With the caveat that it is “an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness,” Wikipedia lists nine books (one sold as a series) as having sold more than 100 million copies. For reasons listed on the site, books of a religious, ideological, or political nature (eg, the Bible, the Qur’an, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung) are excluded from the list:
- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
- The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- Le Petit Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (J. K. Rowling)
- And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
- Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
- The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- She: A History of Adventure (H. Rider Haggard)