The Must-Read Classics: The 100 Most Popular Books of All Time
Here is a list of 100 of the best-selling books of all time along with some details and estimated sales figures:
The ranking of these books is based on an estimate of the number of copies sold, but it’s important to note that this is a subjective estimation and not an exact science. There could be many factors that could impact a book’s popularity and sales, such as the time period in which it was released, the target audience, marketing and promotion efforts, and so on. So while a book may have sold more copies, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is considered a “better” or more popular book than others that may have sold fewer copies. The ranking is simply a reflection of our estimation of their relative popularity based on the available information.
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“The Bible” – estimated to have sold over 5 billion copies
“Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” – estimated to have sold over 800 million copies
“Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes – estimated to have sold over 500 million copies
“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens – estimated to have sold over 200 million copies
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 150 million copies
Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling’s magical series estimated to have sold over 500 Million copies
“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – estimated to have sold over 140 million copies
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
“Dream of the Red Chamber” by Cao Xueqin – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis – estimated to have sold over 85 million copies
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
“1984” by George Orwell – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown – estimated to have sold over 80 million copies
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies
“The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – estimated to have sold over 25 million copies
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White – estimated to have sold over 45 million copies
“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
“The Odyssey” by Homer – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“The Iliad” by Homer – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Call of the Wild” by Jack London – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
“The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown has sold over 80 million copies
“The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“Dune” by Frank Herbert – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” by Herman Melville – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
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“The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Pearl” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Divine Comedy: Paradiso” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Analects of Confucius” – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Republic” by Plato – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Art of War” by Sun Tzu – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“The Symposium” by Plato – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“The Apology” by Plato – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
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“The Bhagavad Gita” – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
“The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis – estimated to have sold over 85 million copies
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White – estimated to have sold over 45 million copies
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Call of the Wild” by Jack London – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
“The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
“Winnie-the-Pooh” by A.A. Milne – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 150 million copies
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee – estimated to have sold over 40 million copies
“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – estimated to have sold over 25 million copies
“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“Dracula” by Bram Stoker – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Invisible Man” by H.G. Wells – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“The Return of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies.
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies.