23rd
All-Time Best-Selling Books
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1. The Bible (6.7 billion copies)
2. Quotations from Chariman Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (900 million)
3. The Qur’an (800 million)
4. Xinhua Zidian (400 million — a Chinese dictionary, first published in 1953)
5. The Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmar
6. Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
7. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe
8. The Book of Mormon, Joseph J. Smith, Jr. (123 million)
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling (107 million — UK title was …and the Philosopher’s Stone)
10. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (100 million)
11. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (100 million)
12. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling (65 million)
13. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown (65 million)
14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling (60 million)
15. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (60 million)
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