Do you know which books have sold the most copies worldwide? After a bit of research, I’ve compiled this list of the top 25 best selling books.
How many of them have you read?
25 Best Selling Books in the World
#1. The Lord of the Rings | 150 Million Copies Sold
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Book | eBook | Audio
#2. The Alchemist | 65 to 150 Million Copies Sold
by Paulo Coelho
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#3. The Little Prince | 140 Million Copies Sold
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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#4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | 120 Million Copies Sold
by J. K. Rowling
Book | eBook | Audio
#5. The Hobbit | 100 Million Copies Sold
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Book | eBook | Audio
#6. And Then There Were None | 100 Million Copies Sold
by Agatha Christie
Book | eBook | Audio
#7. Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦) | 100 Million Copies Sold
Also known as ‘The Story of the Stone’
by Cao Xueqin
Book
#8. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe | 85 Million Copies Sold
by C. S. Lewis
Book
#9. She: A History of Adventure | 83 Million Copies Sold
by H. Rider Haggard
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#10. The Adventures of Pinocchio | 80+ Million Copies Sold
by Carlo Collodi
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#11. The Da Vinci Code | 80 Million Copies Sold
by Dan Brown
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#12. The Catcher in the Rye | 65 Million Copies Sold
by J. D. Salinger
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#13. Think and Grow Rick | 60 Million Copies Sold
by Napoleon Hill
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#14. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | 50 Million Copies Sold
by Lew Wallace
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#15. You Can Heal Your Life | 50 Million copies Sold
by Louise Hay
Book | eBook
#16. One Hundred Years of Solitude | 50 Million Copies Sold
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
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#17. The Eagle Has Landed | 50 Million Copies Sold
by Jack Higgins
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#18. The Tale of Peter Rabbit | 45 Million Copies Sold
by Beatrix Potter
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(I have a soft spot for children’s books)
#19. To Kill a Mockingbird | 40 Million Copies Sold
by Harper Lee
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#20. Kane and Abel | 37 Million Copies Sold
by Jeffrey Archer
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#21. War and Peace | 36 Million Copies Sold in USSR
by Leo Tolstoy
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#22. The Kite Runner | 31.5 Million Copies Sold
by Khaled Hosseini
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#23. 1984 | 30 Million Copies Sold
by George Orwell
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#24. The Great Gatsby | 30 Million Copies Sold
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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#25. The Hunger Games | 29 Million Copies Sold in U.S.
by Suzanne Collins
Book | eBook | Audio
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