User:Beleg Tâl/Sandbox/Best-sellers

Beleg Tâl/Sandbox | Best-sellers

Ideally this would be a Portal, but it's based on a Wikipedia article which is a seething mass of edit warring and I'd say that all the information here is highly spurious. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:02, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

w:List of best-selling books (as of Mar 2018)

Excluded works

According to Guinness World Records, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time [...] However, the Quotations from Chairman Mao, also known as the Little Red Book, has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures [...] The Qur'an is also widely reported to be one of the most printed and distributed books worldwide [...] 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 been excluded from this list of best-selling books for these reasons.

—w:List of best-selling books

Best-selling single-volume books

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1612) 500M
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) 200M
3. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954) 150M
4. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) 140M
5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997) 120M
6. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937) 100M
7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) 100M
8. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (1754–1791) 100M
9. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) 100M
   
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950) 85M
11. She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard (1887) 83–100M
12. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003) 80M
13. Vardi Wala Gunda by Ved Prakash Sharma (1992) 80M
14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (1998) 77M
15. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (1998) 65M
16. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (2000) 65M
17. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2003) 65M
18. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (2005) 65M
19. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (2003) 65M
20. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988) 65M
21. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951) 65M
22. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937) 65M
23. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (1992) 60M
24. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) 60M
25. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870) 60M
26. You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (1984) 50M
27. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) 50M
28. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 50M
29. Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel (Heidi) by Johanna Spyri (1880) 50M
30. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock (1946) 50M
31. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908) 50M
32. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877) 50M
33. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980) 50M
34. The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins (1975) 50M
35. Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972) 50M
36. The Hite Report by Shere Hite (1976) 50M
37. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (1952) 50M
38. The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy (1955) 50M
39. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace (1880) 50M
40. The Curse of Capistrano (The Mark of Zorro) by Johnston McCulley (1919) 50M
41. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902) 45M
42. The Odyssey by Homer (8th century BCE) 45M
43. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (1970) 44M
44. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (1969) 43M
45. A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (1899) 40M
46. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (1991) 40M
47. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews (1979) 40M
48. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 40M
49. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (2000) 39M
50. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (1979) 37M
51. How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1936) 36.4M in the USSR
52. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869) 36M in the USSR
53. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947) 35M
54. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1881) 35M
55. Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer (1976) 35M
56. The Late, Great Planet Earth (1970) 35M
57. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (1977) 35M
58. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003) 32M
59. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966) 31M
60. In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? by Charles M. Sheldon (1896) 30M
61. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (2009) 30M
62. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) 30M
63. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949) 25M
64. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (2002) 30M
65. The Revolt of Mamie Stover by William Bradford Huie (1951) 30M
66. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005) 30M
67. The Young Guard by Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (1945) 26M in the USSR
68. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson (1998) 26M
69. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 25M
70. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908) 25M
71. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (1989) 25M
72. Virgin Soil Upturned by Mikhail Sholokhov (1935) 24M in the USSR
73. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (1993) 23M
74. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008) 23M
75. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012) 23M
76. The Shack by William P. Young (2007) 22M
77. Uncle Styopa by Sergey Mikhalkov (1936) 21M in the USSR
78. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969) 21M
79. Love Story by Erich Segal (1970) 21M
80. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012) 20M
81. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (2012) 20M
82. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) 20M
83. The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz (1974) 20M
84. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) 20M
85. Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945) 20M
86. Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (2004) 20M
87. The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander (1971) 20M
88. Jaws by Peter Benchley (1974) 20M
89. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch (1986) 20M
90. The Women's Room by Marilyn French (1977) 20M
91. What to Expect When You're Expecting by Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff (1984) 20M
92. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885) 20M
93. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (1982) 20M
94. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) 20M
95. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl (1950) 20M
96. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (1923) 20M
97. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963) 20M
98. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (1952) 20M
99. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (2006) 20M
100. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973) 20M
101. Dune by Frank Herbert (1965) 20M
102. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964) 20M
103. The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris (1968) 20M

The only public-domain listing on Wikipedia with fewer than 20M sales is Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1304) with 11-12 million sales during the 20th century.