Bestselling Novels of All Time

While numbers vary according to source, one thing is for sure, the books below are, indeed, bestsellers.

 Over 100 million copies

• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
• She by H. Rider Haggard
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 Over 50 million copies

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling

Notice that all seven of the Harry Potter books are on this list! J.K. Rowling was the first author in the world to achieve a net worth of one billion dollars. That fact is simply astonishing when you consider the first Harry Potter book was published in 1997. In comparison, A Tale of Two Cities (with sales of over 200 million) was published in 1859. It is no stretch of the imagination to wonder if there may be a day in the very near future when the seven Harry Potter books will occupy the top seven bestselling slots!