Best selling

**Tombrun** · March 17th, 2009

I'm gonna start this thread like most people do on every message board on the entire internet: "I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I didn't want to search the entire forum"...

I was wonder which of Stephen King's books have been his most selling of all time. Which one of his

1. Novels
2. Short story collections
3. Non-fiction books

is his best selling books? Anyone know this?

**Moderator** · March 17th, 2009

In spite of the claims made on the book covers and in articles, etc., I don't know if anyone has those statistics. To the best of my knowledge, no one has been compiling the sales figures from the various publishers (and that would also mean gathering them from the non-U.S. publishers) in a format that would give a breakdown by title.

**tillyn** · March 17th, 2009

That would be extremely interesting, i wonder if he is one of MOST, read authors? He certainly is read everywhere, and in many languages.

**Jax** · March 17th, 2009

Originally Posted by tillyn

That would be extremely interesting, i wonder if he is one of MOST, read authors? He certainly is read everywhere, and in many languages.

It would be interesting to know for sure. I would think so though. Like you said his work is everywhere, and has been translated to many languages. I would be very surprised if he was not one of the most read authors.

**LongWalker** · March 18th, 2009

I have heard that the only thing that has out sold Sai King is the Holy Bible. I don't know if it's true or not but I heard that.

**Tombrun** · March 18th, 2009

I heard the same about Lord of the rings, so I wouldn't count on it

**Srbo** · March 18th, 2009

Originally Posted by Moderator

In spite of the claims made on the book covers and in articles, etc., I don't know if anyone has those statistics. To the best of my knowledge, no one has been compiling the sales figures from the various publishers (and that would also mean gathering them from the non-U.S. publishers) in a format that would give a breakdown by title.

Ahhh..that`s too bad.
I wanted to know those figures for a long time myself.

Is there a statistic those which of his books have made it to the #1 spot on the NYT bestsellers list ?

**Moderator** · March 18th, 2009

Originally Posted by Srbo

Ahhh..that`s too bad.
I wanted to know those figures for a long time myself.

Is there a statistic those which of his books have made it to the #1 spot on the NYT bestsellers list ?

I didn't have time to verify the information, but this site has them listed.

**Srbo** · March 18th, 2009

Thanks Ms Mod.

29 of his books made it to the number 1 spot if i counted correctly.

One word:

WOW !

**Moderator** · March 18th, 2009

They even changed the rules about the list after Steve took up 6 of the #1 spots in the same week when The Green Mile was being released in installments.