Book Author(s) Original language First published Approximate sales The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter English 1902 45 million[52] Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach English 1970 44 million[53] The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle English 1969 43 million [54] A Message to Garcia Elbert Hubbard English 1899 40 million[4] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee English 1960 40 million[55] Flowers in the Attic V. C. Andrews English 1979 40 million[56] Cosmos Carl Sagan English 1980 40 million [57] Sophie's World (Sofies verden) Jostein Gaarder Norwegian 1991 40 million[58] Angels & Demons Dan Brown English 2000 39 million[59] Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer English 1979 37 million[60] How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь) Nikolai Ostrovsky Russian 1932 36.4 million copies in USSR[61] War and Peace (Война и мир) Leo Tolstoy Russian 1869 36.0 million copies in Russia[61] The Diary of Anne Frank (Het Achterhuis) Anne Frank Dutch 1947 35 million[62] Your Erroneous Zones Wayne Dyer English 1976 35 million[63][64] The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough English 1977 33 million[65] The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren English 2002 33 million[66] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini English 2003 31.5 million[67] Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann English 1966 31 million[68] The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald English 1925 30 million[69] Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell English 1936 30 million[70] Rebecca Daphne du Maurier English 1938 30 million[71] Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell English 1949 30 million[72] The Revolt of Mamie Stover William Bradford Huie English 1951 30 million[73] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) Stieg Larsson Swedish 2005 30 million[74] The Lost Symbol Dan Brown English 2009 30 million[75]