8 Books That Sold More Than 100 Million Copies

1.

Book: A Tale of Two Cities

Author : Charles Dickens

Original Language: English

First Published : 1859

Approximate Sales : 200 million

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several characters through these events. 

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2.

Book: The Lord of the Rings
(sometimes considered a series)

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien

Original Language: English

First Published : 1954–1955

Approximate Sales : 150 million

The title of the novel refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron,^{[note 1]} who had in an earlier age created the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth. From quiet beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land not unlike the English countryside, the story ranges across northwest Middle-earth, following the course of the War of the Ring through the eyes of its characters, the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise "Sam" Gamgee, Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck and Peregrin "Pippin" Took, but also the hobbits' chief allies and travelling companions: the Men Aragorn, a Ranger of the North and Boromir, a Captain of Gondor; Gimli, a Dwarf warrior; Legolas, an Elven prince; and Gandalf, a Wizard.

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3.

Book: Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Original Language: French

First Published : 1943

Approximate Sales : 140 million

The Little Prince is a poetic tale, with watercolour illustrations by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes social criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. It was written during a dark, restless, but productive period for Saint-Exupéry after he fled to North America subsequent to the Fall of France during the Second World War, witnessed first hand by the author and captured in his memoir Flight to Arras.^[11] The adult fable, as described in one review, is actually "...an allegory of Saint-Exupéry's own life—his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood....", plus his enduring love for his wife Consuelo "but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship.

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4.

Book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Author :  J. K. Rowling

Original Language: English

First Published : 1997

Approximate Sales : 107 million

The plot follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage, as he makes close friends and a few enemies in his first year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just one year old.

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Practice Tough Love by Robin Sharma- From The Book Who Will Cry When You Die

Who Will Cry When You Die

The golden thread of highly successful and meaningful life is self-discipline.

Discipline allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do

but never feel like doing. Without self-discipline, you will not set clear goals,

manage your time effectively, treat people well, persist through the tough times,

care for your health, or think positive thoughts.

I call the habit of self-discipline “Tough Love” because getting tough with yourself

is actually a very loving gesture. By being stricter with yourself begin to live life

more deliberately, on your own terms rather than simply reacting to life the way

 a leaf floating in a stream drifts according to the flow of the current on a particular day.

As I teach in one of my seminars, the tougher you are on yourself,

the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality

of your choices and decisions, ones that range from the career you choose

to pursue to the books you read, the time that you wake up every morning,

and the thought you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently

flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones

(rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life.

When you consistently flex your willpower

by making those choices that you know are the right ones

(rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life.

Effective, fulfilled people do not spent their time doing what most convenient and comfortable.

They have the courage to listen to their hearts and to do wise thing.

This habit is what makes them great.

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to so,”

remarked essayist and thinker E.M Gray.

“They don’t like doing them either, necessarily.

But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose”.

The 19^th-century English writer Thomas Hendry Huxley arrived at similar conclusion, noting:

“ Perhaps, the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself

do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not”.

And Aristotle made this point of wisdom in yet another way:

“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it:

men come to builders, for instance, by building,

and harp players, by playing the harp. In the same way,

by doing just acts we come to be just;

by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be brave.”

Who Will Cry When You Die?