Authors
The Best Selling Fiction Authors of all Time
A list of the most popular best selling fiction authors of all time ranked by how well their books have sold. Obviously, many of those books have gone on to become classics. With the introduction of the Nook, Kindle, and iPad with iBooks, reading is hot again. The writers on this list wrote everything from pulp fiction novels to literature still revered to this day. This list is intended to help long-time readers, and newcomers alike with discovering (and rediscovering) some of the best selling novelists the world has ever seen.
Also, please note that this list only includes fiction writers with sales figures that could at least be estimated.- 1Estimated Sales: 4 Billion
- 2Estimated Sales: 4 Billion
- 3Estimated Sales: 1 Billion
- 4Estimated Sales: 750 Million
- 5Estimated Sales: 700 Million
- 6Estimated Sales: 600 Million
- 7Estimated Sales: 600 Million
- 8Estimated Sales: 600 Million
- Estimated Sales: 500 Million
- 10Estimated Sales: 500 Million
- 11Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsAmazonEstimated Sales: 450 Million
- 12Estimated Sales: 413 Million
- 13Estimated Sales: 400 Million
- 14Estimated Sales: 400 Million
- 15Estimated Sales: 400 Million
- 16Estimated Sales: 400 Million
- 17Estimated Sales: 400 Million
- 18Amazon
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Estimated Sales: 357 Million - 19Estimated Sales: 350 Million
- 20Estimated Sales: 330 Million
- 21Estimated Sales: 325 Million
- 22Amazon
Jin Yong
Estimated Sales: 300 Million - 23Amazon
Jirō Akagawa
Estimated Sales: 300 Million - 24Estimated Sales: 300 Million
- 25Estimated Sales: 300 Million
