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Top 10 best-selling books of all time

Daily Tens #38 · Thursday, August 20, 2026 · Ranked by estimated copies sold, single volumes only

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The answers

  1. 1 Don Quixote
  2. 2 A Tale of Two Cities
  3. 3 The Little Prince
  4. 4 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  5. 5 And Then There Were None
  6. 6 Dream of the Red Chamber
  7. 7 The Hobbit
  8. 8 She: A History of Adventure
  9. 9 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  10. 10 The Da Vinci Code

Sources & methodology

Metric
Estimated copies sold, single volumes only
Data through
2024
Source
Wikipedia: List of best-selling books
Notes
Excludes religious and political works that were distributed rather than sold, and counts single volumes rather than whole series.

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