 | 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 |