The SFF All-Time Sales List

[lauren$77]

All this is true, but I don't feel that 'lots' constitutes a large percentage. After all people who post reviews of books they haven't read are normally punishing the book for perceived crimes - so they're the 1* brigade - nobody reviews a book they've not read to give it 3* or 4* ... and even if every 1* of my debut (for example) was a fake review... it's still only 3% (and while there are obvious fakes there - I suspect it's a small (10%?) percentage of that 3%).

Oh go on please make a graph!

 

[Werthead]

Update:

1) J.K. Rowling (c. 450 million)
2) Stephen King (c. 350 million)
3) JRR Tolkien (c. 300 million)
[Dean Koontz (c. 200 million)]
[Michael Crichton (200 million)]
4) Anne Rice (136 million)
5) CS Lewis (120 million+)
6) Stephanie Meyer (116 million)
7) Edgar Rice Burroughs (100 million+)
8) Sir Arthur C. Clarke (100 million+)
9) Andre Norton (90 million+)
10) Sir Terry Pratchett (85 million+)
11) Robert Jordan (80 million+)
[John Saul (60 million+)]
12) James Herbert (54 million+)
13) Richard Adams (50 million+)
14) Suzanne Collins (50 million+)
[Dennis Wheatley (50 million)]
[Jean M. Auel (45 million)]
[Morgan Llywelyn (40 million)]
15) Christopher Paolini (39 million)
16) Michael Ende (35 million)
17) Charlaine Harris (32.5 million)
18) Stanislaw Lem (30 million+)
19) R.A. Salvatore (30 million+)
20) Sherrilyn Kenyon (30 million+)
21) Robert Heinelin (30 million+)
22) George R.R. Martin (28 million+)
23) Kaoru Kurimoto (28 million)
24) Terry Brooks (26.5 million)
25) George Orwell (25 million+)
26) Marion Zimmer Bradley (25 million+)
27) Darren Shan (25 million+)
28) Terry Goodkind (25 million+)
29) Diana Gabaldon (25 million)
30) Cassandra Clare (24 million)
31) Kevin J. Anderson (23 million)
32) Eoin Colfer (21 million)
33) Isaac Asimov (20 million+)
34) Margaret Weis (c. 20 million)
35) Tracy Hickman (c. 20 million)
36) Brian Jacques (c. 20 million)
37) Kazumasa Hirai (c. 20 million)
38) Raymond E. Feist (20 million+)
39) Michael Moorcock (20 million)
40) Mercedes Lackey (20 million)
41) David Eddings (18 million+)
42) Frank Herbert (18 million)
43) Hideyuki Kikuchi (18 million)
44) Anne McCaffrey (18 million+)
45) Tad Williams (17 million)
46) Larry Niven (17 million)
47) Douglas Adams (16 million)
48) Brandon Sanderson (15 million+) (12 million WoT)
49) Rick Riordan (15 million)
50) Philip Pullman (15 million)
51) Yoshiki Tanaka (15 million)
52) Timothy Zahn (15 million)
53) Diana Wynne Jones (10 million+)
54) Robert E. Howard (10 million+)
55) Stephen Donaldson (10 million)
56) Neil Gaiman (10 million + )
57) Alice Sebold (10 million+)
58) Madeline L'Engle (10 million+)
59) Jerry Pournell (10 million+)
60) Chris Bunch (10 million+)
61) Allan Cole (10 million+)
62) Peter Straub (10 million+)
63) Frederik Pohl (10 million+)
64) Cyril M. Kornbluth (10 million+)
65) Gordon R. Dickson (10 million+)
66) Ray Bradbury (8 million+)
67) Christopher Golden (8 million+)
68) F. Paul Wilson (8 million+)
[Bernard Cornwell (7 million+)]
69) David Weber (7 million)
70) Orson Scott Card (7 million+)
71) Roger Zelazny (6.5 million+)
72) William Gibson (6.5 million+)
73) Peter S. Beagle (6 million+)
74) Gregory Maguire (6 million+)
74) Laurell K. Hamilton (6 million+)
76) Jim Butcher (6 million+)
77) Jonathan Stroud (6 million+)
78) Barbara Hambly (6 million+)
79) L. Frank Baum (5 million+)
80) Daniel Keyes (5 million+)
81) Garth Nix (5 million)
82) Robert R. McCammon (5 million+)
83) Vonda N. McIntyre (5 million+)
84) Audrey Niffenegger (5 million+)
85) Sergei Lukyanenko (5 million+)
86) Frank Schatzing (4.2 million+)
87) Fritz Leiber (4 million+)
88) Lian Hearn (4 million)
89) David Drake (4 million)
90) Veronica Roth (4 million)
91) Tamora Pierce (4 million+)
92) Aaron Allston (3.3. million+)
93) Robert Harris (3 million+) (SF only)
94) Alan Dean Foster (3 million+)
95) Ursula K. Le Guin (3 million+)
96) Guy Gavriel Kay (3 million)
97) Lloyd Alexander (3 million)
98) Dan Abnett (3 million+)
99) John Ringo (3 million)
100) Joe Abercrombie (3 million)
101) Margaret Atwood (3 million+) (SF only)
102) Robert Silverberg (3 million+)
103) Eric Flint (3 million)
104) Scott Westerfield (3 million+)
105) Robert Asprin (3 million)
106) Rick Hautala (3 million+)
107) Brian Lumley (3 million+)
108) Neal Stephenson (3 million+)
109) Simon R. Green (2.7 million)
110) Kim Stanley Robinson (2.5 million+)
111) Harry Turtledove (2.5 million)
112) S.M. Stirling (2.5 million)
113) Michelle Paver (2.5 million+)
114) Max Brooks (2.4 million+)
115) James Dashner (2.3 million+)
116) Susan Cooper (2 million+)
117) Hans Dominik (2 million+)
118) Peter F. Hamilton (2 million+)
119) Brent Weeks (2 million)
120) Andrzej Sapkowski (2 million+)
121) Lois McMaster Bujold (2 million)
122) Katherine Kurtz (2 million)
123) Trudi Canavan (2 million+)
124) Stephen Lawhead (2 million+)
125) Robert Rankin (2 million+)
126) Maggie Stiefvater (2 million+)
127) Gregory Benford (2 million+)
128) Greg Bear (2 million+)
129) Jacqueline Carey (2 million+)
130) Piers Anthony (2 million+)
131) L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (2 million+)
132) David Gemmell (2 million+)
133) Justin Cronin (2 million+)
134) Kevin Crossley-Holland (2 million+)
135) Melanie Rawn (1.8 million+)
136) Jennifer Roberson (1.7 million)
137) Elizabeth Moon (1.5 million+)
138) Deborah Harkness (1.5 million+)
139) Susanna Clarke (1.5 million+)
140) Markus Heitz (1.5 million+)
141) Libba Bray (1.5 million+)
142) Seth Grahame-Smith (1.4 million+)
143) Dan Simmons (1.25 million+)
144) Stan Nicholls (1.25 million+)
145) Naomi Novik (1.2 million+)
146) Jack Campbell (1.2 million+)
147) Tanya Huff (1.2 million+)
148) Iain M. Banks (1.1 million+) (SF only)
149) Kelley Armstrong (1 million+)
150) Samuel R. Delany (1 million+)
151) Ed Greenwood (1 million+)
152) Paul S. Kemp (1 million+)
153) Connie Willis (1 million)
154) Sara Douglass (1 million)
155) Robin Hobb (1 million+)
156) Steven Erikson (1 million+)
157) Alastair Reynolds (1 million+)
158) Jasper Fforde (1 million+)
159) Ian Irvine (1 million+)
160) Richard A. Knaak (1 million+)
161) Katherine Kerr (1 million+)
162) Dave Duncan (1 million+)
163) A.C. Crispin (1 million+)
164) Hugh Howey (1 million+)
165) Joe Haldeman (1 million+)
166) Glen Cook (1 million+)
167) David Brin (1 million+)
168) Henry N. Beard (1 million+)
169) Douglas C. Kenney (1 million+)
170) Alexey Pehov (1 million+)
171) John Gregory Betancourt (1 million+)
172) Jo Clayton (1 million+)
173) Christie Golden (1 million+)
174) Drew Karpyshyn (1 million+)
175) David Mitchell (1 million+)
176) Ransom Riggs (1 million+)
177) Elizabeth Haydon (1 million+)
178) Peter V. Brett (925,000)
179) Chris Wooding (750,000+)
180) William King (750,000+)
181) Erin Morgenstern (650,000+)
182) Janny Wurts (500,000+)
183) Kevin Hearne (500,000+)
184) Alison Croggon (500,000+)
185) Michael Gerber (500,000+)
186) Hugh Cook (500,000+)
187) Gail Carriger (400,000+)
188) Gail Z. Martin (400,000+)
189) Lawrence Watt Evans aka Nathan Archer (400,000+)
190) Ben Aaronovitch (400,000+)
191) Lynn Flewelling (350,000)
192) Kate Elliott (300,000+)
193) Ernest Cline (300,000)
194) Mark Smith aka Jonathan Wylie aka Julia Gray (300,000+)
195) Julia Smith aka Jonathan Wylie aka Julia Gray (300,000+)
196) Scott Lynch (300,000+)
197) J.V. Jones (250,000+)
198) Mark Lawrence (250,000+)
199) Michael J. Sullivan (250,000+)
200) Karen Miller (250,000+)
201) Sharon Lee (250,000+)
202) Steve Miller (250,000+)
203) Karen Russell (210,000+)
204) James Barclay (200,000+)
205) R. Scott Bakker (200,000+)
206) Paolo Bacigalupi (200,000+)
207) Jaye Wells (200,000+)
208) David Dalglish (175,000+)
209) Daniel H. Wilson (160,000+)
210) Adam Roberts (150,000+)
211) Glen Duncan (150,000+)
212) Glenda Larke (120,000+)
213) James Lovegrove (100,000+)
214) Tom Lloyd (70,000+)
215) Russell Kirkpatrick (70,000+)
216) Hannu Rajaniemi (40,000+)

 

[nixie]

37 for me sorry 38 missed James Herbert.