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Best-Selling Books of the 21st Century

This list features the book that have sold the most copies from 2000—present day.

RANK

BOOK

AUTHOR

SALES

YEAR

1

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

80 million

2003

2

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J. K. Rowling

65 million

2000

3

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J. K. Rowling

65 million

2003

4

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J. K. Rowling

65 million

2005

5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowling

65 million

2007

6

Angels & Demons

Dan Brown

39 million

2000

7

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

31.5 million

2003

8

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

30 million

2005

9

The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown

30 million

2009

10

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

29 million

2008

11

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

23 million

2012

12

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

23 million

2015

13

The Shack

William P. Young

22.5 million

2007

14

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

21 million

2009

15

Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

20 million

2010

16

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

20 million

2012

17

Wolf Totem

Jiang Rong

20 million

2004

18

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

18 million

2018

20

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

15.3 million

2014


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References

Goodreads, (n.d.). Best Selling Books of All Time. [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33934.Best_Selling_Books_of_All_Time [Accessed 1 December 2025]. The Guardian, (2012). Best-selling books of all time: Fifty Shades of Grey and more. [online] Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/aug/09/best-selling-books-all-time-fifty-shades-grey-compare[Accessed 1 December 2025]. Penguin Random House, (n.d.). The bestselling books of all time. [online] Available at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-bestselling-books-of-all-time/ [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Clear, J., (n.d.). Best-selling books. [online] Available at: https://jamesclear.com/best-books/best-selling [Accessed 1 December 2025]. IGN, (n.d.). Best-selling books of all time. [online] Available at: https://www.ign.com/articles/best-selling-books-of-all-time [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Wikipedia contributors, (2024). List of best-selling books. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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