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Top 20 All-Time Best Selling Books

Excluding religious and philosophical books like the Bible, Koran, and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book, for which no reliable sales figures exist, which books have sold the most copies?
Where a series of titles by the same author would otherwise qualify, only the highest selling title is listed
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1st Published in
Sales
Author
Title
Spanish, 1605
315 mil
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
English, 1859
200 mil
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
English, 1954
150 mil
JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
French, 1943
140 mil
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince Le petit prince
English, 1997
107 mil
JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
English, 1939
100 mil
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Chinese, 1760
100 mil
Cao Xueqin
Dream of the Red Chamber
English, 1937
100 mil
JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit
English, 1887
100 mil
Rider Haggard
She: A History of Adventure
English, 1950
85 mil
CS Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
English, 2003
80 mil
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
English, 1937
70 mil
Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich
English, 1951
65 mil
JD Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Portuguese, 1988
65 mil
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist O Alquimista
Spanish, 1967
50 mil
Gabriel García Márquez
100 Years of Solitude 100 años de soledad
English, 1955
50 mil
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
German, 1880
50 mil
Johanna Spyri
Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel
English, 1946
50 mil
Benjamin Spock
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
English, 1908
50 mil
LM Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
English, 1877
50 mil
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Italian, 1980
50 mil
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose Il Nome della Rosa
English, 1975
50 mil
Jack Higgins
The Eagle Has Landed
English, 1972
50 mil
Richard Adams
Watership Down
English, 1976
50 mil
Shere Hite
The Hite Report
English, 1952
50 mil
EB White
Charlotte's Web
English, 1955
50 mil
JP Donleavy
The Ginger Man
English, 1992
50 mil
Robert James Waller
The Bridges of Madison County
English, 1880
50 mil
Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
English, 1924
50 mil
Johnston McCulley
The Mark of Zorro
cpgatbyu
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Level 85
Apr 26, 2015
Your list matches the Wikipedia list, except you've omitted the 6 other Harry Potter books that Wikipedia has. Why the discrepancy?
cpgatbyu
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Level 85
Apr 26, 2015
Not that the Wikipedia list seems very reliable. Tale of Two Cities sold 4 times as many copies as any other Dickens book? Not likely.
TenThousand
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Level 76
Apr 26, 2015
We've added a note to the instructions.
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
May 3, 2015
In the U.S., it is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".
TenThousand
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Level 76
May 3, 2015
That will work as a type-in now - thanks.
verdun
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Level 71
Nov 23, 2015
Uncle Tom's Cabin, in multiple languages.
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