User:Beleg Tâl/Sandbox/Best-sellers

Ideally this would be a Portal, but it's based on a Wikipedia article which is a seething mass of edit warring and I'd say that all the information here is highly spurious. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:02, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Best-selling single-volume books
The only public-domain listing on Wikipedia with fewer than 20M sales is Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1304) with 11-12 million sales during the 20th century.
 * 1) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1612) 500M
 * 2) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) 200M
 * 3) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954) 150M
 * 4) The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) 140M
 * 5) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997) 120M
 * 6) The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937) 100M
 * 7) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939) 100M
 * 8) Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (1754–1791) 100M
 * 9) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) 100M
 * 10) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950) 85M
 * 11) She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard (1887) 83–100M
 * 12) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003) 80M
 * 13) Vardi Wala Gunda by Ved Prakash Sharma (1992) 80M
 * 14) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (1998) 77M
 * 15) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (1998) 65M
 * 16) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (2000) 65M
 * 17) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (2003) 65M
 * 18) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (2005) 65M
 * 19) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (2003) 65M
 * 20) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988) 65M
 * 21) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951) 65M
 * 22) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937) 65M
 * 23) The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (1992) 60M
 * 24) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887) 60M
 * 25) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870) 60M
 * 26) You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (1984) 50M
 * 27) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967) 50M
 * 28) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 50M
 * 29) Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel (Heidi) by Johanna Spyri (1880) 50M
 * 30) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock (1946) 50M
 * 31) Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908) 50M
 * 32) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877) 50M
 * 33) The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980) 50M
 * 34) The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins (1975) 50M
 * 35) Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972) 50M
 * 36) The Hite Report by Shere Hite (1976) 50M
 * 37) Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (1952) 50M
 * 38) The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy (1955) 50M
 * 39) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace (1880) 50M
 * 40) The Curse of Capistrano (The Mark of Zorro) by Johnston McCulley (1919) 50M
 * 41) The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902) 45M
 * 42) The Odyssey by Homer (8th century BCE) 45M
 * 43) Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (1970) 44M
 * 44) The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (1969) 43M
 * 45) A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (1899) 40M
 * 46) Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (1991) 40M
 * 47) Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews (1979) 40M
 * 48) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960) 40M
 * 49) Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (2000) 39M
 * 50) Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (1979) 37M
 * 51) How the Steel Was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1936) 36.4M in the USSR
 * 52) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869) 36M in the USSR
 * 53) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947) 35M
 * 54) The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1881) 35M
 * 55) Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer (1976) 35M
 * 56) The Late, Great Planet Earth (1970) 35M
 * 57) The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (1977) 35M
 * 58) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003) 32M
 * 59) Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (1966) 31M
 * 60) In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? by Charles M. Sheldon (1896) 30M
 * 61) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (2009) 30M
 * 62) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) 30M
 * 63) Maple Leaf.svg Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949) 25M
 * 64) The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (2002) 30M
 * 65) The Revolt of Mamie Stover by William Bradford Huie (1951) 30M
 * 66) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2005) 30M
 * 67) The Young Guard by Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (1945) 26M in the USSR
 * 68) Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson (1998) 26M
 * 69) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 25M
 * 70) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908) 25M
 * 71) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (1989) 25M
 * 72) Virgin Soil Upturned by Mikhail Sholokhov (1935) 24M in the USSR
 * 73) The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (1993) 23M
 * 74) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008) 23M
 * 75) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012) 23M
 * 76) The Shack by William P. Young (2007) 22M
 * 77) Uncle Styopa by Sergey Mikhalkov (1936) 21M in the USSR
 * 78) The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969) 21M
 * 79) Love Story by Erich Segal (1970) 21M
 * 80) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012) 20M
 * 81) The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (2012) 20M
 * 82) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) 20M
 * 83) The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz (1974) 20M
 * 84) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) 20M
 * 85) Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945) 20M
 * 86) Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (2004) 20M
 * 87) The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander (1971) 20M
 * 88) Jaws by Peter Benchley (1974) 20M
 * 89) Love You Forever by Robert Munsch (1986) 20M
 * 90) The Women's Room by Marilyn French (1977) 20M
 * 91) What to Expect When You're Expecting by Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff (1984) 20M
 * 92) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885) 20M
 * 93) The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (1982) 20M
 * 94) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) 20M
 * 95) Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft by Thor Heyerdahl (1950) 20M
 * 96) The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (1923) 20M
 * 97) Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963) 20M
 * 98) The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (1952) 20M
 * 99) The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (2006) 20M
 * 100) Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973) 20M
 * 101) Dune by Frank Herbert (1965) 20M
 * 102) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964) 20M
 * 103) The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris (1968) 20M