| No. | Book | Author | Approx Sold Copies | Original Language | Published in |
|---|
| 1 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 600 million | Spanish | 1605 |
| 2 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 200 million | English | 1859 |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 150 million | English | 1954 |
| 4 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupry | 140 million | French | 1943 |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J. K. Rowling | 120 million | English | 1997 |
| 6 | The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | 100 million | English | 1937 |
| 7 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 100 million | English | 1939 |
| 8 | Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin | 100 million | Chinese | 1754 |
| 9 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 100 million | English | 1865 |
| 10 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | 85 million | English | 1950 |