Top 10 Best-Selling Fiction Authors of All Time

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Please Note: This list was taken from The Guinness Book of World Records in 2010.

Top 10 Best-Selling Fiction Authors of All Time

10. J.K Rowling– 400 million copies

9. Leo Tolstoy – 413 Million copies

8. Gilbert Pattern(William George Gilbert Pattern) – 500 Million copies

7. Dr. Seuss(Theodore Seuss Geisel) – 500 million copies

6. Danielle Steel – 570 million copies

5. Enid Blyton– 600 million copies

4. Georges Simenon– 700 million copies

3. Harold Robbins– 750 million copies

2. Barbara Cartland– 1 billion copies

1. Agatha Christie– 4 billion copies

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