Fantasy books amongst the list of best selling books
JRR Tolkien and JK Rowling have written books that are amongst the list of the best selling books of all time. The list, topped by The Bible covers all genres and if fantasy readers ever felt that they were amongst a minority then this shows that they couldn’t be more wrong. I have listed below the top 20 selling books of all time and also included the fantasy books that appear in the top 50.
- The Bible – between 4 and 6 billion
- Quotations from Chairman Mao – 900 million
- The Qur’an – 800 million
- Don Quixote – 500 million
- Xinhau Zidian – 400 million
- Book of Common Prayer – 300 million
- Pilgrim’s Progress – 250 million
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs – 150 million
- Book of Mormon – 120 million
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – 117 million
- And Then There Were None – 110 million
- The Lord of the Rings – 100 million
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – 77 million
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – 66 million
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 65 million
- The Catcher in the Rye – 65 million
- The Da Vinci Code – 64 million
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 60 million
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 58 million
- Heidi’s Years of Wandering and Learning – 52 million
Other notable fantasy entries are Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at #48 having sold between 25 and 30 million copies. This must make JK Rowling one of, if not the best selling authors of all time. I will find out who they are and post the results at a later date.
Posted: January 10th, 2008
Author: admin
Categories: Articles, General Interest, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien
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