In this list that we offer you today, the 100 best books in history do not appear, that is another list that you can see here if you are interested. In this article we present you the 100 best-selling books in history, 'best-sellers' or super sales, which are not always (I would dare to say almost never) sold for being excellent books ... But judging such a thing I leave it to you that you can always leave your opinion, suggestion or comment below.
Without further ado, let's get started!
- History of two citiesby Charles Dickens
- The Lord of the Ringsby JRR Tolkien
- The Little Princeby Antoine de Saint Exupery
- The Hobbitby JRR Tolkien
- I dream in the red pavilionby Cao Xueqi
- Triple representativenessby Jiang Zeming
- Ten boldby Agatha Christie
- The lion, the witch and the wardrobeby CS Lewis
- Ellaby Henry Rider Haggard
- The Da Vinci Codeby Dan Brown
- The catcher in the ryeby JDSalinger
- The Alchemistby Paulo Coelho
- The way to Christby Ellen G. White
- Heidiby Johanna Spyri
- Your sonby Dr. Benjamin Spock
- Anne of Green Gablesby Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Black beautyby Anna Sewell
- The Name of the Roseby Umberto Eco
- The Hite reportby Shere Hite
- The mischievous rabbitby Beatrix Potter
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsby JK Rowlling
- Juan Salvador Gaviotaby Richard Bach
- A message to Garciaby Elbert Hubbard
- Angels and Demonsby Dan Brown
- This is how the steel was temperedby Nikolai Ostrovsky
- Guerra y pazby León Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Pinocchioby Carlo Collodi
- You can heal your lifeby Louise Hay
- Kane and Abelby Jeffrey Archer
- 50 shades of grayby EL James
- Ana Frank's diaryby Anne Frank
- In his steps, by Charles M. Sheldon
- One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel García Márquez
- A life with purposeby Rick Warren
- The thorn birdby Colleen McCullough
- Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee
- The valley of the dollsby Jaqueline Susann
- Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
- Think and become richby Napoleon Hill
- The rebellion of Mrs. Stoverby WB Huie
- Men who did not love womenby S. Larsson
- The gluttonous caterpillarby Eric Carle
- The agony of the great planet Earthby H. Lindsey
- Who has taken my cheese?by Spencer Johnson
- The wind in the willowsby Kenneth Grahame
- 1984by George Orwell
- The Hunger Gamesby Suzanne Collins
- The Nine Revelationsby James Redfield
- The Godfatherby Mario Puzo
- Love Storyby Erich Segal
- Tótem Loboby Jiang Rong
- The happy prostituteby Xaviera Hollander
- Sharkby Peter Benchley
- I will always love youby Robert Munsch
- Only for womenby Marilyn French
- Sofia's worldby Jostein Gaarder
- What to expect when you are expectingby H. Murkoff
- Where the monsters liveby Maurice Sendak
- El secretoby Rhonda Byrne
- Fear to fly, by Erica Jong
- Good night Moonby Margaret Wise Brown
- Shogunby James Clavell
- Guess how much I love youby Sam McBratney
- The pillars of the earth, by Ken Follett
- The 7 habits of highly effective peopleby SR Covey
- How to win friends ... by Dale Carnegie
- Little poky puppyby J. Sebring Lowrey
- The perfumeby Patrick Süskind
- The man who whispered to the horsesby N. Evan
- The wind's shadowby Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The cabinby William P. Young
- On fireby Suzanne Collins
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams
- Tuesday with my old teacherby Mitch Albom
- God's plotby Erskine Caldwell
- Where the heart takes youby Susanna Tamaro
- Mockingjayby Suzanne Collins
- rebelsby Susan E. Hinton
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald Dahl
- Tokyo bluesby Haruki Murakami
- Peyton placeby Grace Metalious
- Dune, by Frank Herbert
- Plagueby Albert Camus
- Unworthy of being humanby Osamu Dazay
- The naked monkeyby Desmond Morris
- The Bridges of Madisonby Robert James Waller
- Everything falls apartby Chinua Achebe
- The profit, by Khalil Gibran
- The Exorcistby William Peter Blatty
- Trap-22by Joseph Heller
- Island of stormsby Ken Follett
- History of time, by Stephen Hawking
- The Cat in the Hatby Dr. Seuss
- From my heavenby Alice Sebold.
- Wild swansby Jung Chang
- Saint Avoid, by Tomás Eloy Martínez
- The nightby Elie Wiesel
- Kites in the skyby Khaled Hosseini
- The Analects of Confuciusby Yu Dan
- History of the futureby Taichi Sakaiya
Which of these books have you read or are you reading at the moment? I have read a total of 100 of these 18 titles. What do you think of the best-sellers of some of the books on the list? Do they deserve to have become 'best-sellers'?
I was 16, at least.
There is an old Bestseller, like from the 90s, that deals with the last wishes of a girl discouraged by medical science, who decides, together with her parents, to do some of the things she planned to do and the places she wanted to know, as she grew up . So they make a list of them and try to do them. I thought it was called Cindy's Last Wish List? Or I don't know what name. I wish you could help me find him. Greetings
19 and today I got the pdf of Sofia's World
Quite a few, not all.
The most unpleasant and ugly, El Perfume.
And many others in which I do not find the minimum literary value, such as Angels and Demons, Who has eaten my cheese ... Thank goodness they have not included The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, that would have made me lose sleep.
There are others that I will never read: fifty shades ...
Tokyo blues, kill a nightingale, trap 22 ... And more, magnificent.
De Saint-Exupery and Orwell, they have better works.
I find this report lacking in the quality of recent ones.
Hopefully in a few years there will only be the current good ones.
There's a lot of hodgepodge: science fiction, Dune. What about Clark, Rendezvous with Rama, Space Odyssey? And self-help books ...
Please!
Information is missing in the article. The best-selling in history from where, from which countries? Considering which publishers, etc.? Otherwise the title seems very arbitrary and very unprofessional. In other words, you cannot give such news without specifying statistical parameters.
Another thing, Paloma Montero, I agree with you that some books do not have the least literary value, but here it is not a question whether they are or not, but which are the best sellers, regardless of the genre to which they belong.
Hi Sebastian.
It's true, I hadn't realized it: Carmen should have specified based on what parameters that list was made. I suspect that they are the hundred best sellers in the history of the whole world.
A literary greeting from Oviedo.
I have read 25 of them, some of them amazed me because I read them many years ago. Indeed, there are good books out there and others that are not good at all, but they are the best sellers, that is clear to me. A book that has nothing of literary value but readers like it for some reason, sometimes for its message, sometimes for its story, sometimes for having erotic scenes, (that sells a lot) After reading so many years I know that the tastes in books are very different from one person to another, what one likes another may not like at all.
Hello, Armo.
You are right in what you say.
A literary greeting from Oviedo.
Do not confuse best seller with literary quality. Most do not, they reach a mass audience with a simple and accessible language that seeks to entertain rather than make people think. I believe that one can entertain with quality, without a doubt, but most do not seek that. 50 Shades is written as for a teenage audience, it is very bad if you look at it from that point of view. Now, obviously the story caught. It also amazes me that great classics continue to fight up there and I think that those of us who love good literature have a responsibility to spread and recommend great works, so that they can compete against the big marketing budgets and help people who already love to read (what which is not little at this time) to find better literary quality. Greetings!
Hello, Analía.
You're right. Very well said.
A literary greeting from Asturias.
The Hobbit, The Little Prince, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Heidi, Your Son, Juan Salvador Gaviota, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, Who Has Taken My Cheese ?, by Spencer Johnson, 1984, by George Orwell, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl.
Hi carmen.
I read 6: "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Tokyo Blues", "The Catcher in the Rye", "The Alchemist", "The Name of the Rose" and "The Godfather".
I agree with you that best-selling books are hardly ever high-quality literature or literature. The vast majority of works that appear on the list should not be on the list. Only a few books out of those hundred are good or masterpieces. I know that there will always be people who say: everyone who reads what they want and also anyone has the right to read only escape literature. All of this is true. However, I think that you can read a good book with which, apart from escaping, you learn and leave a mark on you and transform you or make you contemplate an aspect of reality from another angle or incite you to ask yourself certain questions. The books that accomplish all of this are the ones that are really worth reading. It's like food: one can eat junk food that is very tasty, but… isn't healthy food better?
For me, most of the best-selling books are, without offense, the junk food of literature.
A literary greeting from Oviedo and thank you.
Hi David.
I agree with you: I hadn't fallen for it; Carmen should have written the link where she got that list from. One can wonder, now that I think about it, whether or not that relationship is reliable. And, be careful, with this I do not attack or want to attack Carmen, of course. I say this with the utmost respect for her.
A literary greeting from Oviedo.
PS: shouldn't "Don Quixote" be on that list? I am surprised that it does not appear because although it has not been read much that has nothing to do with sales. There are books that are given away and not read.
Don Quixote is not there and there are books like Paulo Coelho and others that are not literature.
THE SECRET, read it and enjoy everything you can have in your lives.
Excellent
I have read only one. My option is to read them all. They are excellent books, worth reading.
It is an excellent list, I almost reached the half, although I do not know why there is not even a book by Torcuato Luca de Tena, greetings.