| Statistic Verification |
| Source: Publishers |
| Date Verified: 2.14.2014 |
| Literary Fiction Statistics | ||||
| Rank | Title | Author | Copies Sold (Millions) | Year |
| Sales for Don Quixote and The Harry Potter Series has been deem unreliable information and officially can be considered to have sold more than 10 million copies. | ||||
| 1 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 | |
| 2 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 200 | 1859 |
| 3 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas | 200 | 1814 |
| 4 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 150 | 1937 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J. k. Rowling | 1997 | |
| 6 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 100 | 1939 |
| 7 | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | 100 | 1937 |
| 8 | The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | 85 | 1950 |
| 9 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 200 | 1943 |
| 10 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 80 | 2003 |
| 11 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 65 | 1951 |
| 12 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 65 | 1988 |
| 13 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | J. k. Rowling | 2005 | |
| 14 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. k. Rowling | 1998 | |
| 15 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J. k. Rowling | 2000 | |
| 16 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | J. k. Rowling | 2003 | |
| 17 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. k. Rowling | 1999 | |
| 18 | Heidi | Johanna Spyri | 50 | 1880 |
| 19 | Ben-Hur | Lew Wallace | 1880 | |
| 20 | Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 50 | 1908 |
| 21 | Black Beauty | Anna Seawell | 50 | 1877 |
| 22 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 50 | 1980 |
| 23 | The Curse of Capistrano | Johnston McCulley | 1919 | |
| 24 | Charlotte’s Web | E. B. White | 45 | 1952 |
| 25 | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter | 45 | 1902 |
| 26 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J. K. Rowling | 2007 | |
| 27 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | 40 | 1970 |
| 28 | Angels and Demons | Dan Brown | 39 | 2000 |
| 29 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 36 | 1869 |
| 30 | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi | 35 | 1881 |
| 31 | Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | 34 | 1979 |
| 32 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 30 | 1960 |
| 33 | Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann | 30 | 1966 |
| 34 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 30 | 1936 |
| 35 | The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 30 | 1977 |
| 36 | The Revolt of Mamie Stover | William Bradford Huie | 30 | 1951 |
| 37 | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg larsson | 30 | 2005 |
| 38 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | 30 | 1969 |
| 39 | The Wind and the Willows | Kenneth Graham | 25 | 1908 |
| 40 | 1984 | George Orwell | 25 | 1949 |
| 41 | The Celestine Prophecy | James Redfield | 23 | 1993 |
| 42 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | 21 | 1969 |
| 43 | Love Story | Erich Segal | 21 | 1970 |
| 44 | Jaws | Peter Benchley | 20 | 1974 |
| 45 | Love You Forever | Robert Munsch | 20 | 1986 |
| 46 | The Women’s Room | Marilyn French | 20 | 1977 |
| 47 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 19 | 1963 |
| 48 | Fear of Flying | Erica Jong | 18 | 1973 |
| 49 | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 16 | 1947 |
| 50 | Shogun | James clavell | 15 | 1975 |
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