Best Selling Books of All Time
Books! Said to be a best friend, besides dogs. Let there be the Internet and let there be the e-books, but a die-hard reader will always want a nice hard copy in his or her hand. The smell of the pages is just something different. And turning each page as you read is a feeling like nothing else in the world.
The Bible is said to be the most popular book on our planet. There have been over 6 billion copies of the Bible printer, and nearly 1 billion of the Quran. Exact sales figures of these religious books are not documented, for the simple reason that millions of their copies are distributed for free in various parts of the world. Here, we are going to take a look at the best selling books of all time.
| NO. | BOOK | AUTHOR | PUBLISHED | LANGUAGE | SALES |
| 1. | The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels | 1847 | German | 500 million |
| 2. | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | English | 200 million |
| 3. | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1955 | English | 150 million |
| 4. | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937 | English | 100 million |
| 5. | Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin | 1759 | Chinese | 100 million |
| 6. | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 1939 | English | 100 million |
| 7. | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | 1950 | English | 85 million |
| 8. | She | Rider Haggard | 1887 | English | 83 million |
| 9. | Le Petit Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 1943 | French | 80 million |
| 10. | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 2003 | English | 80 million |
| NO. | BOOK | AUTHOR | LANGUAGE |
| 1. | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | English |
| 2. | A Stolen Life: A Memoir | Jaycee Dugard | English |
| 3. | A Game of Thrones | George Martin | English |
| 4. | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | English |
| 5. | A Dance With Dragons | George Martin | English |
I am sure many of you Harry Potter fans are wondering where you favorite books stands in all this. As we speak, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has sold close to 45 million copies. So, it will take a few years if and when it breaks into the top 10 best selling books of all time.
