List of Bestselling Books of All Time That Sold More Than 10M Copies

Have you ever wondered if there is a list of bestselling books of all time? Since I am hosting the Strategic Reading Challenge, I have also wondered what the bestselling books of the continents are. I found a list on Wikipedia, List of Best-selling Books, and decided to play around with it, so I downloaded it to an Excel spreadsheet. I wanted to see the bestsellers by continent and gender. And I also wanted to know which authors had more than one book on that list. To segment the data by continent, I used the country where the author was born.

I was surprised to see that there was only one of the books from the Hunger Games trilogy and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy on the list. There are many books on the list that are unfamiliar to me. I have read 49 of the books on the list, and I would guess that I own another 20. How many books on the list of bestselling books of all time have you read? And do you think it is important to read the books on the list.

List of Bestselling Books of All Time That Sold More Than 10M Copies by Continent

Bestselling Books of All Time from North America & the Caribbean

1. Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
2. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill, Pound, Virginia, United States
3. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
4. Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller, Rockford, Iowa, United States
5. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, Dr. Benjamin Spock, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
6. Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, New London, Prince Edward Island, Lot 21, Canada
7. The Hite Report, Shere Hite, Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States
8. Charlotte's Web, E.B. White, Mount Vernon, New York, United States
9. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
10. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Lew Wallace, Brookville, Indiana, United States
11. The Mark of Zorro, Johnston McCulley, Ottawa, Illinois, United States
12. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach, Oak Park, Illinois, United States
13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, Syracuse, New York, United States
14. A Message to Garcia, Elbert Hubbard, Bloomington, Illinois, United States
15. Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
16. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Monroeville, Alabama, United States
17. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown, Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
18. You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay, Los Angeles, California, United States
19. Your Erroneous Zones, Wayne Dyer, Detroit, Michigan, United States
20. The Late, Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey, Houston, Texas, United States
21. Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
22. In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?, Charles M. Sheldon, Wellsville, New York, United States
23. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
24. Gone with the Wind, Maria Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
25. The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren, San Jose, California, United States
26. The Revolt of Mamie Stover, William Bradford Huie, Hartselle, Alabama, United States
27. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson, Watertown, South Dakota, United States
28. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
29. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
30. The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
31. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
32. The Shack, William P. Young, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
33. The Godfather, Mario Puzo, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
34. Love Story, Erich Segal, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
35. The Bermuda Triangle, Charles Berlitz, New York City, New York, United States
36. Jaws, Peter Benchley, New York City, New York, United States
37. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
38. The Women's Room, Marilyn French, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
39. What to Expect When You're Expecting, Arlene Eisenberg, Williamsburg, New York City, New York, United States & Heidi Murkoff, United States
40. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, Florida, Missouri, United States
41. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
42. The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, Bowersville, Ohio, United States
43. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
44. Dune, Frank Herbert, Tacoma, Washington, United States
45. The Fault in Our Stars, John Green, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
46. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
47. The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
48. The Poky Little Puppy, Janette Sebring Lowrey, Orange, Texas, United States
49. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie, Maryville, Missouri, United States
50. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Salinas, California, United States
51. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom, Passaic, New Jersey, United States
52. God's Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell, Moreland, Georgia, United States
53. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle, New York City, New York, United States
54. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, Oak Park, Illinois, United States
55. Life After Life, Raymond Moody, Porterdale, Georgia, United States
56. Peyton Place, Grace Metalious, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
57. The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, New York City, New York, United States
58. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, Coney Island, New York, United States
59. The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
60. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
61. The Total Woman, Marabel Morgan, Crestline, Ohio, United States
62. What Color is Your Parachute?, Richard Nelson Bolles, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
63. The Gospel According to Peanuts, Robert L. Short, Midland, Texas, United States
64. The Giver, Lois Lowry, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
65. The Front Runner, Patricia Nell Warren, Helena, Montana, United States

Have you read?

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Review

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller, Book Review

Charlotte’s Web by E B White, a Book Review

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Book Review

Bestselling Books of All Time from Europe

1. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Madrid, Spain
2. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, Landport, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
3. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lyon, France
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling, Yate, United Kingdom
5. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie, Torquay, United Kingdom
6. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, Daresbury, United Kingdom
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis, Belfast, United Kingdom
8. She: A History of Adventure, H. Rider Haggard, Bradenham, United Kingdom
9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling, Yate, United Kingdom
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling, Yate, United Kingdom
11. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
12. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne, Nantes, France
13. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling, Yate, United Kingdom
14. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling, Yate, United Kingdom
15. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling, Yate, United Kingdom
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling, Yate, United Kingdom
17. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, Saint Petersburg, Russia
18. Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel, Johanna Spyri, Hirzel, Switzerland
19. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
20. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco, Alessandria, Italy
21. The Eagle Has Landed, Jack Higgins, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
22. Watership Down, Richard Adams, Oxford, United Kingdom
23. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter, Kensington, London, United Kingdom
24. The Odyssey, Homer, Greece
25. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder, Oslo, Norway
26. Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer, Finsbury, London, United Kingdom
27. How the Steel Was Tempered, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Viliya, Ukraine
28. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
29. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, Frankfurt, Germany
30. The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi, Florence, Italy
31. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Skelleftehamn, Sweden
32. The Young Guard, Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev, Kimry, Russia
33. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
34. Virgin Soil Upturned, Mikhail Sholokhov, Vyoshenskaya, Russia
35. Uncle Styopa, Sergey Mikhalkov, Moscow, Russia
36. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, Osnabrück, Germany
37. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend, Leicester, United Kingdom
38. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Steventon, United Kingdom
39. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft, Thor Heyerdahl, Larvik, Norway
40. The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek, Prague, Czech Republic
41. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, Llandaff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
42. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans, Bromsgrove, United Kingdom
43. The Neverending Story, Michael Ende, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
44. Guess How Much I Love You, Sam McBratney, Belfast, United Kingdom
45. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett, Cardiff, United Kingdom
46. Perfume, Patrick Süskind, Münsing, Germany
47. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Barcelona, Spain
48. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, London, United Kingdom
49. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Cambridge, United Kingdom
50. Follow Your Heart, Susanna Tamaro, Trieste, Italy
51. The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris, Purton, United Kingdom
52. Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria
53. Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, Florence, Italy
54. The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, North London, London
55. Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett, Cardiff, United Kingdom
56. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking, Oxford, United Kingdom
57. Night, Elie Wiesel, Sighetu Marmației, Romania
58. The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort, London, United Kingdom
59. Life of Pi, Yann Martel, Salamanca, Spain

Bestselling Books of All Time from Asia

1. Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin, Nanjing, China
2. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, Kabul, Afghanistan
3. 1984, George Orwell, Motihari, India
4. Animal Farm, George Orwell, Motihari, India
5. Wolf Totem, Jiang Rong, Jiangsu, China
6. The Happy Hooker: My Own Story, Surabaya, Indonesia
7. The Little Girl at the Window, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Nogisaka, Japan
8. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
9. No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai, Kanagi, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
10. The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran, Bsharri, Lebanon
11. Wild Swans, Jung Chang, Yibin, China
12. Confucius from the Heart, Yu Dan, China
13. Knowledge-value Revolution, Taichi Sakaiya, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
14. Problems in China's Socialist Economy, Xue Muqiao, Wuxi, China

Bestselling Books of All Time from Africa

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, Bloemfontein, South Africa
3. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria
4. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins, Harare, Zimbabwe
5. The Plague, Albert Camus, Dréan, Algeria
6. The Stranger, Albert Camus, Dréan, Algeria
7. The Dukan Diet, Pierre Dukan, Algiers, Algeria

Australia/Oceania Bestselling Books of All Time from

1. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough, Wellington, Australia
2. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne, Melbourne, Australia
3. Shōgun, James Clavell, Sydney, Australia

Bestselling Books of All Time from South and Latin America

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombia
2. Santa Evita, Tomás Eloy Martínez, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

List of Bestselling Books of All Time That Sold More Than 10M Copies by Country

List of Bestselling Books of All Time That Sold More Than 10M Copies by Gender

There are 150 books on the Wikipedia best-selling list. And of those 150 books:

• Women wrote 42 books (28%).
• Men wrote 108 books (72%).

If You Are Interested in Reading Women

In Month Eight of the Strategic Reading Challenge, we read books that women wrote. To give you recommendations, here are the 42 books that are on the Wikipedia list that women wrote.

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2. And Then There Were None
3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
9. Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel
10. Anne of Green Gables
11. Black Beauty
12. The Hite Report
13. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
14. Flowers in the Attic
15. To Kill a Mockingbird
16. The Diary of a Young Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank
17. You Can Heal Your Life
18. The Thorn Birds
19. Valley of the Dolls
20. The Hunger Games
21. The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
22. The Women's Room
23. What to Expect When You're Expecting
24. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
25. Pride and Prejudice
26. The Secret
27. Fear of Flying
28. The Little Girl at the Window
29. Goodnight Moon
30. The Outsiders
31. The Girl on the Train
32. Interpreter of Maladies
33. Follow Your Heart
34. A Wrinkle in Time
35. Peyton Place
36. The Gruffalo
37. The Lovely Bones
38. Wild Swans
39. Confucius from the Heart
40. The Total Woman
41. The Giver
42. The Front Runner

Harry Potter Complete Book Series Special Edition Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling NEW!The Hunger Games (Book 1)Anne of Green Gables (AmazonClassics Edition)Black Beauty (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)Flowers in the Attic / Petals on the Wind / If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday / Garden of ShadowsAnne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlYou Can Heal Your LifeThe Thorn BirdsThe Outsiders 50th Anniversary EditionGoodnight MoonInterpreter of MaladiesA Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books–Fiction of New England)The Giver (Giver Quartet)Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Authors with More Than One Bestselling Book of All Time

Albert Camus

1. The Plague
2. The Stranger

Dan Brown

1. The Da Vinci Code
2. Angels & Demons
3. The Lost Symbol

George Orwell

1. 1984
2. Animal Farm

J. K. Rowling

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. R. R. Tolkien

1. The Hobbit
2. The Lord of the Rings

Ken Follett

1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. Eye of the Needle

List of Bestselling Books of All Time That Sold More Than 10M Copies That Avil Read

1. Think and Grow Rich
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. Bridges of Madison County
4. Charlotte’s Web
5. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. You can Heal Your Life
8. The Great Gatsby
9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
10. The Celestine Prophecy
11. The Hunger Games
12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
13. Where the Wild Things Are
14. The Power of Positive Thinking
15. Goodnight Moon
16. The Outsiders
17. Tuesdays with Morrie
18. A Wrinkle in Time
19. Cat in the Hat
20. The Old Man and the Sea
21. The Giver
22. What Color is Your Parachute?
23. The Little Prince
24. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
25. Alice in Wonderland
26. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
27. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
28. Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel
29. Black Beauty
30. Watership Down
31. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
32. The Odyssey
33. Kane and Abel
34. The Diary of a Young Girl
35. The Adventures of Pinocchio
36. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
37. The Wind in the Willows
38. All Quiet on the Western Front
39. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft
40. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
41. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
42. Man’s Search for Meaning
43. 1984
44. Animal Farm
45. Norwegian Wood
46. The Prophet
47. The Hobbit
48. Things Fall Apart
49. The Girl on the Train