The Must-Read Classics: The 100 Most Popular Books of All Time

Here is a list of 100 of the best-selling books of all time along with some details and estimated sales figures:

The ranking of these books is based on an estimate of the number of copies sold, but it’s important to note that this is a subjective estimation and not an exact science. There could be many factors that could impact a book’s popularity and sales, such as the time period in which it was released, the target audience, marketing and promotion efforts, and so on. So while a book may have sold more copies, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is considered a “better” or more popular book than others that may have sold fewer copies. The ranking is simply a reflection of our estimation of their relative popularity based on the available information.

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  1. “The Bible” – estimated to have sold over 5 billion copies
  2. “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” – estimated to have sold over 800 million copies
  3. “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes – estimated to have sold over 500 million copies
  4. “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens – estimated to have sold over 200 million copies
  5. “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 150 million copies
  6. Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling’s magical series estimated to have sold over 500 Million copies
  7. “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – estimated to have sold over 140 million copies
  8. “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
  9. “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
  10. “Dream of the Red Chamber” by Cao Xueqin – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
  11. “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis – estimated to have sold over 85 million copies
  12. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
  13. “1984” by George Orwell – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  14. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  15. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  16. “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown – estimated to have sold over 80 million copies
  17. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  18. “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
  19. “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
  20. “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies
  21. “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  22. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
  23. “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  24. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – estimated to have sold over 25 million copies
  25. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  26. “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White – estimated to have sold over 45 million copies
  27. “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
  28. “The Odyssey” by Homer – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  29. “The Iliad” by Homer – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  30. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  31. “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  32. “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  33. “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
  34. “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown has sold over 80 million copies
  1. “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  2. “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  3. “Dune” by Frank Herbert – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  4. “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” by Herman Melville – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  5. “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies

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  6. “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  7. “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  8. “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  9. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  10. “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  11. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  12. “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  13. “The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  14. “The Divine Comedy: Paradiso” by Dante Alighieri – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  15. “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  16. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  17. “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  18. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  19. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  20. “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  21. “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  22. “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  23. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  24. “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  25. “The Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  26. “The Analects of Confucius” – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  27. “The Republic” by Plato – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  28. “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  29. “The Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  30. “The Symposium” by Plato – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  31. “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  32. “The Apology” by Plato – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies

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  33. “The Bhagavad Gita” – estimated to have sold over 5 million copies
  1. “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  2. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
  3. “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis – estimated to have sold over 85 million copies
  4. “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White – estimated to have sold over 45 million copies
  5. “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  6. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  7. “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  8. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  9. “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  10. “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
  11. “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  12. “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
  13. “Winnie-the-Pooh” by A.A. Milne – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  14. “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 100 million copies
  15. “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien – estimated to have sold over 150 million copies
  16. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee – estimated to have sold over 40 million copies
  17. “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies
  18. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – estimated to have sold over 25 million copies
  19. “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck – estimated to have sold over 15 million copies
  20. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
  21. “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies
  22. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  23. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  24. “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  25. “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  26. “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  27. “The Invisible Man” by H.G. Wells – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  28. “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle – estimated to have sold over 50 million copies
  29. “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  30. “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle – estimated to have sold over 10 million copies
  31. “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  32. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies
  33. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley – estimated to have sold over 20 million copies.
  34. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger – estimated to have sold over 65 million copies
  35. “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank – estimated to have sold over 30 million copies.