Top 5 best selling books of all time

The Bible is the most selling book of all time, selling over 6,000,000,000.  So, besides the Bible, here are the top 5 best selling books of all time.

This list put together in June of 2011, so it is pretty current.  You can view the complete list of the 101 best selling books of all time on Ranker.

Here are the Top 5 Best Selling Books of all time:




A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 1859 - Copies Sold: 200 million

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - Copies Sold: 150 million




The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937 - Copies Sold: 100 million




Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, Hsueh-Chin Tsao - Copies Sold: 100 million

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - Copies Sold: 100 million

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New York Times Best Sellers Fiction/Non-Fiction round-up

Here are the latest top 5 New York Times best sellers in the fiction and non-fiction categories.  If you would like to view the complete list, go here. 

Combined Print and Ebook, Fiction

1 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Penguin Group.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

2 SOMETHING BORROWED, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin's.) A maid of honor to her charmed friend, Rachel White has always played by the rules. But that changes on her 30th birthday.

3 10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club race to find a missing baby.

4 SUMMER SECRETS, by Barbara Freethy. (Recorded Books.) Three sailboat-racing sisters close ranks against a tenacious reporter who digs into a devastating secret from their past.

5 JUST LIKE HEAVEN, by Julia Quinn. (HarperCollins.) A Regency-era tale featuring the romantic exploits of the well-meaning but less-than-accomplished Smythe-Smith musicians.

Combined Print and Ebook, Non-Fiction

1 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.

2  IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. (Crown.) This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis centers on William E. Dodd, who became U.S. ambassador there in 1933.

3 BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey. (Little, Brown.) A memoir from the former Saturday Night Live star and creator of "30 Rock."

4 UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

5 THE GREATER JOURNEY, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster.) The historian explores the extensive intellectual legacy that France settled on its 19th-century American visitors.

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