Who sold more books than Agatha Christie?

Agatha Christie is one of the best-selling novelists of all time, with some 2 billion to 4 billion copies of her works sold worldwide. Her works are reportedly outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible.

It is difficult to determine the exact number of books sold by an author, but according to various sources, some authors who have sold more books than Agatha Christie include William Shakespeare, Barbara Cartland, Danielle Steel, Harold Robbins, Georges Simenon, Enid Blyton, J.K. Rowling, Sidney Sheldon, Eiichiro Oda, Gilbert Patten, Tom Clancy, Dr. Seuss, Akira Toriyama, Leo Tolstoy, Corín Tellado, Dean Koontz, and Jackie Collins.

Agatha Christie was known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, especially those centered around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie also wrote the world’s longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952. Christie died peacefully on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her home at Winterbrook House.