Top-10 Best-Selling Books of All-Time Ranked

 

Top-10 Best Selling Books: Ranking Methodology (as of 2022)

Here's a list of the Top-10 best-selling books of all-time as well as the 10 best-selling book series of all-time. 

Best-selling books are ranked by Number of copies sold.

What is excluded here:

Some Religious and Political books such as The Bible, Quran, and Quotations from Chairman Mao may have more than a billion copies in circulation. However, sales numbers for these books are difficult to quantify as many are given away by organizations or governments. 

Additionally, these books may be printed by a wide range of publishers over centuries, without properly being accounting for sales.

For these reasons, these works are not listed here, but it can be agreed that they are among the top sellers.

Here's the List:

10 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 
Copies Sold: 85 million copies sold
Author: C.S. Lewis

9 – She: A History of Adventure 
Copies Sold: 100 million copies sold
Author: H. Rider Haggard

8 – The Hobbit 
Copies Sold: 100 million copies sold
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

7 – The Dream of the Red Chamber 
Copies Sold: 100 million copies sold
Author: Cao Xueqin

6 – And Then There Were None 
Copies Sold: 100 million copies sold
Author: Agatha Christie

5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 
Copies Sold: 107 million copies sold
Author: J.K. Rowling

4 – The Little Prince 
Copies Sold: 142 million copies sold
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

3 – The Lord of the Rings 
Copies Sold: 150 million copies sold
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

2 – A Tale of Two Cities 
Copies Sold: 200 million copies sold
Author: Charles Dickens

1 – Don Quixote 
Copies Sold: 500 million copies sold
Author: Miguel de Cervantes