the top 10 best-selling fiction novels on The 25 Best-Selling Books Of All Time by IGN,

 

According to The 25 Best-Selling Books Of All Time by IGN, the definitive top fiction novels are topped by Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (~500 million copies) and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (~200 million copies). [1, 2]

Here are the top 10 best-selling fiction novels on their list:

1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (~500 million copies)
2. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (~200 million copies)
3. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (~150 million copies)
4. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (~142 million copies)
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling (~120 million copies)
6. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (~100 million copies)
7. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (~100 million copies)
8. Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin (~100 million copies)
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (~100 million copies)
10. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (~85 million copies) [1, 2, 3, 4]

You can see the full breakdown of all 25 titles on Booklisti and read about the broader Wikipedia dataset for comparison. [1, 2]

If you'd like to dive deeper, I can also provide the list for the IGN roundup of the The 10 Most Popular Fantasy Book Series' of All Time. Would you like to see those?

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