List of Best-Selling Books

List of best-selling book series of all time

The next list features the best-selling book series of all time. It includes all literary works with 100 million sales or more. Individual books that have surpassed that margin, Comic Books, Mangas in the Tankōbon format, and regularly updated reference books are also included. Books marked as (1) are those with a highly debatable sales value, either because they are distributed by several publishers without official data, or because of their antiquity. They are included in this list for reference and comparison.

#	Book	Author	Genre	Nº Books	First Pub.	Total Sales (Estimated)	Source
1	Bible (1)	[Several]	Religious	1	200	5,000,000,000	[source]
2	Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung / Little Red Book (1)	Mao Zedong	Reference Book	1	1964	800,000,000	[source]
3	Quran (1)	Muhammad	Religious	1	609	800,000,000	[source]
4	Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling	Fiction	7	1997	600,000,000	[source]
5	Xinhua Zidian / Xinhua Dictionary	Chief editor: Wei Jiangong	Reference Book		1957	567,000,000	[source]
6	One Piece	Eiichiro Oda	Fiction: Manga	107	1997	516,566,000	[source]
7	Don Quixote (1)	Miguel de Cervantes	Fiction	2	1605	500,000,000	[source]
8	Asterix	René Goscinny \| Albert Uderzo \| Jean-Yves Ferri	Fiction: Comic	42	1959	370,000,000	[source]
9	Goosebumps	R. L. Stine	Fiction	62	1992	350,000,000	[source]
10	Perry Mason	Erle Stanley Gardner	Fiction	82	1933	300,000,000	[source]
11	Golgo 13	Takao Saito	Fiction: Manga	199	1968	300,000,000	[source]
12	Peanuts	Charles M. Schulz	Fiction: Comic		1950	300,000,000	[source]
13	Lucky Luke	Morris \| René Goscinny	Fiction: Comic		1946	300,000,000	[source]
14	Dragon Ball	Akira Toriyama	Fiction: Manga	42	1984	260,000,000	[source]
15	Berenstain Bears	Stan and Jan Berenstain	Fiction	300	1962	260,000,000	[source]
16	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney	Fiction	15	2007	250,000,000	[source]
17	Naruto	Masashi Kishimoto	Fiction: Manga	72	1999	250,000,000	[source]
18	Choose Your Own Adventure	Various authors	Fiction	185	1979	250,000,000	[source]
19	Sweet Valley High	Francine Pascal and ghostwriters	Fiction	400	1983	250,000,000	[source]
20	Detective Conan	Gosho Aoyama	Fiction: Manga	98	1994	230,000,000	[source]
21	Spike and Suzy	Willy Vandersteen	Fiction: Comic	357	1945	230,000,000	[source]
22	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	Fiction	1	1943	200,000,000	[source]
23	A Tale of Two Cities (1)	Charles Dickens	Fiction	1	1859	200,000,000	[source]
24	Robert Langdon	Dan Brown	Fiction	5	2000	200,000,000	[source]
25	Noddy	Enid Blyton	Fiction	24	1949	200,000,000	[source]
26	The Adventures of Tintin	Hergé	Fiction: Comic	24	1929	200,000,000	[source]
27	The Railway Series	Rev. W. Awdry \| Christopher Awdry	Fiction	42	1945	200,000,000	[source]
28	San-Antonio	Frédéric Dard	Fiction	173	1949	200,000,000	[source]
29	Nancy Drew	Various authors as Carolyn Keene	Fiction	175	1930	200,000,000	[source]
30	Black Jack	Osamu Tezuka	Fiction: Manga	25	1973	176,000,000	[source]
31	The Baby-sitters Club	Ann Martin	Fiction	335	1986	172,000,000	[source]
32	Doraemon	Fujiko Fujio	Fiction: Manga	45	1969	170,000,000	[source]
33	Twilight	Stephenie Meyer	Fiction	7	2005	160,000,000	[source]
34	Star Wars	Various authors	Fiction	300	1977	160,000,000	[source]
35	Slam Dunk	Takehiko Inoue	Fiction: Manga	31	1990	157,000,000	[source]
36	KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops	Osamu Akimoto	Fiction: Manga	200	1976	156,500,000	[source]
37	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	Fiction	1	1988	150,000,000	[source]
38	Fifty Shades	E. L. James	Fiction	3	2011	150,000,000	[source]
39	The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	Fiction	3	1954	150,000,000	[source]
40	Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	Fiction	6	1902	150,000,000	[source]
41	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba	Koyoharu Gotouge	Fiction: Manga	23	2016	150,000,000	[source]
42	Little Critter	Mercer Mayer	Fiction	200	1975	150,000,000	[source]
43	Diabolik	Angela Giussani \| Luciana Giussani	Fiction: Comic	862	1962	150,000,000	[source]
44	Crayon Shin-chan	Yoshito Usui	Fiction: Manga	60	1990	148,000,000	[source]
45	American Girl	Various authors	Fiction	141	1986	140,000,000	[source]
46	Geronimo Stilton	Elisabetta Dami and ghostwriters	Fiction	200	2000	140,000,000	[source]
47	Oishinbo	Tetsu Kariya \| Akira Hanasaki	Fiction: Manga	111	1983	135,000,000	[source]
48	Garfield	Jim Davis	Fiction: Comic		1978	135,000,000	[source]
49	Chicken Soup for the Soul	Jack Canfield \| Mark Victor Hansen	Fiction	105	1997	130,000,000	[source]
50	Clifford the Big Red Dog	Norman Bridwell	Fiction	80	1963	129,000,000	[source]
51	Frank Merriwell	Gilbert Patten	Fiction	209	1896	125,000,000	[source]
52	The McGuffey Readers	William Holmes McGuffey	Reference Book		1853	125,000,000	[source]
53	Book of Mormon (1)	Joseph Smith	Religious	1	1830	120,000,000	[source]
54	The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	Fiction	7	1949	120,000,000	[source]
55	Musashi	Eiji Yoshikawa	Fiction	7	1935	120,000,000	[source]
56	Dirk Pitt	Clive Cussler	Fiction	24	1973	120,000,000	[source]
57	Mr. Men	Roger Hargreaves \| Adam Hargreaves	Fiction	43	1971	120,000,000	[source]
58	Bleach	Tite Kubo	Fiction: Manga	74	2001	120,000,000	[source]
59	Guinness World Records	Various authors	Reference Book		1955	115,000,000	[source]
60	Rokusei Senjutsu (Six-Star Astrology) Tells Your Fortune	Kazuko Hosoki \| Kaori Hosoki	Reference Book		1986	101,200,000	[source]
61	The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	Fiction	1	1967	100,000,000	[source]
62	And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	Fiction	1	1939	100,000,000	[source]
63	The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	Fiction	1	1937	100,000,000	[source]
64	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	Fiction	1	1865	100,000,000	[source]
65	Dream of the Red Chamber	Cao Xueqin	Fiction	1	1791	100,000,000	[source]
66	The Hunger Games trilogy	Suzanne Collins	Fiction	3	2008	100,000,000	[source]
67	Millennium	Stieg Larsson \| David Lagercrantz	Fiction	6	2005	100,000,000	[source]
68	James Bond	Ian Fleming	Fiction	14	1953	100,000,000	[source]
69	Astro Boy	Osamu Tezuka	Fiction: Manga	23	1952	100,000,000	[source]
70	Touch	Mitsuru Adachi	Fiction: Manga	26	1981	100,000,000	[source]
71	Fist of the North Star	Buronson, Tetsuo Hara	Fiction: Manga	27	1983	100,000,000	[source]
72	Attack on Titan	Hajime Isayama	Fiction: Manga	32	2009	100,000,000	[source]
73	Martine	Gilbert Delahaye \| Marcel Marlier	Fiction	60	1954	100,000,000	[source]
74	The Kindaichi Case Files	Yōzaburō Kanari \| Seimaru Amagi \| Fumiya Satō	Fiction: Manga	86	1992	100,000,000	[source]
75	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Hirohiko Araki	Fiction: Manga	129	1987	100,000,000	[source]
76	Amar Chitra Katha		Fiction: Comic	449	1967	100,000,000	[source]
77	Casper the Friendly Ghost	Seymour Reit \| Joe Oriolo	Fiction: Comic		1949	100,000,000	[source]
78	Scouting for Boys	Robert Baden-Powell	Reference Book		1908	100,000,000	[source]
79	American Spelling Book (Webster's Dictionary)	Noah Webster	Reference Book		1783	100,000,000	[source]

List of best-selling book series of all time

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