The list of the best selling books of all time.

Hi everyone.  Where did your favorite book end up on this list?  I can't believe A Tale of Two Cities sold over 200 million copies.

Cheers. Tom.  

More than 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	English	1859	over 200 million[1]
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	English	1954–1955	150 million[2]
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	English	1937	over 100 million[3]
红楼梦 (Dream of the Red Chamber)	Cao Xueqin	Chinese	1759-1791	over 100 million [4]
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	English	1939	100 million[5]

[edit] Between 50 million and 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	C. S. Lewis	English	1950	85 million[6]
She	H. Rider Haggard	English	1887	83 million[7]
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	French	1943	80 million[8]
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	English	2003	80 million [9]
Think and Grow Rich	Napoleon Hill	English	1937	70 million[10]
The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger	English	1951	65 million[11]
O Alquimista (The Alchemist)	Paulo Coelho	Portuguese	1988	65 million[12]
Steps to Christ	Ellen G. White	English	1892	60 million[13]
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	English	1955	50 million[14]
Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre (Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning)	Johanna Spyri	German	1880	50 million[15]
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care	Dr. Benjamin Spock	English	1946	50 million[16]
Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	English	1908	50 million[17]
Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions: The autobiography of a horse	Anna Sewell	English	1877	50 million[18]
Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose)	Umberto Eco	Italian	1980	50 million[19]

[edit] Between 30 million and 50 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
The Hite Report	Shere Hite	English	1976	48 million[20]
Charlotte's Web	E.B. White; illustrated by Garth Williams	English	1952	45 million[21]
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	English	1902	45 million[22]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [23]	J. K. Rowling	English	2007	44 million [24]
Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Richard Bach	English	1970	40 million[25]
A Message to Garcia	Elbert Hubbard	English	1899	40 million[16]
Angels and Demons	Dan Brown	English	2000	39 million[26]
Как закалялась сталь (Kak zakalyalas' stal'; How the Steel Was Tempered)	Nikolai Ostrovsky	Russian	1932	36.4 million copies in USSR[27]
Война и мир (Voyna i mir; War and Peace)	Leo Tolstoy	Russian	1869	36.0 million copies in USSR[27]
Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (The Adventures of Pinocchio)	Carlo Collodi	Italian	1881	35 million[28]
You Can Heal Your Life	Louise Hay	English	1984	35 million[29]
Kane and Abel	Jeffrey Archer	English	1979	34 million[30]
Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank)	Anne Frank	Dutch	1947	30 million[31]
In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?	Charles M. Sheldon	English	1896	30 million[16]
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	English	1960	30 million [32]
Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann	English	1966	30 million[16]
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	English	1936	30 million [33]
Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)	Gabriel García Márquez	Spanish	1967	30 million[34][35]
The Purpose Driven Life	Rick Warren	English	2002	30 million[36]
The Thorn Birds	Colleen McCullough	English	1977	30 million[37]
The Revolt of Mamie Stover	William Bradford Huie	English	1951	30 million [38]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title: Män som hatar kvinnor)	Stieg Larsson	Swedish	2005	30 million[39]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	English	1969	30 million[40]

[edit] Between 20 million and 30 million copies

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
The Late, Great Planet Earth	Hal Lindsey, C. C. Carlson	English	1970	28 million[41]
Who Moved My Cheese?	Spencer Johnson	English	1998	26 million[42]
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	English	1908	25 million[43]
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	English	1949	25 million[44]
The Celestine Prophecy	James Redfield	English	1993	23 million[45]
The Godfather	Mario Puzo	English	1969	21 million [46]
Love Story	Erich Segal	English	1970	21 million[47]
狼图腾 (Wolf Totem)	Jiang Rong	Chinese	2004	20 million[48]
The Happy Hooker: Her Own Story	Xaviera Hollander	English	1971	20 million[49]
Jaws	Peter Benchley	English	1974	20 million[50]
Love You Forever	Robert Munsch	English	1986	20 million[51]
Sophie's World	Jostein Gaarder	Norwegian	1991	20 million[52]
The Women's Room	Marilyn French	English	1977	20 million[53]
What to Expect When You're Expecting	Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff	English	1984	20 million[54]