Best selling books of all time is a countable thing so we can count the popularity of the book by the number of sells of the books, but it doesn’t mean the best-selling books are the best books in literature. Here we have tried to list down the best-selling books of all time based on different demands.

Best Selling Books 2023

Here are some of the bestselling print books of the first half of 2023 according to Publishers Weekly and BookScan:

Adult

1. Spare by Prince Harry

1. It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
   
2. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
   
3. Atomic Habits by James Clear
   
4. Verity by Colleen Hoover
   

Young Adult

1. If He Has Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
2. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
3. Girl In Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
4. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
5. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Children’s

1. Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea (Dog Man #11) by Dav Pilkey
2. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
4. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
5. You’re My Little Cuddle Bug by Nicola Edwards

Based on ISBN and different demands these are the printed books that are sold most in this year.

Top 10 Best selling Books Of All Time

Here are some of the best-selling books of all time according to Guinness World Records :

1. The Bible
2. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
4. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
6. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
8. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
9. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

10 most popular books of all time

Here are some of the most popular books of all time according to Goodreads members 1:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
6. Animal Farm by George Orwell
7. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
8. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
9. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Top New York Best Seller

Here are some of the best-selling books in the United States according to The New York Times Best Seller list:

Fiction

• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
• Second Act: A Novel by Danielle Steel
• Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Nonfiction

• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
• MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards
• Down the Drain by Julia Fox
• Thicker than Water: A Memoir by Kerry Washington
• Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson

Best-Selling Romance Novels

Here are some of the best-selling romance novels according to Good Housekeeping:

• With Love, from Cold World by Alicia Thompson
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
• Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Here are some of the most popular romance novels according to Goodreads members:

• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

The best-selling book in the world

Told by the Guinness World Records, the best-selling book of all time is the Christian Bible, with an assessment of 5 billion copies sold and alloted. However, it’s worth noting that this is not an exhaustive list and there may be other books that have sold more copies but do not have comprehensive sales figures.