List of best-selling books

This list of best-selling books does not include comic books or textbooks.  The sources for the numbers are different for each book but, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling book in the world is the King James Bible.

## Religious Books 
1) The Bible - between 5,000,000,000 and 7,000,000,000 copies 

2) The Quran - between 800,000,000 and 3,000,000,000 copies https://www.deseret.com/2023/12/22/24011218/bestselling-individual-books-of-all-time/#:~:text=The%20Quran%20—%20at%20least%20800,was%20compiled%2C%20Words%20Rated%20reported.

3) The Bhagavad Gita - more than 200,000,000 copies (Gita Press & ISKCON combined) 

4) The Book of Mormon - 192,000,000 copies https://www.deseret.com/faith/2022/1/25/22891923/latter-day-saints-publish-photographic-record-of-original-book-of-mormon-manuscript/

## Political Books 
The Little Red Book - more than 900,000,000 copies https://medium.com/@johnwelford15/chairman-maos-little-red-book-be8d470fb0df#:~:text=Only%20the%20Bible%20has%20sold%20more%20copies%2C%20but%20there%20is,very%20good%20reason%20for%20that&text=“Quotations%20from%20Chairman%20Mao%20Zedong,since%20its%20publication%20in%201964.

## List of Bestsellers that are not religious or political 
0) Don Quixote (Might have sold more than 500,000,000 copies but it’s debated if it actually did.) 

1) A Tale of Two Cities - more than 200,000,000 copies 

2) The Little Prince - 200,000,000 copies https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince 

3)  The Lord of the Rings 150,000,000 copies 

4) And Then There Were None - 100,000,000 copies https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/21-best-sellers.htm

5) Dream of the Red Chamber - 100,000,000 copies

6) The Hobbit - 100,000,000 copies 

7) She: A History of Adventure - 83,000,000 copies

8) The Da Vinci Code - 80,000,000 copies https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58E5Q7/#:~:text=%22The%20Da%20Vinci%20Code%22%20sold,tracking%20firm%20Box%20Office%20Mojo. 

9) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 77,000,000 copies 

10) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 65,000,000 copies 

11) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 65,000,000 copies 

15) The Alchemist - 65,000,000 copies

16) The Catcher in the Rye - 65,000,000 copies

17) The Bridges of Madison County - 60,000,00 copies

18) One Hundred Years of Solitude - 50,000,000 copies

19) Lolita - 50,000,000 copies

20) Heidi - 50,000,000 copies

21) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - 50,000,000 copies

22) Anne of Green Gables - 50,000,000 copies

23) Black Beauty - 50,000,000 copies

24) The Name of the Rose - 50,000,000 copies 

25) The Eagle Has Landed - 50,000,000 copies

26) Watership Down - 50,000,000 copies

27) Charlotte's Web - 50,000,000 copies

28) The Ginger Man - 50,000,000 copies

29) The Tale of Peter Rabbit - 45,000,000 copies

30) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 44,000,000 copies

31) The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 43,000,000 copies

32) A Message to Garcia - 40,000,000 copies

33) To Kill a Mockingbird - 40,000,000 copies 

34) Flowers in the Attic - 40,000,000 copies

35) Cosmos - 40,000,000 copies

36) Sophie’s World, - 40,000,000 copies

37) Angels & Demons - 39,000,000 copies

38) Alcoholics Anonymous - 37,000,000 copies

39) Kane and Abel - 37,000,000 copies

40) How the Street was Tempered - 36,400,000 copies

41) War and Peace - 36,000,000 copies

42) The Adventures of Pinocchio - 35,000,000 copies

43) The Diary of a Young Girl - 35,000,000 copies

44) Your Erroneous Zones - 35,000,000 copies

45) The Thorn Birds - 33,000,000 copies 

46) The Kite Runner - 31,500,000 copies 

47) Valley of the Dolls - 31,000,000 copies 

48) How to Win Friends and Influence People - 30,000,000 copies 

49) The Great Gatsby - 30,000,000 copies 

50) Gone with the Wind - 30,000,000 copies 

51) Rebecca - 30,000,000 copies 

52) The Revolt of Mamie Stover - 30,000,000 copies

53) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 30,000,000 copies 

54) The Lost Symbol - 30,000,000 copies 

55) The Hunger Games - 29,000,000 copies 

56) James and the Giant Peach - 28,000,000 copies 

57) The Young Guard - 26,000,000 copies 

58) A Brief History of Time - 25,000,000 copies 

59) Paul and Virginia - 25,000,000 copies 

60) Lust for Life - 25,000,000 copies 

61) The Wind in the Willows - 25,000,000 copies

62) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 25,000,000 copies

63) Toto-Chan: The Little Girl and the Window - 25,000,000 copies

64) Virgin Soil Upturned - 24,000,000 copies 

65) The Celestine Prophecy -, 23,000,000 copies 

66) The Fault in Our Stars - 23,000,000 copies 

67) The Girl on the Train - 23,000,000 copies 

68) The Shack - 22,500,000 copies 

69) Uncle Sytopa -  21,000,000 copies 

70) The Godfather - 21,000,000 copies 

71) Love Story - 21,000,000 copies 

72) Catching Fire - 21,000,000 copies 

73) Mockingjay - 20,000,000 copies 

74) Kitchen - 20,000,000 copies 

75) The Andromeda Nebula - 20,000,000 copies 

76) Gone Girl - 20,000,000 copies 

77) The Bermuda Triangle - 20,000,000 copies 

78) Things Fall Apart - 20,000,000 copies 

79) Wolf Totem - 20,000,000 copies 

80) The Happy Hooker - 20,000,000 copies

81) Jaws - 20,000,000 copies 

82) Love You Forever - 20,000,000 copies 

83) The Women’s Room - 20,000,000 copies 

84) What to Expect When You're Expecting - 20,000,000 copies 

85) Huckleberry Finn - 20,000,000 copies 

86) The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - 20,000,000 copies 

87) Pride and Prejudice - 20,000,000 copies 

88) The Kon-Tiki Expedition - 20,000,000 copies

89) The Good Soldier - 20,000,000 copies 

90) Where the Wild Things Are - 20,000,000 copies

91) The Power of Positive Thinking - 20,000,000 copies 

92) The Secret - 20,000,000 copies 

93) Fear of Flying - 20,000,000 copies 

94) Dune - 20,000,000 copies 

95) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 20,000,000 copies 

96) The Naked Ape - 20,000,000 copies

97) Where the Crawdads Sing - 18,000,000 copies 

98) Matilda - 17,000,000 copies 

99) The Book Thief - 16,000,000 copies 

100) The Horse Whisperer - 16,000,000 copies

## References