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Best-Selling Books of All Time

Can you name the 40 best-selling books of all time, based on units sold?
Quiz accepts the names of books in English and in their orignally published language
Quiz only accpets books that have a reliable account of units sold - sorry religious texts
This quiz only accepts single-volume books, not anthologies or collections
BUT: Some series/collections of books were orignally intended to be published as one text - they ARE included
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Last updated: March 7, 2015
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Published
Answer
Approximate Sales
1954-1955
The Lord of the Rings
150 million
1943
The Little Prince
140 million
1997
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
107 million
1939
And Then There Were None
100 million
1754-1791
Dream of the Red Chamber
100 million
1937
The Hobbit
100 million
1887
She: A History of Adventure
100 million
1950
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
85 million
2003
The Da Vinci Code
80 million
1937
Think and Grow Rich
70 million
2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
65 million
1951
The Catcher in the Rye
65 million
1988
The Alchemist
65 million
1998
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
60 million
1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
55 million
2000
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
55 million
2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
55 million
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
50 million
1967
One Hundred Years of Solitude
50 million
1955
Lolita
50 million
Published
Answer
Approximate Sales
1880
Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel
50 million
1946
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
50 million
1908
Anne of Green Gables
50 million
1877
Black Beauty
50 million
1980
The Name of the Rose
50 million
1975
The Eagle Has Landed
50 million
1972
Watership Down
50 million
1976
The Hite Report
50 million
1952
Charlotte's Web
50 million
1955
The Ginger Man
50 million
1992
The Bridges of Madison County
50 million
1902
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
45 million
1970
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
40 million
1899
A Message to Garcia
40 million
1991
Sophie's World
40 million
1979
Flowers in the Attic
40 million
2000
Angels and Demons
39 million
1932
How the Steel Was Tempered
36 million
1869
War and Peace
36 million
1881
The Adventures of Pinocchio
35 million
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Losers
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Level 32
Mar 7, 2015
To expand: The Lord of the Rings is included in this quiz because it was intended to be (and was, according to Tolkien - despite being split) published as a single book. It was, yes, divided into 3 parts (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and the Return of the King), and then a further 3 "books" within those books WITH chapters in them. Despite it seeming that the LOTR should've been published into 9 parts, it is generally considered to be one epic-novel. Think of the Fellowship/Towers/Return as dividers in one huge book, with further dividers within them. I tried to explain this briefly in the caveats, but for those are discontented, this is the reason why the LOTR is, on this list, the best-selling book of all time.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 7, 2015
So... you didn't include A Tale of Two Cities and The Bible because of the caveats, okay..
Losers
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Level 32
Mar 7, 2015
Nooo... I didn't include A Tale of Two Cities or the Bible because they're not among the best-sellig books of all time that fit this criteria. No doubt, the Bible has sold millions of copies and A Tale of Two Cities is an excellent book, but there is either no reliable account of the numbers sold, or quite simply they haven't sold equal to or more than 35 million copies.
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