'Jaws' made Peter Benchley very famous... and Spielberg
We already told you which are **the 100 books you should read before you die**; now, we offer you another list, that of The best-selling books in the world according to Wikipedia. The collective encyclopedia claims to have based itself on reliable and independent sources to include all the copies published to date in all languages, although beware, because the list does not include or comics, neither textbooks, nor books of philosophical or religious content (that is why the Bible , which, with its 5,000 million copies, would win first place), nor ideological or political volumes -in which case, the Red Book of Mao Zedong , which is also supposed to be widely sold, although there are no official data.
Likewise, not many contents of public domain , such as The Count of Monte Cristo, due to the difficulty of compiling the figures of the multiple editions that have been carried out by different publishers.
And that's it, the details are over: now that you know them, it's time to immerse yourself in this compilation of best sellers which includes a lot of children's books, a lot of film adaptation and a good share of self-help. And, of course, you have to ask yourself the essential question: How many have you read? Check it!
Harper Lee published only one book in 89 years, and it became a true classic
OVER 100 MILLION COPIES
1.Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2.A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
3.The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
4.The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5.Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
6.The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Ten Little Blacks - Agatha Christie
8.Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865, has sold 100 million copies
BETWEEN 50 AND 100 MILLION COPIES
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
11.Her: Adventure Story - H. Rider Haggard
12. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
13. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
14. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
15.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
16.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
17.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
18.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
19.The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
20.The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
21.Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
22. The Bridges of Madison - Robert James Waller
23_. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
24,20,000 leagues under the sea - Jules Verne
25. You can heal your life - Louise Hay
26.One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
28.Heidi - Johanna Spyri
29.The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - Dr. Benjamin Spock
30. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
31.Jet - Anna Sewell
32.The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
33. The Eagle Has Come - Jack Higgins
34.Watership Hill - Richard Adams
35.The Hite Report - Shere Hite
36.Charlotte's Net - E.B. White
37. The Marzipan Man - J. P. Donleavy
38.Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
39.The Mask of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
Harry Potter is the clear winner on this list
BETWEEN 30 AND 50 MILLION COPIES
40.The tale of Perico, the naughty rabbit - Beatrix Potter
41.The Odyssey - Homer
42.Juan Salvador Gull - Richard Bach
43.The Hungry Little Caterpillar - Eric Carle
44.A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard
45.Sofia's World - Jostein Gaarder
46. Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews
47. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
48. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
49. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
50.This is how steel was tempered - Nikolai Ostrovsky
51. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
52.The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
53.The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
54. Your Erroneous Zones - Wayne Dyer
55.The Dying Death of the Great Planet Earth - Hal Lindsey
56.The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
57. Kites in the Sky-Khaled Hosseini 58. Valley of the Dolls-Jacqueline Susann 59. In His Footsteps: What Would Jesus Do? - Charles M. Sheldon
60.The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
61. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
62.1984 - George Orwell
63.The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren
64. Mrs. Stover's Rebellion - William Bradford Huie
65. The men who did not love women - Stieg Larsson
'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a literary and cinematographic success
BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MILLION COPIES
66.The Young Guard - Aleksandr Fadeyev
67.Who has taken my cheese? -Spencer Johnson
68.The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
69. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
70.The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
71.The Nine Revelations - James Redfield
72. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
73.The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
74.The Shack - William P. Young
75.The Godfather - Mario Puzo
76.Love Story - Erich Segal
77.Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
78. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
79. Quiet on the Front - Erich Maria Remarque
80.The Bermuda Triangle - Charles Berlitz
81.Everything Falls Apart - Chinua Achebe
Mythical
82. Animal Farm - George Orwell
83.Wolf Totem - Jiang Rong
84.The Happy Prostitute - Xaviera Hollander
85.Jaws - Peter Benchley
86. I will always love you - Robert Munsch
87.For Women Only - Marilyn French
88. What to Expect When You're Expecting - Arlene Eisenberg
89.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
90.The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend
91.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
92.The "Kon-Tiki" Expedition - Thor Heyerdahl
93.The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
94.Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
95.The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale
96.The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
97.Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
98. Dune - Frank Herbert
99.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100.The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris
Lolita is among the top 25 best-selling books in history