All the Light We Cannot See was published on May 6, 2014,[31] by Scribner, with a print run of 60,000 copies to commercial success. By December 2014, the book had been reprinted 25 times, with 920,000 copies produced in total.[2] It was on The New York Times Best Seller list for over 200 weeks,[32] entering the list a few weeks after its publication. It sold well throughout the year; sales tripled after the novel lost the National Book Award to Redeployment (2014). In the run-up to Christmas that year, it was out of stock on Amazon and other booksellers.[2] On Nielsen BookScan's rankings of adult fiction novels, All the Light We Cannot See was listed as the 20th-best-selling novel of 2014, selling 247,789 units;[33] the fourth-best-selling novel of 2015 with sales of 1,013,616 units;[34] and the tenth-best-selling novel of 2016 with sales of 366,431 units.[35] The Millions reported sales of All the Light We Cannot See reached two million copies in March 2016.[36] In January 2021, Publishers Weekly reported All the Light We Cannot See had sold 5.5 million copies in North America and 9.3 million copies worldwide.[37] By September 2021, the novel had sold over 15 million copies.[32][38] Anthony Doerr found the novel's popularity unexpected due to it featuring a sympathetic Nazi and containing intricate passages about technology.[2]
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