Indian Authors Who Rule Book Sales

Indian Authors Who Rule Book Sales

These are the 10 best Indian authors who have sold their books in millions. Their books also helped to inspire and motivate many people with their thoughtful and meaningful ideas. The following are the best authors in India :

AMISH TRIPATHI

Amish Tripathi is an author. He was born in Mumbai on 18 October 1974 and grew up near Rourkela which is in Odisha. Also he is known as speciality in genre historical and mythological- fiction. He is known for  his famous books series which are the shiva trilogy and the ram chandra series .

Shiva trilogy has the first fastest selling book series in Indian publishing history. His first novel, The immortals of meluha and his first shiva trilogy was published in February 2010 and second book of the series,The secret of the nagas was released in August 2011. And finally the third title was, The oath of the vayuputras was released February 2013.

Ram Chandra has the second fastest selling book series in Indian publishing history. The first was The Scion of Ikshvalu and it was released in June 2015. Second was sita : warrior of Mithila. This was a sequel to The Scion of Ikshvalu and this was released in May 2017. Also it became the highest selling book of 2017. The third book was Raavan :The enemy of Aryavarta which was released in July 2019. The final fourth book of the Ram Chandra series was, War of Lanka and that was released on 3 October 2022.

These are two books of Amish Tripathi which sold over 8 millions copies and been translated in 20 Indian and international languages.

Bestselling Books & Series:

• The Immortals of Meluha

• The Secret of the Nagas

• The Oath of the Vayuputras
  (Shiva Trilogy)

• Scion of Ikshvaku

• Sita: Warrior of Mithila

• Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta

• War of Lanka
  (Ram Chandra Series)

ARUNDHATI ROY

Arundhati Roy born on 24 November 1961 in Shillong which is located in Assam. She is an author. She is known for her genre fiction and non- fiction. Also she is an activist fighting for the rights of human and environmental causes.

Her novel The God of Small Things was published in 1997. which won the Booker prize of fiction in the same year of publishing 1997 and became the best selling book.

Her book has sold over 6 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages, achieving widespread critical and commercial success.

Bestselling Book:

• The God of Small Things

CHETAN BHAGAT

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter and YouTuber. He was born on 22 April 1974 in New Delhi, India. He is known for his genre romance, realistic fiction, non- fiction, thriller and suspense work.
Also many people know him from Time magazine ‘ s and list of 100 most influential in the world in 2010. His first novel was Five Point Someone, which was published in 2004.

In 2005 he published his second novel book which was One Night At The Call Centre.

His third book, The 3 mistakes of life and the fourth was 2 States was published in 2009 and it was an inspiration from his marriage.

Chetan Bhagat is one of the highly successful whose books have sold over 12 million copies in print in English and Indian languages and several have been adapted into popular Bollywood films.

Bestselling Books:

• Five Point Someone

• One Night @ the Call Center

• The 3 Mistakes of My Life

• 2 States

• Half Girlfriend

VIKRAM SETH

Vikram Seth is a well known Indian novelist and poet. He is the author of three novels and several collections of poetry and he was born 20June 1952 in Calcutta, west bengal india. He has been a recipient of the Padma Shri, and sahitya akademi award. Also he is regarded as one of the greatest Indian writers in English of all time and he is known for his genre like: Novel, poetry, libretto, travel writing, children’s literature, biography/ memoirs.

His first novel is The Golden Gate which was published in 1986.

And his second book was An Equal Music, the novel was published on 8 April 1999.

The third novel was A Suitable Boy which was published in 1993 with 1,349 pages and The English language Book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume.

Bestselling Books:

• A Suitable Boy

• The Golden Gate

• An Equal Music

KHUSHWAST SINGH

Khushwast Singh was a great Indian author but on the other hand he was also a lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. He was in partition of India in 1947 that experience inspired him to become a writer.

His first novel released in 1956 The Train To Pakistan, which also made into film in 1998, and then it’s become his most well known novel.

As a writer, he was best known for his trenchant secularism, humour, sarcasm and an abiding love of poetry; also he served as the editor of several literacy and news magazines, as well as two newspapers through the 1970s and 1980s.

He had received many awards for doing great work like: Padma Bhushan in 1974 and Padma Vibhushan for the second highest civilian award in India.

Bestselling Book:

• Train to Pakistan

JHUMPA LAHIRI

Jhumpa Lahiri is a  American Indian authors and her real name is Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri. She was born July 11, 1967 in London , England. She is well known for her short stories, novels and essays in English.

Her debut collection of short stories was, Interpreter of maladies released in 1999 and this is her best selling work, with over 15 million copies sold worldwide.

Her first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003 and it was adopted into the popular film of the same name.

Her second novel, The Lowland published in 2013 this book was the finalist for both the award. The Man Booker Prize Award and The National Book Award for fiction.

Jhumpa Lahiri has won the award of The National Humanity medal in 2014 and she was a professor of creative writing at Princeton University from 2015 to 2022.

Bestselling Books:

• Interpreter of Maladies

• The Namesake

• The Lowland

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He was born 7 May 1861 in Jorasarko Thakur Bari, Bengal. He was the author of the profoundly sensitive and beautiful poetry Gitanjali. R.K. Narayan became the first non-European to win a novel prize in any category in 1913 and also the lyricists to win the Nobel prize in literature. Tagore started poetry writing when he was just eight years old. And at the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems.

Bestselling Works:

• Gitanjali

• Gora

• The Home and the World

R.K NARAYAN

R.K. Narayan was an Indian author and novelist known for his work set in the fictional south India town of Malugi. His full name was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanswami. He was born on 10 October 1906, in Madras and his genre was fiction , mythology and non-fiction. Narayan was author of more than 200 novels as well as short stories and plays.

His first short story was Malugi Days which was published in November 1942. R.K. Narayan’s first novel was Swami and Friends which was published in 1935. In the entire journey of sixty years his career R.K. Narayan has received many awards and honours like, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan, and he was India’s second and third highest civilian award. In 1994 the sahitya akademi fellowship, the highest honour of India’s National Academy of letter.

Bestselling Books:

• Swami and Friends

• Malgudi Days

• The Guide

RUSKIN BOND

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author and poet. He was born 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, Punjab state agency, British India. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes books for children.

His first novel, The Room On The Roof, was published in 1956.The book has received The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957 also sold for 300,000 copies and others are popular works include, like The Blue Umbrella and A Flight Of Pigeons and many more.

The book Penguin Random House India, has stated that over 85 of his titles have sold more than million copies in total across India.

He was awarded for many books like Our Tree Still Grow In Dehra this book received The Sathiya Akademi Award in 1992. Padma Shri award in 1999 and Padma Bhushan award in 2014.

Bestselling Books:

• The Room on the Roof

• The Blue Umbrella

• A Flight of Pigeons

TARLA DALAL

Tarla Dalal was an Indian food writer, chef cookbook author and host of cooking shows. She was born on 3June 1936 in Poona Bombay Presidency, British India.

She wrote about many different types of cultural dishes and healthy cooking, especially vegetarian Indian dishes and particularly Gujarati dishes.

Her first cook book The Pleasure Of Vegetarian cooking was published in 1974 and this book has sold over 1.5 millions copies. Then, she wrote over 100 books and sold more than 10 millions copies.

She got an award from the government of India for Padma Shri in 2007. That award made her the only Indian woman who got the title from the cooking field. She was also awarded for women of the year by the Indian merchants ‘ chamber in 2005.

Bestselling Books:

• The Pleasure of Vegetarian Cooking

• 100+ cookbooks

These were the most famous Indian authors whose books have sold in millions. They have inspired many young writers to start their career in this industry. You can also start your career in this industry with the help of Neelam Publication as they help writers to publish their books. For further information visit our site :- https://neelampublication.com/.

BY- ANURADHA KAMBLE.