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Best-selling Books of All Time

Below is a list of the best-selling books of all time.

The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Age: 17+
Year: 1320
Pages: 928
Word count: 286,546
Sales (millions): 12
Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 0+
Year: 1946
Pages: 184
Sales (millions): 12
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Age: 17+
Year: 1958
Pages: 209
Sales (millions): 11
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
Age: 16+
Year: 1923
Pages: 96
Word count: 12,305
Sales (millions): 11
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
Age: 15+
Year: 1971
Pages: 384
Word count: 86,810
Sales (millions): 11
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Age: 16+
Year: 2003
Pages: 372
Word count: 107,000
Sales (millions): 10
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Age: 16+
Year: 2001
Pages: 326
Sales (millions): 10
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Age: 17+
Year: 1961
Word count: 174,269
Sales (millions): 10
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Age: 17+
Year: 2002
Pages: 352
Word count: 97,914
Sales (millions): 10
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Age: 12+
Year: 1993
Pages: 240
Word count: 43,617
Sales (millions): 10
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Age: 16+
Year: 1862
Pages: 1,488
Word count: 655,478
Sales (millions): 10
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
Age: 13+
Year: 1988
Pages: 212
Word count: 61,224
Sales (millions): 10
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
Age: 14+
Year: 1844
Word count: 229,523
Sales (millions): 10
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
Age: 4+
Year: 1957
Word count: 1,621
Sales (millions): 10
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Age: 15+
Year: 1991
Pages: 530
Word count: 217,980
Sales (millions): 10
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Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
Age: 16+
Year: 1978
Pages: 416
Sales (millions): 10
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Age: 14+
Year: 1719
Pages: 198
Word count: 121,375
Sales (millions): 9
Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr. Seuss
Age: 4+
Year: 1960
Pages: 65
Word count: 769
Unique word count: 50
Sales (millions): 8
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Love You Forever
by Robert Munsch
Age: 4+
Year: 1986
Pages: 32
Word count: 792
Unique word count: 166
Sales (millions): 8
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Tootle
by Gertrude Crampton
Age: 3+
Year: 1945
Pages: 24
Word count: 1,591
Sales (millions): 8

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Classic Children Books by Age
Best-selling Books of All Time
The Benefits of Reading for Kids
Why Learn English Language?
Shortest Books
Shortest Books (unique words)
Longest Books
Best way to learn English
How NOT to Learn English!
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See also:
Classic Children Books
Classic School Age Children Books
Classic Books for Teenagers
Classic Children Books by Age
Best-selling Books of All Time
The Benefits of Reading for Kids
Why Learn English Language?
Shortest Books
Shortest Books (unique words)
Longest Books
Best way to learn English
How NOT to Learn English!
CVC Words
What you need to know to learn a new language?
Why I forget what I learned?
Vocabulary Size
More...

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