Best selling books of all time (most popular books ever)

Here’s a handy ranked list of the best selling (most popular) books ever written according to Wikipedia. We’ve made the list way more user friendly so you can search for terms and sort the columns by book title, author, publish date, or millions of copies sold.

Click any book title or author name to see it featured on Amazon.

Book Title	Authors	Copies (M)	Pub Date
Holy Bible	Multiple	5,000	1455
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	200	1859
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	200	1943
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J. K. Rowling	120	1997
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	100	1939
Dream of the Red Chamber	Cao Xueqin	100	1791
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	100	1937
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	45	1902
Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Richard Bach	44	1970
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	43	1969
A Message to Garcia	Elbert Hubbard	40	1899
Cosmos	Carl Sagan	40	1980
Flowers in the Attic	V. C. Andrews	40	1979
Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder	40	1991
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	40	1960
Angels & Demons	Dan Brown	39	2000
Kane and Abel	Jeffrey Archer	37	1979
How the Steel Was Tempered	Nikolai Ostrovsky	36.4	1932
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	36	1869
The Adventures of Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi	35	1881
The Diary of Anne Frank	Anne Frank	35	1947
Your Erroneous Zones	Wayne Dyer	35	1976
The Purpose Driven Life	Rick Warren	33	2002
The Thorn Birds	Colleen McCullough	33	1977
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	31.5	2003
Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann	31	1966
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book	Bill Wilson	30	1939
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	30	1936
How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	30	1936
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	30	1949
Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier	30	1938
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	30	2005
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	30	1925
The Lost Symbol	Dan Brown	30	2009
The Revolt of Mamie Stover	William Bradford Huie	30	1951
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	29	2008
Who Moved My Cheese?	Spencer Johnson	29	1998
James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl	28	1961
The Young Guard	Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev	26	1945
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	25	1988
Lust for Life	Irving Stone	25	1934
Paul et Virginie	Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre	25	1788
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen R. Covey	25	1989
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	25	1908
Virgin Soil Upturned	Mikhail Sholokhov	24	1935
The Celestine Prophecy	James Redfield	23	1993
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	23	2012
The Girl on the Train	Paula Hawkins	23	2015
The Shack	William P. Young	22.5	2007
Catching Fire	Suzanne Collins	21	2009
Love Story	Erich Segal	21	1970
The Godfather	Mario Puzo	21	1969
Uncle Styopa	Sergey Mikhalkov	21	1936
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	20	1885
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	20	1929
Andromeda Nebula	Ivan Yefremov	20	1957
Animal Farm	George Orwell	20	1945
Autobiography of a Yogi	Paramahansa Yogananda	20	1946
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	20	1964
Dune	Frank Herbert	20	1965
Fear of Flying	Erica Jong	20	1973
Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	20	2012
Jaws	Peter Benchley	20	1974
Kitchen	Banana Yoshimoto	20	1988
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft	Thor Heyerdahl	20	1950
Love You Forever	Robert Munsch	20	1986
Mockingjay	Suzanne Collins	20	2010
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	20	1813
The Bermuda Triangle	Charles Berlitz	20	1974
The Good Soldier Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek	20	1923
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story	Xaviera Hollander	20	1971
The Naked Ape	Desmond Morris	20	1968
The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	20	1952
The Secret	Rhonda Byrne	20	2006
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole	Sue Townsend	20	1982
The Women's Room	Marilyn French	20	1977
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	20	1958
What to Expect When You're Expecting	Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff	20	1984
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	20	1963
Wolf Totem	Jiang Rong	20	2004
The Little Girl at the Window	Tetsuko Kuroyanagi	18	1981
Matilda	Roald Dahl	17	1988
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	16	2005
The Horse Whisperer	Nicholas Evans	16	1995
The Neverending Story	Michael Ende	16	1979
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	16	1947
All the Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	15.3	2014
Fifty Shades of Grey	E. L. James	15.2	2011
Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	15	2018
The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	15	2001
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	15	2000
Guess How Much I Love You	Sam McBratney	15	1994
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	15	1989
Perfume	Patrick Süskind	15	1985
Shōgun	James Clavell	15	1975
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton	15	1967
The Poky Little Puppy	Janette Sebring Lowrey	15	1942
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	15	1939
Becoming	Michelle Obama	14	2018
Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom	14	1997
Follow Your Heart	Susanna Tamaro	14	1994
Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	14	1994
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	14	1979
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	14	1962
God's Little Acre	Erskine Caldwell	14	1933
Life After Life	Raymond Moody	13	1975
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	13	1952
Peyton Place	Grace Metalious	12.1	1956
Me Before You	Jojo Moyes	12	2012
Norwegian Wood	Haruki Murakami	12	1987
No Longer Human	Osamu Dazai	12	1948
The Plague	Albert Camus	12	1947
Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor Frankl	12	1946
The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	11.5	1304
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	John Boyne	11	2006
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty	11	1971
The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	11	1923
The Gruffalo	Julia Donaldson	10.5	1999
The Cat in the Hat	Dr. Seuss	10.5	1957
Fifty Shades Darker	E. L. James	10.4	2012
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck	Mark Manson	10	2016
The Help	Kathryn Stockett	10	2009
Confucius from the Heart	Yu Dan	10	2006
The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	10	2002
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	10	2001
The Dukan Diet	Pierre Dukan	10	2000
Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt	10	1996
Bridget Jones's Diary	Helen Fielding	10	1996
Santa Evita	Tomás Eloy Martínez	10	1995
The Giver	Lois Lowry	10	1993
Diana: Her True Story	Andrew Morton	10	1992
Wild Swans	Jung Chang	10	1992
Knowledge-value Revolution	Taichi Sakaiya	10	1985
The Goal	Eliyahu M. Goldratt	10	1984
The Robber's Daughter	Astrid Lindgren	10	1981
Problems in China's Socialist Economy	Xue Muqiao	10	1979
Eye of the Needle	Ken Follett	10	1978
The Total Woman	Marabel Morgan	10	1974
The Front Runner	Patricia Nell Warren	10	1974
The Joy of Sex	Alex Comfort	10	1972
What Color Is Your Parachute?	Richard Nelson Bolles	10	1970
The Gospel According to Peanuts	Robert L. Short	10	1965
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	10	1961
Night	Elie Wiesel	10	1958
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	10	1953
The Stranger	Albert Camus	10	1942
The Story of My Experiments with Truth	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	10	1925–1929

Data Sources: Wikipedia.org – “List of best selling books” , et al