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! === 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]] |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! 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