More than one billion copies of the Bible have been sold, but I have no idea how many people are actually reading it today. Here are some other numbers:
25 Best-Selling Books
of All-Time
#1 – Don Quixote (500 million copies sold)
by Miguel de Cervantes
#2 – A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold)
by Charles Dickens
#3 – The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
#4 – The Little Prince (142 million copies sold)
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
#5 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (107 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling
#6 – And Then There Were None (100 million copies sold)
by Agatha Christie
#7 – The Dream of the Red Chamber (100 million copies sold)
by Cao Xueqin
#8 – The Hobbit (100 million copies sold)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
#9 – She: A History of Adventure (100 million copies sold)
by H. Rider Haggard
#10 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (85 million copies sold)
by C.S. Lewis
#11 – The Da Vinci Code (80 million copies sold)
by Dan Brown
#12 – Think and Grow Rich (70 million copies sold)
by Napoleon Hill
#13 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (65 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling
#14 – The Catcher in the Rye (65 million copies sold)
by J.D. Salinger
#15 – The Alchemist (65 million copies sold)
by Paulo Coelho
#16 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (60 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling
#17 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (55 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling
#18 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (55 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling
#19 – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (55 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling
#20 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (50 million copies sold)
by J.K. Rowling
#21 – One Hundred Years of Solitude (50 million copies sold)
by Gabriel García Marquez
#22 – Lolita (50 million copies sold)
by Vladimir Nabokov
#23 – Anne of Green Gables (50 million copies sold)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
#24 – Charlotte’s Web (50 million copies sold)
by E.B. White
#25 – Black Beauty (50 million copies sold)
by Anna Sewell