Best-selling books of all time — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of best-selling books of all time, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
Single works, so series are counted by their individual volumes. Religious and political texts are excluded — they were distributed rather than sold, and including them would make the rest of the list pointless.
No single authoritative source exists for this one. Estimates differ, sometimes widely, so read the order as an argument rather than a fact.
100 entries, in order.
- Don Quixote
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Little Prince
- Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
- And Then There Were None
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- The Hobbit
- She
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Alices Adventures in Wonderland
- The Da Vinci Code
- Think and Grow Rich
- Heidi
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Ben-Hur
- Charlottes Web
- The Alchemist
- Anne of Green Gables
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Black Beauty
- The Name of the Rose
- War and Peace
- Lolita
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Bridges of Madison County
- The Kite Runner
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Gone with the Wind
- The Adventures of Pinocchio
- Watership Down
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- Angels and Demons
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The Great Gatsby
- Animal Farm
- The Hunger Games
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Twilight
- New Moon
- Eclipse
- Breaking Dawn
- Catching Fire
- Mockingjay
- The Secret
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- Sapiens
- A Brief History of Time
- Atomic Habits
- Man's Search for Meaning
- The Road Less Traveled
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- Life of Pi
- The Book Thief
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Gone Girl
- The Girl on the Train
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- The Notebook
- The Godfather
- Jaws
- The Exorcist
- Valley of the Dolls
- The Thorn Birds
- The Purpose Driven Life
- Chicken Soup for the Soul
- Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- The Shack
- The Bridges of Madison County Sequel
- The Firm
- The Pelican Brief
- Angela's Ashes
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- The Help
- Water for Elephants
- Eat Pray Love
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Never Let Me Go
- Cloud Atlas
- The Road
- No Country for Old Men Novel
- A Game of Thrones
- The Name of the Wind
- Ready Player One
- The Martian
- Normal People
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