# The best-selling books of all time

The single books (not series) with the most copies sold worldwide, according to the approximate figures compiled on Wikipedia. Religious and political texts are not counted.

- 22 votes · 21 items
- Jul 21, 2019 · Alba Cano
- https://even.best/en/l/2762/the-best-selling-books-of-all-time

## Top 21

1. **And Then There Were None** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Agatha Christie, 1939. About 100 million.
2. **The Little Prince** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943. About 200 million.
3. **A Tale of Two Cities** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Charles Dickens, 1859. Over 200 million, by estimates.
4. **Sophie's World** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Jostein Gaarder, 1991. About 60 million.
5. **Black Beauty** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Anna Sewell, 1877. About 50 million.
6. **The Alchemist** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paulo Coelho, 1988. About 150 million; the best-selling book in Portuguese.
7. **Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — J. K. Rowling, 1997. About 120 million.
8. **She: A History of Adventure** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — H. Rider Haggard, 1887. About 83 million.
9. **Anne of Green Gables** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — L. M. Montgomery, 1908. About 50 million.
10. **Dream of the Red Chamber** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Cao Xueqin, 1791. About 100 million; the great Chinese classic.
11. **The Hobbit** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937. About 100 million.
12. **Alice's Adventures in Wonderland** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lewis Carroll, 1865. About 100 million.
13. **The Da Vinci Code** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dan Brown, 2003. About 80 million.
14. **Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — J. K. Rowling, 1998. About 77 million.
15. **The Bridges of Madison County** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Robert James Waller, 1992. About 60 million.
16. **One Hundred Years of Solitude** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gabriel García Márquez, 1967. About 50 million.
17. **Watership Down** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Richard Adams, 1972. About 50 million.
18. **Charlotte's Web** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — E. B. White, 1952. About 50 million.
19. **The Catcher in the Rye** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — J. D. Salinger, 1951. About 65 million.
20. **Heidi** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Johanna Spyri, 1880. About 50 million.
21. **The Name of the Rose** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Umberto Eco, 1980. About 50 million.

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