Are you a books lover and finding some Best selling books, specially of best selling books in India / A collection of some best selling books? That’s why, you are here. So you are at the right platform. Here you will get some best selling books( A collection of some best selling books). Some of all time best selling books in India and some are new.
Have you ever thought that how many books lovers we have. India have so many best authors and publication houses, and there is published thousands of books every year. That’s why, India has second position in literature’s world after the U.S. And also India’s books market value estimated Rs 739 billion.
Here is some best selling books by Indian author, some of the new collection and some all time best selling books in India. I hope you will like it.
Malgudi Days (R.K. Narayan)
“Malgudi Days” is a collection of short stories, which is written by “R.K. Narayan” in 1943. The book includes 32 stories and all stories set in Malgudi Days, It is a fictional place of South India. Each story describes every facet of life in Malgudi. In 1986, A few stories of this book made a television series named of “Malgudi Days” by director and actor “Shankar Nag.”
Nirmala (Munshi Premchand)
Munshi Premchand was one of India’s greatest writer. We can’t forget him and his novels. Nirmala is one of the best selling book in India to his work. His mostly novels is the best selling novels. Nirmala is a story of a girl whose marriage in early age and also forced to marry a widower of her father’s age. This marriage held without her choice. In this book Premchand describes the problem of dowry system and mismatched marriage, which was the biggest issue of our society in those days. This is a very painful story of a girl who faces the problem of dowry system and mismatch marriage. At the end Nirmala’s death is a tremendous challenge to eradicate this sickening social practice.
Wings of fire: An Autobiography of Abdul kalam
“Wing of fire: An Autobiography of Abdul kalam” is written by A.P.J. Abdul kalam and Arun Tiwari. In this book Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, luck and chance that he faced in his life and eventually led him to lead Indian space research center, nuclear and missile program. He also describes about his early and higher education and his journey as a scientist that how many research he did and how he becomes a Missile man and president of India.
Life Is What You Make It (Preeti Shenoy)
Life is what you make it is a novel of Preeti Shenoy. It is the one of best selling books in India of her work. The book was “Top book of 2011” according to the Nielsen list published in Hindustan Times and also all time best seller of 2011 on Times of India.
The story of a girl named Ankita who is in her 20s. The story is began from the schooling time, where she fell in love of two people named Abhi and Vaibhav. But she got confused to all of happening with her. After some time she goes to the next high school and focus on her study and becoming very competitive to nature. At college she meets a boy and starting to like him. During this time she has a bad incident, and she gets very disturbed. That’s why she affected by Bipolar Disorder and the story all about that Ankita how handle the situation and how to overcome of all challenges and lives the life to this way she wants.
Her Last Wish (Ajay k. Pandey)
Life does not go according to our plan. Just like of this line, you will get the story in this book “Her last wish.” A man named Vijay, who is simple living and simple wishes man. His wife (Astha) brings love and happiness in his dull and boring life. But the problems enter in his life, when he comes to know the fatal disease of his wife and his happiness convert into sadness. His wife has some last wishes and he wants to fulfill of them that the remaining days of her life fill to the happiness.
What is Vijay’s wife wishes? Does Vijay manage to fulfill the wishes of Astha?
The Guide (R. K. Narayan)
The Guide is written in English by R. K. Narayan in 1958. The Guide is story about Raju a tour guide, who is famous among tourists. He lives in a Malgudi village, a fictional town in south India. He falls in love with a beautiful dancer, Rosie, the wife of archaeologist Marco. But his mother is not happy to their relationship. The novel is the one of the best selling books in India of R.K. Narayan.
For the novel The Guide, R. K. Narayan got the Sahitya Akademi Award for English, by India’s National Academy of Letter in 1960.
Godan (Munshi Premchand)
“Godan” is a famous novel of “Munshi Premchand,” which was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novel of modern Indian literature. The book story written around the socio-economic deprivation and the exploitation of the poor people. It was premchand’s last complete novel. Godan was made into a Hindi film in 1963 and In 2004, was also the part of a 27- episode TV series,“Tehreer…. Munshi Premchand Ki” at Doordarshan based on Premchand writing.
One Indian Girl (Chetan Bhagat)
“One Indian Girl” is a story of a twenty-seven-year-old girl, named Radhika Mehta, who grew up in Delhi and work in London. She is getting married. The girl says that she has some reason that maybe the society not like her too much, Firstly she makes a lot of money, second she has an opinion on every point and Third she has had premarital sex. She also says that if she would be a man than all the things would be okey. But now, she is a girl and the society will not accept to her with these reasons.
The God of Small Thing (Arundhati Roy)
“The God of Small Thing” is a first novel that written by Arundhati Roy. It was published In 1997 in English language. It is a story about the childhood experience of fraternal twins, whose lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws.” Roy also explained in this book that how the small things affect people’s lives and their thinking method. The novel won the Booker Prize in 1997. The efficiency of the story was first recognized by Pankaj Mishra, an editor with Harper Collins, he sent it to three British publishers and Roy got £500,000 in advance and rights to the book were sold in 21 countries. This is a best selling books in India and also in other countries.
Wake Up, Life Is Calling You (Preeti Shenoy)
“Wake up, life is calling you” is a sequel of Preeti Shenoy book “Life is what you make it.” Her first book was the best selling books in India, which was based on mental illness. The story of this book starts from at the end of “Life is what you make it.” “Wake up, life is calling you” is Ankita’s story after treatment of bipolar disorder. Now she is completely fine and lives happily with her parents. She starts a new life and joins in a creative writing class. She makes new friends at college named Parul andJanki. But the problem does not leave behind her and this one of the reason her Ex-boyfriend who bringing more troubles in her life. But she fights desperately to all negativity around her. How does Ankita face second time to all of this situation? So this is not any kind of simple story, In this book we know that how the problem creates around us and how should face them with strong will power.
A Girl To Remember (Ajay k Pandey)
The story starts with a man named “Neel,” who is the teacher of most reputed school in Pune. But his job and shelter in the hostel into trouble. In this time he meets to a teenager girl (Pihu), and she offers him to live into her house as a tenant. Her extra affection irritates Neel, but his need of a place to live makes him to force to go with her. When Neel goes to her house, he meets to her mother (Annu), she is a young, independent woman and a widow, he finds to himself to attract toward her. When he lives at that place, he finds something wrong about them, which reason he dismissal to his job. At the end you come to know that what happened with Neel, which he had to leave his job.
Wish I Could Tell You (Durjoy Datta)
Ananth is the main character of this story, who believes in good things and also believes in good people. He always wants to help with needy person. That’s why he joins an “NGO” and helps the people. Mohini is the second main character of our story. She is a writer and she wants to write a story, but she does not find a character for her story. So she joins the same organization, where Ananth already join. What happen, when they meet to each other and do they find their destination?
You Are My Reason To Smile (Arpit Vageria)
“You are my reason to smile” is a book on simple love story. The story is about a young and talented writer named Ranbir, who want to become the best selling author and also about a girl (Adah) who is the girlfriend of Ranbir. Ranbir loves so much to Adah and want to do any sacrifices to make her happy. But Adah cheats to him and meets to her ex. Even after so much resistance of Adah, Ranbir publishes his first book. What happens next, will Adah leave to her ex and come back to Ranbir?
Three Thousands Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives (Sudha Murty)
“Three thousand stitches” book is inspired by Sudha Murty’s life and there are eleven short stories. Each story has different plot and delivers different message. The first story is about Devadasis who are the traditional musician and dancer. But later their use only in form of sex worker. Sudha wants to change on their life, so when she takes some important step for their without any preparation than she gets nothing else to “Chappal.” The second story name is “How to beat the boys”, How she fights for becoming a first female engineer in engineering college and becomes an engineer. Next story is “Food for thought,” Next is “Three handfuls of water”, “Cattle class”, “A Life unwritten”, “No place like home”, “A powerful ambassador”, “Rasleela and the swimming pool”, “A day in Infosys”, “We can’t, we can”, these all are the other stories.
Legend of suheldev: The king who saved India (Amish Tripathi)
The story starts to 1025 AD in India. When Mahmud Ghazni and his Barbaric Turki arms repeated attack on India and he damaged to most of part. The invaders did plundering, killing, raping, pillaging. The turk also attacked and destroy to India’s one of most holiest temple the Lord Shiva temple at somnath. And then For stopping to all of these fierce rebellion, come a king and save the Nation, Named King Suheldev. Legend of Suheldev is Adventures and braves story based on the true events and feels us the bravery of the great warrior and the magnificent battle of Bahraich.
You Are The Best Friend (Ajay K. Pandey)
“You are the best friend” is the sequel of the book “You are the best wife.” Which was the best selling book of Author. In the first part he wrote the story about him and Bhavana that how they met, falling in love and how they convinced to their parents and got married. In this book the author writes about the story after the death of Bhavana, that he was in depression and he lost his all friends and relative. He tries to look happy in front of his parents. After that Anisha comes in his life and they make a good friend then she tries to help him to solve his all problems and also helps him to publish his first book. Anisha played the vital role in his life after Bhavana’s death.
You are the best wife and You are the best friend both are the best selling Books of Ajay’s collections.
Everyone Has A Story (Savi Sharma)
“Everyone has a story” is an inspirational romance novel, whose written by Savi Sharma. This was the author’s debut novel and was self published, best selling books. This is the story of four people whose name “Meera, Vivaan, Kabir, Nisha” and they all have their own story. “Everyone has a story” is about Meera, she wants to write a story and She is searching a story, but she has no idea that where she finds it. Then she meets to Vivaan, who is a successful banker and has some secret desire, and they come close. After that A coffee shop manager named Kabir, he is the friend of Meera and also always encourages to her write. Finally, there is a girl named Nisha and she falls in love of Kabir and soon propose to him.
The Rudest book ever (Shwetabh Gangwar)
“The Rudest book ever” written by “Shwetabh Gangwar.” He is known youtuber as Mensutra, where he posts the videos related the problem of youth that how to overcome them. In this book he describes that how our society and workplace people controlled us. It is a motivational book, which we can feel the situation to our actual life.
Life’s Amazing secrets: How to find balance and purpose of life (Gaur Gopal Das)
“Life’s Amazing secrets” is a nonfiction and motivational book and India’s one of best selling books, which written by “Gaur Gopal Das.” This book focuses on Human condition to finding one’s purpose in life and the key of happiness. In this book the author also describes that how to strong our relationship, discovering your true potential and how to improve your work or yourself.
India’s Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 (Bipin Chandra)
The struggle of Independence of India and the movement of Independence is shown in this book. Bipin Chandra wrote very depth and details overview on India’s struggle for Independence. The Indian freedom struggle is the one of the most important chapter of India’s history. There are many books, written notes and stories about it, but something missing to all of them and that’s Bipin Chandra wrote in his book. He also described that what impact made of this struggle on the people. This book describes the bravery of Mangal Panday and great effort of Queen Laxmi Bai. In this book also explained some historical work of Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose’s heavy weapon tactics and his charisma. This book is also good for those students who are preparing of Government services and also good for history lovers.
So that is a list of 20 Best selling books in India and other countries, there are many more best selling books in India rest of it. We will cover it in another blog. I hope you will like it.
