Most Sold Books

Thoughts - Read, will or won't?

(Wikipedia, Jamesclear, The Guardian)

I made this to just map out a) what are actually the very best selling books and b) to see how much I'd read of them  and c) if anything grabs my attention and makes me want to read it.
You'll probably enjoy a and c

List of best-selling single-volume books

More than 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
O Alquimista (The Alchemist)	Paulo Coelho
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie
紅樓夢/红楼梦 (Dream of the Red Chamber)	Cao Xueqin
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll

List of best-selling book series

More than 100 million copies

Book series	Author
Harry Potter	J.K. Rowling
Goosebumps	R. L. Stine
Perry Mason	Erle Stanley Gardner
Berenstain Bears	Stan and Jan Berenstain
Choose Your Own Adventure	various authors
Sweet Valley High	Francine Pascal and ghostwriters
Noddy	Enid Blyton
Nancy Drew	various authors as Carolyn Keene
The Railway Series	Rev. W. Awdry, Christopher Awdry
San-Antonio	Frédéric Dard
Robert Langdon	Dan Brown
The Baby-sitters Club	Ann Martin
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney
Star Wars	various authors
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien
Little Critter	Mercer Mayer
Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter
American Girl	various authors
Chicken Soup for the Soul	Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
Geronimo Stilton	Elisabetta Dami
Frank Merriwell	Gilbert Patten
Fifty Shades of Grey	E. L. James
Dirk Pitt	Clive Cussler
宮本武蔵 (Musashi)	Eiji Yoshikawa
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis
Mr. Men	Roger Hargreaves, Adam Hargreaves
Twilight	Stephenie Meyer
Clifford the Big Red Dog	Norman Bridwell
James Bond	Ian Fleming
Martine	Gilbert Delahaye, Marcel Marlier

25 Best-Selling Books of All-Time

#1 – Don Quixote (500 million copies sold)

by Miguel de Cervantes

#2 – A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold)

by Charles Dickens

#3 – The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

#4 – The Little Prince (142 million copies sold)

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (107 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#6 – And Then There Were None (100 million copies sold)

by Agatha Christie

#7 – The Dream of the Red Chamber (100 million copies sold)

by Cao Xueqin

#8 – The Hobbit (100 million copies sold)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

#9 – She: A History of Adventure (100 million copies sold)

by H. Rider Haggard

#10 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (85 million copies sold)

by C.S. Lewis

#11 – The Da Vinci Code (80 million copies sold)

by Dan Brown

#12 – Think and Grow Rich (70 million copies sold)

by Napoleon Hill

#13 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (65 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#14 – The Catcher in the Rye (65 million copies sold)

by J.D. Salinger

#15 – The Alchemist (65 million copies sold)

by Paulo Coelho

#16 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (60 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#17 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (55 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#18 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (55 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#19 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (55 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#20 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (50 million copies sold)

by J.K. Rowling

#21 – One Hundred Years of Solitude (50 million copies sold)

by Gabriel García Marquez

#22 – Lolita (50 million copies sold)

by Vladimir Nabokov

#23 – Anne of Green Gables (50 million copies sold)

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

#24 – Charlotte’s Web (50 million copies sold)

by E.B. White

#25 – Black Beauty (50 million copies sold)

Read on lovelies,

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