Best Selling Books In India/ 8 Best Selling books.
Are you a books lover and finding some Best-selling books, especially of best selling books in India? That’s why you are here. So you are on the right platform. Here you will get some best-selling books (A collection of some best-selling books). Some of the all-time best-selling books in India and some are new.
Have you ever thought that how many book lovers we have? India has so many best authors and publication houses, and there are published thousands of books every year. That’s why; India has a second position in the literature world after the U.S. And also India’s books market value is estimated Rs 739 billion.
1. 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 of the stories are set in Malgudi Days; it is a fictional place in South India. Each story describes every facet of life in Malgudi. In 1986, A few stories from this book made a television series named “Malgudi Days” by director and actor “Shankar Nag.”
2. Nirmala (Munshi Premchand)
Munshi Premchand was one of India’s greatest writers. We can’t forget him and his novels. Nirmala is one of the best-selling books in India to his work. His mostly novels are best-selling novels. Nirmala is a story of a girl who married at an early age and was also forced to marry a widower of her father’s age. This marriage was held without her choice. In this book, Premchand describes the problem of the dowry system and mismatched marriage, which was the biggest issue in our society in those days. This is a very painful story of a girl who faces the problem of the dowry system and mismatched marriage. In the end, Nirmala’s death is a tremendous challenge to eradicate this sickening social practice.
3. 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 the Indian space research centre, and nuclear and missile program. He also describes his early and higher education and his journey as a scientist that how much research he did and how he becomes a Missile man and president of India.
4. Life Is What You Make It (Preeti Shenoy)
“Life is what you make it” is a novel by 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 an all-time best seller of 2011 in Times of India.
The story of a girl named Ankita who is in her 20s. The story is begun with her schooling time when she fell in love with two people named Abhi and Vaibhav. But she got confused about all of this happening to her. After some time she goes to the next high school and focuses on her study and becomes very competitive with nature. At college, she meets a boy and starts to like him. During this time she has a bad incident, and she gets very disturbed. That’s why she was affected by Bipolar Disorder and the story is all about that Ankita how handles the situation and how to overcome all challenges and live life the way she wants.
5. Her Last Wish (Ajay k. Pandey)
Life does not go according to our plan. Just like this line, you will get the story in the book “Her last wish.” A man named Vijay is a simple living and simple wishes man. His wife (Astha) brings love and happiness to his dull and boring life. But 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 fulfil them so that the remaining days of her life are filled with happiness.
What are Vijay’s wife's wishes? Does Vijay manage to fulfil the wishes of Astha?
6. The Guide (R. K. Narayan)
The Guide is written in English by R. K. Narayan in 1958. The Guide is a 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 with their relationship. The novel is one of the best-selling books in India by R.K. Narayan.
For the novel The Guide, R. K. Narayan got the Sahitya Akademi Award for English, from India’s National Academy of Letters in 1960.
7. Godan (Munshi Premchand)
“Godan” is a famous novel by “Munshi Premchand,” which was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. The book's story was written around socioeconomic deprivation and the exploitation of poor people. It was premchand’s last complete novel. Godan was made into a Hindi film in 1963 and In 2004, was also part of a 27- episode TV series,“Tehreer…. Munshi Premchand Ki” at Doordarshan based on Premchand's writing.
8. 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 reasons why maybe society does 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 then all things would be okay. But now, she is a girl and society will not accept to her for these reasons.
