List of Best Selling Books

A dog is man's best friend, and a book, the second best! Perhaps, one hobby that can have tremendous influence on anyone's life, is the habit of reading books. This habit proves to be a trusted guide for every child, helping him/her to lead a life full of knowledge and starred with imagination. Books help in fueling our thoughts, so that we can execute them in a wise manner. By reading different books, we get a chance to enter the world of imagination of different people; what they think, how they think! Till date, I wonder, how on earth did J. K. Rowling come up with Harry Potter? For me, this kind of work should be attributed as imagination beyond limits! I guess, such kind of imagination has made her to be included among the best selling authors...

Best Selling Books of All Time

The following list includes the names of books hailing from fiction and non-fiction genres. And they have been listed in no particular order, just to stress on the fact that none is better than the other, as every book is a work of genius and excellence in its own domain and character.

• And Then There Were None - Charles Dickens
• Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure - Glenn Beck
• 1633 - Eric Flint
• 1776 - David McCullough
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawkins
• A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
• A Meeting at Corvallis - S.M. Stirling
• A Message to Garcia - Elbert Hubbard
• A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
• A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick
• A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Daniel Handler
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
• Animal Farm and 1984 - George Orwell
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler
• At Grave's End (Night Huntress, Book 3) - Jeaniene Frost
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
• Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
• Blackwood Farm - Anne Rice
• Blood Canticle - Anne Rice
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
• Catch-22 - Joseph Helle
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
• Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
• Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Common Sense - Thomas Paine
• Critic of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
• Cross the Stars - David Drake
• Dark Angel: After the Dark - Max Allan Collins
• Dark Matter - S.W. Ahmed
• Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA - Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara
• Dear John - Nicholas Sparks
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Enemy of God (The Arthur Books #2) - Bernard Cornwell
• Eragon - Christopher Paolini
• Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences - Jeffery Long
• Game Change - John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
• Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War - Newt Gingrich
• Going Rogue - Sarah Palin
• Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
• Grendel - John Gardner
• Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
• Have A Little Faith - Mitch Albom
• Immortality - Kevin Bohacz
• Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
• In War Times - Kathleen Ann Into the Storm: Destroyermen, Book I - Taylor
• Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• James Bond - Ian Fleming
• John Adams - David McCullough
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
• Just Kids - Patti Smith
• Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
• Kisser - Stuart Woods
• Lady of Avalon (Avalon, Book 3) - Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Lavinia - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding
• Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy - Mary Stewart
• Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
• Nature of the Beast - Richard Fawkes
• Night - Elie Wiesel
• Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
• Open: An Autobiography - Andre Agassi
• Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
• Palestine Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter
• Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
• Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama - Bill O'Reilly
• Planetary Vol. 3: Leaving the 20th Century - Warren Ellis
• Push - Sapphire
• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
• Riding the Bullet - Stephen King
• Satan Burger - Carlton Mellick III
• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
• Star Wars - Various authors
• State of Denial: Bush at War - Bob Woodward
• Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan - Greg Mortenson
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• The Art of War - Sun Tzu
• The Bobbsey Twins Series - Laura Lee Hope
• The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell
• The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
• The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
• The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
• The City of God - St Augustine
• The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care - Dr. Benjamin Spock
• The Communist Manifesto - Carl Marx
• The Confessions of St Augustine ­- Augustine of Hippo
• The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
• The Devil's Punchbowl - Greg Iles
• The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
• The Elements of Style - William Strunk and E.B. White
• The Exile Kiss - George Alec Effinger
• The Federalist Papers
• The Final Empire (Mistborn, Book 1) - Brandon Sanderson
• The First Rule - Robert Crais
• The Godfather - Mario Puzo
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steibeck
• The Hardy Boys Series - Franklin W. Dixon
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• The Histories - Herodotus
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
• The Hite Report - Shere Hite
• The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Karma Hotel - Samineh Izedi Shaheem
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• The Lord of the Rings - J. R. Tolkien
• The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
• The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
• The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
• The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Principia - Sir Isaac Newton
• The Prometheus Project: Trapped - Douglas E. Richards
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
• The Republic - Plato
• The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
• The Second Virgin Birth - Tommy Taylor
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• The Ship Who Searched - Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
• The Time Cavern - Todd Fonesca
• The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life - Jehovah's Witnesses
• The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• The World Is Flat : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century - Thomas L. Friedman
• Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - And Themselves - Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• Walden - Henry David Thereau
• Weapons of Choice (The Axis of Time Trilogy, Book 1) - John Birmingham
• Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
• Worlds of Tomorrow: The Amazing Universe of Science Fiction Art - Forrest J. Ackerman and author Brad Lindweaver
• You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

Some More Good Books to Read

• A Question Of Belief - Donna Leon
• Awkward Family Photos - Mike Bender and Doug Chernack
• Breaking News: The Golden Age Of Graham Perkin - Ben Hills
• Dead in the Famil - Charlaine Harris
• Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search For Everything - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Island Beneath The Sea - Isabel Allende
• La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair With Italy And The Most Enchanting Language In The World - Dianne Hales
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
• Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter - Maria Tumarkin
• Parrot And Olivier In America - Peter Carey
• So Much For That - Lionel Shriver
• Sunday's Kitchen - Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan
• The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
• The Dog Who Came In From The Cold: Corduroy Mansions Book Two - Alexander McCall Smith
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
• The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
• The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
• The Hard Light Of Day: An Artist's Story Of Friendships In Arrernte Country - Rod Moss
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett's
• The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan's
• The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyers
• The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire - James Curran and Stuart Ward
• This Body Of Death - Elizabeth George
• What's Wrong With Anzac? The Militarisation Of Australian History - Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
• 50 Craziest Bible Stories - Andy Robb
• 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story - Don Piper
• A Year's Journey with God - Jennifer Rees Larcombe
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace
• Choosing to See - Mary Beth Chapman
• Confessions - Saint Augustine
• God Knows My Name - Beth Redman
• Her Daughter's Dream - Francine Rivers
• Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
• Seriously Funny - Adrian Plass
• The Book of Common Prayer - Thomas Cranmer
• The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel
• The Grace Outpouring - Roy Godwin
• The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come - John Bunyon
• The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
• The Shack - William P. Young

I am more than certain that the list provided above would contain the best selling books you are searching for. Cheers!