List of best-selling books Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==List of best-selling individual books== === More than 100 million copies === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- " !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales !Genre |- |''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''||[[Charles Dickens]]|| English || 1859 || >200 million<ref> *{{cite web |title=A Tale of Two Cities |url=http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=562611 |website=broadway.com |access-date=April 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405204933/http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=562611 |archive-date=April 5, 2008 |quote=Since its inaugural publication on August 30, 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has sold over 200 million copies in several languages, making it one of the most famous books in the history of fictional literature.}} *{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/dickens-anniversary-idUSL5E8D25AP20120203|title = Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Dickens|newspaper = Reuters|date = 3 February 2012 |quote=...some estimates say “A Tale of Two Cities” is the best-selling novel of all time at more than 200 million copies.}} *{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10340407/A-Tale-of-Two-Cities-Kings-Head-review.html|title = A Tale of Two Cities, King's Head, review |date=September 28, 2013 |quote=According to Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the artistic director of the King’s Head Theatre, the prize goes to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, with sales of more than 200 million copies since its publication in 1859.}} *{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28854998|title=Charles Dickens inscribed book offered for £275,000 sale|work=BBC News|date=19 August 2014 |quote=A Tale of Two Cities is believed to be the best-selling novel of all time, having sold more than 200 million copies.}} *{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/21/charles-dickens-george-eliot-a-tale-of-two-cities|title = Charles Dickens novel inscribed to George Eliot up for sale|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 21 August 2014 |quote="A Tale of Two Cities...," the bookseller [Peter Harrington] writes in its catalogue. "..., regularly cited as the all-time bestselling novel in any language, with over 200 million copies sold."}}</ref> |[[Historical fiction]] |- |''[[The Little Prince]]'' (''Le Petit Prince'')||[[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]|| French || 1943 || 200 million<ref>{{cite web |last1=Inman |first1=William H. |title=Hotelier Saint-Exupéry's Princely Instincts |url=https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b150y2scsw1f63/hotelier-saint-exuprys-princely-instincts |website=institutionalinvestor.com |publisher=Euromoney Institutional Investor |access-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112230529/https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b150y2scsw1f63/hotelier-saint-exuprys-princely-instincts |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |date=March 21, 2011 |quote=The Prince remains a king among books, with more than 200 million copies sold in more than 190 languages, making it one of the bestselling volumes of any kind.}}</ref><ref> *{{cite web |last1=Lowne |first1=Cathy |title=The Little Prince |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince |website=britannica.com |access-date=April 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031024948/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince |archive-date=October 31, 2017 |quote=Translated into hundreds of languages, some 150 million copies of the novella have sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history.}} *{{cite web |last1=Lohnes |first1=Kate |last2=Lowne |first2=Cathy |title=The Little Prince |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince |website=britannica.com |access-date=March 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122012253/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Little-Prince |archive-date=January 22, 2019 |date=December 27, 2018 |quote=The novella has been translated into hundreds of languages and has sold some 200 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history.}}</ref> |[[Fantasy]], [[Children's fiction]] |- | ''[[The Alchemist (novel)|The Alchemist]]'' (''O Alquimista'') || [[Paulo Coelho]] || Portuguese || 1988 || 150 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/harvey-mackay-lessons-of-persistence-from-author-paulo-coelho-the-alchemist-soichiro-honda/600167569/ |last=Mackay |first=Harvey |title=Harvey Mackay: Lessons of persistence from Paulo Coelho, author of ''The Alchemist'' |work=[[The Star Tribune]] |date=April 24, 2022 |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/the-alchemist-movie-jack-thorne/ |last=Mendelson |first=Scott |title=''The Alchemist'' Movie in the Works From Legendary and TriStar |website=[[TheWrap]] |date=October 3, 2023 |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>||[[Fantasy]] |- |''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''||[[J. K. Rowling]]|| English || 1997 || 120 million<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Chalton|first1=Nicola|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eF8HDgAAQBAJ&q=philosopher%27s+stone+120+million&pg=PA129|title=20th Century in Bite-Sized Chunks|last2=Macardle|first2=Meredith|date=2017-03-15|publisher=Book Sales|isbn=978-0-7858-3510-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2018-09-05|title=Burbank Public Library offering digital copies of first 'Harry Potter' novel to recognize the book's 20th anniversary|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/tn-blr-me-burbank-library-harry-potter-20180831-story.html|access-date=2020-09-03|website=Burbank Leader|language=en-US}}</ref> |[[Fantasy]], [[Children's fiction]] |- |''[[And Then There Were None]]''||[[Agatha Christie]]|| English || 1939 || 100 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/01/and-then-there-were-none-declared-worlds-favourite-agatha-christie-novel |last=Flood |first=Allison |title=And Then There Were None declared world's favourite Agatha Christie novel |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=September 1, 2015 |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> |[[Mystery fiction|Mystery]] |- |''[[Dream of the Red Chamber]]'' (紅樓夢)||[[Cao Xueqin]]|| Chinese || 1791 || 100 million<ref>{{cite web |title=Betting on The Red Mansions |url=https://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/151884.htm |website=china.org.cn |publisher=China Internet Information Center |access-date=April 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017115910/https://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/151884.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2007 |date=December 14, 2005 |quote=Sun Yuming, the vice director of A Dream of Red Mansions Research Institute...said that the book has sold over 100 million copies worldwide so far.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Oswald|first1=Godfrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZAwDwAAQBAJ&q=%22best+selling+books%22&pg=PA216|title=Library World Records, 3d ed.|date=2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476667775|language=en|quote=Five other books the [sic] have broken the 100 million barrier are as follows:...''Dream of the Red Chamber'' by Cao Xueqin...}}</ref> |[[Family saga]] |- |''[[The Hobbit]]''||[[J. R. R. Tolkien]]|| English || 1937 || 100 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9555838/The-Hobbit-What-has-made-the-book-such-an-enduring-success.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127082027/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9555838/The-Hobbit-What-has-made-the-book-such-an-enduring-success.html |last=Shippey |first=Thomas |title=The Hobbit: What has made the book such an enduring success? |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=20 September 2012 |access-date=29 March 2022 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |url-status=live |quote=Today The Hobbit has sold 100 million copies and been translated into something like fifty languages, including (two of Tolkien’s favourites) Icelandic and West Frisian.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2012/09/20/hobbit-tolkien-75-anniversary-corey-olsen/1576943/ |title=Tolkien's ''Hobbit'' celebrates 75th anniversary |work=[[USA Today]] |date=20 September 2012 |access-date=29 March 2022 |quote=The prelude to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit has been translated in to more than 50 languages and has sold 100 million copies worldwide.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19965058 |title=JRR Tolkien letter reveals poor sales of The Hobbit |work=[[BBC]] |date=16 October 2012 |access-date=29 March 2022 |quote=Despite his concerns, The Hobbit went on to sell 100 million copies.}}</ref> |[[Fantasy]], [[Children's fiction]] |} === Between 50 million and 100 million copies === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- " !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales !! Genre |- |''[[She: A History of Adventure]]''||[[H. Rider Haggard]]|| English || 1887 || 83 million<ref> *{{cite news |title=Waiting for Leo |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C842147%2C00.html |access-date=August 22, 2008 |work=Time Magazine |date=September 17, 1965 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312201204/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842147,00.html |archive-date=March 12, 2008 |quote=Since then it has sold 83 million copies in 44 languages.}} *{{cite news |last1=Fowler |first1=Christopher |title=Invisible Ink no 309: Henry Rider Haggard |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-309-henry-rider-haggard-a6802696.html |work=The Independent |date=January 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129221558/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-309-henry-rider-haggard-a6802696.html |archive-date=2016-01-29 |quote=His next novel, She, about a beautiful ageless sorceress, was a smashing success, and by 1965 had sold 83 million copies.}}</ref>||[[Adventure fiction|Adventure]] |- |''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' || [[Dan Brown]] || English || 2003 || 80 million<ref>[http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_12530761 San José Mercury News] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113003131/http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_12530761 |date=2012-01-13 }} on ''The Da Vinci Code'': "That earlier book has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, was adapted into a movie and made hits out of Brown's previous novels, including "Angels & Demons," whose film version is now in theaters." (5 June 2009)</ref>||[[Mystery (fiction)|Mystery]] [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] |- |''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' || [[J. K. Rowling]] || English || 1998 || 77 million<ref>[https://www.hypable.com/harry-potter/book-history Hypable] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20131015074846/http://www.hypable.com/harry-potter/book-history/ |date=2013-10-15 }} on ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'': "As of 2012, the book has sold 77 million copies worldwide and been translated into 72 languages." (April 2012)</ref>||[[Fantasy]] |- |''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' || [[J. K. Rowling]] || English || 1999 || 65 million<ref name="fansided.com">[https://fansided.com/fandom250/harry-potter-jk-rowling FanSided] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824012648/https://fansided.com/fandom250/harry-potter-jk-rowling/ |date=2017-08-24 }} on ''Harry Potter'': "The success of the books — every one of which has sold over 65 million copies — and the films — which have done billions of dollars worth of box office sales worldwide — is perhaps the easiest way to demonstrate the sheer size of the Harry Potter fandom." (November 2016)</ref>||[[Fantasy]] |- |''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' || [[J. K. Rowling]] || English || 2000 || 65 million<ref name="fansided.com"/>||[[Fantasy]] |- |''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' || [[J. K. Rowling]] || English || 2003 || 65 million<ref name="fansided.com"/>||[[Fantasy]] |- |''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' || [[J. K. Rowling]] || English || 2005 || 65 million<ref name="fansided.com"/>||[[Fantasy]] |- |''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' || [[J. K. Rowling]] || English || 2007 || 65 million<ref name="fansided.com"/>||[[Fantasy]] |- |''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' || [[J. D. Salinger]] || English || 1951 || 65 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sixty-years-and-65m-copies-on-holden-caulfield-and-the-great-american-novel-1.598801|title=Sixty years and 65m copies on: Holden Caulfield and the great American novel|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>||[[Coming-of-age story|Coming-of-age]] |- |''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' || [[Robert James Waller]] || English || 1992 || 60 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://triblive.com/aande/theaterarts/9886121-74/county-bridges-stanley|title='The Bridges of Madison County' novel springs to life as a musical|last=Carter|first=Alice T.|website=TribLIVE.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-13|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414082053/http://triblive.com/aande/theaterarts/9886121-74/county-bridges-stanley|archive-date=2017-04-14}}</ref>|| [[romance novel|Romance]] |- | ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' (''Cien años de soledad'') || [[Gabriel García Márquez]] || Spanish || 1967 || 50 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21601223-gabriel-garc-m-rquez-latin-americas-literary-colossus-died-april-17th-aged-87 |title=Archived copy |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |access-date=2017-09-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906091425/https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21601223-gabriel-garc-m-rquez-latin-americas-literary-colossus-died-april-17th-aged-87 |archive-date=2017-09-06 }} April 26, 2014</ref><ref>[http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.12-books-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-marquez/ The Walrus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513143403/http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.12-books-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-marquez/ |date=2008-05-13 }} December 2007 issue</ref><ref>[http://granmai.co.cu/ingles/2007/marzo/mar6/10gabo.html granma.cu] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163601/http://granmai.co.cu/ingles/2007/marzo/mar6/10gabo.html |date=2011-07-18 }} March 6, 2007</ref>||[[Magic realism]] |- |''[[Lolita]]'' || [[Vladimir Nabokov]] || English || 1955 || 50 million<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Woudhuysen |editor1-first=H. R. |editor2-last=Suarez |editor2-first=Michael F. |title=The Oxford Companion to the Book: D-Z |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=892 |isbn=978-0-19-860653-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URBIAQAAIAAJ |access-date=May 11, 2022 |quote=A landmark 20th-century novel, Lolita sold over 50 million copies by 2007.}}</ref>||[[Novel]] |- | ''[[Heidi]]'' || [[Johanna Spyri]] || German || 1880 || 50 million<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s549261.htm ABC Australia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426211330/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s549261.htm |date=2014-04-26 }} on ''Heidi'': "Johanna Spyri's story has been translated into fifty languages and sold fifty million copies, but the marketing juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down – fat from it. Heidi now has her own theme park." (5 August 2002)</ref>||[[Children's literature|Children's fiction]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care]]'' || [[Benjamin Spock]] || English || 1946 || 50 million<ref name=RussellAsh>''The Top 10 of Everything 2002'' by Russell Ash</ref>||Manual |- |''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' || [[Lucy Maud Montgomery]] || English || 1908 || 50 million<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1754861220080319 Reuters] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113023844/http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN1754861220080319 |date=2010-01-13 }} on ''Anne of Green Gables'': ""Anne of Green Gables" has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into 20 languages, according to Penguin." (19 March 2008)</ref>||[[Children's novel]] |- |''[[Black Beauty]]'' || [[Anna Sewell]] || English || 1877 || 50 million<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article3459873.ece The Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080718203951/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article3459873.ece |date=2008-07-18 }} on ''Black Beauty'': "Fifty million copies of Black Beauty have been sold in the years since Anna Sewell's publisher paid her £20 for the story." (29 February 2008)</ref>||[[Children's literature]] |- | ''[[The Name of the Rose]]'' (''Il Nome della Rosa'') || [[Umberto Eco]] || Italian || 1980 || 50 million<ref>[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Name-of-the-Rose/Umberto-Eco/e/9780156001311 Library Journal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921060952/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Name-of-the-Rose/Umberto-Eco/e/9780156001311/ |date=2008-09-21 }} (no date)</ref>||[[Historical fiction|Historical novel]], [[Mystery fiction|mystery]] |- |''[[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'' || [[Jack Higgins]] || English || 1975 || 50 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jul/31/jack-higgins-life-harry-patterson|title=A life in writing: Jack Higgins|last=Crace|first=John|date=2010-07-30|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2017-01-29|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124000958/http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jul/31/jack-higgins-life-harry-patterson|archive-date=2012-01-24}}</ref>||[[War novel|War]], [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] |- |''[[Watership Down]]'' || [[Richard Adams]] || English || 1972 || 50 million<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16142667 BBC News – Watership Down author Richard Adams criticises homes plan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111162028/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16142667 |date=2012-01-11 }} on ''Watership Down'': "Watership Down sold more than 50 million copies." (13 December 2011)</ref>||[[Fantasy]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Shere Hite|The Hite Report]]'' || [[Shere Hite]] || English || 1976 || 50 million<ref>[https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/then-now-shere-hite-sexologist-1.607279 Then & Now: Shere Hite, sexologist], ''The Irish Times''. "The report went on to sell more than 50 million copies".</ref>||[[Sexology]] |- |''[[Charlotte's Web]]'' || [[E. B. White]]; illustrated by [[Garth Williams]] || English || 1952 || 50 million<ref>[http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070706/NEWS/707060353 Pocono Record] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121035238/http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070706%2FNEWS%2F707060353 |date=2014-01-21 }} on ''Charlotte's Web'': " It has sold over 50 million copies, been translated into 23 languages, and shown in three major movie versions." (06 July 2007)</ref>||[[Children's literature|Children's fiction]] |- |''[[The Ginger Man]]'' || [[J. P. Donleavy]] || English || 1955 || 50 million<ref>[http://www.sundayworld.com/entertainment/showbiz/here-s-johnny-5-8-2008 Sunday World] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140118200632/http://www.sundayworld.com/entertainment/showbiz/here-s-johnny-5-8-2008 |date=2014-01-18 }} on ''The Ginger Man'': "Donleavy, who lives near Mullingar, has previously rejected repeated attempts by Hollywood to make a film version of his book, which has sold 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into 18 languages." (5 August 2008)</ref>||[[Novel]] |} === Between 20 million and 50 million copies === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- " !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales !! Genre |- |''[[The Tale of Peter Rabbit]]'' || [[Beatrix Potter]] || English || 1902 || 45 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=105175 |title=Worker's Press acknowledge Frederick Warne's intellectual property rights |publisher=Prnewswire.co.uk |date=2003-07-10 |access-date=2009-08-31 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608194807/http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=105175 |archive-date=2011-06-08 }}</ref>|| [[Children's Literature]] |- |''[[Jonathan Livingston Seagull]]'' || [[Richard Bach]] || English || 1970 || 44 million<ref>{{cite web|title = Best-Sellers Initially Rejected|url = http://www.literaryrejections.com/best-sellers-initially-reject|website = www.literaryrejections.com|access-date = 2015-09-01}} {{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ||[[Novella]], Self-help |- |''[[The Very Hungry Caterpillar]]'' || [[Eric Carle]] || English || 1969 || 43 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hungrycaterpillarshow.com/about-the-show|title=The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show|website=The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show|access-date=2017-04-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414081925/http://www.hungrycaterpillarshow.com/about-the-show|archive-date=2017-04-14}}</ref> || [[Children's Literature]], picture book |- |''[[A Message to Garcia]]'' || [[Elbert Hubbard]] || English || 1899 || 40 million<ref name=RussellAsh /> ||Essay/Literature |- |''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' || [[Harper Lee]] || English || 1960 || 40 million<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/02/03/harper-lee-to-publish-sequel-to-to-kill-a-mockingbird/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711201923/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/02/03/harper-lee-to-publish-sequel-to-to-kill-a-mockingbird/|url-status= dead|title=Harper Lee to publish sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'|first=Ron|last=Charles|date=February 3, 2015|archive-date=July 11, 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> ||[[Southern Gothic]], [[Bildungsroman]] |- |''[[Flowers in the Attic]]'' || [[V. C. Andrews]] || English || 1979 || 40 million<ref>{{cite web|last1=Locker |first1=Melissa |title=More ''Flowers In the Attic'', Please: Which V.C. Andrews Nightmare Novel Should TV Adapt Next? |url=http://people.com/tv/flowers-in-the-attic-gets-a-lifetime-tv-remake/ |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=February 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201164025/http://people.com/tv/flowers-in-the-attic-gets-a-lifetime-tv-remake/ |archive-date=February 1, 2018 |date=January 17, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> || [[Gothic horror]], [[Family saga]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Cosmos (Carl Sagan book)|Cosmos]]'' || [[Carl Sagan]] || English || 1980 || 40 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographicpartners.com/press/2020/1/cosmos--possible-worlds/|title='Cosmos: Possible Worlds,' By Ann Druyan|date=January 23, 2020|website=National Geographic}}</ref> || [[Popular science]], [[Anthropology]], [[Astrophysics]], [[Cosmology]], [[Philosophy]], [[History]] |- | ''[[Sophie's World]]'' (''Sofies verden'') || [[Jostein Gaarder]] || Norwegian || 1991 || 40 million<ref>[http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/sophies-world-author-turns-from-philosophy-to-climate-change The National: Sophie's World author turns from philosophy to climate change] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317013951/http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/sophies-world-author-turns-from-philosophy-to-climate-change |date=2011-03-17 }} on ''Sophie's World'': "The novel has now been translated into 59 languages, and has sold an estimated 40 million copies." (14 March 2011)</ref> ||[[Philosophical novel]], [[Young adult fiction|Young adult]] |- |''[[Angels & Demons]]'' || [[Dan Brown]] || English || 2000 || 39 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/article/VR1118002603.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 |work=Variety Online |title=Columbia moves on 'Symbol' |first=Michael |last=Fleming |date=20 April 2009 |access-date=1 November 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424201251/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002603.html?categoryId=13&cs=1 |archive-date=24 April 2009 }}</ref> ||[[Mystery (fiction)|Mystery]]-[[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] |- |''[[The Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous)|Alcoholics Anonymous]]'' || [[Bill W.|William Griffith Wilson]] || English || 1939 ||over 37 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/81440-writing-the-book-on-the-big-book-spotlight-on-william-h-schaberg.html|title=Writing the Book on the Big Book: Spotlight on William H. Schaberg|date=2019-10-14|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=2024-01-16}}</ref> ||[[Self-Help]] |- |''[[Kane and Abel (novel)|Kane and Abel]]'' || [[Jeffrey Archer]] || English || 1979 ||37 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/media/best-selling-novelist-charmed-the-audience-at-the-emirates-airline-festival-of-literature-1.1156025|title=Best selling novelist charmed the audience at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature|first=Noorhan|last= Barakat|date=2013-03-09|work=GulfNews|access-date=2017-05-27}}</ref> ||[[Novel]] |- | ''[[How the Steel Was Tempered]]'' (''Как закалялась сталь'') || [[Nikolai Ostrovsky]] || Russian || 1932 || 36.4 million copies in USSR<ref name="compuart.ru">{{cite web |first=Евгений |last=Немировский |url=http://www.compuart.ru/article.aspx?id=8496&iid=346 |title=Журнал "КомпьюАрт" | Подводя итоги XX столетия: книгоиздание. Бестселлер – детище рекламы |publisher=Compuart.ru |date=2000-01-03 |access-date=2009-08-31 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222222238/http://www.compuart.ru/article.aspx?id=8496&iid=346 |archive-date=2012-02-22 }}</ref> ||[[Socialist realism|Socialist realist]] novel |- | ''[[War and Peace]]'' (''Война и мир'') || [[Leo Tolstoy]] || Russian || 1869 || 36 million copies in Russia<ref name="compuart.ru"/> ||[[Historical novel]] |- |''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' (''Le avventure di Pinocchio'')||[[Carlo Collodi]]|| Italian || 1881 || data-sort-value="80.1 million" | 35 million<ref>{{cite web |title=Carlo Collodi, il papà del burattino più conformista della letteratura |url=http://www.artspecialday.com/9art/2017/10/26/carlo-collodi/ |website=artspecialday |access-date=April 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403234914/http://www.artspecialday.com/9art/2017/10/26/carlo-collodi/ |archive-date=April 3, 2018 |language=it |date=October 26, 2017 |quote=Il resto, è storia nota: allo stato attuale delle cose, è inutile elencare le lingue in cui è stato tradotto Pinocchio ed è praticamente impossibile calcolare il numero delle copie vendute nel mondo – alcune fonti riportano 35 milioni, altre 80, ma è soltanto un modo, anche abbastanza ozioso, di quantificare un successo inquantificabile.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Le avventure di Pinocchio |url=http://www.repubblicaletteraria.it/Collodi_Pinocchio.htm |website=la Repubblica Letteraria Italiana |access-date=February 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127010017/http://www.repubblicaletteraria.it/Collodi_Pinocchio.htm |archive-date=January 27, 2006 |language=it |date=July 1, 2001 |quote=Con i suoi trentacinque milioni di copie, Le Avventure di Pinocchio è il nostro romanzo più letto e più tradotto, dopo I promessi sposi.}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=July 2021}}||[[Fantasy]], [[Children's fiction]] |- style="background:lavender;" | ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' (''Het Achterhuis'') || [[Anne Frank]] || Dutch || 1947 || 35 million<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/nyregion/recalling-anne-frank-as-icon-and-human-being.html |title=Recalling Anne Frank, as Icon and Human Being |last=Berger |first=Joseph |date=2014-11-04 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2017-05-04 |url-access=subscription |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119174139/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/nyregion/recalling-anne-frank-as-icon-and-human-being.html |archive-date=2017-01-19}}</ref> || [[Historical non-fiction]], [[Autobiography]], [[Memoir]], [[Bildungsroman]] / [[Coming of Age]], [[Jewish literature]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Your Erroneous Zones]]'' || [[Wayne Dyer]] || English || 1976 ||35 million<ref>{{cite book|last1=Comfort|first1=David|title=An Insider's Guide to Publishing|date=14 November 2013|publisher=Writer's Digest Books|isbn=9781599637815|page=[https://archive.org/details/insidersguidetop0000comf/page/244 244]|url=https://archive.org/details/insidersguidetop0000comf|url-access=registration|access-date=30 September 2017}}</ref><ref>''[https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/to-bryce-harper-and-davey-johnson-play-me-or-trade-me-is-just-a-healthy-joke/2013/07/07/80af5a18-e73c-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html To Bryce Harper and Davey Johnson, ‘play me or trade me’ is just a healthy joke] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426213218/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/to-bryce-harper-and-davey-johnson-play-me-or-trade-me-is-just-a-healthy-joke/2013/07/07/80af5a18-e73c-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html |date=2014-04-26 }}''. [[Thomas Boswell]] for [[The Washington Post]]: "If [Johnson] has to call on the wisdom of an old ’70s self-help bestseller like "Your Erroneous Zones," he'll whip it out. He's still got one of the 35 million copies sold." (8 July 2013)</ref> || Self-help |- |''[[The Thorn Birds]]'' || [[Colleen McCullough]] || English || 1977 || 33 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-are-going-nuts-over-this-obituary-for-author-colleen-mccullough-which-called-her-plain-and-overweight-2015-1|title=People Are Going Nuts Over This Obituary For Author Colleen McCullough Which Called Her 'Plain' And 'Overweight'|last=Thomsen|first=Simon|date=2015-01-30|work=Business Insider Australia|access-date=2017-04-13|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414081440/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/people-are-going-nuts-over-this-obituary-for-author-colleen-mccullough-which-called-her-plain-and-overweight-2015-1|archive-date=2017-04-14}}</ref> ||Romantic family saga |- |''[[The Kite Runner]]'' || [[Khaled Hosseini]] || English || 2003 || 31.5 million<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/article/stage-version-of-the-kite-runner-to-have-west-end-run-in-january Playbill] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308220905/http://www.playbill.com/article/stage-version-of-the-kite-runner-to-have-west-end-run-in-january |date=2017-03-08 }} on ''The Kite Runner'': "The Kite Runner, which has been published in 70 countries, selling 31.5 million copies in 60 languages." (2 September 2016)</ref> ||[[Bildungsroman]], [[Historical fiction]] |- |''[[Valley of the Dolls (novel)|Valley of the Dolls]]'' || [[Jacqueline Susann]] || English || 1966 || 31 million<ref>Symonds, Alexandria. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/t-magazine/valley-of-the-dolls-book-by-the-numbers.html?_r=0 'Valley of the Dolls,' by the numbers.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214105057/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/t-magazine/valley-of-the-dolls-book-by-the-numbers.html?_r=0 |date=2016-02-14 }} ''T: The New York Times Style Magazine''. February 9, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2017.</ref> ||Novel |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[How to Win Friends and Influence People]]'' || [[Dale Carnegie]] || English || 1936 || Over 30 million<ref>{{cite news |last1=Garner |first1=Dwight |title=Classic Advice: Please, Leave Well Enough Alone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/books/books-of-the-times-classic-advice-please-leave-well-enough-alone.html |work=The New York Times |date=5 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='How to Win Friends and Influence People' is now targeting Gen Z girls |url=https://nypost.com/2020/08/08/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-is-now-targeting-gen-z-girls/ |work=New York Post |date=8 August 2020}}</ref> || [[Self-help book|Self-help]] |- |''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' || [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] || English || 1925 || 30 million ("around")<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/books/copyright-extension-literature-public-domain.html|title=New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out|first=Alexandra|last=Alter|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 29, 2018}}</ref> ||Novel, [[tragedy]] |- |''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]'' || [[Margaret Mitchell]] || English || 1936 || 30 million (est.)<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/06/25/gone.with.the.wind.fans/index.html At 75, 'Gone with the Wind' still attracts fans, cash and controversy], CNN: "More than 30 million copies of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel are in print worldwide, according to most estimates".</ref> ||Historical fiction |- |''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'' || [[Daphne du Maurier]] || English || 1938 || 30 million (est.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/the-menacing-daphne-du-maurier-36182507.html|title=The menacing Daphne du Maurier|website=Independent.ie|date=2 October 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-03-16}}</ref> ||Gothic novel |- | ''[[The Revolt of Mamie Stover]]'' || [[William Bradford Huie]] || English || 1951 || 30 million<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&q=%22million+copies%22&pg=PA421 The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012223302/http://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA421&dq=%22perry+mason%22+%22million+copies%22&as_brr=3&ei=Ve9CS-LFBYGGzgTx__WxBQ&cd=8 |date=2013-10-12 }}, p. 559, on ''The Revolt of Mamie Stover'': "''The Revolt of Mamie Stover'' (1951), which sold almost thirty million copies worldwide, [...]" (2005)</ref> ||Fiction |- | ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'' (''Män som hatar kvinnor'') || [[Stieg Larsson]] || Swedish || 2005 || 30 million<ref>[http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/the_tab/swede-success-or-tattooed-failure-90919119.html Winnipeg Free Press] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513022240/http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/the_tab/swede-success-or-tattooed-failure-90919119.html |date=2010-05-13 }} on ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'': "The first book sold 30 million copies and is available in 44 languages." (15 April 2010)</ref> ||Fiction |- |''[[The Lost Symbol]]'' || [[Dan Brown]] || English || 2009 || 30 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/15/entertainment/la-et-mn-dan-brown-whats-the-film-status-of-his-last-book-the-lost-symbol-20130115 |work=Los Angeles Times |title=Dan Brown: What's the film status of his book 'The Lost Symbol'? |first=Nicole |last=Sperling |date=15 January 2013 |access-date=1 November 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208061401/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/15/entertainment/la-et-mn-dan-brown-whats-the-film-status-of-his-last-book-the-lost-symbol-20130115 |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref> ||Fiction |- |''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'' || [[Suzanne Collins]] || English || 2008 || 29 million in US<ref name="mediaroom.scholastic.com">{{cite web|url=http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/hungergames|title=The Hunger Games {{!}} Scholastic Media Room|website=mediaroom.scholastic.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311024401/http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/hungergames|archive-date=2017-03-11}}</ref> || Young adult fiction |- |''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'' || [[Roald Dahl]] || English || 1961 || 28 million<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Spangler |first=Todd |title=Taika Waititi Helms 'James and the Giant Peach' Charity Reading With Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett |magazine=Variety |date=May 18, 2020 |url=https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/taika-waititi-james-and-the-giant-peach-reading-covid-19-1234609224/}}</ref> || [[Children's novel]] |- | ''[[The Young Guard (novel)|The Young Guard]]'' (''Молодая гвардия'') || [[Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev]] || Russian || 1945 || 26<!--.143--> million copies in USSR<ref name="compuart.ru"/> ||Young adult historical novel |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Who Moved My Cheese?]]'' || [[Spencer Johnson (writer)|Spencer Johnson]] || English || 1998 || 28<ref> * {{cite news |last1=Sandomir |first1=Richard |title=Spencer Johnson, 'Who Moved My Cheese?' Author, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/books/obituary-spencer-johnson-dead-who-moved-my-cheese-author.html |work=The New York Times |date=8 July 2017}} * {{cite web |title=Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson: 9780399144462 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/291680/who-moved-my-cheese-by-spencer-johnson/ |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com}} </ref> – 30<ref> * {{cite news |last1=Charles |first1=Ron |title=Perspective {{!}} Today is the 20th anniversary of 'Who Moved My Cheese?' Why does it still move us? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/who-moved-my-cheese-became-a-monster-hit-twenty-years-later-were-still-wondering-why/2018/09/05/89a6e9aa-ac5e-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |date=September 2018 |quote=almost 30 million}} * {{cite web |title=Spencer Johnson's WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Turns 20, Long-Awaited Sequel to Pub in November |url=https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/spencer-johnsons-who-moved-my-cheese-turns-20-long-awaited-sequel-to-pub-in-november/ |website=penguinrandomhouse.com |date=September 2018 |quote=almost 30 million}} </ref> million ||[[Self-help book|Self-help]], [[Work motivation|motivational]], [[business fable]], [[psychology]], [[leadership]], [[parable]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[A Brief History of Time]]'' || [[Stephen Hawking]] || English || 1988 || 25 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/a-brief-history-of-stephen-hawking/|title=A brief history of Stephen Hawking|date=July 31, 2007|website=Cosmos Magazine}}</ref> || [[Popular science]] |- |''[[Paul et Virginie]]'' || [[Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre]] || French || 1788 || 25 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gad-distribution.com/en/documentary-series/people-places/around-the-sea-1/the-wreck-of-the-saint-geran-the-legend-of-paul-and-virginie|title=The Wreck of the Saint Geran – The Legend of Paul And Virginie – Around the sea|website=GAD|access-date=2019-12-29|archive-date=2020-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009114854/https://www.gad-distribution.com/en/documentary-series/people-places/around-the-sea-1/the-wreck-of-the-saint-geran-the-legend-of-paul-and-virginie/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ||Novel |- |''[[Lust for Life (novel)|Lust for Life]]'' || [[Irving Stone]] || English || 1934 || 25 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://writenowcoach.com/dealing-with-rejection/|title=Dealing with Rejection – Write Now Coach! Blog}}</ref> ||[[Biographical novel]] |- |''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'' || [[Kenneth Grahame]] || English || 1908 || 25 million<ref>[https://archive.today/20120529130800/http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/arts/stories/2008/05/04/2_WILLOWS_100.ART_ART_05-04-08_E4_RPA2K8F.html?sid=101 The Columbus Dispatch] on ''The Wind in the Willows'': "More than 25 million copies of the book have been sold in 70 countries since 1908, according to the Copyrights Group, which is presently promoting a new edition." (4 May 2008)</ref> || [[Children's literature]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People]]'' || [[Stephen R. Covey]] || English || 1989 || 25 million<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/07/16/the-7-habits/ Forbes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329041455/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2012/07/16/the-7-habits/ |date=2017-03-29 }} on Covey: "Stephen Covey will be remembered most as the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which sold over 25 million copies." (16 July 2012)</ref> ||[[Self-help book|Self-help]] |- | ''[[Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window]]'' (窓ぎわのトットちゃん) || [[Tetsuko Kuroyanagi]] || Japanese || 1981 || 25 million <ref>[https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASR9162CYR91UCVL020.html 黒柳徹子さん「窓ぎわのトットちゃん」42年ぶりに続編 10月刊行], [[Asahi Shimbun]] (4 September 2023)</ref> || [[Autobiographical novel]] |- | ''[[Virgin Soil Upturned (novel)|Virgin Soil Upturned]]'' (''Поднятая целина'') || [[Mikhail Sholokhov]] || Russian || 1935 || 24<!--.891--> million copies in USSR<ref name="compuart.ru"/> || Novel |- |''[[The Celestine Prophecy]]'' || [[James Redfield]] || English || 1993 || 23 million<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/strongselfhelpstrong-celestine-prophecy-author-coming-to-town/2008/03/21/1205602651103.html The Age] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205125220/http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/strongselfhelpstrong-celestine-prophecy-author-coming-to-town/2008/03/21/1205602651103.html |date=2008-12-05 }} on ''The Celestine Prophecy'': "it has sold in the vicinity of 23 million copies since its publication in 1993" (22 March 2008)</ref> ||New-age spiritual novel |- |''[[The Fault in Our Stars]]''||[[John Green]]|| English || 2012 ||23 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/10/20/john-green-book-event-balances-anxiety-laughs/769477001/|title=John Green 'Turtles' book tour balances anxiety, laughs|work=Indianapolis Star|access-date=2017-10-21|language=en}}</ref> ||Young adult romantic novel |- |''[[The Girl on the Train (novel)|The Girl on the Train]]'' |[[Paula Hawkins (author)|Paula Hawkins]] |English |2015 |23 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/paula-hawkins-author-girl-on-the-train-slow-fire-burning-interview-1179654|title=Paula Hawkins: 'I should have called it The Woman on the Train, not The Girl on the Train'|work=[[iNews]]|first=Susie|last=Mesure|access-date=2020-09-15}}</ref> ||Thriller |- |''[[The Shack (Young novel)|The Shack]]''|| [[William P. Young]] || English || 2007 || 22.5 million<ref>([http://www.gracewalkcanada.org/ Grace Walk Canada] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222110409/http://www.gracewalkcanada.org/ |date=2017-02-22 }}) {{cite web |url=http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/news/38-backstage/14634-ny-times-best-selling-christian-novel-the-shack-to-become-a-movie |title=NY Times Best-Selling Christian Novel 'The Shack' To Become A Movie |first=David |last=Daniels |date=December 9, 2016 |website=Rapzilla |access-date=2017-02-21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222115222/http://www.rapzilla.com/rz/news/38-backstage/14634-ny-times-best-selling-christian-novel-the-shack-to-become-a-movie |archive-date=2017-02-22 }} (21 February 2017)</ref> ||Novel |- | ''[[Uncle Styopa]]'' (''Дядя Стёпа'') || [[Sergey Mikhalkov]] || Russian || 1936 || 21<!--.494--> million copies in USSR<ref name="compuart.ru" /> || Children's Literature, picture book |- | ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]'' || [[Mario Puzo]] || English || 1969 || 21 million<ref>[https://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 The Toronto Star] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105153437/http://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 |date=2012-11-05 }} on Mario Puzo: "According to the Official Mario Puzo Library website, the book sold 21 million copies in hardback and paper by 1997." (21 July 2007)</ref> ||[[Crime novel]] |- |''[[Love Story (novel)|Love Story]]'' |[[Erich Segal]] |English |1970 |21 million<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/141436-Michael-Ball-to-Make-Producing-Debut-with-Love-Story-at-West-Ends-Duchess Playbill] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726224620/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/141436-Michael-Ball-to-Make-Producing-Debut-with-Love-Story-at-West-Ends-Duchess|date=2010-07-26}} on ''Love Story'': "Erich Segal's best-selling novel, which has sold 21 million copies worldwide in 33 languages[...]" (23 July 2010)</ref> ||Romance novel |- |''[[Catching Fire]]''||[[Suzanne Collins]]||English||2009|| 21 million in US<ref name="mediaroom.scholastic.com"/> ||Young Adult novel, adventure, dystopian, [[science fiction]] |- |''[[Mockingjay]]''||[[Suzanne Collins]]||English||2010|| 20 million in US<ref name="mediaroom.scholastic.com"/> || Young Adult novel, adventure, war, science fiction, action thriller |- |''[[Kitchen (novel)|Kitchen]]'' (キッチン)||[[Banana Yoshimoto]]||Japanese||1988|| 20 million<ref name="gradesaver">{{cite web|url=https://www.gradesaver.com/kitchen|title=Kitchen Study Guide | GradeSaver|website=www.gradesaver.com|date=3 March 2021 }}</ref> ||Japanese novel |- |''[[Andromeda (novel)|Andromeda Nebula]]'' (''Туманность Андромеды'')||[[Ivan Yefremov]]||Russian||1957|| 20 million<ref>{{cite news |title=Science-Fiction – Sowjets im Weltall |url=https://www.freitag.de/autoren/florian-schmid/sowjets-im-weltall |newspaper=Der Freitag |language=de |last1=Schmid |first1=Florian }}</ref> ||Science fiction novel |- |''[[Gone Girl (novel)|Gone Girl]]'' |[[Gillian Flynn]] |English |2012 |20 million<ref>{{Cite book|title=Gone Girl|last=Flynn|first=Gillian|date=2013-01-03|publisher=W&N|isbn=9780753827666|location=London|language=en}}</ref> ||Crime thriller novel |- |- style="background:lavender;" |[[The Bermuda Triangle (book)|''The Bermuda Triangle'']]||[[Charles Berlitz]]||English||1974||20 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/12031649/Whatever-happened-to-the-Bermuda-Triangle.html|title=The Bermuda Triangle: Whatever became of the myth|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2017-05-20|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231000538/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/12031649/Whatever-happened-to-the-Bermuda-Triangle.html|archive-date=2016-12-31}}</ref> || |- |''[[Things Fall Apart]] ''|| [[Chinua Achebe]] || English || 1958 || 20 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565351/things-fall-apart-by-chinua-achebe/9780385474542/ |title=Things Fall Apart |website=Penguin Random House |access-date=2017-06-01 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019220047/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565351/things-fall-apart-by-chinua-achebe/9780385474542/ |archive-date=2017-10-19 }}</ref> ||Novel |- |''[[Wolf Totem]]'' (狼图腾) || [[Jiang Rong]] || Chinese || 2004 || 20 million<ref>[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/afc7e59c-ee43-11dc-a5c1-0000779fd2ac.html The Financial Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519011627/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/afc7e59c-ee43-11dc-a5c1-0000779fd2ac.html |date=2008-05-19 }} on ''Wolf Totem'': "Since it first appeared in 2004, Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem has sold as many as 20 million copies." (15 March 2008)</ref> ||[[Semi-autobiographical novel]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Happy Hooker|The Happy Hooker: My Own Story]]'' || [[Xaviera Hollander]] || English || 1971 || 20 million<ref>[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080626_Philmadelphia.html The Philadelphia Inquirer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629004917/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080626_Philmadelphia.html |date=2008-06-29 }} on ''The Happy Hooker'': "He said he found it fascinating that her book, which has sold 20 million copies to date, is still being picked up today." (26 June 2008)</ref> ||Memoir |- |''[[Jaws (novel)|Jaws]]'' || [[Peter Benchley]] || English || 1974 || 20 million<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article730440.ece The Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309095335/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article730440.ece |date=2007-03-09 }} on ''Jaws'': "Jaws stayed for 40 weeks in the bestseller charts of The New York Times, eventually selling 20 million copies [...]" (13 February 2006)</ref> ||Thriller |- |''[[Love You Forever]]'' || [[Robert Munsch]] || English || 1986 || 20 million<ref>[http://www.huntsvilleforester.com/article/120556 The Huntsville Forester] on ''Love You Forever'': "The children's classic Love You Forever has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is in its 65th printing." (29 October 2008)</ref> ||Children's literature, picture book, fiction |- |''[[The Women's Room]]'' || [[Marilyn French]] || English || 1977 || 20 million<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/05/05/marilyn-french-obit.html CBC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508024803/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/05/05/marilyn-french-obit.html |date=2009-05-08 }} on ''The Women's Room'': "It sold 20 million copies and was widely translated, despite poor reviews." (5 May 2009)</ref> ||Feminist novel |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[What to Expect When You're Expecting]]'' || [[Arlene Eisenberg]] and [[Heidi Murkoff]] || English || 1984 || 20 million<ref>[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/influential-pregnancy-book-what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-to-become-movie/story-fn3dxity-1225944076975 The Australian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109202805/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/influential-pregnancy-book-what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-to-become-movie/story-fn3dxity-1225944076975 |date=2012-01-09 }} on ''What to Expect When You're Expecting'': "What to Expect When You're Expecting, in its fourth edition, was first published in 1984 and has sold more than 20 million copies." (27 October 2010)</ref> ||Pregnancy guide |- |''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' || [[Mark Twain]] || English || 1885 || 20 million<ref>[http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f030110_twain New York Times Upfront] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105023218/http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f030110_twain |date=2013-11-05 }} on ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'': "This year marks the 125th anniversary of the publication of Huckleberry Finn in the U.S., and the book is still selling—more than 20 million copies worldwide to date—and still generating controversy." (10 March 2010)</ref> ||[[Picaresque novel]], [[Bildungsroman]], satire, [[Robinsonade]] |- |''[[The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾]]'' || [[Sue Townsend]] || English || 1982 || 20 million<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/eureka-inventors-describe-the-moment-they-realised-theyd-created-a-hit-6251893.html?pageToolsFontSize=130%25 Eureka!: Inventors describe the moment they realised they’d created a hit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403144805/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/eureka-inventors-describe-the-moment-they-realised-theyd-created-a-hit-6251893.html?pageToolsFontSize=130%25 |date=2015-04-03 }} on ''The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾'': " 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾' has sold more than 20 million copies." (29 October 2011)</ref> ||Young adult novel |- |''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' || [[Jane Austen]] || English || 1813 || 20 million<ref>{{cite news |title=The Guardian view on Jane Austen: pride not prejudice |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/commentisfree/2017/aug/13/the-guardian-view-on-jane-austen-pride-not-prejudice |access-date=November 21, 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=August 13, 2017 |quote=Pride and Prejudice is the novel that simply will not die. Twenty million copies on, Mr Darcy has become so synonymous with the romantic hero that when researchers found a pheromone in male mouse urine irresistible to female mice, they named it "darcin".}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lambert |first1=Victoria |title=Pride and Prejudice: universally acknowledged guide to the human heart |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9821363/Pride-and-Prejudice-universally-acknowledged-guide-to-the-human-heart.html |access-date=November 21, 2018 |work=The Telegraph |date=January 24, 2013 |quote=...having never been out of print, it is now believed to have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.}}</ref> ||Classic [[regency novel]], romance |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas|Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft]]'' (''Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen'') || [[Thor Heyerdahl]] || Norwegian || 1950 || 20 million<ref>[http://old.nationalreview.com/miller/miller041902.asp John J. Miller on Thor Heyerdahl on National Review Online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615071921/http://old.nationalreview.com/miller/miller041902.asp|date=2013-06-15}} on Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft'': ""Our intention was to test the performance and quality of the Inca raft, its seaworthiness and loading capacity, and to ascertain whether the elements would really propel it across the sea to Polynesia with its crew still on board," he wrote in Kon-Tiki, a book that has sold 20 million copies." (April 19, 2002)''</ref> ||[[Travel literature]] |- | ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'' (''Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války'') || [[Jaroslav Hašek]] || Czech || 1923 || 20 million (printed)<ref>[http://czech.ruvr.ru/2013_04_26/Svejkuv-otec-stoji-v-Moskve-mezi-svetovou-elitou/ The Voice of Russia: Švejkův otec stojí v Moskvě mezi světovou elitou] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503114759/http://czech.ruvr.ru/2013_04_26/Svejkuv-otec-stoji-v-Moskve-mezi-svetovou-elitou/ |date=2013-05-03 }} "Jaroslav Hašek and his Švejk are still popular in Russia. More than 20 million copies were already produced."</ref> ||[[Unfinished work|Unfinished]] [[satirical]] [[dark comedy]] novel |- |''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]'' || [[Maurice Sendak]] || English || 1963 || 20 million<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/11/20/where-the-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak/3532135/ USA Today] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414021827/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/11/20/where-the-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak/3532135/ |date=2016-04-14 }} on ''Where the Wild Things are'': "More than 20 million copies have been sold in 32 languages." (November 21, 2013)</ref> ||[[Children's literature|Children's]] [[picture book]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Power of Positive Thinking]]'' || [[Norman Vincent Peale]] || English || 1952 || 20 million<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500032.html The New York Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803074428/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500032.html |date=2017-08-03 }} on ''The Power of Positive Thinking'': "Ruth Stafford Peale, the author's widow (he died last Christmas Eve) feels that the book is as viable today as it was 20 million copies ago." (May 31, 1994)</ref> ||Self-help |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Secret (Byrne book)|The Secret]]'' || [[Rhonda Byrne]] || English || 2006 || 20 million<ref>[http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/books/booksellers-hoping-the-power-will-top-the-secret-28553596.html Belfast Telegraph] on ''The Secret'': "Publishers Simon & Schuster expect sales to be on a par with – if not bigger than – 'The Secret', which has so far notched up 20 million copies in 46 languages." (19 August 2010)</ref> ||Self-help |- |''[[Fear of Flying (novel)|Fear of Flying]]'' || [[Erica Jong]] || English || 1973 || 20 million<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fear-of-flying-author-erica-jong-zips-along-40-years-after-dropping-her-literary-bombshell/2013/10/07/23fb65f8-29ce-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html Washington Post] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426214716/http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fear-of-flying-author-erica-jong-zips-along-40-years-after-dropping-her-literary-bombshell/2013/10/07/23fb65f8-29ce-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html |date=2014-04-26 }} on ''Fear of Flying'' '': "It has been 40 years since "Fear" and its glamorous author landed like feminist blonde bombshells on American culture, selling 20 million copies here and abroad." (7 October 2013)''</ref> ||Romantic novel |- |''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' || [[Frank Herbert]] || English || 1965 || 20 million<ref name="Frank Herbert">{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/mobile/author/frankherbert |title=Frank Herbert |access-date=2015-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112153604/http://us.macmillan.com/mobile/author/frankherbert |archive-date=2016-01-12 }}[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] on ''Dune'': "Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies;"</ref> ||Science fiction novel |- |''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' |[[Roald Dahl]] |English |1964 |20 million<ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/61574-how-sweet-it-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory.html How Sweet It Is: The 50th Anniversary of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'], ''Publishers Weekly''</ref> || Children's [[fantasy novel]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Naked Ape]]'' |[[Desmond Morris]] |English |1968 |20 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/24/the-naked-ape-at-50-desmond-morris-four-experts-assess-impact|title=The Naked Ape at 50: 'Its central claim has surely stood the test of time '|last1=Dunbar|first1=Robin|date=2017-09-24|work=The Observer|access-date=2017-10-21|last2=Saini|first2=Angela|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712|last3=Garrod|first3=Ben|last4=Rutherford|first4=Adam|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102084748/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/24/the-naked-ape-at-50-desmond-morris-four-experts-assess-impact|archive-date=2017-11-02}}</ref> || [[Social Science]], [[Anthropology]], [[Psychology]] |} === Between 10 million and 20 million copies === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- " !Book !! Author(s) !! Original language !! First published !! Approximate sales !! Genre |- |''[[Where the Crawdads Sing]]'' |[[Delia Owens]] |English |2018 |18 million<ref>{{Cite web |title=Delia Owens |url=https://www.deliaowens.com/ |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=Delia Owens |language=en-US}}</ref> |[[Coming-of-age story|Coming-of-age]] [[Crime fiction|Murder mystery]] |- |''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]'' || [[Roald Dahl]] || English || 1988 || 17 million<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/15/matilda-at-30-roald-dahl-quentin-blake|title=Matilda's new adventures at 30: astrophysicist, explorer or bookworm|first=Donna|last=Ferguson|newspaper=The Observer |date=September 15, 2018|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> || [[Children's Literature]] |- |''[[The Book Thief (book)|The Book Thief]]'' || [[Markus Zusak]] || English || 2005 || 16 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/bridge-that-took-20-years-to-build|title=Bridge that took 20 years to build|date=November 20, 2018|website=The Straits Times|last1=Toh|first1=Wen Li}}</ref> || [[Young Adult Fiction]] |- |''[[The Horse Whisperer (book)|The Horse Whisperer]]'' || [[Nicholas Evans]] || English || 1995 || 16 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=223415|title=Nicholas Evans: The Smoke Jumper|last=Hawtin|first=Fiona|date=2001-10-18|work=New Zealand Herald|access-date=2017-04-23|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}</ref> || |- |''[[Goodnight Moon]]'' || [[Margaret Wise Brown]] || English || 1947 || 16 million<ref>"[http://www.playthings.com/article/CA6431998.html Playthings] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205013020/http://www.playthings.com/article/CA6431998.html |date=2008-12-05 }}". ''[[Playthings (magazine)|Playthings]]''. (1 April 2007)</ref> || [[Children's Literature]] |- | ''[[The Neverending Story]]'' (''Die unendliche Geschichte'') || [[Michael Ende]] || German || 1979 || 16 million<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarymichael-ende-1598926.html OBITUARY: Michael Ende – People – News – The Independent] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815200519/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarymichael-ende-1598926.html |date=2017-08-15 }} on ''The Neverending Story'': "Translated into 30 languages and selling over 16 million copies, it starts when 10-year-old Bastian, overweight and undervalued, decides he will read a fantastic book rather than endure another day's bullying at school." (Friday 01 September 1995)</ref> || [[Children's Literature]] |- |''[[All the Light We Cannot See]]'' || [[Anthony Doerr]] || English || 2014 || 15.3 million<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-greenlit-as-limited-series-on-netflix-1235071610/ |last=Zorrila |first=Mónica Marie |title=''All the Light We Cannot See'' Greenlit as Limited Series on Netflix |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=September 22, 2021 |access-date=April 1, 2022}}</ref> || [[Historical fiction]], [[war novel]] |- |''[[Fifty Shades of Grey]]'' || [[E. L. James]] || English || 2011 || 15.2 million in the U.S.<ref name="prweb">{{cite web|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/fifty_shades_of_grey_was_the_best_selling_book_of_the_decade_in_the_u_s_the_npd_group_says/prweb16796783.htm|title="Fifty Shades of Grey" Was the Best-Selling Book of the Decade in the U.S., The NPD Group Says|website=PRWeb}}</ref> || [[Erotica]] |- |''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]'' |[[S. E. Hinton]] |English |1967 |15 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/books/the-outsiders-s-e-hinton-book.html|title=Why 'The Outsiders' Lives On: A Teenage Novel Turns 50|last=Krischer|first=Hayley|date=2017-03-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-27|issn=0362-4331|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318134839/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/books/the-outsiders-s-e-hinton-book.html|archive-date=2017-03-18}}</ref> || |- |''[[Guess How Much I Love You]]'' || [[Sam McBratney]] || English || 1994 || 15 million<ref name=rjmlicensing>{{cite web|url=http://www.rjmlicensing.com/clients.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207214907/http://www.rjmlicensing.com/clients.html|url-status= dead|title=RJM Licensing|archive-date=December 7, 2007}}</ref> || |- |''[[Shōgun (novel)|Shōgun]]'' || [[James Clavell]] || English || 1975 || 15 million<ref>[[Time (magazine)|Time]] 26 November 1990.</ref> || |- |''[[The Poky Little Puppy]]'' || [[Janette Sebring Lowrey]] || English || 1942 || 15 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jp.bookmooch.com/detail/0307748057 |title=Golden Books : Poky Little Puppy (Little Golden Book) |publisher=Jp.bookmooch.com |date=1992-06-01 |access-date=2009-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529130750/http://jp.bookmooch.com/detail/0307748057 |archive-date=2012-05-29 }}</ref> || |- |''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]'' || [[Ken Follett]] || English || 1989 || 15 million<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/07/sunday/main3339866.shtml?source=search_story CBS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413092027/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/07/sunday/main3339866.shtml?source=search_story |date=2008-04-13 }} on Ken Follett: "But since it was published in 1989, "The Pillars of the Earth" has become an international sensation, selling 15 million copies worldwide." (7 October 2007)</ref> || [[Historical fiction]] |- |''[[Perfume (novel)|Perfume]]'' (''Das Parfum'') || [[Patrick Süskind]] || German || 1985 || 15 million<ref>[http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2007/01/05/life/life01.txt The Patriot Ledger] {{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on ''Perfume'': "Yet the scene, like the movie, is so daring, so challenging, you cannot help but respect Tykwer's unerring desire to remain true to the source novel, a book that has sold 15 million copies and has been credited with inspiring Kurt Cobain to write the Nirvana classic ‘‘Scentless Apprentice.’’" (5 January 2007)</ref> || |- |''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' || [[John Steinbeck]] || English || 1939 || 15 million<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-grapes-of-wrath-john-steinbeck--ltsd/#gsc.tab=0|title=Research The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – 1939 {{!}} Literary Themes: The American Dream|website=www.bookrags.com|language=en|access-date=2017-01-29|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202060346/http://www.bookrags.com/research/the-grapes-of-wrath-john-steinbeck--ltsd/#gsc.tab=0|archive-date=2017-02-02}}</ref> || |- |''[[The Shadow of the Wind]]'' (''La sombra del viento'') || [[Carlos Ruiz Zafón]] || Spanish || 2001 || 15 million<ref>[https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0613/1224248732329.html?via=mr Irish Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105211917/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0613/1224248732329.html?via=mr |date=2012-01-05 }} on ''The Shadow of the Wind'': "[...]his novel The Shadow of the Wind has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, writes Arminta Wallace" (13 June 2009)</ref> || |- |''[[Interpreter of Maladies]]'' || [[Jhumpa Lahiri]] || English || 2000|| 15 million<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0710/071098.feat.feat.4.html The 30 Best Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels and Short Story Collections] [[Paste Magazine|Paste (Magazine)]] 2017</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |[[Becoming (book)|''Becoming'']] || [[Michelle Obama]] || English || 2018 || 14 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/books/barack-obama-promised-land-memoir-publishing-bookstores.html|title=Readers Have Been Eagerly Waiting for Barack Obama's New Memoir. Struggling Booksellers Have, Too.|date=2019-03-26|work=BBC|access-date=2020-11-16|language=en-GB}}</ref> || |- |''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''||[[Douglas Adams]] || English || 1979|| 14 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/memoir/fr/dontPanic.htm |title=Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman |publisher=Contemporarylit.about.com |date=2005-04-29 |access-date=2011-05-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614175047/http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/memoir/fr/dontPanic.htm |archive-date=2011-06-14 }}</ref> || [[Science fiction]] |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Tuesdays with Morrie]]'' || [[Mitch Albom]] || English || 1997 || 14 million<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-04-07-pausch_N.htm USA Today] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105175521/http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-04-07-pausch_N.htm |date=2012-01-05 }} on ''Tuesdays with Morrie'': "The book has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide since 1997 and became an Oprah Winfrey-produced TV movie. " (8 April 2008)</ref> || |- |''[[God's Little Acre]]'' || [[Erskine Caldwell]] || English || 1933 || 14 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://id.mind.net/~fletch/biography.html |title=Erskine Caldwell Biography |publisher=Id.mind.net |date=1987-04-11 |access-date=2009-08-31 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818004457/http://id.mind.net/~fletch/biography.html |archive-date=2009-08-18 }}</ref> || |- |''[[Follow Your Heart (book)|Follow Your Heart]]'' (''Va' dove ti porta il cuore'') || [[Susanna Tamaro]] || Italian || 1994 || 14 million<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/business/worldbusiness/03iht-publish04.1.14962745.html?_r=0 The International Herald Tribune] on ''Follow Your Heart'': "But Susanna Tamaro's "Follow Your Heart," the biggest selling Italian postwar novel, with more than 14 million copies sold, according to its publisher, Baldini Castoldi, as it was known then, sold barely 25,000 copies in the United States." (3 August 2008)</ref> || |- |''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' || [[Madeleine L'Engle]] || English || 1962 || 14 million<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-wrinkle-in-time-1429219305 The Wall Street Journal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308130954/https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-wrinkle-in-time-1429219305 |date=2017-03-08 }} on ''A Wrinkle in Time'': "Madeleine L’Engle's ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ has sold 14 million copies since its publication in 1962." (16 April 2015)</ref> |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Long Walk to Freedom]]''||[[Nelson Mandela]]||English||1994||14 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41674926|title=New Mandela memoir launched in S Africa|date=2017-10-19|work=BBC News|access-date=2017-10-21|language=en-GB|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022041010/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41674926|archive-date=2017-10-22}}</ref> || |- |''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'' || [[Ernest Hemingway]] || English || 1952 || 13 million<ref name="compuart.ru" /> |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Life After Life (1975 book)|Life After Life]]'' || [[Raymond Moody]] || English || 1975 || 13 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/22/1079939578423.html|title=Towards the light|work=The Age|date=23 March 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707110343/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/22/1079939578423.html|archive-date=2011-07-07}}</ref> || |- | ''[[Momo (novel)|Momo]]'' || [[Michael Ende]] || German || 1973 || 13 million<ref>[https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/momo-michael-ende-bilderbuch-1.6158941? Sie hört zu], SZ 24 August 2023</ref> || [[Children's Literature]] |- |''[[Peyton Place (novel)|Peyton Place]] '' || [[Grace Metalious]] || English || 1956 || 12.1 million<ref>[https://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 The Toronto Star] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105153437/http://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/238311 |date=2012-11-05 }} on Grace Metalious: "It sold 100,000 copies in its first month and went on to sell another 12 million copies, was made into a film and eventually into a prime-time television series that made the young Mia Farrow a star." (21 July 2007)</ref> || |- |''[[The Giver]]'' || [[Lois Lowry]] || English || 1993 || 12 million<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/08/16/340170478/lois-lowry-says-the-giver-was-inspired-by-her-fathers-memory-loss |last=Uladey |first=Neda |title=Lois Lowry Says ''The Giver'' Was Inspired By Her Father's Memory Loss |work=[[NPR]] |date=August 16, 2014 |access-date=February 20, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/what-lois-lowry-remembers |last=Waldman |first=Katy |title=What Lois Lowry Remembers |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=December 26, 2021 |access-date=February 20, 2023}}</ref> || [[Dystopian fiction]] |- |''[[Me Before You]]''||[[Jojo Moyes]]||English||2012||12 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2017030937220/me-before-you-fans-jojo-moyes-confirms-third-instalment-in-works/|title=Me Before You fans! JoJo Moyes confirms third instalment in the works|date=2017-03-09|work=HOLA|access-date=2017-09-14|language=en}}</ref> || |- |''[[Norwegian Wood (novel)|Norwegian Wood]]'' (ノルウェイの森) || [[Haruki Murakami]] || Japanese || 1987 || 12 million<ref>[https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaNUeQjpbAcjtQCYKo8eXLGn9IyQD9HVP6J00 Associated Press] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906231906/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaNUeQjpbAcjtQCYKo8eXLGn9IyQD9HVP6J00 |date=2010-09-06 }} on ''Norwegian Wood'': "More than 10 million copies of the book have been sold in Japan alone, with 2.6 million more sold in another 33 languages." (2 September 2010)</ref> || |- |''[[The Plague (novel)|The Plague]]'' (''La Peste'') || [[Albert Camus]] || French || 1947 || 12 million<ref>[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/09/content_7944793.htm China View] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110141749/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/09/content_7944793.htm |date=2009-01-10 }} on ''La Peste'': "Translated into 28 languages, the book has sold more than 12 million copies around the world." (9 April 2008)</ref> || |- |''[[No Longer Human]]'' (人間失格) || [[Osamu Dazai]] || Japanese || 1948 || 12 million<ref>[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/cinema/topics/20090821et08.htm Yomiuri Shimbun] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827013842/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/cinema/topics/20090821et08.htm |date=2009-08-27 }} (21 April 2009)</ref> |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Man's Search for Meaning]]'' (''Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager'') || [[Viktor Frankl]] || German || 1946 || 12 million<ref>[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/refusing-the-life-rafts/story-e6frg8nf-1226054074631 The Australian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109105019/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/refusing-the-life-rafts/story-e6frg8nf-1226054074631 |date=2012-01-09 }} on ''Man's Search for Meaning'': "It's the 75th edition of a book that has sold 12 million copies and is one of the most read Holocaust texts." (14 May 2011)</ref> || |- | ''[[Divine Comedy|The Divine Comedy]]'' (''La Divina Commedia'') || [[Dante Alighieri]] || Italian || 1304 || 11–12 million (during the 20th century)<ref>[http://www.pinocchioamarcord.it/i_libri_di_pinocchio_1.htm estimate of Giuliano Vigini] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114083652/http://www.pinocchioamarcord.it/i_libri_di_pinocchio_1.htm |date=2010-11-14 }} (1999)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |[[The Prophet (book)|''The Prophet'']] ||[[Kahlil Gibran]]||English ||1923||11 million<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://newyorker.com/magazine/2008/01/07/prophet-motive|title=Prophet Motive|magazine=The New Yorker|date=31 December 2007|access-date=2017-05-21|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422022235/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/01/07/prophet-motive/|archive-date=2017-04-22}}</ref> || |- |''[[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (novel)|The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas]]'' || [[John Boyne]] || English || 2006 || 11 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-reveals-sequel-to-the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-1.4816423|title=John Boyne reveals sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref> || |- |''[[The Exorcist (novel)|The Exorcist]]'' || [[William Peter Blatty]] || English || 1971 || 11 million<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118972984449527200?mod=googlenews_wsj The Wall Street Journal] on ''The Exorcist'': "Back in the 1970s, those smaller, rack-sized paperbacks were the blockbusters of the business, led by such best sellers as William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" (11 million copies sold); Peter Benchley's "Jaws" (more than nine million copies), and Sidney Sheldon's "The Other Side of Midnight" (six million copies plus)." (14 September 2007)</ref> || [[Horror fiction|Horror]] |- |''[[The Gruffalo]]'' || [[Julia Donaldson]] || English || 1999 || 10.5 million<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/books-life/7545438/The-20-greatest-childrens-books-ever.html The Telegraph] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406033817/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/books-life/7545438/The-20-greatest-childrens-books-ever.html |date=2010-04-06 }} on ''The Gruffalo'': "''The Gruffalo'' has sold more than 10.5 million copies, been adapted for stage in both the West End and Broadway, and in 2009 was made into a 30-minute animated film" (3 April 2010)</ref> || |- |''[[Fifty Shades Darker]]'' || [[E. L. James]] || English || 2012 || 10.4 million in the U.S.<ref name="prweb" /> || [[Erotica]] |- |''[[Tobacco Road (novel)|Tobacco Road]]'' || [[Erskine Caldwell]] || English || 1932 || 10 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/tobacco-road-and-gods-little-acre/|title=Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre|website=New Georgia Encyclopedia}}</ref> || |- |''[[Ronia, the Robber's Daughter]]'' || [[Astrid Lindgren]] || Swedish || 1981 || 10 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/astrid-lindgren-aktiebolag/pressreleases/swedish-world-premiere-for-goro-miyazaki-s-ronja-the-robber-s-daughter-1304414|title=Swedish World Premiere for Gorō Miyazaki's Ronja, the Robber's Daughter|website=Mynewsdesk|date=29 January 2016 }}</ref> || |- |''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'' || [[Dr. Seuss]] || English || 1957 || 10.5 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-02-26-cat-in-the-hat_x.htm|title=After 50 years, a tip of the hat to one cool 'Cat' |website=USA Today|access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Diana: Her True Story (book)|Diana: Her True Story]]'' || [[Andrew Morton (writer)|Andrew Morton]] || English || 1992 || 10 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2017/08/26/my-secret-life-as-princess-dianas-confidant/|title=My secret life as Princess Diana's confidant|date=2017-08-26|work=New York Post|access-date=2017-09-14|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915023405/http://nypost.com/2017/08/26/my-secret-life-as-princess-dianas-confidant/|archive-date=2017-09-15}}</ref> || |- |''[[The Help]]''||[[Kathryn Stockett]]||English||2009||10 million<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3d76DAAAQBAJ&q=stockett+the+help+million+copies+sold&pg=PA85|title=Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help|last=Mills|first=Fiona|date=2016-06-22|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443896399|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915071959/https://books.google.fr/books?id=3d76DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=stockett+the+help+million+copies+sold&source=bl&ots=aDLbnkb57c&sig=vNsjIaAgXiA4owxiuC87brzj8vo&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwnozu0qXWAhWGWBoKHc2kAIwQ6AEITTAH|archive-date=2017-09-15}}</ref> || |- |''[[Catch-22]]''|| [[Joseph Heller]] || English || 1961 || 10 million<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/13/heller.htm|title='Catch-22' Author Joseph Heller Dies|date=1999-12-13|access-date=2009-08-31|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117100525/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/13/heller.htm|archive-date=2012-01-17}}</ref> || |- |''[[The Stranger (Camus novel)|The Stranger]]'' (''L'Étranger'')|| [[Albert Camus]] || French || 1942 || 10 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rusoffagency.com/authors/kaplan_a/looking/looking_for_the_stranger.htm|title=Looking for the Stranger|website=rusoffagency.com|access-date=2017-01-29|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114002627/http://rusoffagency.com/authors/kaplan_a/looking/looking_for_the_stranger.htm|archive-date=2016-11-14}}</ref> || |- |''[[Eye of the Needle (novel)|Eye of the Needle]]'' || [[Ken Follett]] || English || 1978 || 10 million<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xkGlUNW09eEC&dq=%22eye+of+the+needle%22+%2210+million+copies%22&pg=PA44 Carlos Ramet in ''Ken Follett: The Transformation of a Writer''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326162045/https://books.google.com/books?id=xkGlUNW09eEC&pg=PA44&dq=%22eye+of+the+needle%22+%2210+million+copies%22&ei=lI70R7TpJYWwzgSGgvnIAQ&sig=_3n61rMQugtQjVN8U--Wd2Cvw7g |date=2017-03-26 }} page 44 on Ken Follett: "The first two editions alone sold over 10 million copies worldwide" (1999)</ref> || |- |''[[The Lovely Bones]]'' || [[Alice Sebold]] || English || 2002 || 10 million<ref>[http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1098660 TVNZ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925100537/http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1098660|date=2009-09-25}} on ''The Lovely Bones'': "Published in 2002, Lovely Bones is the second novel by Alice Sebold, and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide, remaining on the New York Times hardback bestseller list for over a year." (5 May 2007)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Wild Swans]]'' || [[Jung Chang]] || English || 1992 || 10 million<ref>[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110923074849/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3666707/Made-in-China-read-worldwide.html The Telegraph] on ''Wild Swans'': "Selling more than 10 million copies and topping the "most borrowed historical biography" chart in British libraries year after year, it proved a publishing phenomenon" (21 July 2007)</ref> || |- |''[[Santa Evita]]'' || [[Tomás Eloy Martínez]] || Spanish || 1995 || 10 million<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9389979/Martinez-Tomas-Eloy Britannica] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831063528/https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9389979/Martinez-Tomas-Eloy |date=2007-08-31 }} on ''Santa Evita'': "Martínez was best known as the author of two classics of Argentine and Latin American literature: La novela de Perón (1985, The Perón Novel, 1988) and Santa Evita (1995, Eng. trans., 1995); the latter was translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 million copies." (22 November 2007)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Night (memoir)|Night]]'' (''Un di Velt Hot Geshvign'') || [[Elie Wiesel]] || Yiddish || 1958 || 10 million<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Donadio-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all The New York Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904092504/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Donadio-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all |date=2017-09-04 }} on ''Night'': "Indeed, since it appeared in 1960, "Night" has sold an estimated 10 million copies — three million of them since Winfrey chose the book in January 2006 (and traveled with Wiesel to Auschwitz)." (20 January 2008)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Confucius from the Heart]]'' (于丹《论语》心得) || [[Yu Dan (academic)|Yu Dan]] || Chinese || 2006 || 10 million<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/macmillans-100k-chinese-deal|title=Macmillan's 100k Chinese deal|last1=Flood|first1=Alison|date=April 14, 2008|work=The Bookseller|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412124718/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/macmillans-100k-chinese-deal|archive-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Total Woman]]'' || [[Marabel Morgan]] || English || 1974 || 10 million<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4651272&page=1 ABC News] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416140715/http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4651272&page=1 |date=2008-04-16 }} on ''The Total Woman'': "One of the first books to address the issue was Marabel Morgan's "The Total Woman," which sold more than 10 million copies to women of all religious persuasions, making it the best-selling nonfiction book of 1974." (15 April 2008)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Knowledge-value Revolution]]'' (知価革命) || [[Taichi Sakaiya]]|| Japanese || 1985 || 10 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waseda.jp/wnfs/magazine/special/070108/index.html|title=Waseda University|publisher=Waseda.jp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605043055/http://www.waseda.jp/wnfs/magazine/special/070108/index.html|archive-date=2011-06-05|url-status=dead|access-date=2009-08-31}}</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[Xue Muqiao|Problems in China's Socialist Economy]]'' (中国社会主义经济问题研究) || [[Xue Muqiao]] || Chinese || 1979 || 10 million<ref>[http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/42774/3586529.html people.com.cn] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060109100947/http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/42774/3586529.html |date=2006-01-09 }} (2 August 2005)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[What Color Is Your Parachute?]]'' || [[Richard Nelson Bolles]] || English || 1970 || 10 million<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/articles/business/careers/2008/10/01/richard-bolles-stays-on-the-job.html U.S. News & World Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508150435/http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/careers/2008/10/01/richard-bolles-stays-on-the-job.html |date=2009-05-08 }} on ''What Color is Your Parachute'': "Today, Parachute is one of the all-time bestselling careers books, with more than 10 million copies of 37 editions snapped up since 1970. " (1 October 2008)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Dukan Diet]]''||[[Pierre Dukan]]|| French || 2000 ||10 million<ref>[https://www.thestar.com/living/article/974396--royal-connection-drives-interest-in-dukan-diet The Toronto Star] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024150342/http://www.thestar.com/living/article/974396--royal-connection-drives-interest-in-dukan-diet |date=2012-10-24 }} on ''The Dukan Diet'': "The book has sold 10 million copies worldwide, but didn't really make an impression on North America until [...]" (18 April 2011)</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Joy of Sex]]''||[[Alex Comfort]]|| English || 1972 ||10 million<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15309357 BBC Magazine] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026173635/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15309357 |date=2011-10-26 }} on ''The Joy of Sex'': "The Joy of Sex ended up selling more than 10 million copies around the world – more than five million in the United States alone, where it stayed in the New York Times best-seller list for a decade." (26 October 2011).</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Gospel According to Peanuts]]''||[[Robert L. Short]]|| English || 1965 ||10 million<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/seller-21424-gospel-ago.html |title=The Gospel according to? Try Jesus | seller, gospel, ago – Faith – Northwest Florida Daily News |access-date=2009-10-29 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113031623/http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/seller-21424-gospel-ago.html |archive-date=2009-11-13 }} on ''The Gospel according to Peanuts'': "The Gospel according to Peanuts ended up selling more than 10 million copies around the world."</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck]]'' |[[Mark Manson]] |English |2016 |10 million<ref>{{cite web|title=The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fck-mark-manson|access-date=2021-11-26|website=HarperCollins|language=en}}</ref> || |- |''[[Life of Pi]]''||[[Yann Martel]]|| English || 2001 ||10 million<ref>{{cite web |url=https://latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-life-of-pi-20130218,0,3559592.story |title='Life of Pi' a surprise success story around the world |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=18 February 2013 |access-date=2013-02-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223080308/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-life-of-pi-20130218,0,3559592.story |archive-date=2013-02-23 }} on ''Life of Pi'': "It was based on a popular novel by Yann Martel that has sold more than 10 million copies around the world."</ref> || |- |''[[The Front Runner (novel)|The Front Runner]]''||[[Patricia Nell Warren]] || English || 1974 || 10 million<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93465294 Author Examines Gay Athletes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216142943/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93465294 |date=2016-02-16 }} on ''The Front Runner'': "The Front Runner long ago leapt from the shelves of so-called 'gay fiction' to become one of the best-selling novels of recent times, selling 10 million copies in eight languages."</ref> || |- |''[[The Goal]]'' || [[Eliyahu M. Goldratt]] || English || 1984 || 10 million<ref>[http://www.booksapart.com/review/the-goal Books Apart] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819064642/http://www.booksapart.com/review/the-goal |date=2017-08-19 }} on ''The Goal'': "The Goal is one of the best selling business novels. It has sold around 10 million copies and has been translated in over 35 languages."</ref> || |- |''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' || [[Ray Bradbury]] || English || 1953 || 10 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/1201/Fahrenheit-451-goes-digital.-Is-Ray-Bradbury-mellowing|title='Fahrenheit 451' goes digital. Is Ray Bradbury mellowing?|date=2011-12-01|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=2019-08-16|issn=0882-7729}}</ref> || |- |''[[Angela's Ashes]]'' || [[Frank McCourt]] || English || 1996 || 10 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ilovelimerick.ie/angelas-ashes-musical/|title=Limerick will host the World Premiere of Angelas Ashes Musical|date=March 2, 2017}}</ref> || |- style="background:lavender;" |''[[The Story of My Experiments with Truth]]'' (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા) || [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] || Gujarati || 1925–1929 || 10 million<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Gandhijis-autobiography-to-sell-for-a-mere-Rs-30-during-his-anniversary-week/articleshow/45993055.cms|title=Gandhiji's autobiography to sell for a mere Rs 30 during his anniversary week | Mumbai News |website=The Times of India|date=23 January 2015 }}</ref> || |- |[[Bridget Jones's Diary (novel)|''Bridget Jones's Diary'']] || [[Helen Fielding]] || English || 1996 || 10 million (as of 2005)<ref name="Symons 2012">{{Cite book|first=Alex|last=Symons|title=Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries|date=6 August 2012|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|page=37|isbn=978-0-7486-6450-4}}</ref> || |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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