105153437/http://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 \|date=2012-11-05 }} on Grace Metalious: "It sold 100,000 copies in its first month and went on to sell another 12 million copies, was made into a film and eventually into a prime-time television series that made the young Mia Farrow a star." (21 July 2007)
The Giver	Lois Lowry	English	1993	12 million{{cite news \|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/08/16/340170478/lois-lowry-says-the-giver-was-inspired-by-her-fathers-memory-loss \|last=Uladey \|first=Neda \|title=Lois Lowry Says The Giver Was Inspired By Her Father's Memory Loss \|work=NPR \|date=August 16, 2014 \|access-date=February 20, 2023}}{{cite magazine \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/what-lois-lowry-remembers \|last=Waldman \|first=Katy \|title=What Lois Lowry Remembers \|magazine=The New Yorker \|date=December 26, 2021 \|access-date=February 20, 2023}}	Dystopian fiction
Me Before You	Jojo Moyes	English	2012	12 million{{Cite news\|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2017030937220/me-before-you-fans-jojo-moyes-confirms-third-instalment-in-works/\|title=Me Before You fans! JoJo Moyes confirms third instalment in the works\|date=2017-03-09\|work=HOLA\|access-date=2017-09-14\|language=en}}
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森)	Haruki Murakami	Japanese	1987	12 million[https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaNUeQjpbAcjtQCYKo8eXLGn9IyQD9HVP6J00 Associated Press] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906231906/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaNUeQjpbAcjtQCYKo8eXLGn9IyQD9HVP6J00 \|date=2010-09-06 }} on Norwegian Wood: "More than 10 million copies of the book have been sold in Japan alone, with 2.6 million more sold in another 33 languages." (2 September 2010)
The Plague (La Peste)	Albert Camus	French	1947	12 million[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/09/content_7944793.htm China View] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110141749/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/09/content_7944793.htm \|date=2009-01-10 }} on La Peste: "Translated into 28 languages, the book has sold more than 12 million copies around the world." (9 April 2008)
No Longer Human (人間失格)	Osamu Dazai	Japanese	1948	12 million[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/cinema/topics/20090821et08.htm Yomiuri Shimbun] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827013842/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/cinema/topics/20090821et08.htm \|date=2009-08-27 }} (21 April 2009)
style="background:lavender;" \|Man's Search for Meaning (Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager)	Viktor Frankl	German	1946	12 million[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/refusing-the-life-rafts/story-e6frg8nf-1226054074631 The Australian] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109105019/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/refusing-the-life-rafts/story-e6frg8nf-1226054074631 \|date=2012-01-09 }} on Man's Search for Meaning: "It's the 75th edition of a book that has sold 12 million copies and is one of the most read Holocaust texts." (14 May 2011)
style="background:lavender;" \|The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck \|Mark Manson \|English \|2016 \|12 million{{cite web\|title=The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck\|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fck-mark-manson\|access-date=2021-11-26\|website=HarperCollins\|language=en}}{{Cite web \|last=Wallace \|first=Benjamin \|date=2022-06-23 \|title=Mark Manson, the Self-Help Guru Who Burned Out \|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-manson-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fuck.html \|access-date=2025-04-21 \|website=Intelligencer \|language=en}}
The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia)	Dante Alighieri	Italian	1304	11–12 million (during the 20th century)[http://www.pinocchioamarcord.it/i_libri_di_pinocchio_1.htm estimate of Giuliano Vigini] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114083652/http://www.pinocchioamarcord.it/i_libri_di_pinocchio_1.htm \|date=2010-11-14 }} (1999)
style="background:lavender;" \|The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	English	1923	11 million{{Cite magazine\|url=https://newyorker.com/magazine/2008/01/07/prophet-motive\|title=Prophet Motive\|magazine=The New Yorker\|date=31 December 2007\|access-date=2017-05-21\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422022235/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/01/07/prophet-motive/\|archive-date=2017-04-22}}
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne	English	2006	11 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-reveals-sequel-to-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-1.4816423\|title=John Boyne reveals sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas\|newspaper=The Irish Times}}
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty	English	1971	11 million[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118972984449527200?mod=googlenews_wsj The Wall Street Journal] on The Exorcist: "Back in the 1970s, those smaller, rack-sized paperbacks were the blockbusters of the business, led by such best sellers as William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" (11 million copies sold); Peter Benchley's "Jaws" (more than nine million copies), and Sidney Sheldon's "The Other Side of Midnight" (six million copies plus)." (14 September 2007)	Horror
The Gruffalo	Julia Donaldson	English	1999	10.5 million[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/books-life/7545438/The-20-greatest-childrens-books-ever.html The Telegraph] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406033817/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/books-life/7545438/The-20-greatest-childrens-books-ever.html \|date=2010-04-06 }} on The Gruffalo: "The Gruffalo has sold more than 10.5 million copies, been adapted for stage in both the West End and Broadway, and in 2009 was made into a 30-minute animated film" (3 April 2010)	Children's literature, picture book
Fifty Shades Darker	E. L. James	English	2012	10.4 million in the U.S.	Erotica
Tobacco Road	Erskine Caldwell	English	1932	10 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/tobacco-road-and-gods-little-acre/\|title=Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre\|website=New Georgia Encyclopedia}}
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter	Astrid Lindgren	Swedish	1981	10 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/astrid-lindgren-aktiebolag/pressreleases/swedish-world-premiere-for-goro-miyazaki-s-ronja-the-robber-s-daughter-1304414\|title=Swedish World Premiere for Gorō Miyazaki's Ronja, the Robber's Daughter\|website=Mynewsdesk\|date=29 January 2016 }}
The Cat in the Hat	Dr. Seuss	English	1957	10.5 million{{cite web\|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-02-26-cat-in-the-hat_x.htm\|title=After 50 years, a tip of the hat to one cool 'Cat' \|website=USA Today\|access-date=2017-10-21}}	Children's literature, picture book
style="background:lavender;" \|Diana: Her True Story	Andrew Morton	English	1992	10 million{{Cite news\|url=https://nypost.com/2017/08/26/my-secret-life-as-princess-dianas-confidant/\|title=My secret life as Princess Diana's confidant\|date=2017-08-26\|work=New York Post\|access-date=2017-09-14\|language=en-US\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915023405/http://nypost.com/2017/08/26/my-secret-life-as-princess-dianas-confidant/\|archive-date=2017-09-15}}
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	English	2009	10 million{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3d76DAAAQBAJ&q=stockett+the+help+million+copies+sold&pg=PA85\|title=Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help\|last=Mills\|first=Fiona\|date=2016-06-22\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=9781443896399\|language=en\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915071959/https://books.google.fr/books?id=3d76DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=stockett+the+help+million+copies+sold&source=bl&ots=aDLbnkb57c&sig=vNsjIaAgXiA4owxiuC87brzj8vo&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwnozu0qXWAhWGWBoKHc2kAIwQ6AEITTAH\|archive-date=2017-09-15}}
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	English	1961	10 million{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/13/heller.htm\|title='Catch-22' Author Joseph Heller Dies\|date=1999-12-13\|access-date=2009-08-31\|newspaper=The Washington Post\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117100525/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/13/heller.htm\|archive-date=2012-01-17}}
The Stranger (L'Étranger)	Albert Camus	French	1942	10 million{{cite web\|url=http://rusoffagency.com/authors/kaplan_a/looking/looking_for_the_stranger.htm\|title=Looking for the Stranger\|website=rusoffagency.com\|access-date=2017-01-29\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114002627/http://rusoffagency.com/authors/kaplan_a/looking/looking_for_the_stranger.htm\|archive-date=2016-11-14}}
Eye of the Needle	Ken Follett	English	1978	10 million[https://books.google.com/books?id=xkGlUNW09eEC&dq=%22eye+of+the+needle%22+%2210+million+copies%22&pg=PA44 Carlos Ramet in Ken Follett: The Transformation of a Writer] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326162045/https://books.google.com/books?id=xkGlUNW09eEC&pg=PA44&dq=%22eye+of+the+needle%22+%2210+million+copies%22&ei=lI70R7TpJYWwzgSGgvnIAQ&sig=_3n61rMQugtQjVN8U--Wd2Cvw7g \|date=2017-03-26 }} page 44 on Ken Follett: "The first two editions alone sold over 10 million copies worldwide" (1999)
The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	English	2002	10 million[http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1098660 TVNZ] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925100537/http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1098660\|date=2009-09-25}} on The Lovely Bones: "Published in 2002, Lovely Bones is the second novel by Alice Sebold, and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide, remaining on the New York Times hardback bestseller list for over a year." (5 May 2007)
style="background:lavender;" \|Wild Swans	Jung Chang	English	1992	10 million[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110923074849/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3666707/Made-in-China-read-worldwide.html The Telegraph] on Wild Swans: "Selling more than 10 million copies and topping the "most borrowed historical biography" chart in British libraries year after year, it proved a publishing phenomenon" (21 July 2007)
Santa Evita	Tomás Eloy Martínez	Spanish	1995	10 million[https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9389979/Martinez-Tomas-Eloy Britannica] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831063528/https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9389979/Martinez-Tomas-Eloy \|date=2007-08-31 }} on Santa Evita: "Martínez was best known as the author of two classics of Argentine and Latin American literature: La novela de Perón (1985, The Perón Novel, 1988) and Santa Evita (1995, Eng. trans., 1995); the latter was translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 million copies." (22 November 2007)
style="background:lavender;" \|Night (Un di Velt Hot Geshvign)	Elie Wiesel	Yiddish	1958	10 million[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Donadio-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all The New York Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904092504/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Donadio-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all \|date=2017-09-04 }} on Night: "Indeed, since it appeared in 1960, "Night" has sold an estimated 10 million copies — three million of them since Winfrey chose the book in January 2006 (and traveled with Wiesel to Auschwitz)." (20 January 2008)
style="background:lavender;" \|Confucius from the Heart (于丹《论语》心得)	Yu Dan	Chinese	2006	10 million{{cite news\|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/macmillans-100k-chinese-deal\|title=Macmillan's 100k Chinese deal\|last1=Flood\|first1=Alison\|date=April 14, 2008\|work=The Bookseller\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412124718/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/macmillans-100k-chinese-deal\|archive-date=April 12, 2016}}
style="background:lavender;" \|The Total Woman	Marabel Morgan	English	1974	10 million[https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4651272&page=1 ABC News] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416140715/http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4651272&page=1 \|date=2008-04-16 }} on The Total Woman: "One of the first books to address the issue was Marabel Morgan's "The Total Woman," which sold more than 10 million copies to women of all religious persuasions, making it the best-selling nonfiction book of 1974." (15 April 2008)
style="background:lavender;" \|Knowledge-value Revolution (知価革命)	Taichi Sakaiya	Japanese	1985	10 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.waseda.jp/wnfs/magazine/special/070108/index.html\|title=Waseda University\|publisher=Waseda.jp\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605043055/http://www.waseda.jp/wnfs/magazine/special/070108/index.html\|archive-date=2011-06-05\|url-status=dead\|access-date=2009-08-31}}
style="background:lavender;" \|Problems in China's Socialist Economy (中国社会主义经济问题研究)	Xue Muqiao	Chinese	1979	10 million[http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/42774/3586529.html people.com.cn] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060109100947/http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/42774/3586529.html \|date=2006-01-09 }} (2 August 2005)
style="background:lavender;" \|What Color Is Your Parachute?	Richard Nelson Bolles	English	1970	10 million[https://www.usnews.com/articles/business/careers/2008/10/01/richard-bolles-stays-on-the-job.html U.S. News & World Report] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508150435/http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/careers/2008/10/01/richard-bolles-stays-on-the-job.html \|date=2009-05-08 }} on What Color is Your Parachute: "Today, Parachute is one of the all-time bestselling careers books, with more than 10 million copies of 37 editions snapped up since 1970. " (1 October 2008)
style="background:lavender;" \|The Dukan Diet	Pierre Dukan	French	2000	10 million[https://www.thestar.com/living/article/974396--royal-connection-drives-interest-in-dukan-diet The Toronto Star] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024150342/http://www.thestar.com/living/article/974396--royal-connection-drives-interest-in-dukan-diet \|date=2012-10-24 }} on The Dukan Diet: "The book has sold 10 million copies worldwide, but didn't really make an impression on North America until [...]" (18 April 2011)
style="background:lavender;" \|The Joy of Sex	Alex Comfort	English	1972	10 million[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15309357 BBC Magazine] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026173635/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15309357 \|date=2011-10-26 }} on The Joy of Sex: "The Joy of Sex ended up selling more than 10 million copies around the world – more than five million in the United States alone, where it stayed in the New York Times best-seller list for a decade." (26 October 2011).
style="background:lavender;" \|The Gospel According to Peanuts	Robert L. Short	English	1965	10 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/seller-21424-gospel-ago.html \|title=The Gospel according to? Try Jesus \| seller, gospel, ago – Faith – Northwest Florida Daily News \|access-date=2009-10-29 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113031623/http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/seller-21424-gospel-ago.html \|archive-date=2009-11-13 }} on The Gospel according to Peanuts: "The Gospel according to Peanuts ended up selling more than 10 million copies around the world."
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	English	2001	10 million{{cite web \|url=https://latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-life-of-pi-20130218,0,3559592.story \|title='Life of Pi' a surprise success story around the world \|website=Los Angeles Times \|date=18 February 2013 \|access-date=2013-02-25 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223080308/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-life-of-pi-20130218,0,3559592.story \|archive-date=2013-02-23 }} on Life of Pi: "It was based on a popular novel by Yann Martel that has sold more than 10 million copies around the world."
The Front Runner	Patricia Nell Warren	English	1974	10 million[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93465294 Author Examines Gay Athletes] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216142943/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93465294 \|date=2016-02-16 }} on The Front Runner: "The Front Runner long ago leapt from the shelves of so-called 'gay fiction' to become one of the best-selling novels of recent times, selling 10 million copies in eight languages."
The Goal	Eliyahu M. Goldratt	English	1984	10 million[http://www.booksapart.com/review/the-goal Books Apart] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819064642/http://www.booksapart.com/review/the-goal \|date=2017-08-19 }} on The Goal: "The Goal is one of the best selling business novels. It has sold around 10 million copies and has been translated in over 35 languages."
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	English	1953	10 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/1201/Fahrenheit-451-goes-digital.-Is-Ray-Bradbury-mellowing\|title='Fahrenheit 451' goes digital. Is Ray Bradbury mellowing?\|date=2011-12-01\|work=Christian Science Monitor\|access-date=2019-08-16\|issn=0882-7729}}
Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt	English	1996	10 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.ilovelimerick.ie/angelas-ashes-musical/\|title=Limerick will host the World Premiere of Angelas Ashes Musical\|date=March 2, 2017}}
style="background:lavender;" \|The Story of My Experiments with Truth (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા)	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Gujarati	1925–1929	10 million{{cite news\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Gandhijis-autobiography-to-sell-for-a-mere-Rs-30-during-his-anniversary-week/articleshow/45993055.cms\|title=Gandhiji's autobiography to sell for a mere Rs 30 during his anniversary week \| Mumbai News \|website=The Times of India\|date=23 January 2015 }}
Bridget Jones's Diary	Helen Fielding	English	1996	10 million (as of 2005){{Cite book\|first=Alex\|last=Symons\|title=Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries\|date=6 August 2012\|publisher=Edinburgh University Press\|page=37\|isbn=978-0-7486-6450-4}}
It Ends with Us \|Colleen Hoover \|English \|2016 \|10 million{{Cite web \|date=2024-09-09 \|title=Colleen Hoover's IT ENDS WITH US Sells 10 Million Copies Worldwide \|url=https://about.simonandschuster.biz/news/colleen-hoovers-it-ends-with-us-sells-10-million-copies-worldwide/#:~:text=It%20Ends%20with%20Us%20has%20sold%2010%20million%20copies%20and,levels%20since%20Fall%20of%202020. \|access-date=2025-01-31 \|website=News and Corporate Information about Simon & Schuster \|language=en-US}} \|Romance, Fiction

List of best-selling book series

{{See also|List of best-selling comic series|List of best-selling manga}}

= More than 100 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book series !! Author(s) !! Original language !! No. of installments !! Years of Publication !! Approximate sales
Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling	English	7 + 3 companion books + 4 scripts	1997–2007	600 million{{cite press release \|author= \|title=Scholastic Marks 25 Year Anniversary of The Publication of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone \|url=http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/press-release/scholastic-marks-25-year-anniversary-publication-jk-rowling-s-harry-potter-and-sorcere \|location=New York, New York \|publisher=Scholastic \|agency= \|date=2023-02-06 \|access-date=2023-02-15}}{{cite news \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9p8v85l0po \|title=Bargain bin Harry Potter book sells for £55,000 \|work=BBC \|date=December 11, 2023 \|access-date=June 13, 2024}}{{cite magazine \|url=https://deadline.com/2024/02/harry-potter-tv-series-pitching-succession-writer-francesca-gardiner-1235811523/ \|last=White \|first=Peter \|title=Harry Potter Series Narrows Writer Search With Succession{{'s}} Francesca Gardiner Entering The Fray \|magazine=Deadline \|date=February 1, 2024 \|access-date=June 13, 2024}}
\|Goosebumps	R. L. Stine	English	62 + spin-off series	1992–present	400 million{{Cite web \|date=2022-10-14 \|title=Goosebumps Books Statistics – WordsRated \|url=https://wordsrated.com/goosebumps-books-statistics/ \|access-date=2023-11-15 \|language=en-US}}
Perry Mason	Erle Stanley Gardner	English	82 + 4 short stories	1933–1973	300 million{{cite book\|last=Serafin\|first=Steven R.\|author2=Bendixen, Alfred\|title=The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature\|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group\|date=2005\|page=1305\|isbn=978-0-8264-1777-0\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&q=%22perry+mason%22+%22million+copies%22&pg=PA421\|access-date=5 January 2010\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012223302/http://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA421&dq=%22perry+mason%22+%22million+copies%22&as_brr=3&ei=Ve9CS-LFBYGGzgTx__WxBQ&cd=8#v=onepage&q=%22perry%20mason%22%20%22million%20copies%22&f=false\|archive-date=12 October 2013}}
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney	English	19 + 5 spin-offs	2007–present	290 million{{cite web \|title=Wimpy Kid Books \|url=https://wimpykid.com/books/ \|website=wimpykid.com}}
Berenstain Bears	Stan and Jan Berenstain	English	data-sort-value=300\| 428	1962–present	260 million[https://variety.com/2002/tv/features/kids-fare-ready-for-play-1117864900/ Variety] on the Berenstain Bears: "The company also is offering a new animated series based on the Berenstain Bears, the hugely popular children's brand that has sold more than 260 million books worldwide." (7 April 2002)
Choose Your Own Adventure	Various authors	English	185+	1979–present	250 million[https://archive.today/20120529130905/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060822.gtstory0822/BNStory/Technology/?cid=al_gam_nletter_dtechal The Globe and Mail] on Choose Your Own Adventure: "The Choose Your Own Adventure DVD movies are adaptations of the original books, which sold more than 250 million copies. " (22 August 2006)
Sweet Valley High	Francine Pascal and ghostwriters	English	400	1983–2003	250 million[https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/1028/114.html Forbes] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812181359/https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/1028/114.html \|date=2017-08-12 }} on Sweet Valley High: "But despite 250 million copies in print, in 25 languages, Sweet Valley's sugar rush has been on the decline. " (28 October 2002)
The Railway Series	Wilbert Awdry, Christopher Awdry	English	42	1945–2011	201 million{{cite web \|title=Interview: Christopher Awdry, author \|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/28-august/features/interviews/interview-christopher-awdry-author \|access-date=2022-06-11 \|website=www.churchtimes.co.uk}}
Noddy	Enid Blyton	English	24	1949–present	200 million{{cite news \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/531557.stm \|title=Happy 50th birthday Noddy \|work=BBC News \|date=1999-11-22 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419023629/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/531557.stm \|archive-date=2009-04-19 }}
Nancy Drew	Various authors as Carolyn Keene	English	175	1930–present	200 million[https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2002/2002-05-29-nancy-drew-author-obit.htm USA Today] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105092647/http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2002/2002-05-29-nancy-drew-author-obit.htm \|date=2012-01-05 }} on Nancy Drew: "The series is still in print and has sold over 200 million books in 17 languages." (29 May 2002)
San-Antonio	Frédéric Dard	French	173	1949–2001	200 million{{cite news\|last=Keslassy\|first=Elsa\|title=AB lines up 'Waterloo' miniseries: English-lingo battle drama to cost up to $15 million\|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-201202201207reedbusivarietynvr1118050502feb20,0,4298706.story\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731130856/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-201202201207reedbusivarietynvr1118050502feb20,0,4298706.story\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=31 July 2012\|access-date=12 March 2012\|newspaper=Chicago Tribune\|date=20 February 2012\|quote=Published between 1949 and 2001, the San Antonio anthology is one of the best-selling French novel series of all times, having sold an estimated 200 million copies.}}
Robert Langdon	Dan Brown	English	5	2000–present	200 million{{cite news \| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/dan-browns-inferno-publishers-poised-for-biggestsales-since-harry-potter-as-da-vinci-code-authors-latest-robert-langdon-story-hits-shelves-8614082.html \| location=London \| work=The Independent \| first=James \| last=Legge \| title=Dan Brown's Inferno: Publishers poised for biggest-sales since Harry Potter as Da Vinci Code author's latest Robert Langdon story hits shelves \| date=14 May 2013 \| url-status=live \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509001900/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/dan-browns-inferno-publishers-poised-for-biggestsales-since-harry-potter-as-da-vinci-code-authors-latest-robert-langdon-story-hits-shelves-8614082.html \| archive-date=9 May 2015 }}
Geronimo Stilton	Elisabetta Dami	Italian	200+	1997–present	180 million{{cite web \|url=http://se.distribuzionelibrimondadori.it/media/2010/09/comunicato-10anni.pdf \|title=Archived copy \|language=Italian \|access-date=17 June 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214214854/http://se.distribuzionelibrimondadori.it/media/2010/09/comunicato-10anni.pdf \|archive-date=14 December 2010 }}
Percy Jackson & the Olympians	Rick Riordan	English	7 + 5 companion books + 4 spin-off series	2005–present	180 million{{Cite magazine\|url=https://dmedmedia.disney.com/news/disney-plus-orders-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-into-production\|title=Disney+ Has Ordered A Thrilling Quest Based On "Percy Jackson And The Olympians," The Internationally Best-Selling Book Series By Rick Riordan, To Go Into Production This Summer\|date=January 25, 2022\|publisher=Disney\|access-date=January 25, 2022\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125234515/https://dmedmedia.disney.com/news/disney-plus-orders-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-into-production\|archive-date=January 25, 2022}}
The Baby-sitters Club	Ann Martin	English	335	1986–present	172 million[https://books.google.com/books?id=edrVnwGPUfEC&dq=million-books&pg=PA115 Benjamin M. Compaine and Douglas Gomery] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426212320/http://books.google.com/books?id=edrVnwGPUfEC&pg=PA115&dq=million-books&lr=&ei=WYriR76UD4HwjAGVp9nWBA&sig=K1mXEngkQ06dgnel3UPb16Eb-fs \|date=2014-04-26 }}, 'Who Owns the Media?: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media Industry' page 115"
Twilight	Stephenie Meyer	English	4 + 2 companion books + 1 novella	2005–2020	160 million{{cite web \|url=https://www.biography.com/people/stephenie-meyer-456668 \|title=Stephenie Meyer \|access-date=2017-07-18 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816105023/https://www.biography.com/people/stephenie-meyer-456668 \|archive-date=2017-08-16 }} on Twilight: "Stephanie Meyer dwarfed the success of Brown's work with the Twilight series, selling over 120 million copies in less than seven years." (26 April 2012)
Star Wars	Various authors	English	data-sort-value=300\| over 300	1977–present	160 million[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB111238313723995681?mod=googlewsj The Wall Street Journal] on the Star Wars books: "According to a Random House spokesman, the publisher has more than 160 million copies of "Star Wars" books in print." (1 April 2005)
Little Critter	Mercer Mayer	English \| data-sort-value="200" \| over 200	1975–present	150 million{{citation \| title=Mercer Mayer \| publisher=HarperCollins \| url=http://www.harpercollins.com/cr-100745/mercer-mayer \| access-date=24 October 2014 \| quote=His most recognized character, the lovable and charismatic Little Critter®, was born in 1975 in the book Just for You. Mercer's Little Critter has since starred in more than two hundred books, which have sold over one hundred and fifty million copies. \| url-status=live \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024233038/http://www.harpercollins.com/cr-100745/mercer-mayer \| archive-date=24 October 2014 }}
Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	English	6	1902–1930	150 million{{cite news \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/3014176.stm \|title=Peter Rabbit in China copyright stew \|work=BBC News \|date=2003-06-23 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204200936/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/3014176.stm \|archive-date=2009-02-04 }}
Fifty Shades	E. L. James	English	3	2011–2015	150 million[https://latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-fifty-shades-darker-20171010-story.html E.L. James has a new 'Fifty Shades': 'Darker' from Christian's point of view \|date=2017-10-10] on Fifty Shades of Grey: "The "Fifty Shades" trilogy, which began with the 2011 novel "Fifty Shades of Grey," has been a publishing phenomenon. The books have sold more than 150 million copies and have spawned two film adaptations, with a third one slated for release next year." (4 February 2018)
American Girl	Various authors	English	141 + spin-off series	1986–present	160 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.americangirl.com/pages/our-story\|title=Our Story\|website=American Girl\|access-date=2022-10-28}}
Chicken Soup for the Soul	Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen	English	105	1997–present	130 million[http://www.citywire.co.uk/personal/-/news/other/content.aspx?ID=311197 CityWire] on Chicken Soup: "His Chicken Soup for the Soul series, co-authored with Jack Canfield, has sold over 130 million copies in 54 languages and spans 105 different titles." (17 August 2008)
Clifford the Big Red Dog	Norman Bridwell	English	data-sort-value=91\| 91{{cite web\|url=https://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/norman_bridwell\|title=Norman Bridwell {{!}} National Book Festival – Library of Congress\|website=www.loc.gov\|language=en-US\|access-date=2017-01-29\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202061208/http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/norman_bridwell\|archive-date=2017-02-02}}	1963–2014	129 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/books/norman-bridwell-creator-of-clifford-the-big-red-dog-books-dies-at-86.html\|title=Norman Bridwell, Creator of 'Clifford the Big Red Dog' Books, Dies at 86\|last=Weber\|first=Bruce\|date=2014-12-16\|newspaper=The New York Times\|issn=0362-4331\|access-date=2017-01-29\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821220417/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/books/norman-bridwell-creator-of-clifford-the-big-red-dog-books-dies-at-86.html\|archive-date=2017-08-21}}
Frank Merriwell	Gilbert Patten	English	209	1896–1936	125 million[https://books.google.com/books?id=dVSElxOM3K8C&dq=125-million-copies&pg=PA53 Susan Edgerton e.a. in Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215161755/https://books.google.com/books?id=dVSElxOM3K8C&pg=PA53&dq=125-million-copies&lr=&ei=x4LzR9zABYKWzATf_fHJCw&sig=8KN8zuhqePX8USPJ5SCwaip4i2s \|date=2017-02-15 }} page 53, on Gilbert Patten: "It is estimated that at least 125 million copies of the Frank Merriwell series (which itself ran to at least 209 books) were sold." (2004)
Dirk Pitt	Clive Cussler	English	24	1973–present	120 million{{cite web\|url=http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/clivecussler/news3.html\|title=Crusader Entertainment Acquires the Rights to Clive Cussler's Best-Selling Dirk Pitt Book Series\|date=2001-05-14\|publisher=Us.penguingroup.com\|access-date=2009-08-31\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108002429/http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/clivecussler/news3.html\|archive-date=2009-01-08}}
宮本武蔵 (Musashi)	Eiji Yoshikawa	Japanese	7	1935–1939	120 million{{cite news\|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D61639F930A2575AC0A967948260&sec=&pagewanted=all\|title=Way Of The Samurai, Path Of The Tedious\|date=1981-09-13\|newspaper=The New York Times\|access-date=2009-08-31\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418221615/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D61639F930A2575AC0A967948260\|archive-date=2008-04-18}}
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	English	7	1950–1956	120 million[http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_chicsuntimes-hollywood.htm Hollywood's liberal losses] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517022243/http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_chicsuntimes-hollywood.htm \|date=2008-05-17 }} (20 November 2005)
Mr. Men	Roger Hargreaves, Adam Hargreaves	English	43	1971–present	120 million[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14492706 BBC News] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811173542/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14492706 \|date=2011-08-11 }} on Mr. Men: "The famous books have gone on to sell 120 million copies and have been translated into 15 different languages. " (11 August 2011)
SAS	Gérard de Villiers	French	200	1965–2013	120 million{{cite web\|title=Gérard de Villiers : l'écrivain qui en savait trop\|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/livres/roman/gerard-de-villiers-l-ecrivain-qui-en-savait-trop_3307553.html\|date=2013-04-07\|access-date=2022-02-21}}{{cite news\|title=De Villiers May Gain an American Audience, Posthumously\|last=Alter\|first=Alexandra\|work=The New York Times\|date=2014-07-30 \|access-date=2022-02-21\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/world/europe/gerard-de-villiers-83-french-spy-writer-dies.html}}
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	English	5	2008–present	100 million{{cite web\|url=http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/hungergames\|title=The Hunger Games {{!}} Scholastic Media Room\|website=mediaroom.scholastic.com\|language=en\|access-date=2017-01-29\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311024401/http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/hungergames\|archive-date=2017-03-11}}
James Bond	Ian Fleming	English	14	1953–1966	100 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.007.info/News88.asp \|title=James Bond 007 – News \|publisher=007.info \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406162050/http://www.007.info/News88.asp \|archive-date=2010-04-06 }}
Martine	Gilbert Delahaye, Marcel Marlier	French	60	1954–2014	100 million[http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/enfance/marcel-marlier-le-dessinateur-de-martine-est-mort-297287 RTBF] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124052122/http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/enfance/marcel-marlier-le-dessinateur-de-martine-est-mort-297287 \|date=2011-01-24 }} on Martine: "Soixante albums de "Martine" ont été publiés dans la collection "Farandole" et 100 millions d'exemplaires vendus dans le monde." (21 January 2011)
Millennium	Stieg Larsson, David Lagercrantz	Swedish	6	2005–present	100 million{{cite news\|title=Millenniumserien passerar 100 miljoner sålda exemplar\|url=http://www.norstedts.se/nyheter/189820-millenniumserien-passerar-100-miljoner-salda-exemplarl\|newspaper=Norstedts förlag\|date=29 May 2019\|access-date=19 June 2019}}

= Between 50 million and 100 million copies =

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" !Book series !! Author(s) !! Original language !! No. of installments !! First published !! Approximate sales
A Song of Ice and Fire	George R. R. Martin	English	data-sort-value=5\| 5 + 3 novellas + 1 guide	1996–present	90 million{{cite news \|title=How Game of Thrones achieved world domination... long before the TV show even aired \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/game-of-thrones-season-8-books-novels-publishing-final-series-a8855126.html \|access-date=28 April 2019 \|work=The Independent \|date=15 April 2019}}
The Wheel of Time	Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson	English	15	1990–2013	90 million{{cite web \|last=Elfring \|first=Mat \|date=2 September 2021 \|title=Amazon Prime Video's Wheel Of Time Gets First Teaser Trailer \|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amazon-prime-videos-wheel-of-time-gets-first-teaser-trailer/1100-6495854/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903043234/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/amazon-prime-videos-wheel-of-time-gets-first-teaser-trailer/1100-6495854/ \|archive-date=3 September 2021 \|access-date=3 September 2021 \|website=GameSpot \|publisher=CBS Interactive}}
Discworld	Terry Pratchett	English	42	1983–2015	90 million{{cite web\|title=BBC America Greenlights Original Scripted Series 'The Watch' Based on Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' Novels\|url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2018/10/bbc-america-greenlights-original-scripted-series-the-watch-based-on-terry-pratchetts-discworld-novels\|website=BBC America\|date=31 October 2018}} On the Discworld series: "BBC AMERICA announced today the greenlight of the new original scripted series, The Watch, based on Sir Terry Pratchett's wildly popular "Discworld" novels, which have sold more than 90 million books worldwide." (2 November 2018)
Nijntje (Miffy)	Dick Bruna	Dutch	119	1955–present	85 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=34&story_id=43185 \|title=Nijntje's creator turns 80 \|publisher=Expatica.com \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030082437/http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=34&story_id=43185 \|archive-date=2007-10-30 }}
Alex Cross	James Patterson	English	21	1993–present	81 million[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/11/27/alex-cross-by-james-patterson/3665579/ USA Today] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610191617/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/11/27/alex-cross-by-james-patterson/3665579/ \|date=2016-06-10 }} on James Patterson's Alex Cross by the numbers: "81 million: Copies sold of series, starting with Along Came a Spider in 1993.""with Alex, it just seems to come together so naturally that I've kept him for myself. I suppose you could say Alex is the co-author." (27 November 2013)
Anpanman (アンパンマン)	Takashi Yanase	Japanese	150 picture books	1973–2013	80 million{{cite news \|title=生誕１００年やなせさんの「正義」 \|url=http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/column/editorial/CK2019020802000163.html \|access-date=March 2, 2019 \|work=Tokyo Newspaper \|date=February 8, 2019 \|language=ja \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301174906/http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/column/editorial/CK2019020802000163.html \|archive-date=March 1, 2019 \|url-status=dead }}
Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey	English	12 plus spinoffs	1997–2015	80 million{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/dav-pilkeys-new-dog-man-book-to-get-3-million-first-printing/2018/07/31/b5c9102e-94d2-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html\|title=Dav Pilkey's new 'Dog Man' book to get 3 million first printing\|first=Ron\|last=Charles\|newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Fear Street	R. L. Stine	English	114	1989–present	80 million[https://books.google.com/books?id=jibjFgTYKKcC&dq=%22220+million+copies%22&pg=RA9-PA8 Luisa Gerasimo e.a. in The Teacher's Calendar of Famous Birthdays] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401161456/https://books.google.com/books?id=jibjFgTYKKcC&pg=RA9-PA8&dq=%22220+million+copies%22&lr=&ei=nJj0R9KXB4zcygT5rdDLAQ&sig=YHH8Ivavon9oxJAsC0O7S1QWONc \|date=2017-04-01 }} page 8, on R. L. Stine: "That year he also created Fear Street, the first horror series for teenagers, which sold 80 million copies." (2003)
Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking)	Astrid Lindgren	Swedish	3 + 3 picture books	1945–2001	80 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/children_s_writer_told_163_200_000_prize_is_no_fantasy_1_740026\|title=Children's writer told £200,000 prize is no fantasy\|work=Scotsman.com\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501090711/http://www.scotsman.com/news/children_s_writer_told_163_200_000_prize_is_no_fantasy_1_740026\|archive-date=2013-05-01}}
The Vampire Chronicles	Anne Rice	English	13	1976–2021	80 million{{cite news \| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3562792/Anne-Rice-interview-with-the-vampire-writer.html \| location=London \| work=The Daily Telegraph \| first=Stuart \| last=Husband \| title=Anne Rice: interview with the vampire writer \| date=2 November 2008 \| url-status=live \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213042527/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3562792/Anne-Rice-interview-with-the-vampire-writer.html \| archive-date=13 December 2017 }}
OSS 117	Jean Bruce	French	265	1949–1992	75 million[http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/movies/26168654.html The Los AngelesDaily News] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224022520/http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/movies/26168654.html \|date=2009-02-24 }} on OSS 117: "Jean Bruce wrote 265 OSS 117 novels, selling some 75 million copies and spawning seven movies between 1956 and 1970." (1 August 2008)
Winnie-the-Pooh	A. A. Milne	English	2	1926–1928	70 million{{cite web \|url=http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/newsletter/jul2001/index.html \|title=Disney Video and DVD Insider \|publisher=Disney.go.com \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091219194009/http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/newsletter/jul2001/index.html \|archive-date=2009-12-19 }}
Magic Tree House series	Mary Pope Osborne	English	56{{cite web\|url=http://www.MagicTreeHouse.com\|title=Join the Magic Tree House!\|work=magictreehouse.com\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110212918/http://www.magictreehouse.com/\|archive-date=2014-01-10}}	1992–present	70 million[http://www.kentucky.com/2010/11/25/1540188/play-games-and-find-out-more-about.html Lexington Herald-Leader] {{dead link\|date=June 2022\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}} on the Magic Tree House series: "The series has sold 70 million copies in North America and has been translated into 28 different languages in 31 countries." (25 November 2010)
Left Behind	Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins	English	16	1996–2007	65 million{{cite web \|author=Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye \|url=http://www.leftbehind.com/ \|title=Home \|publisher=Left Behind \|date=2001-09-11 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830114316/http://www.leftbehind.com/ \|archive-date=2009-08-30 }}
A Series of Unfortunate Events	Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler	English	13	1999–2006	65 million[https://archive.today/20130104220530/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/daniel-handler-stepping-out-of-snickets-shadow/article2297535/ The Globe and Mail] on A Series of Unfortunate Events: "whose 13 "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books for children have sold an astonishing 65 million copies." (10 January 2012)
Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	English	12	1932–2006	60 million[http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100724/GPG04/7240410/-Little-House-stars-relive-days-on-prairie The Green Bay Press Gazette]{{Dead link\|date=February 2022 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }} on Little House on the Prairie: "If there was any doubt that a love for Little House is an everlasting one, consider not only that 60 million copies of the Wisconsin-born Wilder's books have been sold since 1932[...]" (24 July 2010)
All Creatures Great and Small	Alf Wight, as James Herriot	English	8	1970–1992	60 million[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/all-creatures-great-and-small-who-was-the-real-james-herriot-1.4491897 The Irish Times] on the All Creatures Great and Small series: "...in the evenings, writing under the pen name James Herriot, he [Alf Wight] chronicled his experiences, both past and present. The resulting eight books have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and inspired multiple film and television adaptations" (1 March 2021)
Jack Reacher	Lee Child	English	29 Novels + 21 Short Stories	1997–present	60 million[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/lee-child-pops-into-belfast-easons-for-book-signing-16208093.html The Belfast Telegraph] on the Jack Reacher books: "2012 marks a landmark year for Lee Child, whose Jack Reacher thrillers have now sold in excess of 60 million copies worldwide." (7 September 2012)
The Magic School Bus	Joanna Cole	English	131	1986–2010	58 million[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/2947-two-decades-of-fun-and-learning-on-the-magic-school-bus.html Two Decades of Fun and Learning on the Magic School Bus]. "Launched in 1986, this spirited science series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen encompasses 131 titles over a variety of formats and has sold more than 58 million copies." (27 July 2006)
Where's Wally?U.S. title: Where's Waldo?	Martin Handford	English	13	1987–present	55 million[https://variety.com/2011/film/news/mgm-finds-rights-to-waldo-1118045729/ Variety] on Where's Waldo: "The books have sold more than 55 million copies in more than 38 countries and been translated into more than 30 languages" (7 November 2011)
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus	John Gray	English	15	1992–present	50 million[http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2008/2/24/lifebookshelf/20404808&sec=lifebookshelf The Star] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521141426/http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F2%2F24%2Flifebookshelf%2F20404808&sec=lifebookshelf \|date=2011-05-21 }} on the Mars Venus series: " You must be from another planet if you have not heard of Gray and his Mars Venus universe. Fifty million of his books have been sold in 40 different languages." (24 February 2008)
The Hardy Boys	Various authors as Franklin W. Dixon	English	190	1927–present	50 million[http://hardyboysunofficial.blogspot.com/ The Unofficial Hardy Boys Home Page, "from the publisher McFarland & Company":] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707023027/http://hardyboysunofficial.blogspot.com/ \|date=2007-07-07 }} In its 80 year history, the Hardy Boys series has sold over 50 million books in over 25 languages (20 February 2008)
The Bobbsey Twins	Various authors as Laura Lee Hope	English	72	1904–1979	50 million[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2D6123AF934A2575BC0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 The New York Times: The Bobbsey Twins Carry On (And On and On)] "...a series of more than 70 books for children 7 to 9 years old that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide." (17 August 1987)
Tarzan	Edgar Rice Burroughs	English	26	1914–1995	50 million[https://books.google.com/books?id=kd8WqdD7qIUC&dq=Tarzan+%22million+copies%22&pg=PA70 Screening Difference: How Hollywood's Blockbuster Films Imagine Race] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926102448/https://books.google.com/books?id=kd8WqdD7qIUC&pg=PA70&dq=Tarzan+%22million+copies%22&lr=&as_brr=3&hl=ja&sig=L4WqSuBNtDE-pPtPMMGguDtsA6g \|date=2016-09-26 }} Jaap van Ginneken, 2007

= Between 30 million and 50 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book series !! Author(s) !! Original language !! No. of installments !! First published !! Approximate sales
The Shadowhunter Chronicles	Cassandra Clare	English	17 + 8 companion books	2007–present	50 millionSimon & Schuster. [https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Cassandra-Clare/35026200 Cassandra Clare] Retrieved 2022-10-28.
Earth's Children	Jean M. Auel	English	6	1980–2011	45 million{{cite magazine \|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/43338-new-jean-m-auel.html \|title=New Jean Auel \|magazine=Publishers Weekly \|access-date=2015-07-25 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725074044/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/43338-new-jean-m-auel.html \|archive-date=2015-07-25 }}
A Child's First Library of Learning	Various authors	English	29	1980–	45 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.english-time.com/revamp/region/en/aboutus/index.asp \|title=A Child's First Library of Learning \|publisher=English-time.com \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531033200/http://www.english-time.com/revamp/region/en/aboutus/index.asp \|archive-date=2009-05-31 }}
Junie B. Jones	Barbara Park	English	30	1992–2013	44 million[http://alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3501&Itemid=31 The Alameda Sun] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918194626/http://www.alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3501&Itemid=31 \|date=2008-09-18 }} on Junie B. Jones: "The series, launched in 1992, offers 27 books and an interactive journal, and has sold 44 million copies around the world." (27 June 2008)
Harry Bosch	Michael Connelly	English	15	1992–	42 million[http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/arts/bish-bash-bosch-its-the-return-of-hardboiled-harry-2926560.html The Irish Independent] on Harry Bosch: "Crime writer Michael Connelly's Hieronymous 'Harry' Bosch thrillers have sold 42 million copies, [...]" (5 November 2011)
Harry Hole	Jo Nesbø	Norwegian	13	1997–present	40 million[http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/14875181/article-Book-review--The-Snowman-by-Jo-Nesbo?instance=entertainment_secondary The Anniston Star] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008222618/http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/14875181/article-Book-review--The-Snowman-by-Jo-Nesbo?instance=entertainment_secondary \|date=2011-10-08 }} on Harry Hole: "The series has been translated into 40 languages and has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide." (29 July 2011)
Warriors	Erin Hunter	English	78	2003–present	40 million [http://kidscreen.com/2019/01/07/coolabi-group-unveils-online-warriors-hub/ Kidscreen] on Erin Hunter: "Created by Coolabi Group's company Working Partners, the Warriors fantasy book series has sold more than 40 million copies around the world." (7 January 2019)
连环画铁道游击队 (Picture-and-story book Railway Guerilla)	original author: {{ill\|Liu Zhixia\|zh\|刘知侠\|vertical-align=sup}}	Chinese	10	1955–1962	36.52 million[http://www.rmhb.com.cn/chpic/htdocs/english/200610/6-2.htm China Pictorial] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304202841/http://www.rmhb.com.cn/chpic/htdocs/english/200610/6-2.htm \|date=2008-03-04 }} October 2006
かいけつゾロリ (Kaiketsu Zorori)	Yutaka Hara	Japanese	60	1987–present	35 million[http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2087369/full/ ORICON NEWS] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619184608/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2087369/full/ \|date=2017-06-19 }} (13 March 2017)
Paddington Bear	Michael Bond	English	70	1958–present	35 million[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/michael-bond-creator-paddington-bear-dies-91-180963860/ Michael Bond, Creator of Paddington Bear], Smithsonian Magazine: ""The author's stories about a plucky, marmalade-loving bear sold more than 35 million copies worldwide."
Animorphs	K A Applegate and ghostwriters	English	54	1996-2001	35 million{{Cite book \|title=The Invasion: A Graphic Novel (Animorphs #1): Volume 1 (Animorphs Graphic Novels) \|id={{ASIN\|1338226487\|country=uk}} }}
Divergent trilogy	Veronica Roth	English	3 + 1 companion book	2011–2013	35 million[http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/69569-movie-alert-the-divergent-series-allegiant.html Movie Alert: "The Divergent Series – Allegiant"] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007220402/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/69569-movie-alert-the-divergent-series-allegiant.html \|date=2017-10-07 }} Publishers Weekly 2016
ノンタン (Nontan)	Sachiko Kiyono	Japanese	40	1976–2016	33.6 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.j-cast.com/trend/2020/12/27401783.html\|title=偕成社の大人気絵本「ノンタン」45周年都営新宿線にノンタンの吊革が出現\|date=December 27, 2020\|website=J-CAST\|language=Japanese}}
グイン・サーガ (Guin Saga)	Kaoru Kurimoto, Yu Godai	Japanese	149	1979–2024	33 million{{cite web\|script-title=ja:『栗本薫と中島梓　世界最長の物語を書いた人』が日本推理作家協会賞評論・研究部門の候補に選ばれました。\|url=https://www.hayakawa-online.co.jp/new/2020-03-11-094633.html\|website=Hayakawa Online\|date=March 11, 2020}}
The Inheritance Cycle	Christopher Paolini	English	5 + 1 companion book	2002–2023	33 million{{cite news\|last=Fortini\|first=Amanda\|title=The Prince of Dragons: Christopher Paolini and the Rise of 'Inheritance'\|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-prince-of-dragons-christopher-paolini-and-the-rise-of-inheritance-20120308\|access-date=12 March 2012\|newspaper=Rolling Stone\|date=8 March 2012\|quote=His four books have collectively sold more than 33 million copies worldwide.\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320221421/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-prince-of-dragons-christopher-paolini-and-the-rise-of-inheritance-20120308\|archive-date=20 March 2012}}
Rich Dad, Poor Dad \|Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter \|English \|18 \|1997– \|32 million{{cite web\|last=Schools\|first=Dave\|date=2019-03-20\|title=This book about how to get rich sold more than 32 million copies—here are 5 essential lessons you need to know\|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/5-lessons-on-how-to-get-rich-from-the-best-selling-personal-finance-book-that-sold-more-than-32-million-copies.html\|access-date=2021-12-08\|website=CNBC\|language=en}}
とある魔術の禁書目録 (Toaru Majutsu no Index)	Kazuma Kamachi	Japanese	46	2004–	30 million [https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2113269/full/ ORICON NEWS]: Light novel light novel "Toaru Majutsu no Index" series published in 2004 by Dengeki Bunko has exceeded the cumulative issue number of 30 million copies, [...] (9 June 2018)
{{ill\|徳川家康\|ja\|徳川家康 (山岡荘八)\|vertical-align=sup}} (Tokugawa Ieyasu)	Sōhachi Yamaoka	Japanese	26	1950–1967	30 million{{cite web \|url=http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/guest/cgi-bin/indexp.cgi?AC=1-101100 \|title=徳川家康（1）出生乱離の巻 \|publisher=Bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630212142/http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/guest/cgi-bin/indexp.cgi?AC=1-101100 \|archive-date=2009-06-30 }}
Ramona	Beverly Cleary	English	8	1955–1999	30 million[https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11239986 ABC News] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915125845/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11239986 \|date=2010-09-15 }} on Ramona: "The film is adapted from Beverly Cleary's series of "Ramona" books, which go back more than 50 years and have sold 30 million copies." (23 July 2010)
The Dark Tower	Stephen King	English	8	1982–2012	30 million{{cite web \|author=SuperHeroHype \|url=http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/106842-the-dark-tower-to-become-a-film-trilogy-and-tv-series-read-more-the-dark-tower-to-become-a-film-trilogy-and-tv-series \|title=The Dark Tower to Become a Film Trilogy and TV Series \|date=9 September 2010 \|publisher=Superhero Hype \|access-date=2011-05-26 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115054932/http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/106842-the-dark-tower-to-become-a-film-trilogy-and-tv-series-read-more-the-dark-tower-to-become-a-film-trilogy-and-tv-series \|archive-date=2012-01-15 }}
Dork Diaries	Rachel Renée Russell	English	15	2009–2018	30 million[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiG-BwePrZA] Library of Congress, 2018 National Book Festival. "Rachel Renee Russell has sold over 30 million copies of the New York Times bestselling series, Dork Diaries," Monica Valentine. (10 October 2018)
The Destroyer	Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, various authors	English	150	1971–present	30 million[https://www.mcall.com/1985/10/11/from-grey-to-gray-in-his-new-film-joel-grey-piles-on-years-with-makeup/ "From Grey To Gray In His New Film, Joel Grey Piles On Years With Makeup"] on The Destroyer: "The movie, by Dick Clark, Larry Spiegel and Mel Bergman Productions, is based on the Destroyer novel series of some 62 books which has sold 30 million copies." (11 October 1985)

= Between 20 million and 30 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book series !! Author(s) !! Original language !! No. of installments !! First published !! Approximate sales !! Genre
地球往事 (Remembrance of Earth's Past)	Liu Cixin	Chinese	3	2008–2010	29 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g00943/\|title=Komatsu Sakyō: Japan's Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Author in the Spotlight in 2020\|date=Oct 16, 2020\|website=Nippon.com}}	science fiction
{{ill\|三毛猫ホームズシリーズ\|ja\|vertical-align=sup}} (Calico Cat Holmes series)	Jirō Akagawa	Japanese	43	1978–present	28 million{{cite web\|url=https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/6505659/\|title=ミステリーとジャニーズと、時々、ネコ? 『三毛猫ホームズの推理』\|date=April 26, 2012\|website=livedoor.com}}	detective, mystery
Curious George	Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey	English	58	1941–present	27 million{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/books/13geor.html\|title=How Curious George Escaped the Nazis\|date=13 September 2005\|work=The New York Times\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503124315/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/books/13geor.html\|archive-date=3 May 2015}}	Children's Literature
Shannara	Terry Brooks	English	20	1977–present	26 million[https://hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/shannara-series-works-at-mtv-663313 'Shannara' Series in the works at MTV] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102083236/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/shannara-series-works-at-mtv-663313 \|date=2016-01-02 }} The Hollywood Reporter 2013
Kurt Wallander	Henning Mankell	Swedish	10	1991–2002	25 million[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/sep/21/theatre.branagh The Guardian] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413114341/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/sep/21/theatre.branagh \|date=2016-04-13 }} on Wallander: "[...] the crime novels by Swedish author Henning Mankell, which have sold 25 million copies worldwide." (21 September 2008)
Sagan om Isfolket (The Legend of the Ice People)	Margit Sandemo	Swedish	47	1982–1989	25 million[http://www.norway.org.uk/News_and_events/culture/literature/margitsandemo/ Norwegian best selling author to cast spell on the UK] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105102032/http://www.norway.org.uk/News_and_events/culture/literature/margitsandemo/ \|date=2012-01-05 }}
The Sword of Truth	Terry Goodkind	English	21	1998–present	25 million{{cite news\|last1=Barnes\|first1=Brooks\|title=Swords and Sorcery Return to Syndication\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/television/26barn.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0\|newspaper=The New York Times\|date=26 October 2008 \|access-date=18 July 2015\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904092429/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/television/26barn.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0\|archive-date=4 September 2017}}
Outlander	Diana Gabaldon	English	8	1991–present	25 million{{cite news\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/outlander-is-this-the-new-game-of-thrones-9685662.html\|title=Outlander: Is this the new 'Game of Thrones'?\|work=The Independent\|date=26 August 2014\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815210941/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/outlander-is-this-the-new-game-of-thrones-9685662.html\|archive-date=2017-08-15}}
{{ill\|ズッコケ三人組\|ja\|vertical-align=sup}} (Zukkoke Sanningumi)	Masamoto Nasu	Japanese	50	1978–2004	25 million{{cite web\|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000009.000031579.html\|title=【ズッコケ三人組40周年記念】広島市にて那須先生講演会・特別展示を開催。那須正幹先生への取材・インタビューのお願い\|date=March 12, 2018}}	Children's Literature
鬼平犯科帳 (Onihei Hankachō)	Shōtarō Ikenami	Japanese	24	1968–1990	24.4 million, only bunkobon[http://homepage1.nifty.com/shimizumon/walk/course1/walk_01.html Nifty.com] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915125825/http://homepage1.nifty.com/shimizumon/walk/course1/walk_01.html \|date=2010-09-15 }} (Gokujo No Tabi October 2003)	jidaigeki
Brain Quest	Various authors	English		1992–present	23.7 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.storybookcove.com/NASApp/store/Product;jsessionid=abcSzlpRBCl9BdJio5A8q?s=showproduct&isbn=0761137769\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928134744/http://www.storybookcove.com/NASApp/store/Product%3Bjsessionid%3DabcSzlpRBCl9BdJio5A8q?s=showproduct&isbn=0761137769\|url-status= dead\|title=Storybook Cove\|archive-date=September 28, 2007}}
South Beach Diet	Arthur Agatston	English	6	2003–present	22 million[http://www.miamiherald.com/1185/story/378534.html The Miami Herald] on the South Beach Diet books: "The South Beach Diet became a No. 1 New York Times Bestseller and the six books in the series have sold 22 million copies." (15 January 2008)
ソードアート・オンライン (Sword Art Online)	Reki Kawahara	Japanese	27	2009–present	30 million{{cite web\|url= https://www.sankei.com/article/20220623-557PB3RMUFKXNDFMTLFN3HYCNI/\|title= Ｓａｏの世界に没入アニメ化１０年、来月展覧会\|date= 23 June 2022}}
{{ill\|竜馬がゆく\|ja\|vertical-align=sup}} (Ryoma ga Yuku)	Ryōtarō Shiba	Japanese	5	1963–1966	21.5 million[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-16256264_ITM Japan Inc.] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413161310/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-16256264_ITM \|date=2008-04-13 }} (22 June 2006)	jidaigeki
Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer	English	8 + 1 companion book	2001–2012	21 million[https://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-developing-artemis-fowl-movie-with-harvey-weinstein-1200569446/ Variety] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816094424/http://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-developing-artemis-fowl-movie-with-harvey-weinstein-1200569446/ \|date=2017-08-16 }} on Artemis Fowl: "The "Artemis Fowl" books have sold more than 21 million copies in print in 44 languages worldwide." (29 July 2013) \|
The Cosmere \|Brandon Sanderson \|English \|30+{{Cite web \|title=The Cosmere Series by Brandon Sanderson \|url=https://www.goodreads.com/series/135117-the-cosmere \|access-date=2023-05-05 \|website=www.goodreads.com}} \|2005–present \|21 Million {{Cite news \|last=Harris \|first=Elizabeth A. \|date=2022-03-03 \|title=Fantasy Author Raises $15.4 Million in 24 Hours to Self-Publish \|language=en-US \|work=The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/books/brandon-sanderson-kickstarter.html \|access-date=2023-05-05 \|issn=0362-4331}} \|
Dune series	Frank Herbert	English	30+	1965	20 million	Science fiction novel
I Survived	Lauren Tarshis	English	25	2010–2020	data-sort-value="20.1 million" \| more than 20 million{{cite web\|url=https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/lauren-tarshis/ \|title= Lauren Tarshis Books In Order \|date= 27 June 2017 \|publisher= Book Series In Order\|access-date=July 12, 2020}}{{cite web\|url=http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/isurvived \|title=The I Survived Series by Lauren Tarshis \|website= Scholastic \|access-date= July 12, 2020}}
Découvertes Gallimard	Various authors	French	more than 700	1986–present	data-sort-value="20.1 million" \| more than 20 million{{Cite magazine \|date=January 1999 \|title=Livres Hebdo (nº 321) \|language=fr \|magazine=Livres Hebdo, n° 321 \|location=Paris \|publisher=Electre S.A. }}{{cite web \|url=https://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/articles/decouvertes-gallimard-ou-la-culture-encyclopedique-la-francaise \|title=Découvertes Gallimard ou la culture encyclopédique à la française \|first=Françoise \|last=Hache-Bissette \|website=ricochet-jeunes.org \|date=2002 \|access-date=15 October 2017 \|language=fr \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921144648/https://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/articles/decouvertes-gallimard-ou-la-culture-encyclopedique-la-francaise \|archive-date=21 September 2017 }}
Redwall	Brian Jacques	English	22	1986–2011	20 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/05/08/23661/ \|title=Rubin '09 picked to illustrate next book in popular Redwall series – the Daily Princetonian \|access-date=2010-08-12 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914062331/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/05/08/23661/ \|archive-date=2010-09-14 }} on Redwall: "Brian Jacques’ award-winning books, which have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide in 28 languages." (8 May 2009)
Maisy	Lucy Cousins	English	23	1990–present	20 million
Dragonlance	Various authors	English	more than 150	1984–present	20 million[http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4260&Itemid=99 IESB.net] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024031858/http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content \|date=2008-10-24 }} (4 February 2008)
幻魔大戦 (Genma Taisen)	Kazumasa Hirai	Japanese	20	1979–1983	20 million[http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0504/04/news072.html IT Media Mobile] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922125256/http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0504/04/news072.html \|date=2009-09-22 }} (4 April 2005)
青春の門 (The Gate of Youth)	Hiroyuki Itsuki	Japanese		1970–present	20 million [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20050320cs.html The Japan Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110042028/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20050320cs.html \|date=2009-01-10 }} (20 March 2005)
スレイヤーズ (Slayers)	Hajime Kanzaka	Japanese	50	1989–present	20 million{{cite news \|last1=Komatsu \|first1=Mikikazu \|title=Slayers Novel Original Series' Long-Awaited 16th Volume Set for Release on October 20 \|url=https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2018/08/31/slayers-novel-original-series-long-awaited-16th-volume-set-for-release-on-october-20 \|access-date=February 10, 2019 \|work=Crunchyroll \|date=August 31, 2018}}
The Foundation Trilogy	Isaac Asimov	English	3However further 'Foundation' books were written by Asimov from 1982, extending the direct series to seven books, however these four further novels tell two largely independent stories. Ultimately many of Asimov's works join to form a single time line encompassing 20,000 years of future-history. To further add the extent of the series, a 'Second Foundation Trilogy' of books by contemporary Sci-Fi writers also explicitly join with the series.	1950–1953	20 million[http://movies.ign.com/articles/036/036229p1.html IGN] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522132606/http://movies.ign.com/articles/036/036229p1.html \|date=2011-05-22 }} 27 June 2000
Horrible Histories	Terry Deary	English	24	1993–present	20 million[http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/21934/horrible-histories-the-terrible-tudors The Stage] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612025019/http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/21934/horrible-histories-the-terrible-tudors \|date=2011-06-12 }} on Horrible Histories: "[...] based on the hugely successful (20 million copies sold worldwide) series of children's books by Terry Deary, who also wrote this adaptation." (1 October 2008)
Rainbow Magic	Daisy Meadows	English	80+	2003–present	20 million[http://www.bradenton.com/2010/11/23/2760832/hit-entertainment-and-rosettabooks.html Brandeton.com] {{dead link\|date=September 2017 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }} on Rainbow Magic: "A publishing phenomenon, "Rainbow Magic" has sold 20+ million copies in 31 languages worldwide, including over 6 million books in print in the U.S." (23 November 2010)
Morgan Kane	Louis Masterson	Norwegian	90	1966–	20 million[http://www.stavangeravisen.com/art.asp?id=17482 Stavangeravisen.no] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006192641/http://www.stavangeravisen.com/art.asp?id=17482 \|date=2011-10-06 }}
The Southern Vampire Mysteries	Charlaine Harris	English	13	2001–2013	20 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/1728855.html\|title=Lovely County Citizen: Entertainment: Dinner with a vampire author? (05/18/11)\|work=Lovely County Citizen\|date=18 May 2011\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527135235/http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/1728855.html\|archive-date=2011-05-27}}

= Between 15 million and 20 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable" !Book series !! Author(s) !! Original language !! No. of instalments !! First published !! Approximate sales
Doc Savage	Lester Dent, various authors	English	203	1933–present	20 million[https://books.google.com/books?id=K9P1T0doSpkC&dq=%22doc+savage%22+%22million+copies%22&pg=PA2 Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review] Feb. 1979 issue
涼宮ハルヒシリーズ (Haruhi Suzumiya Series)	Nagaru Tanigawa	Japanese	11	2003–present	20 million{{cite web\|title=Haruhi Suzumiya Light Novel Series Has 20 Million Copies in Print Worldwide\|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2017-12-10/haruhi-suzumiya-light-novel-series-has-20-million-copies-in-print-worldwide/.125089\|website=Anime News Network\|access-date=11 December 2017\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210155505/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2017-12-10/haruhi-suzumiya-light-novel-series-has-20-million-copies-in-print-worldwide/.125089\|archive-date=10 December 2017}}
一億人の昭和史 (1-oku nin no Shōwa shi / Shōwa History of 100 million people)	Tomiyasu Takahara, Various authors	Japanese	95	1975-1980	19 million{{cite web \|url=https://corporate.mainet-works.com/heisei-history/about-showa-history.html \|title=１億人の平成史平成の写真資料を募集します \|publisher=Mainichi Books \|access-date=2024-04-10 }}
科学のアルバム (Kagaku no album / Science's Album)	Various authors	Japanese		1970–present	19 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.hon10.com/07cts/h_about/1_akanesyobo.html \|title=Akane Shobo \|publisher=Hon10.com \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630220756/http://www.hon10.com/07cts/h_about/1_akanesyobo.html \|archive-date=2009-06-30 }}
剣客商売 (Kenkaku Shōbai)	Shotaro Ikenami	Japanese	18	1972–1989	18 million[http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/kenkaku5/ Fuji T.V.] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080323002210/http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/kenkaku5/ \|date=2008-03-23 }} (2004)
Erast Fandorin series	Boris Akunin	Russian	12	1998–present	18 million[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/02/25/boaku18.xml The Telegraph] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531155034/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2007%2F02%2F25%2Fboaku18.xml \|date=2008-05-31 }} on Erast Fandorin: "The two authors share a quality that has seen Akunin shift 18 million copies of his Fandorin stories" (25 February 2007)
Dragonriders of Pern \|Anne McCaffrey \|English \|23 \|1967–present \|18 million{{cite web\|url=https://thebytenews.com/the-updated-sff-all-time-sales-list-2015/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516190921/https://thebytenews.com/the-updated-sff-all-time-sales-list-2015/\|url-status=usurped\|archive-date=May 16, 2022\|title=The Updated SFF All-Time Sales List\| website=The Byte News \|date=2015-03-07\|access-date=2017-12-29}}
吸血鬼ハンターD (Vampire Hunter D)	Hideyuki Kikuchi	Japanese	39	1983–present	17 million[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6600565.html Publishers Weekly] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002130913/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6600565.html \|date=2008-10-02 }} on Vampire Hunter D: "The books have sold more than 17 million copies around the world." (30 September 2008)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams, plus a final book by Eoin Colfer	English	6	1979–2008	16 million[http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7619000/7619708.stm BBC] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920030801/http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7619000/7619708.stm \|date=2008-09-20 }} on The Hitchhiker's Guide: "About 16 million copies of the books have been sold worldwide" (17 September 2008){{cite web\|title=The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Books in Order\|url=https://www.readingorder.co/series/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/\|access-date=2020-12-01\|website=Books Reading Order\|language=en-US}}
{{ill\|ぼくらシリーズ\|ja\|ぼくらの七日間戦争\|vertical-align=sup}} (Bokura series)	Osamu Soda	Japanese	36	1985–present	15 million[https://web.archive.org/web/20030320190359/http://ch-k.kyodo.co.jp/17kyodo/number05/newsdigest.html Kyodo Tsushin](archive.org) (20 December 2001)
Bridget Jones	Helen Fielding	English	3	1996–present	15 million[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/helen-fielding-beyond-bridget-582224.html Helen Fielding: Beyond Bridget] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606100648/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/helen-fielding-beyond-bridget-582224.html \|date=2011-06-06 }} The Independent 2003
His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman	English	3	1995–2000	15 million[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E7D7133DF930A25752C0A96E9C8B63&scp=1&sq=sophie+gee&st=nyt The New York Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904091723/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E7D7133DF930A25752C0A96E9C8B63&scp=1&sq=sophie+gee&st=nyt \|date=2017-09-04 }} on His Dark Materials: "His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's trilogy inspired by Paradise Lost, has sold 15 million copies worldwide, while the film version of the first volume, The Golden Compass, has earned more than $150 million." (13 January 2008)
銀河英雄伝説 (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)	Yoshiki Tanaka	Japanese	14	1982–1989	15 million[http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20080424/ginga.htm Impress Watch] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430090425/http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20080424/ginga.htm \|date=2008-04-30 }} (24 April 2008)
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	English	23	1999–present	15 million[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7284357.stm BBC] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313085929/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7284357.stm \|date=2008-03-13 }} on Alexander McCall Smith: "His books, featuring the unconventional No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, have sold 15 million copies in English, not counting the 42 languages they've been published in elsewhere." 7 March 2008
Der Regenbogenfisch (Rainbow Fish)	Marcus Pfister	German		1992–present	15 million[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6359151.html?nid=2788&rid=#reg_visitor_id Publishers Weekly] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502000912/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6359151.html?nid=2788&rid= \|date=2008-05-02 }} (24 August 2006)
The Riftwar Cycle	Raymond E. Feist	English	25	1982–present	15 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Raymond-E-Feist/biography.html\|title=Raymond E Feist biography, bibliography and reviews\|website=www.fantasybookreview.co.uk\|language=en\|access-date=2017-01-29\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111061027/http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Raymond-E-Feist/biography.html\|archive-date=2017-01-11}}
The Thrawn trilogy	Timothy Zahn	English	3	1991–93	15 million{{cite web\|last1=Myers\|first1=Lindsay Rae\|title=The Man Who Saved Star Wars: An Interview With Pensacon Guest Timothy Zahn\|url=http://wuwf.org/post/man-who-saved-star-wars-interview-pensacon-guest-timothy-zahn\|website=WUWF 88.1\|date=20 February 2014 \|publisher=WUWF\|access-date=17 June 2017}}
Wiedźmin (The Witcher)	Andrzej Sapkowski	Polish	9	1990–2013	15 million{{Cite news\|url=https://www.tvinsider.com/836558/the-witcher-henry-cavill-geralt-of-rivia-season-1-preview/\|title='The Witcher's Henry Cavill Says 'Tough' Geralt Has a 'Heart of Gold'\|last=Holbrook\|first=Damian\|date=10 December 2019\|website=TV Insider\|access-date=23 June 2021\|language=en-US}}
{{ill\|14ひきのシリーズ\|ja\|14ひきのシリーズ\|vertical-align=sup}} (The family of fourteen) \|{{ill\|Kazuo Iwamura\|ja\|いわむらかずお\|vertical-align=sup}} \|Japanese \| \|1983–present \|15 million{{Cite web\|url=https://www.doshinsha.co.jp/news/detail.php?id=2121\|title=〈ニュース〉いわむらかずおさん絵本作家デビュー50周年！\|language=ja\|website=童心社\|access-date=2024-09-26}}

= Notes =

The Perry Rhodan series has sold more than 1 billion copies,[http://www.perry-rhodan-usa.com/web1998/rdnpres.htm Perry Rhodan 35th anniversary Press Release] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430072534/http://www.perry-rhodan-usa.com/web1998/rdnpres.htm |date=April 30, 2008 }} (July 1996) but is not listed because that figure includes magazine sales, not novels alone.{{Citation needed|date=June 2016}} Similarly, the Jerry Cotton series has sold over 300 million copies and the John Sinclair series sold more than 250 million copies, but most of these were also in dime novel format.{{cite book|last=Stoehr|first=Ingo Roland|title=German literature of the twentieth century|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|date=2001|series=History of German Literature|volume=10|page=529|isbn=978-1-57113-157-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Vi3vz7qbtwC&q=%22million+copies%22&pg=PA258|access-date=5 January 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102073440/http://books.google.com/books?id=7Vi3vz7qbtwC&pg=PA258&dq=%22million+copies%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1995&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=2010&as_brr=3&ei=0vNCS_HVCpzWyATF6vD-Bw&cd=10#v=onepage&q=%22million%20copies%22&f=false|archive-date=2 January 2014}}{{cite web |title=Geisterjäger John Sinclair und sein Schöpfer Jason Dark – die Kultserie |url=https://www.john-sinclair.de/john-sinclair/die-macher/die-serie |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=john-sinclair.de |language=de}}{{cite news |last=Zayed |first=Amy |title=Pop-Phänomen Geisterjäger - Die Welt voller Dämonen |url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/pop-phaenomen-geisterjaeger-die-welt-voller-daemonen.807.de.html?dram:article_id=469415 |access-date=July 19, 2024 |work=Deutschlandfunk |date=February 3, 2020 |language=de}}{{cite news |title=50 Jahre John Sinclair - Sein Autor hat den Horror im Kopf |url=https://www.fr.de/ratgeber/medien/50-jahre-john-sinclair-sein-autor-hat-den-horror-im-kopf-zr-92396426.html |access-date=July 19, 2024 |work=Frankfurter Rundschau |date=July 28, 2023 |language=de}}

The figures given for some books are for the number printed instead of confirmed sales.{{which|date=September 2015}}

List of best-selling regularly updated books

= More than 100 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales
新华字典 (Xinhua Zidian / Xinhua Dictionary)	Chief editor: Wei Jiangong	Chinese	1957	567 million{{Cite web\|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/press-release/2016/4/gwr%20announces%20xinhua%20dictionary/\|title=Guinness World Records Announces Xinhua Dictionary as the "Most Popular Dictionary" and the "Best-Selling book (regularly updated)" \| Guinness World Records}}
Scouting for Boys	Robert Baden-Powell	English	1908	100–150 millionExtrapolation for global range of other language publications, and related to the number of Scouts, make a realistic estimate of 100 to 150 million books.{{cite book \| first = Tim \| last = Jeal \| author-link = Tim Jeal \| title = Baden-Powell \| year = 1989 \| location = London \| publisher = Hutchinson \| isbn = 0-09-170670-X}}
The McGuffey Readers	William Holmes McGuffey	English	1853	125 million{{Citation \| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BtGzlMatpUUC&q=125-million-copies&pg=PA439 \| first = William Joseph \| last = Federer \| title = America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations \| page = 439 \| contribution = William Holmes McGuffey \| quote = As of 1963, 125 million copies had been sold \| year = 1996 \| publisher = Amerisearch \| isbn = 9781880563052 \| url-status = live \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170402012202/https://books.google.com/books?id=BtGzlMatpUUC&pg=PA439&dq=125-million-copies&lr=&ei=x4LzR9zABYKWzATf_fHJCw&sig=ZrvbFvcxhs05I1Cs4E1h-ZiGjYo \| archive-date = 2017-04-02 }}
Guinness World Records (published every year)	Various authors	English	1955	115 million{{Citation \| url = http://www.licensing.biz/news/6235/Guinness-World-Records-earmarks-licensing-growth \| title = Licensing \| contribution = Guinness World Records earmarks licensing growth \| quote = The Guinness Book of World Records has been published in 30 languages in more than 100 countries and has sold in excess of 115 million copies, becoming the biggest selling copyright book of all time. \| date = 26 October 2010 \| url-status = dead \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101029205237/http://www.licensing.biz/news/6235/Guinness-World-Records-earmarks-licensing-growth \| archive-date = 2010-10-29 \| access-date = 2010-10-29 }}
六星占術によるあなたの運命 (Rokusei Senjutsu (Six-Star Astrology) Tells Your Fortune)	Kazuko Hosoki Kaori Hosoki	Japanese	1986	101.2 million{{cite web \|url=https://www.shinbunka.co.jp/news2017/08/170821-03.htm \|title=Shinbunka \|date=21 August 2017 \|publisher=Shinbunka \|place=JP \|access-date=2020-04-14 \|archive-date=2020-10-09 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009115037/https://www.shinbunka.co.jp/news2017/08/170821-03.htm/ \|url-status=dead }}
American Spelling Book (Webster's Dictionary)	Noah Webster	English	1783	100 million

= Between 50 million and 100 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales
World Almanac (published every year)	Various authors	English	1868–76; 1886–present	82 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.worldalmanac.com/world-almanac.aspx \|title=Book of Facts \|publisher=The World Almanac \|date=2008 \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907084441/http://www.worldalmanac.com/world-almanac.aspx \|archive-date=2009-09-07 }}World Almanac 2018, {{ISBN\|978-1-60057-213-5}}, page 11: "More than 82 million copies sold since 1868."
Betty Crocker Cookbook	General Mills staff	English	1950–2016 (12th edition)	75 million{{cite news\|last1=Dawson\|first1=Mackenzie\|title=This isn't your mother's Betty Crocker cookbook\|url=https://nypost.com/2016/10/12/this-isnt-your-mothers-betty-crocker-cookbook/\|access-date=5 January 2018\|work=New York Post\|date=12 October 2016}}
Tung Shing ({{lang-zh\|t=通勝}})	Choi Park Lai's family, among others	Chinese	1891(Only counting versions published by Choi's family)	>70 million (Only counting version published by Choi){{cite news\|title=曆法大師逝世‧編寫曆書列文化遺產蔡伯勵通勝絕\|url=https://www.chinapress.com.my/20180727/%E6%9B%86%E6%B3%95%E5%A4%A7%E5%B8%AB%E9%80%9D%E4%B8%96%E2%80%A7%E7%B7%A8%E5%AF%AB%E6%9B%86%E6%9B%B8%E5%88%97%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E9%81%BA%E7%94%A2-%E8%94%A1%E4%BC%AF%E5%8B%B5%E9%80%9A%E5%8B%9D%E7%B5%95/\|access-date=20 February 2022\|work=China Press\|date=27 July 2018}}
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary	Merriam-Webster	English	1898	55 million{{Citation \| url = http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/pr/eleventh.htm \| edition = 11th \| publisher = Merriam-Webster \| title = Collegiate Dictionary \| year = 2003 \| url-status = live \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090421055719/http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/pr/eleventh.htm \| archive-date = 2009-04-21 }}

= Between 30 million and 50 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales
Roget's Thesaurus	Peter Mark Roget	English	1852–	40 million{{Citation \| url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/03/25/entertainment/e124825D83.DTL \| newspaper = The San Francisco Chronicle \| title = Peter Mark Roget \| quote = More than 40 million copies have been sold \| date = 25 March 2008 \| url-status = live \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100914073427/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2008%2F03%2F25%2Fentertainment%2Fe124825D83.DTL \| archive-date = 14 September 2010 }}
できるシリーズ (Dekiru Series)	{{ill\|Impress Holdings\|lt=Impress\|ja\|インプレス\|vertical-align=sup}} Dekiru Series Editorial Desk	Japanese	1994–present	40 million{{Citation \| url = http://www.news2u.net/releases/43884 \| title = News2u \| date = 6 February 2009 \| url-status = live \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111005213920/http://www.news2u.net/releases/43884 \| archive-date = 5 October 2011 }}
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book	Various authors	English	1930–	38 million{{cite web\|url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=72940&p=irol-newsArticle_Print&ID=970136&highlight= \|title=Meredith Corporation \|publisher=Nasdaq Investor Relations \|access-date=2009-08-31}}
The Art of Mathematics	Hong Sung-dae	Korean	1966–present	37 million{{cite web\|url=http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?Total_ID=2432384 \|title='정석' 40년 3700만 권 팔려 … 에베레스트 125개 높이 \|publisher=Joongang Daily\|access-date=2010-09-11}} ~ 40 million[http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2005011053091<ype=1&nid=102&sid=01191026&page=6 한국경제(The Korean Financial Newspaper)] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011902/http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2005011053091<ype=1&nid=102&sid=01191026&page=6 \|date=2007-09-27 }} (10 January 2005)
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary	A. S. Hornby	English	1948	30 million[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/03/06/boll.xml The Telegraph] {{dead link\|date=July 2021\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}} on the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: "Thirty million copies of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary have been sold since it was first published in 1948. " (3 June 2005)
Le guide Michelin France (The Michelin Guide France) (published every year)	Various authors	French	1900–present	30 million[http://www.maptrade.org/docs/mapreport/2004-05-MapReport.pdf Map Repoat May 2004] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923085621/https://www.maptrade.org/docs/mapreport/2004-05-mapreport.pdf \|date=2006-09-23 }} "The Michelin Guide France 2004 Celebrates Its. 30 Millionth Copy", p.20

= Between 20 million and 30 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales
超図解シリーズ (Cho-Zukai series)	{{ill\|X media\|ja\|エクスメディア\|vertical-align=sup}}	Japanese	1996–2007	25 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.junkudo.co.jp/detail2.jsp?ID=0106947626 \|title=Junkdo Shoten \|publisher=Junkudo.co.jp \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005105039/http://www.junkudo.co.jp/detail2.jsp?ID=0106947626 \|archive-date=2011-10-05 }}
{{ill\|自由自在\|ja\|自由自在 (参考書)\|vertical-align=sup}} (Jiyu Jizai)	Various authors	Japanese	1953–present	24 million{{cite web\|url=http://www.zoshindo.co.jp/Gakusan/syoudocA.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212104619/http://www.zoshindo.co.jp/Gakusan/syoudocA.htm\|url-status= dead\|title=Zoshindo\|archive-date=February 12, 2008}}
新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai kokugo jiten)	Tadao Yamada	Japanese	1972	20.4 million[http://book.asahi.com/clip/TKY200801160127.html Asahi Shimbun] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401153841/http://book.asahi.com/clip/TKY200801160127.html \|date=2008-04-01 }} 16 January 2008
English Grammar	Lindley Murray	English	1795	20 million[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/books/review/09DERESIE.html The New York Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430221634/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/books/review/09DERESIE.html \|date=2013-04-30 }} (9 January 2005)

= Between 10 million and 20 million copies =

class="wikitable sortable"
" !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales
The Joy of Cooking	Various authors	English	1936	18 million[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/dining/01joy.html New York Times] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706130659/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/dining/01joy.html \|date=2017-07-06 }} 1 November 2006
スーパーマップル (Super Mapple)	Various authors	Japanese	1991–present	18 million[http://www.mapple.co.jp/publ/sm.html Shobunsha] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410193837/http://www.mapple.co.jp/publ/sm.html \|date=2008-04-10 }} (2007)
{{ill\|チャート式\|ja\|vertical-align=sup}} (Chart Shiki)	Various authors	Japanese	1927–present	17.44 million, only for the first grade of high-school
英語基本単語集 (Eigo Kihon Tangoshu) "Compilation of basic English vocabulary"	Yoshio Akao	Japanese, English	1942	17.2 millionNihon Keizai Shimbun morning edition, 10 January 2005.
Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary \| \| English \| (Up to 1975) \| 15.11 million{{Cite book\| title=80 Years of Best Sellers\| author=Alice Payne Hackett and James Henry Burke\| page=54\| date=1977\| location=New York, London\| publisher=R. R. Bowker}}
試験に出る英単語 (Siken Ni Deru Eitango) "English vocabulary in examinations"	Ichiro Mori	Japanese, English	1967	15 million[http://www.okwave.co.jp/news/press_log/2006/1006.html OK Wave] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331184157/http://www.okwave.co.jp/news/press_log/2006/1006.html \|date=2008-03-31 }} (6 October 2006)
新英和中辞典 (Shin Eiwa Chu Jiten) "New English-Japanese Dictionary"	Shigeru Takebayashi	Japanese, English	1967	12 million[http://www.technocraft.co.jp/press/2006/0210_yakushi.html Techno Craft] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122063800/http://www.technocraft.co.jp/press/2006/0210_yakushi.html \|date=2008-01-22 }} (10 February 2006)
広辞苑 (Kōjien)	Izuru Shinmura	Japanese	1955	11.9 million[https://www.bunkanews.jp/news/news.php?id=17996 The Bunka News] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020011703/https://www.bunkanews.jp/news/news.php?id=17996 \|date=2018-10-20 }} (25 October 2017)
旺文社古語辞典 (Obunsha Kogo Jiten) "Obunsha Dictionary of Archaisms"	Akira Matsumura	Japanese	1960	11 million[http://www.obunsha.co.jp/service/jisho-2007/kogo/kogo_35.html Obunsha] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329231911/http://www.obunsha.co.jp/service/jisho-2007/kogo/kogo_35.html \|date=2008-03-29 }} (2007)
Hammond's Pocket Atlas \| \| English \| (Up to 1965) \| 11 million{{Cite book\|title=70 Years of Best Sellers\|page=12,40,79\|date=1967\|author=Alice Payne Hackett\|location=New York, London\|publisher=R. R. Bowker}}
三省堂国語辞典 (Sanseido Kokugo Jiten) "Sanseido Dictionary of the Japanese Language"	Kenbō Hidetoshi	Japanese	1960	10 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.sanseido-publ.co.jp/publ/dicts/fuku_meikoku.html \|title=Sanseido \|publisher=Sanseido-publ.co.jp \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026233852/http://www.sanseido-publ.co.jp/publ/dicts/fuku_meikoku.html \|archive-date=2009-10-26 }}
家庭に於ける実際的看護の秘訣 (Katei Ni Okeru Jissaiteki Kango No Hiketsu) "Key to Practical Personal Care at Home"	Takichi Tsukuda	Japanese	1925	10 million{{cite web \|url=http://www.ne.jp/asahi/matsukinpapa/ucd/tukudaT1.html \|title=Tsukuda Takichi Akahon No Page \|publisher=Ne.jp \|access-date=2009-08-31 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110064707/http://www.ne.jp/asahi/matsukinpapa/ucd/tukudaT1.html \|archive-date=2009-01-10 }}
C程序设计 (C Program Design)	Tan, Haoqiang	Chinese	1991	10 million[http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2009-06/29/content_284606.htm Paper.people.com.cn] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721182044/http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2009-06/29/content_284606.htm \|date=2011-07-21 }} (June 29, 2009)

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100224080326/http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/bestsellerFARQ.html The Internet Public Library] (archived 24 February 2010)
[http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/mott.htm Frank Luther Mott Collection of American Best Sellers, 1662–1945] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208005622/http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/mott.htm |date=2012-12-08 }}) at the University of Missouri

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