List of best-selling books

Table columns:
Book
Author(s)
Original language
First published
Approximate sales
Genre

Table rows:
cells: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
English
1950
85 million[36]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: She: A History of Adventure
H. Rider Haggard
English
1887
83 million[37]
fiction: fantasy, adventure, romance and Gothic (novel)
cells: Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
Carlo Collodi
Italian
1881
>80 million[38][39]
fiction (novel)
cells: Vardi Wala Gunda
Ved Prakash Sharma
Hindi
1992
>80 million[40]
detective (novel)
cells: The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
English
2003
80 million[41]
fiction: mystery, thriller (novel)
cells: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling
English
1998
77 million[42]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
English
1999
65 million[43]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
English
2000
65 million[43]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
English
2003
65 million[43]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
English
2005
65 million[43]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
English
2007
65 million[43]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Portuguese
1988
65 million[44]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
English
1951
65 million[45]
fiction: realistic fiction, coming-of-age fiction
cells: Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
English
1937
60 million[46]
non-fiction (novel)
cells: The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller
English
1992
60 million[47]
cells: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
English
1887
60 million [19]
fiction: detective fiction, short stories (novel)
cells: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
French
1870
60 million [19]
fiction: adventures (novel)
cells: You Can Heal Your Life
Louise Hay
English
1984
50 million[48]
Self-help, spirituality
cells: Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Gabriel García Márquez
Spanish
1967
50 million[49][50][51]
fiction: magic realism (novel)
cells: Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
English
1955
50 million[52]
fiction: general fiction (novel)
cells: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre (Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel)
Johanna Spyri
German
1880
50 million[53]
fiction: children's fiction (novel)
cells: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Dr. Benjamin Spock
English
1946
50 million[54]
non-fiction (novel)
cells: Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
English
1908
50 million[55]
fiction: general fiction (novel)
cells: Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
English
1877
50 million[56]
fiction: children's literature (novel)
cells: Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose)
Umberto Eco
Italian
1980
50 million[57]
historical novel, mystery
cells: The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Higgins
English
1975
50 million[58]
fiction: war, thriller (novel)
cells: Watership Down
Richard Adams
English
1972
50 million[59]
fiction: fantasy (novel)
cells: The Hite Report
Shere Hite
English
1976
50 million[60]
cells: Charlotte's Web
E.B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams
English
1952
50 million[61]
fiction: children's fiction (novel)
cells: The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
English
1955
50 million[62]
cells: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace
English
1880
50 million[63]
historical fiction (novel)
cells: The Curse of Capistrano (also known as The Mark of Zorro)
Johnston McCulley
English
1919
50 million[63]
californio (novel)

Questions about this table:
originalText: how many copies did the da vinci code sell
answer: answerTexts: 80 million