This is a list of best-selling books that are not comic books or textbooks. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling book in the world is The Bible.

Religious Books
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1) The Bible - 5,000,000,000

2) The Quran - 800,000,000

3) The Book of Mormon - 190,000,000

4) The Bhagavad-Gita - 140,000,000

Political Books
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The Little Red Book - between 800,000,000 copies and 6,500,000,000

List of Bestsellers that are not religious or political
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1) A Tale of Two Cities - more than 200,000,000

2) The Little Prince - 200,000,000 

3) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 120,000,000

4) And Then There Were None - 100,000,000

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

6) The Hobbit - 100,000,000

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

8) The Da Vinci Code - 80,000,000 

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

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

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

12) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 65,000,000

13) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 65,000,000

14) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 65,000,000

15) The Alchemist - 65,000,000

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

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

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

19) Lolita - 50,000,000

20) Heidi - 50,000,000

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

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

23) Black Beauty - 50,000,000

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

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

26) Watership Down - 50,000,000

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

28) The Ginger Man - 50,000,000

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

30) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 44,000,000

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

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

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

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

35) Cosmos - 40,000,000

36) Sophie’s World, - 40,000,000

37) Angels & Demons - 39,000,000

38) Alcoholics Anonymous - 37,000,000

39) Kane and Abel - 37,000,000

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

41) War and Peace - 36,000,000

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

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

44) Your erroneous zones - 35,000,000

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