List of best-selling books

This page provides lists of best-selling individual 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. This list is incomplete because there are many books, such as Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, that are commonly cited as "best-selling books" yet have no reliable sales figures.

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According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.[1] 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 million[1] to over 6.5 billion printed volumes,[2] with some claiming the distribution ran into the "billions"[3] and some citing "over a billion" official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as "untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations."[4][5] 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 below lists of best-selling books for these reasons.

Having sold more than 500 million copies worldwide,[6][7][8] 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,[9] making it one of the best-selling books of all time. As of June 2017, the series has been translated into 80 languages,[10] 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, where the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold roughly fifteen million copies worldwide within twenty-four hours of its release.[11][12] With twelve million books printed in the first U.S. run, it also holds the record for the highest initial print run for any book in history.[13][14]

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List of best-selling individual books

More than 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales	Genre
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	English	1859	200 million[15]	Historical fiction
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	French	1943	150 million[16][17][18][19][20][21]	fantasy (picture book)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J. K. Rowling	English	1997	120 million[9][22]	fantasy, mystery
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	English	1937	100+ million [15]	fantasy
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	English	1939	100 million[15]	mystery
Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢)	Cao Xueqin	Chinese	1791	100 million[23]	family saga

Between 50 million and 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales	Genre
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	C. S. Lewis	English	1950	85 million[24]	fantasy
She: A History of Adventure	H. Rider Haggard	English	1887	83 million[25]	adventure
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)	Carlo Collodi	Italian	1881	>80 million[26][27]	fantasy
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	English	2003	80 million[28]	mystery thriller
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J. K. Rowling	English	1998	77 million[29]	fantasy
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J. K. Rowling	English	1999	65 million[30]	fantasy
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J. K. Rowling	English	2000	65 million[30]	fantasy
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J. K. Rowling	English	2003	65 million[30]	fantasy
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J. K. Rowling	English	2005	65 million[30]	fantasy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J. K. Rowling	English	2007	65 million[30]	fantasy
The Alchemist (O Alquimista)	Paulo Coelho	Portuguese	1988	65 million[31]	fantasy
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	English	1951	65 million	coming-of-age
The Bridges of Madison County	Robert James Waller	English	1992	60 million[32]	romance
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Lew Wallace	English	1880	50 million[33]	historical
You Can Heal Your Life	Louise Hay	English	1984	50 million[34]	self-improvement
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)	Gabriel García Márquez	Spanish	1967	50 million[35][36][37]	magic realism
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	English	1955	50 million[38]	general
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	Swiss German	1880	50 million[39]	children's fiction
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care	Dr. Benjamin Spock	English	1946	50 million[40]	manual
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	English	1908	50 million[41]	general
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	English	1877	50 million[42]	children's literature
The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa)	Umberto Eco	Italian	1980	50 million[43]	historical novel, mystery
The Eagle Has Landed	Jack Higgins	English	1975	50 million[44]	war, thriller
Watership Down	Richard Adams	English	1972	50 million[45]	fantasy
The Hite Report	Shere Hite	English	1976	50 million[46]
Charlotte's Web	E.B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams	English	1952	50 million[47]	children's fiction
The Ginger Man	J. P. Donleavy	English	1955	50 million[48]

Between 30 million and 50 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	English	1902	45 million[49]
Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Richard Bach	English	1970	44 million[50]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	English	1969	43 million [51]
A Message to Garcia	Elbert Hubbard	English	1899	40 million[40]
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	English	1960	40 million[52]
Flowers in the Attic	V. C. Andrews	English	1979	40 million[53]
Cosmos	Carl Sagan	English	1980	40 million [54]
Sophie's World (Sofies verden)	Jostein Gaarder	Norwegian	1991	40 million[55]
Angels & Demons	Dan Brown	English	2000	39 million[56]
Kane and Abel	Jeffrey Archer	English	1979	37 million[57]
How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь)	Nikolai Ostrovsky	Russian	1932	36.4 million copies in USSR[58]
War and Peace (Война и мир)	Leo Tolstoy	Russian	1869	36.0 million copies in Russia[58]
The Diary of Anne Frank (Het Achterhuis)	Anne Frank	Dutch	1947	35 million[59]
Your Erroneous Zones	Wayne Dyer	English	1976	35 million[60][61]
The Thorn Birds	Colleen McCullough	English	1977	33 million[62]
The Purpose Driven Life	Rick Warren	English	2002	33 million[63]
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	English	2003	31.5 million[64]
Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann	English	1966	31 million[65]
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	English	1925	30 million[66]
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	English	1936	30 million[67]
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	English	1938	30 million[68]
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	English	1949	30 million[69]
The Revolt of Mamie Stover	William Bradford Huie	English	1951	30 million[70]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)	Stieg Larsson	Swedish	2005	30 million[71]
The Lost Symbol	Dan Brown	English	2009	30 million[72]

Between 20 million and 30 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	English	2008	29 million in U.S.[73]
The Young Guard (Молодая гвардия)	Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev	Russian	1945	26 million copies in USSR[58]
Who Moved My Cheese?	Spencer Johnson	English	1998	26 million[74]
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	English	1988	25 million[75]
Paul et Virginie	Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre	French	1788	25 million[76]
Lust for Life	Irving Stone	English	1934	25 million[77]
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	English	1908	25 million[78]
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen R. Covey	English	1989	25 million[79]
Virgin Soil Upturned (Поднятая целина)	Mikhail Sholokhov	Russian	1935	24 million copies in USSR[58]
The Celestine Prophecy	James Redfield	English	1993	23 million[80]
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	English	2012	23 million[81]
The Shack	William P. Young	English	2007	22 million[82]
Uncle Styopa (Дядя Степа)	Sergey Mikhalkov	Russian	1936	21 million copies in USSR[58]
The Godfather	Mario Puzo	English	1969	21 million[83]
Love Story	Erich Segal	English	1970	21 million[84]
Catching Fire	Suzanne Collins	English	2009	21 million in U.S.[73]
Mockingjay	Suzanne Collins	English	2010	20 million in U.S.[73]
Kitchen	Banana Yoshimoto	Japanese	1988	20 million [85]
Andromeda Nebula	Ivan Yefremov	Russian	1957	20 million[86]
Autobiography of a Yogi	Paramahansa Yogananda	Hindi	1946	20 million[87]
Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	English	2012	20 million[88]
The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins	English	2015	20 million[89]
All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)	Erich Maria Remarque	German	1929	20 million[90]
The Bermuda Triangle	Charles Berlitz	English	1974	20 million[91]
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	English	1958	20 million[92]
Animal Farm	George Orwell	English	1945	20 million[93]
Wolf Totem (狼图腾)	Jiang Rong	Chinese	2004	20 million[94]
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story	Xaviera Hollander	English	1971	20 million[95]
Jaws	Peter Benchley	English	1974	20 million[96]
Love You Forever	Robert Munsch	English	1986	20 million[97]
The Women's Room	Marilyn French	English	1977	20 million[98]
What to Expect When You're Expecting	Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff	English	1984	20 million[99]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	English	1885	20 million[100]
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾	Sue Townsend	English	1982	20 million[101]
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	English	1813	20 million[102][103]
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen)	Thor Heyerdahl	Norwegian	1950	20 million[104]
The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války)	Jaroslav Hašek	Czech	1923	20 million[105]
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	English	1963	20 million[106]
The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	English	1952	20 million[107]
The Secret	Rhonda Byrne	English	2006	20 million[108]
Fear of Flying	Erica Jong	English	1973	20 million[109]
Dune	Frank Herbert	English	1965	20 million[110]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	English	1964	20 million[111]
The Naked Ape	Desmond Morris	English	1968	20 million[112]

Between 10 million and 20 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window (窓ぎわのトットちゃん)	Tetsuko Kuroyanagi	Japanese	1981	18 million (in Japan and China)[113]
Matilda	Roald Dahl	English	1988	17 million [114]
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	English	2005	16 million [115]
The Horse Whisperer	Nicholas Evans	English	1995	16 million[116]
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	English	1947	16 million[117]
The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte)	Michael Ende	German	1979	16 million[118]
Fifty Shades of Grey	E. L. James	English	2011	15.2 million in U.S. [119]
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	English	1967	15 million[120]
Guess How Much I Love You	Sam McBratney	English	1994	15 million[121]
Shōgun	James Clavell	English	1975	15 million[122]
The Poky Little Puppy	Janette Sebring Lowrey	English	1942	15 million[123]
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	English	1989	15 million[124]
How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	English	1936	15 million[125]
Perfume (Das Parfum)	Patrick Süskind	German	1985	15 million[126]
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	English	1939	15 million[127]
The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento)	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	Spanish	2001	15 million[128]
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	English	2000	15 million[129]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	English	1979	14 million[130]
Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom	English	1997	14 million[131]
God's Little Acre	Erskine Caldwell	English	1933	14 million[132]
Follow Your Heart (Va' dove ti porta il cuore)	Susanna Tamaro	Italian	1994	14 million[133]
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	English	1962	14 million[134]
Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	English	1994	14 million[135]
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	English	1952	13 million[58]
Life After Life	Raymond Moody	English	1975	13 million[136]
Me Before You	Jojo Moyes	English	2012	12 million[137]
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森)	Haruki Murakami	Japanese	1987	12 million[138]
Peyton Place	Grace Metalious	English	1956	12.1 million[139]
The Plague (La Peste)	Albert Camus	French	1947	12 million[140]
No Longer Human (人間失格)	Osamu Dazai	Japanese	1948	12 million[141]
Man's Search for Meaning (Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager)	Viktor Frankl	German	1946	12 million[142]
The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia)	Dante Alighieri	Italian	1304	11–12 million (during 20th century)[143]
Becoming	Michelle Obama	English	2018	11.5 million[144]
The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	English	1923	11 million[145]
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty	English	1971	11 million[146]
The Gruffalo	Julia Donaldson	English	1999	10.5 million[147]
Fifty Shades Darker	E. L. James	English	2012	10.4 million in U.S. [119]
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter	Astrid Lindgren	Swedish	1981	10 million [148]
The Cat in the Hat	Dr. Seuss	English	1957	10.5 million[149]
Diana: Her True Story	Andrew Morton	English	1992	10 million[150]
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	English	2009	10 million[151]
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	English	1961	10 million[152]
The Stranger (L'Étranger)	Albert Camus	French	1942	10 million[153]
Eye of the Needle	Ken Follett	English	1978	10 million[154]
The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	English	2002	10 million[155]
Wild Swans	Jung Chang	English	1992	10 million[156]
Santa Evita	Tomás Eloy Martínez	Spanish	1995	10 million[157]
Night (Un di Velt Hot Geshvign)	Elie Wiesel	Yiddish	1958	10 million[158]
Confucius from the Heart (于丹《论语》心得)	Yu Dan	Chinese	2006	10 million[159]
The Total Woman	Marabel Morgan	English	1974	10 million[160]
Knowledge-value Revolution (知価革命)	Taichi Sakaiya	Japanese	1985	10 million[161]
Problems in China's Socialist Economy (中国社会主义经济问题研究)	Xue Muqiao	Chinese	1979	10 million[162]
What Color Is Your Parachute?	Richard Nelson Bolles	English	1970	10 million[163]
The Dukan Diet	Pierre Dukan	French	2000	10 million[164]
The Joy of Sex	Alex Comfort	English	1972	10 million[165]
The Gospel According to Peanuts	Robert L. Short	English	1965	10 million[166]
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	English	2001	10 million[167]
The Giver	Lois Lowry	English	1993	10 million[168]
The Front Runner	Patricia Nell Warren	English	1974	10 million[169]
The Goal	Eliyahu M. Goldratt	English	1984	10 million[170]
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	English	1953	10 million[171]
Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt	English	1996	10 million[172]
The Story of My Experiments with Truth (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા)	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Gujarati	1925-1929	10 million[173]

List of best-selling book series

See also: List of best-selling comic series and List of best-selling manga

More than 100 million copies

Book series	Author(s)	Original language	No. of installments	First published	Approximate sales
Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling	English	7	1997-2007	500 million[6][174]
Goosebumps	R. L. Stine	English	62 + spin-off series	1992–present	400 million[175]
Perry Mason	Erle Stanley Gardner	English	82 + 4 short stories	1933–1973	300 million[176]
Berenstain Bears	Stan and Jan Berenstain	English	over 300	1962–present	260 million[177]
Choose Your Own Adventure	Various authors	English	185	1979–1998	250 million[178]
Sweet Valley High	Francine Pascal and ghostwriters	English	400	1983–2003	250 million[179]
Noddy	Enid Blyton	English	24	1949–present	200 million[180]
Nancy Drew	Various authors as Carolyn Keene	English	175	1930–present	200 million[181]
The Railway Series	Rev. W. Awdry, Christopher Awdry	English	42	1945–2011	200 million[182]
San-Antonio	Frédéric Dard	French	173	1949–2001	200 million[183]
Robert Langdon	Dan Brown	English	5	2000–present	200 million[184]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney	English	14 + 4 Spin-offs	2007–present	200 million[185]
The Baby-sitters Club	Ann Martin	English	335	1986–present	172 million[186]
Star Wars	Various authors	English	over 300	1977–present	160 million[187]
Little Critter	Mercer Mayer	English	over 200	1975–present	150 million[188]
Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	English	6	1902–1930	150 million[189]
Fifty Shades	E. L. James	English	3	2011–2015	150 million[190]
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	English	3	1954	150 million
American Girl	Various authors	English	141 + spin-off series	1986–present	140 million[191]
Geronimo Stilton	Elisabetta Dami and ghostwriters	Italian	over 200	2000–present	140 million[192]
Chicken Soup for the Soul	Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen	English	105	1997–present	130 million[193]
Clifford the Big Red Dog	Norman Bridwell	English	over 80 [194]	1963–2014	129 million[195]
Frank Merriwell	Gilbert Patten	English	209	1896–1936	125 million[196]
Dirk Pitt	Clive Cussler	English	24	1973–present	120 million[197]
宮本武蔵 (Musashi)	Eiji Yoshikawa	Japanese	7	1935–1939	120 million[198]
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	English	7	1949–1954	120 million[199]
Mr. Men	Roger Hargreaves, Adam Hargreaves	English	43	1971–present	120 million[200]
Twilight	Stephenie Meyer	English	4 + 1 Novella + 1 Guide	2005–2015	120 million[201]
The Hunger Games trilogy	Suzanne Collins	English	3	2008–2010	100 million[202]
James Bond	Ian Fleming	English	14	1953–1966	100 million[203]
Martine	Gilbert Delahaye, Marcel Marlier	French	60	1954–2014	100 million[204]
Millennium	Stieg Larsson, David Lagercrantz	Swedish	6	2005–2019	100 million[205]

Between 50 million and 100 million copies

Book series	Author(s)	Original language	No. of installments	First published	Approximate sales
A Song of Ice and Fire	George R. R. Martin	English	Currently 5; 7 Planned; 3 novellas + 1 guide	1996–present	90 million[206]
Discworld	Terry Pratchett	English	41	1983–2015	90 million[207]
Nijntje (Miffy)	Dick Bruna	Dutch	119	1955–present	85 million[208]
Alex Cross	James Patterson	English	21	1993–present	81 million[209]
Anpanman (アンパンマン)	Takashi Yanase	Japanese	150 picture books	1973–2013	80 million[210]
Captain Underpants	Dav Pilkey	English	12 plus spinoffs	1997–2015	80 million[211]
Fear Street	R. L. Stine	English	114	1989–present	80 million[212]
Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking)	Astrid Lindgren	Swedish	3 + 3 picture books	1945–2001	80 million[213]
The Vampire Chronicles	Anne Rice	English	13	1976–present	80 million[214]
The Wheel of Time	Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson	English	15	1990–2013	80 million[215]
OSS 117	Jean Bruce	French	265	1949–1992	75 million[216]
Winnie-the-Pooh	A. A. Milne; illustrated by E. H. Shepard	English	2	1926–1928	70 million[217]
Magic Tree House series	Mary Pope Osborne	English	56[218]	1992–present	70 million[219]
Left Behind	Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins	English	16	1996–2007	65 million[220]
A Series of Unfortunate Events	Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler	English	13	1999–2006	65 million[221]
Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	English	12	1932–2006	60 million[222]
Jack Reacher	Lee Child	English	22 Novels + 11 Short Stories	1997–present	60 million[223]
The Magic School Bus	Joanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce Degen	English	131	1986–2010	58 million[224]
Where's Wally?[225]	Martin Handford	English	13	1987–present	55 million[226]
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus	John Gray	English	15	1992–present	50 million[227]
The Hardy Boys	Various authors as Franklin W. Dixon	English	190	1927–present	50 million[228]
The Bobbsey Twins	Various authors as Laura Lee Hope	English	72	1904–1979	50 million[229]
Tarzan	Edgar Rice Burroughs	English	26	1914–1995	50 million[230]

Between 30 million and 50 million copies

Book series	Author(s)	Original language	No. of installments	First published	Approximate sales
Earth's Children	Jean M. Auel	English	6	1980–2011	45 million[231]
A Child's First Library Of Learning	Various authors	English	29	1980–	45 million[232]
Junie B. Jones	Barbara Park	English	30	1992–	44 million[233]
Harry Bosch	Michael Connelly	English	15	1992–	42 million[234]
Harry Hole	Jo Nesbø	Norwegian	9	1997–present	40 million[235]
Warriors	Erin Hunter	English	78	2003-present	40 million[236]
连环画 铁道游击队 (Picture-and-story book Railway Guerilla)	original author: Liu Zhixia	Chinese	10	1955–1962	36.52 million[237]
The Shadowhunter Chronicles	Cassandra Clare	English	11 + 3 companion books	2007–present	36 million[238]
かいけつゾロリ (Kaiketsu Zorori)	Yutaka Hara	Japanese	60	1987–present	35 million[239]
Paddington Bear	Michael Bond	English	70	1958–present	35 million[240]
Divergent trilogy	Veronica Roth	English	3	2011–2013	35 million[241]
The Inheritance Cycle	Christopher Paolini	English	4	2002–2011	33 million[242]
とある魔術の禁書目録 (Toaru Majutsu no Index)	Kazuma Kamachi	Japanese	46	2004–	30 million[243]
グイン・サーガ (Guin Saga)	Kaoru Kurimoto	Japanese	118	1979–2009	30 million[244]
徳川家康 (Tokugawa Ieyasu)	Sohachi Yamaoka	Japanese	26	1950–1967	30 million[245]
Ramona	Beverly Cleary	English	8	1955–1999	30 million[246]
The Dark Tower	Stephen King	English	8	1982–2012	30 million[247]
Dork Diaries	Rachel Renée Russell	English	15	2009–present	30 million[248]
The Destroyer	Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, various authors	English	150	1971–present	30 million[249]

Between 20 million and 30 million copies

Book series	Author(s)	Original language	No. of installments	First published	Approximate sales
ノンタン (Nontan)	Sachiko Kiyono	Japanese	25	1976–2006	28 million[250]
Curious George	Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey	English	58	1941–present	27 million[251]
三毛猫ホームズシリーズ (Calico Cat Holmes series)	Jirō Akagawa	Japanese	43	1978–present	26 million[252]
Rich Dad, Poor Dad	Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter	English	18	1997–	26 million[253]
Shannara	Terry Brooks	English	20	1977–present	26 million[254]
Kurt Wallander	Henning Mankell	Swedish	10	1991–2002	25 million[255]
Sagaen om Isfolket (The Legend of the Ice People)	Margit Sandemo	Norwegian	47	1982–1989	25 million[256]
The Sword of Truth	Terry Goodkind	English	12	1998–present	25 million[257]
Outlander	Diana Gabaldon	English	8	1991–present	25 million[258]
鬼平犯科帳 (Onihei Hankachō)	Shōtarō Ikenami	Japanese	24	1968–1990	24.4 million, only bunkobon[259]
Brain Quest	Various authors	English		1992–present	23.7 million[260]
South Beach Diet	Arthur Agatston	English	6	2003–present	22 million[261]
ソードアート・オンライン (Sword Art Online)	Reki Kawahara	Japanese	27	2009–present	22 million[262]
竜馬がゆく (Ryoma ga Yuku)	Ryōtarō Shiba	Japanese	5	1963–1966	21.5 million[263]
Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer	English	8	2001–2012	21 million[264]
ズッコケ三人組 (Zukkoke Sanningumi)	Masamoto Nasu	Japanese	50	1978–2004	21 million[265]
I Survived	Lauren Tarshis	English	25	2010-2020	more than 20 million[266][267]
Découvertes Gallimard	Various authors	French	more than 700	1986–present	more than 20 million[268][269]
Redwall	Brian Jacques	English	22	1986–2011	20 million[270]
Maisy	Lucy Cousins	English	23	1990–present	20 million[121]
Dragonlance	Various authors	English	more than 150	1984–present	20 million[271]
幻魔大戦 (Genma Taisen)	Kazumasa Hirai	Japanese	20	1979–1983	20 million[272]
青春の門 (The Gate of Youth)	Hiroyuki Itsuki	Japanese		1970–present	20 million[273]
スレイヤーズ (Slayers)	Hajime Kanzaka	Japanese	50	1989–present	20 million[274]
The Foundation Trilogy	Isaac Asimov	English	3[275]	1950–1953	20 million[276]
Percy Jackson & the Olympians	Rick Riordan	English	5	2005–2009	20 million[277]
Horrible Histories	Terry Deary	English	24	1993–present	20 million[278]
Rainbow Magic	Daisy Meadows	English	80+	2003–present	20 million[279]
Morgan Kane	Louis Masterson	Norwegian	90	1966–	20 million[280]
The Southern Vampire Mysteries	Charlaine Harris	English	13	2001–2013	20 million[281]

Between 15 million and 20 million copies

Book series	Author(s)	Original language	No. of installments	First published	Approximate sales
Doc Savage	Lester Dent, various authors	English	203	1933–present	20 million[282]
涼宮ハルヒシリーズ (Haruhi Suzumiya Series)	Nagaru Tanigawa	Japanese	11	2003–present	20 million[283]
科学のアルバム (Kagaku no album)	Various authors	Japanese		1970–present	19 million[284]
剣客商売 (Kenkaku Shobai)	Shotaro Ikenami	Japanese	18	1972–1989	18 million[285]
Erast Fandorin series	Boris Akunin	Russian	12	1998–present	18 million[286]
Dragonriders of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	English	23	1967–present	18 million[287]
吸血鬼ハンターD (Vampire Hunter D)	Hideyuki Kikuchi	Japanese	17	1983–present	17 million[288]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams, plus a final book by Eoin Colfer	English	6	1979–2008	16 million[289]
Bridget Jones	Helen Fielding	English	3	1996–present	15 million[290]
The Riftwar Cycle	Raymond E. Feist	English	25	1982–present	15 million[291]
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	English	9	1999–present	15 million[292]
ぼくらシリーズ (Bokura series)	Osamu Soda	Japanese	36	1985–present	15 million[293]
His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman	English	3	1995–2000	15 million[294]
銀河英雄伝説 (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)	Yoshiki Tanaka	Japanese	14	1982–1989	15 million[295]
Der Regenbogenfisch (Rainbow Fish)	Marcus Pfister	German		1992–present	15 million[296]

Notes

The Perry Rhodan series has sold more than 1 billion copies,[297] but is not listed because that figure includes magazine sales, not novels alone. Similarly, the Jerry Cotton series has sold over 300 million copies, but most of these were in magazine format.[298]

The figures given for some books are for the number printed instead of confirmed sales.

List of best-selling regularly updated books

More than 100 million copies

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[299]
Scouting for Boys	Robert Baden-Powell	English	1908	100–150 million[300]
The McGuffey Readers	William Holmes McGuffey	English	1853	125 million[301]
Guinness World Records (published every year)	Various authors	English	1955–present	115 million[302]
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–present	101.2 million[303]
American Spelling Book (Webster's Dictionary)	Noah Webster	English	1783	100 million[40]

Between 50 million and 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
World Almanac (published every year)	Various authors	English	1868–76; 1886–present	82 million[304][305]
Betty Crocker Cookbook	General Mills Staff	English	1950-2016 (12th edition)	75 million[306]
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary	Merriam-Webster	English	1898	55 million[307]

Between 30 million and 50 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
Roget's Thesaurus	Peter Mark Roget	English	1852–	40 million[308]
できるシリーズ (Dekiru Series)	Impress Dekiru Series Editorial Desk	Japanese	1994–present	40 million[309]
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book	Various authors	English	1930–	38 million[310]
수학의 정석 (The Art of Mathematics)	Hong Sung-dae	Korean	1966–present	37 million[311] ~ 40 million[312]
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary	A. S. Hornby	English	1948	30 million[313]
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book	Bill Wilson	English	1939	30 million[314][315]
Le guide Michelin France (The Michelin Guide France) (published every year)	Various authors	French	1900–present	30 million[316]

Between 20 million and 30 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
Betty Crocker Cookbook	Various authors as Betty Crocker	English	1955–	75 million[317]
超図解シリーズ (Cho-Zukai series)	X media	Japanese	1996–2007	25 million[318]
自由自在 (Jiyu Jizai)	Various authors	Japanese	1953–present	24 million[319]
新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai kokugo jiten)	Tadao Yamada	Japanese	1972	20.4 million[320]
English Grammar	Lindley Murray	English	1795	20 million[321]

Between 10 million and 20 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
The Joy of Cooking	Various authors	English	1936	18 million[322]
スーパーマップル (Super Mapple)	Various authors	Japanese	1991–present	18 million[323]
チャート式 (Chart Shiki)	Various authors	Japanese	1927–present	17.44 million, only for the first grade of high-school[324]
英語基本単語集 (Eigo Kihon Tangoshu) "Compilation of basic English vocabulary"	Yoshio Akao	Japanese, English	1942	17.2 million[324]
Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary		English	(Up to 1965)	15,110,000[325]
試験に出る英単語 (Siken Ni Deru Eitango) "English vocabulary in examinations"	Ichiro Mori	Japanese, English	1967	15 million[326]
新英和中辞典 (Shin Eiwa Chu Jiten) "New English-Japanese Dictionary"	Shigeru Takebayashi	Japanese, English	1967	12 million[327]
広辞苑 (Kōjien)	Izuru Shinmura	Japanese	1955	11.9 million[328]
旺文社古語辞典 (Obunsha Kogo Jiten) "Obunsha Dictionary of Archaisms"	Akira Matsumura	Japanese	1960	11 million[329]
Hammond's Pocket Atlas		English	(Up to 1965)	11,000,000[330]
三省堂国語辞典 (Sanseido Kokugo Jiten) "Sanseido Dictionary of the Japanese Language"	Kenbō Hidetoshi	Japanese	1960	10 million[331]
家庭に於ける實際的看護の秘訣 (Katei Ni Okeru Jissaiteki Kango No Hiketsu) "Key to Practical Personal Care at Home"	Takichi Tsukuda	Japanese	1925	10 million[332]
C程序设计 (C Program Design)	Tan, Haoqiang	Chinese	1991	10 million[333]

See also

• List of best-selling manga
• List of best-selling fiction authors
• List of bestselling novels in the United States
• List of literary works by number of languages translated into
• Lists of books

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External links

• The Internet Public Library
• Frank Luther Mott Collection of American Best Sellers, 1662–1945 at the University of Missouri