The Most Popular Book Ever: The Bible

The Guinness World Records identifies the Bible as the unparalleled best-seller, boasting around 5 billion copies sold globally. This holy text’s sales figures are unmatched, with no other publication even coming close to achieving half its monumental distribution.

Coming in at a distant second is ‘Don Quixote’, with over 500,000 units sold, while ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens claims the third spot with 200 million copies. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ also makes its mark among these classics, securing a prestigious position on this list of literary heavyweights.