List of best-selling novels of all time?

October 23, 2004 11:34 AM

IMDB.com has a list of top-grossing movies of all time. Is there a similar list of best-selling novels anywhere? The DaVinci Code topped the lists for ages...but does it approach the record?
posted by rushmc to Writing & Language (6 answers total)

There's this which is about books rather than novels (the bible being no. 1).

The question was also asked and answered on Google answers here .
posted by icetaco at 12:44 PM on October 23, 2004

Why did that all come out bold? Hmm.
posted by icetaco at 12:45 PM on October 23, 2004

Um, The Valley of the Dolls is more popular than the Qu'ran? I don't think so.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 1:41 PM on October 23, 2004

BoxOfficeMojo, perhaps?
posted by Hankins at 2:16 PM on October 23, 2004

Um, The Valley of the Dolls is more popular than the Qu'ran? I don't think so.

Yeah, that list has kind of a shitty organizing priniciple: if they're counting all the different versions of the Bible as one book, they need to so that for the Qu'ran, Don Quixote, etc.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 3:53 PM on October 23, 2004

"they need to so that for the Qu'ran, Don Quixote, etc."

Perhaps they did.
posted by mischief at 8:57 PM on October 23, 2004