| Don Quixote By: Miguel de Cervantes Sales: 500 million |
| A Tale of Two Cities By: Charles Dickens Sales: 200 million |
| The Lord of the Rings By: J. R. R. Tolkien Sales: 150 million |
| Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sales: 140 million |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 120 million |
| The Hobbit By: J. R. R. Tolkien Sales: 100 million |
| And Then There Were None By: Agatha Christie Sales: 100 million |
| 紅樓夢/红楼梦 (Dream of the Red Chamber) By: Cao Xueqin Sales: 100 million |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By: Lewis Carroll Sales: 100 million |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe By: C. S. Lewis Sales: 85 million |
| She: A History of Adventure By: H. Rider Haggard Sales: 83 million |
| Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (The Adventures of Pinocchio) By: Carlo Collodi Sales: >80 million |
| Vardi Wala Gunda By: Ved Prakash Sharma Sales: >80 million |
| The Da Vinci Code By: Dan Brown Sales: 80 million |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 77 million |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows By: J. K. Rowling Sales: 65 million |
| The Alchemist By: Paulo Coelho Sales: 65 million |
| The Catcher in the Rye By: J. D. Salinger Sales: 65 million |
| Think and Grow Rich By: Napoleon Hill Sales: 60 million |
| The Bridges of Madison County By: Robert James Waller Sales: 60 million |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By: Arthur Conan Doyle Sales: 60 million |
| 20,000 Leagues under the Sea By: Jules Verne Sales: 60 million |
| You Can Heal Your Life By: Louise Hay Sales: 50 million |
| Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) By: Gabriel García Márquez Sales: 50 million |
| Lolita By: Vladimir Nabokov Sales: 50 million |
| Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre (Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel) By: Johanna Spyri Sales: 50 million |
| The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care By: Dr. Benjamin Spock Sales: 50 million |
| Anne of Green Gables By: Lucy Maud Montgomery Sales: 50 million |
| Black Beauty By: Anna Sewell Sales: 50 million |
| Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) By: Umberto Eco Sales: 50 million |
| Watership Down By: Richard Adams Sales: 50 million |
| The Hite Report By: Shere Hite Sales: 50 million |
| Charlotte's Web By: E.B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams Sales: 50 million |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ By: Lew Wallace Sales: 50 million |
| The Curse of Capistrano (also known as The Mark of Zorro) By: Johnston McCulley Sales: 50 million |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit By: Beatrix Potter Sales: 45 million |
| The Odyssey By: Homer Sales: 45 million |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull By: Richard Bach Sales: 44 million |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar By: Eric Carle Sales: 43 million |
| A Message to Garcia By: Elbert Hubbard Sales: 40 million |
| Sofies verden (Sophie's World) By: Jostein Gaarder Sales: 40 million |
| Flowers in the Attic By: V. C. Andrews Sales: 40 million |
| To Kill a Mockingbird By: Harper Lee Sales: 40 million |
| Angels & Demons By: Dan Brown Sales: 39 million |
| Kane and Abel By: Jeffrey Archer Sales: 37 million |
| Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas' stal'; How the Steel Was Tempered) By: Nikolai Ostrovsky Sales: 36.4 million copies in USSR |
| Война и мир (Voyna i mir; War and Peace) By: Leo Tolstoy Sales: 36.0 million copies in USSR |
| Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank) By: Anne Frank Sales: 35 million |
| Your Erroneous Zones By: Wayne Dyer Sales: 35 million |
| The Thorn Birds By: Colleen McCullough Sales: 33 million |
| The Kite Runner By: Khaled Hosseini Sales: 31.5 million |
| In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? By: Charles M. Sheldon Sales: 30 million |
| The Lost Symbol By: Dan Brown Sales: 30 million |
| Gone with the Wind By: Margaret Mitchell Sales: 30 million |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four By: George Orwell Sales: 30 million |
| The Purpose Driven Life By: Rick Warren Sales: 30 million |
| Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) By: Stieg Larsson Sales: 30 million |
| Молодая гвардия (Molodaya Gvardiya; The Young Guard) By: Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev Sales: 26 million copies in USSR |
| Who Moved My Cheese? By: Spencer Johnson Sales: 26 million |
| The Great Gatsby By: F. Scott Fitzgerald Sales: 25 million |
| The Wind in the Willows By: Kenneth Grahame Sales: 25 million |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People By: Stephen R. Covey Sales: 25 million |
| Поднятая целина (Podnyataya Tselina; Virgin Soil Upturned) By: Mikhail Sholokhov Sales: 24 million copies in USSR |
| The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins Sales: 23 million |
| The Fault in Our Stars By: John Green Sales: 23 million |
| The Shack By: William P. Young Sales: 22 million |
| Дядя Степа (Dyadya Styopa; Uncle Styopa) By: Sergey Mikhalkov Sales: 21 million copies in USSR |
| The Godfather By: Mario Puzo Sales: 21 million |
| Love Story By: Erich Segal Sales: 21 million |
| Gone Girl By: Gillian Flynn Sales: 20 million |
| The Girl on the Train By: Paula Hawkins Sales: 20 million |
| All Quiet on the Western Front By: Erich Maria Remarque Sales: 20 million |
| The Bermuda Triangle By: Charles Berlitz Sales: 20 million |
| Things Fall Apart By: Chinua Achebe Sales: 20 million |
| Animal Farm By: George Orwell Sales: 20 million |
| Jaws By: Peter Benchley Sales: 20 million |
| Love You Forever By: Robert Munsch Sales: 20 million |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By: Mark Twain Sales: 20 million |
| Pride and Prejudice By: Jane Austen Sales: 20 million |
| Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války (The Good Soldier Švejk) By: Jaroslav Hašek Sales: 20 million |
| Where the Wild Things Are By: Maurice Sendak Sales: 20 million |
| The Power of Positive Thinking By: Norman Vincent Peale Sales: 20 million |
| The Secret By: Rhonda Byrne Sales: 20 million |
| Dune By: Frank Herbert Sales: 20 million |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory By: Roald Dahl Sales: 20 million |
| The Naked Ape By: Desmond Morris Sales: 20 million |
| Goodnight Moon By: Margaret Wise Brown Sales: 16 million |
| Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) By: Michael Ende Sales: 16 million |
| The Outsiders By: S. E. Hinton Sales: 15 million |
| Guess How Much I Love You By: Sam McBratney Sales: 15 million |
| Shōgun By: James Clavell Sales: 15 million |
| The Poky Little Puppy By: Janette Sebring Lowrey Sales: 15 million |
| The Pillars of the Earth By: Ken Follett Sales: 15 million |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People By: Dale Carnegie Sales: 15 million |
| Das Parfum (Perfume) By: Patrick Süskind Sales: 15 million |
| The Grapes of Wrath By: John Steinbeck Sales: 15 million |
| La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón Sales: 15 million |
| Interpreter of Maladies By: Jhumpa Lahiri Sales: 15 million |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By: Douglas Adams Sales: 14 million |
| Tuesdays with Morrie By: Mitch Albom Sales: 14 million |
| God's Little Acre By: Erskine Caldwell Sales: 14 million |
| A Wrinkle in Time By: Madeleine L'Engle Sales: 14 million |
| Long Walk to Freedom By: Nelson Mandela Sales: 14 million |
| Life After Life By: Raymond Moody Sales: 13 million |
| Me Before You By: Jojo Moyes Sales: 12 million |
| ノルウェイの森 (Noruwei no Mori; Norwegian Wood) By: Haruki Murakami Sales: 12 million |
| Peyton Place By: Grace Metalious Sales: 12 million |
| La Peste (The Plague) By: Albert Camus Sales: 12 million |
| 人間失格 (Ningen Shikkaku; No Longer Human) By: Osamu Dazai Sales: 12 million |
| Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager (Man's Search for Meaning) By: Viktor Frankl Sales: 12 million |
| Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) By: Dante Alighieri Sales: 11-12 million (during 20th century) |
| The Prophet By: Kahlil Gibran Sales: 11 million |
| The Exorcist By: William Peter Blatty Sales: 11 million |
| The Gruffalo By: Julia Donaldson Sales: 10.5 million |
| The Cat in the Hat By: Dr. Seuss Sales: 10.5 million |
| The Help By: Kathryn Stockett Sales: 10 million |
| Catch-22 By: Joseph Heller Sales: 10 million |
| L'Étranger (The Stranger (novel)) By: Albert Camus Sales: 10 million |
| A Brief History of Time By: Stephen Hawking Sales: 10 million |
| The Lovely Bones By: Alice Sebold Sales: 10 million |
| Wild Swans By: Jung Chang Sales: 10 million |
| Santa Evita By: Tomás Eloy Martínez Sales: 10 million |
| 中国社会主义经济问题研究 (Problems in China's Socialist Economy) By: Xue Muqiao Sales: 10 million |
| The Joy of Sex By: Alex Comfort Sales: 10 million |
| Life of Pi By: Yann Martel Sales: 10 million |
| The Giver By: Lois Lowry Sales: 10 million |
| The Magic of Thinking Big By: David Schwartz Sales: 4 million |