10 Rising Romance Bestseller Authors in India
Seems like everyone has a love story to tell? Gossiping about love and lust is so common in India that at any book store or around the corner you can find a romance novel to eke out your share of nostalgia and good moments. Post the novel ‘I Too Had a Love Story’ it seems like the race for romance genre has been actuated. Nowadays, romance novels galore on Amazon, in fact readers are spoilt for choices. And this post is going to help them in filtering a bit if it is about Romance.
For last two decades, there have been some prominent authors who have been shot into fame for writing romance novels, like Ravinder Singh, Chetan Bhagat, Nikita Singh, Durjoy Dutt, Preeti Shenoy, and so on. Well, their stuff is considered old now. The current generation of readers which has a strong facade of being millennial does not want to be limited to a handful of writers. Their search for more romance stories have made way to many newcomers, they have been into demand so much that they are becoming Amazon Bestseller since their first novel. Here go some of the new entries.
- Dipnanda Roy Bhaduri
She just made her debut with the novel ‘I am in Love with a Shudh Desi Firangi’ — a popular romance novel with snatches of spirituality in it. The novel was Amazon Bestseller for many weeks as it was released. This novel covers the story of a Bengali girl who falls in love with a white American.
2. Ajay K Pandey
Author of 16 books, after Durjoy and Ravinder Singh, he has made quite a good name for himself. His prominent books are A Girl to Remember, Her Last Wish, A Girl to Remember and many more. Anyone wants to have a name in the romance genre in India, must look at the consistency of this newly settled author.
3. Arpit Vagaria
Arpit Vageria is the bestselling author of You Are My Reason to Smile, Be My Perfect Ending and I Still Think about You. Tata Motors made a documentary featuring Arpit to inspire young generation to read interesting stories. Arpit also writes scripts for shows and award functions like India’s Best Dramebaaz, Sabse Bada Kalakar, IIFA Awards and Indian Idol.
4. Shivam Diwedi
He just made his debut with sky soaring success of his novel Two Girls — a romantic thriller. Known for engaging and bold writing, Shivam probably knows what is in demand in the contemporary romance arena. His novel Two Girls is an instant Amazon Bestseller.
5. Preety Praveen
Preety Praveen has just joined the stage of romance genre. And to pull of the string, she began with a novel based on true life events. Her debut romance novel Cross Connection joins the North India with South India. Got it! It is a love story of Simar, a girl from Punjab, and Naveen from Kerala. Staged against a good college in Salem, this is a fresh addition for the die-hard romance readers. Just after its launch in Bangalore, the novel shot into fame and also became an instant Amazon Bestseller.
6. Saif Israr
By profession, he is a visual/graphic designer. But the urge to pen down a love story amidst the political backdrop of North India, led him to pen down his first novel, It Just Required One Step. A romance thriller. It is a story of a law college student, who falls in love with a beautiful girl. But the boy Samar gets screwed up between a powerful feeling of love towards Nupur and the rising tension in the college campus due to various political reasons. The story was different from normal college campuses; thus, it rose to be an Amazon Bestseller this month for around three weeks.
7. Tarun Vikash
The author of She Stood by Me — the novel became an Amazon Bestseller just after the release and was in the charts up to recently. The novel is short and written in extremely casual and witty manner, thus, making it a pleasant read for all sorts of readers. The story has its own set of charm. Currently, he is working on other novels, some romance and some mythological fiction.
8. Ketan Modha
Ketan recently came with a romance novel of around 215 pages, named Shades of Pink. It was about a girl named Maya and her love affair with an English Cricketer touring India in 1980s. It was a great read spiced up with generational gap and women empowerment issues amidst the heat of many shocking events that turned tides for the India whole as a country. Anyway, the novel received good response at social media handles and went on to become an Amazon Bestseller in romance for some weeks.
9. Ritu Kakar
Her debut novel ‘One Precious Moment’ was released in 2018. Since then it gathered a good number of reviews at many places. The novel was based on a simple love story of a girl named Mira who explains her flashback story with Rahul in a typical love story style. The book is all about falling in love, overcoming fatal fallouts in love and rising back. Her second book Love Unexpected, released in 2020 is again all set to become a bestseller.
10. Abhiishek Mohta
From this author, who released his much highlighted romance novel ‘Once Upon Us’ was released in 2019. The novel had a terrific love story and received good response by becoming Amazon bestseller so often. He got this fame by just one romance book so far.
