{
  "id": "best-selling-books-worldwide",
  "name": "Best-Selling Books Worldwide",
  "title": "Best-Selling Books Worldwide",
  "description": "The 172 best-selling books of all time ranked by estimated copies sold, with author, original language, and first publication year.",
  "category": "entertainment",
  "source": "https://github.com/sharmadhiraj/free-json-datasets",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/sharmadhiraj/free-json-datasets",
  "updated": "2026-04",
  "record_count": 172,
  "columns": [
    {
      "key": "rank",
      "label": "Rank",
      "type": "number"
    },
    {
      "key": "book",
      "label": "Book",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "author",
      "label": "Author",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "original_language",
      "label": "Original Language",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "first_published",
      "label": "First Published",
      "type": "number"
    },
    {
      "key": "approximate_sales",
      "label": "Approximate Sales",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "key": "genre",
      "label": "Genre",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "book": "A Tale of Two Cities",
      "author": "Charles Dickens",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1859",
      "approximate_sales": ">200 million",
      "genre": "Historical fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "book": "The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)",
      "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry",
      "original_language": "French",
      "first_published": "1943",
      "approximate_sales": "200 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "book": "The Alchemist (O Alquimista)",
      "author": "Paulo Coelho",
      "original_language": "Portuguese",
      "first_published": "1988",
      "approximate_sales": "150 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "book": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
      "author": "J. K. Rowling",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1997",
      "approximate_sales": "120 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "book": "And Then There Were None",
      "author": "Agatha Christie",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1939",
      "approximate_sales": "100 million",
      "genre": "Mystery"
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "book": "Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢)",
      "author": "Cao Xueqin",
      "original_language": "Chinese",
      "first_published": "1791",
      "approximate_sales": "100 million",
      "genre": "Family saga"
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "book": "The Hobbit",
      "author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1937",
      "approximate_sales": "100 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy, children's fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "book": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland",
      "author": "Lewis Carroll",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1865",
      "approximate_sales": "100 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy, absurdist fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "book": "She: A History of Adventure",
      "author": "H. Rider Haggard",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1887",
      "approximate_sales": "83 million",
      "genre": "Adventure"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "book": "The Da Vinci Code",
      "author": "Dan Brown",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2003",
      "approximate_sales": "80 million",
      "genre": "Mystery thriller"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "book": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets",
      "author": "J. K. Rowling",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1998",
      "approximate_sales": "77 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "book": "The Catcher in the Rye",
      "author": "J. D. Salinger",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1951",
      "approximate_sales": "65 million",
      "genre": "Coming-of-age"
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "book": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban",
      "author": "J. K. Rowling",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1999",
      "approximate_sales": "65 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "book": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire",
      "author": "J. K. Rowling",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2000",
      "approximate_sales": "65 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "book": "Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix",
      "author": "J. K. Rowling",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2003",
      "approximate_sales": "65 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "book": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince",
      "author": "J. K. Rowling",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2005",
      "approximate_sales": "65 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 9,
      "book": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows",
      "author": "J. K. Rowling",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2007",
      "approximate_sales": "65 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 10,
      "book": "The Bridges of Madison County",
      "author": "Robert James Waller",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1992",
      "approximate_sales": "60 million",
      "genre": "Romance"
    },
    {
      "rank": 11,
      "book": "One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad)",
      "author": "Gabriel García Márquez",
      "original_language": "Spanish",
      "first_published": "1967",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Magic realism"
    },
    {
      "rank": 12,
      "book": "Lolita",
      "author": "Vladimir Nabokov",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1955",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 13,
      "book": "Heidi",
      "author": "Johanna Spyri",
      "original_language": "German",
      "first_published": "1880",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Children's fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 14,
      "book": "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care",
      "author": "Benjamin Spock",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1946",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Manual"
    },
    {
      "rank": 15,
      "book": "Anne of Green Gables",
      "author": "Lucy Maud Montgomery",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1908",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Children's novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 16,
      "book": "Black Beauty",
      "author": "Anna Sewell",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1877",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 17,
      "book": "The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa)",
      "author": "Umberto Eco",
      "original_language": "Italian",
      "first_published": "1980",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Historical novel, mystery"
    },
    {
      "rank": 18,
      "book": "The Eagle Has Landed",
      "author": "Jack Higgins",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1975",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "War, thriller"
    },
    {
      "rank": 19,
      "book": "Watership Down",
      "author": "Richard Adams",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1972",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Children's fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 20,
      "book": "The Hite Report",
      "author": "Shere Hite",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1976",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "nonfiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 21,
      "book": "Charlotte's Web",
      "author": "E. B. White",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1952",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Children's fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 22,
      "book": "The Ginger Man",
      "author": "J. P. Donleavy",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1955",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 23,
      "book": "The Purpose Driven Life",
      "author": "Rick Warren",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2002",
      "approximate_sales": "50 million",
      "genre": "Bible study"
    },
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "book": "The Tale of Peter Rabbit",
      "author": "Beatrix Potter",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1902",
      "approximate_sales": "45 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "book": "Jonathan Livingston Seagull",
      "author": "Richard Bach",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1970",
      "approximate_sales": "44 million",
      "genre": "Novella, self-help"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "book": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar",
      "author": "Eric Carle",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1969",
      "approximate_sales": "43 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature, picture book"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "book": "A Message to Garcia",
      "author": "Elbert Hubbard",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1899",
      "approximate_sales": "40 million",
      "genre": "Essay/literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "book": "To Kill a Mockingbird",
      "author": "Harper Lee",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1960",
      "approximate_sales": "40 million",
      "genre": "Southern Gothic, Bildungsroman"
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "book": "Flowers in the Attic",
      "author": "V. C. Andrews",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1979",
      "approximate_sales": "40 million",
      "genre": "Gothic horror, family saga"
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "book": "Cosmos",
      "author": "Carl Sagan",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1980",
      "approximate_sales": "40 million",
      "genre": "Popular science, anthropology, astrophysics, cosmology, philosophy, history"
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "book": "Sophie's World (Sofies verden)",
      "author": "Jostein Gaarder",
      "original_language": "Norwegian",
      "first_published": "1991",
      "approximate_sales": "40 million",
      "genre": "Philosophical novel, Young adult"
    },
    {
      "rank": 9,
      "book": "Angels & Demons",
      "author": "Dan Brown",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2000",
      "approximate_sales": "39 million",
      "genre": "mystery-thriller"
    },
    {
      "rank": 10,
      "book": "Alcoholics Anonymous",
      "author": "William Griffith Wilson",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1939",
      "approximate_sales": "over 37 million",
      "genre": "Self-help"
    },
    {
      "rank": 11,
      "book": "Kane and Abel",
      "author": "Jeffrey Archer",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1979",
      "approximate_sales": "37 million",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 12,
      "book": "Fear of Flying",
      "author": "Erica Jong",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1973",
      "approximate_sales": "37 million",
      "genre": "Romantic novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 13,
      "book": "How the Steel Was Tempered (Как закалялась сталь)",
      "author": "Nikolai Ostrovsky",
      "original_language": "Russian",
      "first_published": "1932",
      "approximate_sales": "36.4 million copies in USSR",
      "genre": "Socialist realist novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 14,
      "book": "War and Peace (Война и мир)",
      "author": "Leo Tolstoy",
      "original_language": "Russian",
      "first_published": "1869",
      "approximate_sales": "36 million copies in Russia",
      "genre": "Historical novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 15,
      "book": "The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio)",
      "author": "Carlo Collodi",
      "original_language": "Italian",
      "first_published": "1881",
      "approximate_sales": "35 million",
      "genre": "Fantasy, children's fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 16,
      "book": "The Diary of Anne Frank (Het Achterhuis)",
      "author": "Anne Frank",
      "original_language": "Dutch",
      "first_published": "1947",
      "approximate_sales": "35 million",
      "genre": "Historical non-fiction, autobiography, memoir, bildungsroman / coming of age, Jewish literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 17,
      "book": "Your Erroneous Zones",
      "author": "Wayne Dyer",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1976",
      "approximate_sales": "35 million",
      "genre": "Self-help"
    },
    {
      "rank": 18,
      "book": "The Thorn Birds",
      "author": "Colleen McCullough",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1977",
      "approximate_sales": "33 million",
      "genre": "Romantic family saga"
    },
    {
      "rank": 19,
      "book": "The Kite Runner",
      "author": "Khaled Hosseini",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2003",
      "approximate_sales": "31.5 million",
      "genre": "Bildungsroman, historical fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 20,
      "book": "Valley of the Dolls",
      "author": "Jacqueline Susann",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1966",
      "approximate_sales": "31 million",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 21,
      "book": "How to Win Friends and Influence People",
      "author": "Dale Carnegie",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1936",
      "approximate_sales": "Over 30 million",
      "genre": "Self-help"
    },
    {
      "rank": 22,
      "book": "The Great Gatsby",
      "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1925",
      "approximate_sales": "30 million (\"around\")",
      "genre": "Novel, tragedy"
    },
    {
      "rank": 23,
      "book": "Gone with the Wind",
      "author": "Margaret Mitchell",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1936",
      "approximate_sales": "30 million (est.)",
      "genre": "Historical fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 24,
      "book": "Rebecca",
      "author": "Daphne du Maurier",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1938",
      "approximate_sales": "30 million (est.)",
      "genre": "Gothic novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 25,
      "book": "The Revolt of Mamie Stover",
      "author": "William Bradford Huie",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1951",
      "approximate_sales": "30 million",
      "genre": "Fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 26,
      "book": "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)",
      "author": "Stieg Larsson",
      "original_language": "Swedish",
      "first_published": "2005",
      "approximate_sales": "30 million",
      "genre": "Fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 27,
      "book": "The Lost Symbol",
      "author": "Dan Brown",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2009",
      "approximate_sales": "30 million",
      "genre": "Fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 28,
      "book": "The Hunger Games",
      "author": "Suzanne Collins",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2008",
      "approximate_sales": "29 million in US",
      "genre": "Young adult fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 29,
      "book": "James and the Giant Peach",
      "author": "Roald Dahl",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1961",
      "approximate_sales": "28 million",
      "genre": "Children's novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 30,
      "book": "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ",
      "author": "Lew Wallace",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1880",
      "approximate_sales": "26 million in 1946",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 31,
      "book": "The Young Guard (Молодая гвардия)",
      "author": "Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev",
      "original_language": "Russian",
      "first_published": "1945",
      "approximate_sales": "26 million copies in USSR",
      "genre": "Young adult historical novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 32,
      "book": "Who Moved My Cheese?",
      "author": "Spencer Johnson",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1998",
      "approximate_sales": "28 – 30 million",
      "genre": "Self-help, motivational, business fable, psychology, leadership, parable"
    },
    {
      "rank": 33,
      "book": "A Brief History of Time",
      "author": "Stephen Hawking",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1988",
      "approximate_sales": "25 million",
      "genre": "Popular science"
    },
    {
      "rank": 34,
      "book": "Paul et Virginie",
      "author": "Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre",
      "original_language": "French",
      "first_published": "1788",
      "approximate_sales": "25 million",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 35,
      "book": "Lust for Life",
      "author": "Irving Stone",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1934",
      "approximate_sales": "25 million",
      "genre": "Biographical novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 36,
      "book": "The Wind in the Willows",
      "author": "Kenneth Grahame",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1908",
      "approximate_sales": "25 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 37,
      "book": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People",
      "author": "Stephen R. Covey",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1989",
      "approximate_sales": "25 million",
      "genre": "Self-help"
    },
    {
      "rank": 38,
      "book": "Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (窓ぎわのトットちゃん)",
      "author": "Tetsuko Kuroyanagi",
      "original_language": "Japanese",
      "first_published": "1981",
      "approximate_sales": "25 million",
      "genre": "Autobiographical novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 39,
      "book": "Virgin Soil Upturned (Поднятая целина)",
      "author": "Mikhail Sholokhov",
      "original_language": "Russian",
      "first_published": "1935",
      "approximate_sales": "24 million copies in USSR",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 40,
      "book": "The Celestine Prophecy",
      "author": "James Redfield",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1993",
      "approximate_sales": "23 million",
      "genre": "New-age spiritual novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 41,
      "book": "The Fault in Our Stars",
      "author": "John Green",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2012",
      "approximate_sales": "23 million",
      "genre": "Young adult romantic novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 42,
      "book": "The Girl on the Train",
      "author": "Paula Hawkins",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2015",
      "approximate_sales": "23 million",
      "genre": "Thriller"
    },
    {
      "rank": 43,
      "book": "The Shack",
      "author": "William P. Young",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2007",
      "approximate_sales": "22.5 million",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 44,
      "book": "Uncle Styopa (Дядя Стёпа)",
      "author": "Sergey Mikhalkov",
      "original_language": "Russian",
      "first_published": "1936",
      "approximate_sales": "21 million copies in USSR",
      "genre": "Children's Literature, picture book"
    },
    {
      "rank": 45,
      "book": "The Godfather",
      "author": "Mario Puzo",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1969",
      "approximate_sales": "21 million",
      "genre": "Crime novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 46,
      "book": "Love Story",
      "author": "Erich Segal",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1970",
      "approximate_sales": "21 million",
      "genre": "Romance novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 47,
      "book": "Catching Fire",
      "author": "Suzanne Collins",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2009",
      "approximate_sales": "21 million in US",
      "genre": "Young adult novel, adventure, dystopian, science fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 48,
      "book": "Mockingjay",
      "author": "Suzanne Collins",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2010",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million in US",
      "genre": "Young Adult novel, adventure, war, science fiction, action thriller"
    },
    {
      "rank": 49,
      "book": "Kitchen (キッチン)",
      "author": "Banana Yoshimoto",
      "original_language": "Japanese",
      "first_published": "1988",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Japanese novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 50,
      "book": "Andromeda Nebula (Туманность Андромеды)",
      "author": "Ivan Yefremov",
      "original_language": "Russian",
      "first_published": "1957",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Science fiction novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 51,
      "book": "Gone Girl",
      "author": "Gillian Flynn",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2012",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Crime thriller novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 52,
      "book": "The Bermuda Triangle",
      "author": "Charles Berlitz",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1974",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 53,
      "book": "Things Fall Apart",
      "author": "Chinua Achebe",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1958",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 54,
      "book": "Wolf Totem (狼图腾)",
      "author": "Jiang Rong",
      "original_language": "Chinese",
      "first_published": "2004",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Semi-autobiographical novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 55,
      "book": "The Happy Hooker: My Own Story",
      "author": "Xaviera Hollander",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1971",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Memoir"
    },
    {
      "rank": 56,
      "book": "Jaws",
      "author": "Peter Benchley",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1974",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Thriller"
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    {
      "rank": 57,
      "book": "Love You Forever",
      "author": "Robert Munsch",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1986",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature, picture book, fiction"
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      "rank": 58,
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      "author": "Marilyn French",
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      "rank": 59,
      "book": "What to Expect When You're Expecting",
      "author": "Arlene Eisenberg and Heidi Murkoff",
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      "first_published": "1984",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
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      "author": "Mark Twain",
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      "rank": 61,
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      "author": "Sue Townsend",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1982",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
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      "author": "Jane Austen",
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      "book": "Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen)",
      "author": "Thor Heyerdahl",
      "original_language": "Norwegian",
      "first_published": "1950",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Travel literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 64,
      "book": "The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války)",
      "author": "Jaroslav Hašek",
      "original_language": "Czech",
      "first_published": "1923",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million (printed)",
      "genre": "Unfinished satirical dark comedy novel"
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    {
      "rank": 65,
      "book": "Where the Wild Things Are",
      "author": "Maurice Sendak",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1963",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Children's picture book"
    },
    {
      "rank": 66,
      "book": "The Power of Positive Thinking",
      "author": "Norman Vincent Peale",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1952",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Self-help"
    },
    {
      "rank": 67,
      "book": "The Secret",
      "author": "Rhonda Byrne",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2006",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Self-help"
    },
    {
      "rank": 68,
      "book": "Dune",
      "author": "Frank Herbert",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1965",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Science fiction novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 69,
      "book": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory",
      "author": "Roald Dahl",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1964",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Children's fantasy novel"
    },
    {
      "rank": 70,
      "book": "The Naked Ape",
      "author": "Desmond Morris",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1968",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million",
      "genre": "Social Science, Anthropology, Psychology"
    },
    {
      "rank": 71,
      "book": "Kokoro (こゝろ)",
      "author": "Natsume Sōseki",
      "original_language": "Japanese",
      "first_published": "1914",
      "approximate_sales": "20 million (as of 1994)",
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    {
      "rank": 1,
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      "author": "Delia Owens",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2018",
      "approximate_sales": "18 million",
      "genre": "Coming-of-age, murder mystery"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "book": "Follow Your Heart (Va' dove ti porta il cuore)",
      "author": "Susanna Tamaro",
      "original_language": "Italian",
      "first_published": "1994",
      "approximate_sales": "18 million",
      "genre": "Sentimental, epistolary novel"
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      "author": "Roald Dahl",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1988",
      "approximate_sales": "17 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "book": "The Book Thief",
      "author": "Markus Zusak",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2005",
      "approximate_sales": "16 million",
      "genre": "Young adult fiction"
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "book": "The Horse Whisperer",
      "author": "Nicholas Evans",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1995",
      "approximate_sales": "16 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
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      "author": "Margaret Wise Brown",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1947",
      "approximate_sales": "16 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "book": "The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte)",
      "author": "Michael Ende",
      "original_language": "German",
      "first_published": "1979",
      "approximate_sales": "16 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature"
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "book": "All the Light We Cannot See",
      "author": "Anthony Doerr",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2014",
      "approximate_sales": "15.3 million",
      "genre": "Historical fiction, war novel"
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      "rank": 9,
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      "author": "E. L. James",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2011",
      "approximate_sales": "15.2 million in the U.S.",
      "genre": "Erotica"
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      "rank": 10,
      "book": "The Outsiders",
      "author": "S. E. Hinton",
      "original_language": "English",
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      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 11,
      "book": "Guess How Much I Love You",
      "author": "Sam McBratney",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1994",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 12,
      "book": "Shōgun",
      "author": "James Clavell",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1975",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 13,
      "book": "The Poky Little Puppy",
      "author": "Janette Sebring Lowrey",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1942",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 14,
      "book": "The Pillars of the Earth",
      "author": "Ken Follett",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1989",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": "Historical fiction"
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      "rank": 15,
      "book": "Perfume (Das Parfum)",
      "author": "Patrick Süskind",
      "original_language": "German",
      "first_published": "1985",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 16,
      "book": "The Grapes of Wrath",
      "author": "John Steinbeck",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1939",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 17,
      "book": "The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento)",
      "author": "Carlos Ruiz Zafón",
      "original_language": "Spanish",
      "first_published": "2001",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 18,
      "book": "Interpreter of Maladies",
      "author": "Jhumpa Lahiri",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2000",
      "approximate_sales": "15 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "author": "Michelle Obama",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2018",
      "approximate_sales": "14 million",
      "genre": "Memoir"
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      "author": "Douglas Adams",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1979",
      "approximate_sales": "14 million",
      "genre": "Science fiction"
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      "book": "Tuesdays with Morrie",
      "author": "Mitch Albom",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1997",
      "approximate_sales": "14 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 22,
      "book": "God's Little Acre",
      "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1933",
      "approximate_sales": "14 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 23,
      "book": "A Wrinkle in Time",
      "author": "Madeleine L'Engle",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1962",
      "approximate_sales": "14 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 24,
      "book": "Long Walk to Freedom",
      "author": "Nelson Mandela",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1994",
      "approximate_sales": "14 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 25,
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      "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1952",
      "approximate_sales": "13 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 26,
      "book": "Life After Life",
      "author": "Raymond Moody",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1975",
      "approximate_sales": "13 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
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      "rank": 27,
      "book": "Momo",
      "author": "Michael Ende",
      "original_language": "German",
      "first_published": "1973",
      "approximate_sales": "13 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature"
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      "rank": 28,
      "book": "Peyton Place",
      "author": "Grace Metalious",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1956",
      "approximate_sales": "12.1 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 29,
      "book": "The Giver",
      "author": "Lois Lowry",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1993",
      "approximate_sales": "12 million",
      "genre": "Dystopian fiction"
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      "rank": 30,
      "book": "Me Before You",
      "author": "Jojo Moyes",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2012",
      "approximate_sales": "12 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 31,
      "book": "Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森)",
      "author": "Haruki Murakami",
      "original_language": "Japanese",
      "first_published": "1987",
      "approximate_sales": "12 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 32,
      "book": "The Plague (La Peste)",
      "author": "Albert Camus",
      "original_language": "French",
      "first_published": "1947",
      "approximate_sales": "12 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 33,
      "book": "No Longer Human (人間失格)",
      "author": "Osamu Dazai",
      "original_language": "Japanese",
      "first_published": "1948",
      "approximate_sales": "12 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 34,
      "book": "Man's Search for Meaning (Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager)",
      "author": "Viktor Frankl",
      "original_language": "German",
      "first_published": "1946",
      "approximate_sales": "12 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 35,
      "book": "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck",
      "author": "Mark Manson",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2016",
      "approximate_sales": "12 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
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      "rank": 36,
      "book": "The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia)",
      "author": "Dante Alighieri",
      "original_language": "Italian",
      "first_published": "1304",
      "approximate_sales": "11–12 million(during the 20th century)",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 37,
      "book": "Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy",
      "author": "Lynley Dodd",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1983",
      "approximate_sales": "11 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature, picture book"
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      "rank": 38,
      "book": "The Prophet",
      "author": "Kahlil Gibran",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1923",
      "approximate_sales": "11 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 39,
      "book": "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas",
      "author": "John Boyne",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2006",
      "approximate_sales": "11 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 40,
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      "author": "William Peter Blatty",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1971",
      "approximate_sales": "11 million",
      "genre": "Horror"
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    {
      "rank": 41,
      "book": "The Gruffalo",
      "author": "Julia Donaldson",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1999",
      "approximate_sales": "10.5 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature, picture book"
    },
    {
      "rank": 42,
      "book": "Fifty Shades Darker",
      "author": "E. L. James",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2012",
      "approximate_sales": "10.4 million in the U.S.",
      "genre": "Erotica"
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    {
      "rank": 43,
      "book": "Tobacco Road",
      "author": "Erskine Caldwell",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1932",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 44,
      "book": "Ronia, the Robber's Daughter",
      "author": "Astrid Lindgren",
      "original_language": "Swedish",
      "first_published": "1981",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
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      "rank": 45,
      "book": "The Cat in the Hat",
      "author": "Dr. Seuss",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1957",
      "approximate_sales": "10.5 million",
      "genre": "Children's literature, picture book"
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      "rank": 46,
      "book": "Diana: Her True Story",
      "author": "Andrew Morton",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1992",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 47,
      "book": "The Help",
      "author": "Kathryn Stockett",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2009",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 48,
      "book": "Catch-22",
      "author": "Joseph Heller",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1961",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 49,
      "book": "The Stranger (L'Étranger)",
      "author": "Albert Camus",
      "original_language": "French",
      "first_published": "1942",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 50,
      "book": "Eye of the Needle",
      "author": "Ken Follett",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1978",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 51,
      "book": "The Lovely Bones",
      "author": "Alice Sebold",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2002",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 52,
      "book": "Wild Swans",
      "author": "Jung Chang",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1992",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 53,
      "book": "Santa Evita",
      "author": "Tomás Eloy Martínez",
      "original_language": "Spanish",
      "first_published": "1995",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 54,
      "book": "Night (Un di Velt Hot Geshvign)",
      "author": "Elie Wiesel",
      "original_language": "Yiddish",
      "first_published": "1958",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 55,
      "book": "Confucius from the Heart (于丹《论语》心得)",
      "author": "Yu Dan",
      "original_language": "Chinese",
      "first_published": "2006",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 56,
      "book": "The Total Woman",
      "author": "Marabel Morgan",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1974",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 57,
      "book": "Knowledge-value Revolution (知価革命)",
      "author": "Taichi Sakaiya",
      "original_language": "Japanese",
      "first_published": "1985",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 58,
      "book": "Problems in China's Socialist Economy (中国社会主义经济问题研究)",
      "author": "Xue Muqiao",
      "original_language": "Chinese",
      "first_published": "1979",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
    },
    {
      "rank": 59,
      "book": "What Color Is Your Parachute?",
      "author": "Richard Nelson Bolles",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1970",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 60,
      "book": "The Dukan Diet",
      "author": "Pierre Dukan",
      "original_language": "French",
      "first_published": "2000",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 61,
      "book": "The Joy of Sex",
      "author": "Alex Comfort",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1972",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 62,
      "book": "The Gospel According to Peanuts",
      "author": "Robert L. Short",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1965",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 63,
      "book": "Life of Pi",
      "author": "Yann Martel",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2001",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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    {
      "rank": 64,
      "book": "The Front Runner",
      "author": "Patricia Nell Warren",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1974",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 65,
      "book": "The Goal",
      "author": "Eliyahu M. Goldratt",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1984",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 66,
      "book": "Fahrenheit 451",
      "author": "Ray Bradbury",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1953",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
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      "rank": 67,
      "book": "Angela's Ashes",
      "author": "Frank McCourt",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "1996",
      "approximate_sales": "10 million",
      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 68,
      "book": "The Story of My Experiments with Truth (સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા)",
      "author": "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi",
      "original_language": "Gujarati",
      "first_published": "1925–1929",
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      "genre": ""
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      "rank": 69,
      "book": "Bridget Jones's Diary",
      "author": "Helen Fielding",
      "original_language": "English",
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      "approximate_sales": "10 million (as of 2005)",
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      "book": "It Ends with Us",
      "author": "Colleen Hoover",
      "original_language": "English",
      "first_published": "2016",
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