Esta página fornece uma lista de autores de ficção mais vendidos até o presente, em qualquer idioma. Embora um número preciso para qualquer autor seja quase impossível de ser calculado, a lista é baseada em números aproximados fornecidos ou repetidos por fontes confiáveis. "Best-selling" refere-se à estimativa do número de cópias vendidas de todos os livros de ficção escritas ou co-escritas por um autor. Para manter o comprimento da lista gerenciável, apenas os autores com estimativas de vendas acima de 100 milhões de livros estão incluídos. Autores de histórias em quadrinhos não estão incluídos, a menos que tenham livros reais como o mangá Tankobon.
Para alguns autores, como Miguel de Cervantes, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Júlio Verne, Rick Riordan, Jack Higgins e Leon Uris, um número exato não pode ser encontrado, embora haja indicações de que eles também têm mais de 100 milhões de cópias de seu trabalho de impressos. Eles não foram incluídos na tabela. Autor(a) Min. estimado de vendas Max. estimado de vendas Idioma original Gênero ou título Número de livros Nacionalidade Agatha Christie2 bilhõesNews.com.au on Agatha Christie: "With more than two billion copies of her 80 crime masterpieces sold there is a ready-made audience for television adaptations." (8 February 2008)4 bilhõesinglêsQuem matou?, incluindo as séries de Miss Marple e Hercule Poirot85 William Shakespeare2 bilhõesTimes Online on William Shakespeare: "Christie sold more than two billion books, translated into 103 languages. 4 bilhõesTimes Online on William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie: "Christie wrote 80 detective novels mostly featuring Poirot or Marple and it has been suggested that only the Bible and Shakespeare’s canon have outsold an estimated 4 billion copies of her books. " (15 September 2008)inglês Peças e sonetos Barbara Cartland500 milhõesThe Telegraph on Barbara Cartland: "Barbara Cartland, who, we are informed (on www.condor-sj.com), 'is the most widely read author in the world with more than 500 million books in print'?" (25 February 2007)1 bilhãoCBS News on Barbara Cartland: "Dame Barbara Cartland, 98. inglêsRomance723 Danielle Steel500 milhõesCBC on Danielle Steel: "The reclusive Steel, who lives in San Francisco and Paris, has published more than 70 bestselling romance novels, which have sold more than 500 million copies worldwide." (21 April 2010)800 milhõesForbes on Danielle Steel: "Yes, you read that right, 800 MILLION copies sold. inglêsRomance120 Harold Robbins750 milhõesThe Independent on Harold Robbins: "During his 50-year career (he died in 1997) he sold an estimated 750 million books and, in the process, transformed himself into a brand." (23 September 2008)750 milhõesUSA Today on Harold Robbins: "Starting in 1948, he sold 750 million books, including megasellers such as The Carpetbaggers, A Stone for Danny Fisher and The Betsy." (9 October 2007)inglêsAventura23 Georges Simenon500 milhõesThe Age on Georges Simenon: "With worldwide sales of 500 million, he was the most widely read living writer of his era." (14 September 2003)700 milhõesThe Wall Street Journal on Georges Simenon: "In his lifetime Simenon published some 570 books, using 17 pen names, which have sold more than 700 million copies in 40 countries and were translated into 57 languages." (1 April 2003)francêsDetetive, Comissário Maigret, romans dur570 Sidney Sheldon370 milhõesVariety on Sidney Sheldon: "A NEW MILESTONE FOR Sidney Sheldon, who has sold more than 370 million books" (6 October 1995)600 milhõesThe Columbus Dispatch on Sidney Sheldon: "He was one of the world's most translated authors, selling more than 600 million books in 180 countries."inglêsSuspense21 Enid Blyton300 milhõesEncyclopædia Britannica on Enid Blyton: "By the late 20th century her books had sold more than 300 million copies and been translated into at least 90 languages." (24 November 2007)600 milhõesThe Huddersfield DailyExaminer on Enid Blyton: "She has been translated into 90 languages, is the sixth most popular writer worldwide according to UNESCO and almost equal to Shakespeare, and has sold 600 million copies." (25 August 2008)inglêsInfantil, Noddy, Os Cinco, Os Sete800 J. K. Rowling450 milhõesThe BBC on J. K. Rowling: "The Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies through Bloomsbury in Britain, and Scholastic in the United States." (23 June 2011)500 milhõesForbes on "Harry Potter": "It and the six subsequent books have now sold 500 million copies worldwide." (31 June 2015)inglêsHarry Potter11 Dr. Seuss100 milhõesThe Daily Utah Chronicle on Dr. Seuss: "The Pulitzer Prize-winning Seuss wrote and illustrated 47 books and sold more than 100 million copies in 18 languages." (5 March 2001)500 milhõesThe New York Times on Dr. Seuss: "Today Dr. Seuss's 44 books have been translated into 21 languages, selling more than 500 million copies." (2 March 2004)inglêsInfantil44 Gilbert Patten125 milhõesSusan Edgerton e.a. in Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture page 53, on Gilbert Patten: "It is estimated that at least 125 million copies of the Frank Merriwell series (which itself ran to at least 209 books) were sold." (2004)500 milhõesLeRoy Ashby in With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830 page 145, on Gilbert Patten: "[...] the Merriwell brothers, the heroes of almost 250 children's books, whose total sales of 500 million copies surpassed those of the Bible between 1896 and 1918." (2006)inglêsAventuras adolescentes209 Eiichiro Oda500 milhões516 milhõesAnime News Network August 04, 2022 " announced on Thursday that 's manga has surpassed 500 million copies published worldwide as of the release of the manga's 103rd compiled book volume on the same day. 416,566,000 of those copies are in Japan, and 100 million copies are in 60 countries and territories outside of Japan." japonêsOne Piece107 Leo Tolstoy413 milhõesNew York Times February 15, 1987russoGuerra e Paz, Anna Karenina48 Corín Tellado400 milhõesLatin American Herald Tribune on Corin Tellado: "In the course of her life she published more than 4,000 romance novels that sold 400 million copies, which earned her a place in the Guinness Book of Records where she has been a fixture since 1994." (11 April 2009)400 milhõesAFP on Corin Tellado: "Corin Tellado, Spain's most prolific romantic novelist whose books sold over 400 million copies, died Saturday at the age of 81, three days after she finished her last novel, a hospital official said." (11 April 2009)espanholRomance4,000 Jackie Collins250 milhõesThe Chicago Tribune on Jackie Collins: "More than 250 million copies of her books have been sold to fans in more than 40 countries" (1 January 2007)400 milhõesThe Guardian on Jackie Collins: "One of the world's bestselling writers with more than 400 million books sold in over 40 countries. " (27 June 2004)inglêsRomance25 Horatio Alger, Jr.200 milhõesThe Chinook Observer on Horatio Alger, Jr.: "Americans bought 200 million copies of his dime novels -- with intriguing titles like Raggedy Dick and Sink or Swim. " (30 March 2005)400 milhõesTime magazine on Horatio Alger: "[...] that have sold from 100 million to 400 million copies, depending on which literary historian you believe." (12 February 1973)inglêsNovela barata135 R. L. Stine100 milhõesThe Hindu on R. L. Stine: "As R.L. Stine points out (and he should know, having sold over a 100 million copies of over 160 different spooky stories)" (7 September 2003)400 milhõesPittsburgh Post-Gazette on R. L. Stine: "Altogether, Stine has sold more than 400 million books." (8 April 2007)inglêsSérie Goosebumps, série Fear Street, terror, comédia430+ Dean Koontz325 milhõesThe OC Register on Dean Koontz: "Admitting to finally having found a great editor at Bantam, the author, who has sold 325 million books in 38 languages, talked about his craft. 400 milhõesDaily Pilot on Dean Koontz: "He's now the world's sixth most highly paid author, tied with John Grisham at $25 million in annual sales, and his novels have sold more than 400 million copies." (7 January 2011)inglêsTerror, suspense, ficção científica, fantasia91 Nora Roberts145 milhõesBBC on Nora Roberts: "Nora Roberts currently has 145 million books in print." (6 June 2002)400 milhõesThe Washington Post on Nora Roberts: "Today, Roberts, 61, has published her 200th novel, “The Witness,” and is at the helm of a cottage industry: about 400 million copies of her books in print..." (16 Apr 2012)inglêsRomance200+ Alexander Pushkin357 milhõesrusso Peças, poesia, prosa, Eugene Onegin17 Stephen King300 milhõesABC Australia on Stephen King: "Stephen King, author of more than 40 novels with sales of around 300 million copies, [...]" (12 November 2006)350 milhõesBBC on Stephen King: "But - after selling 350 million copies of his horror and suspense books - the author's latest work draws on a series of events which almost broke him." (22 November 2006)inglêsTerror, ficção científica, fantasia, It, O Iluminado, A Dança da Morte, Saco de Ossos, Trocas Macabras, À Espera de um Milagre70 Paulo Coelho200 milhõesL'Illustré on Paulo Coelho: "the man with 200 million books sold" (6 April 2016)350 milhõesWashington Post on Paulo Coelho: "the writer has sold an estimated 350 million books." (20 December 2016)português O Alquimista28 Louis L'Amour230 milhõesRay Broadmus Browne and Pat Browne in The Guide to United States Popular Culture page 473, on Louis L'Amour: "His books have sold over 230 million copies, making him one of the best- selling authors in modern literary history. " (2001)330 milhõesThe Jamestown Sun on Louis L'Amour: "More than 330 million copies of his books have been sold, translated into 27 languages." (29 October 2001)inglês Faroeste101 Erle Stanley Gardner100 milhõesThe New York Sun on Erle Stanley Gardner: "Erle Stanley Gardner (whose Perry Mason stories sold more than a 100 million books)" (20 July 2005)325 milhõesThe New York Times on Erle Stanley Gardner: "Gardner's books continue to be reissued regularly both here and abroad. inglêsMistério, Perry Mason140Jin Yong100 milhõesI. B.Tauris & Company on Jin Yong: "Jin Yong (1924-) is China's bestselling living novelist. 300 milhõesShue Yan Newsletter on Jin Yong: "Professor Cha adopted ‘Jin Rong’ as his pen-name for his 15 martial arts novels of which over 300 million copies have been sold to-date. chinêsWuxia15 Jirō Akagawa300 milhõesNishi-Nippon Shinbun (Japanese Language, 25 February 2007)japonêsMistério500+ Janet Dailey300 milhõesBBC AudioBooks catalogue on Janet Dailey: "Janet Dailey has written more than 100 novels and is one of the world's topselling women writers, with more than 300 million copies of her books sold in nineteen languages in ninety-eight countries" (2007)300 milhõesPamela Regis in A Natural History of the Romance Novel page 159 on Janet Dailey: "There are 300 million copies of her books in print, making her the third best-selling