IN BRIEF


India Top 10


With fiction from 2005, psychology from 1963 and economics from 1937 all featuring in the top 10, India’s chart has a retro feel


3


Food for thought from Irishman Murphy


The latest edition ofJoseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has barely left the top of the Indian charts since it was published in 2015 and with 77,229 copies sold in 2018, n the


it takes a strong third place in the year-to-date chart. Murphy, an Irish immigrant to America, founded a new church


based on the ideologies he learned from Hindu sages while travelling in India,


and wrote The Power of Your Subconscious Mind in 1963.


r 5


Top marks for PM Modi despite critics’ concern


India’s prime minister Narendra Modi charted fifth in his nation’s bestseller charts, with his guide for schoolkids, Exam Warriors, selling 62,566 copies to date. Modi has previously published several books, including a collection of poetry. But Exam Warriors has faced controversy, with critics claiming Modi—who failed his second year of university—may be attempt- ing to influence the next generation of voters.


8 Noah’s arc


Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, which heralded the start of the “brainy” non-fiction trend in the UK, has cleaned up in India too. In eighth place, it has sold 55,400 copies for the year to date.


18 10th October 2018


Bestseller Lists India Top 10


1


Manson’s Subtle knife


of the charts


Mark Manson’s Te Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is India’s bestselling title for 2018, with 114,172 copies sold—over 30,000 more than any other title. Te territory has always had a penchant for self-help titles, and the emerging “angry young man” self-help genre seems to have caught Indian book-buyers’ attention.


4


Indian Polity for Civil Service Examinations


is a perennial bestseller in the territory, and is by far the most valuable title for the year to date, with nearly 30 million rupees earned since the start of 2018


6


Napoleon conquers with 1937-written self-help


Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, in sixth place, is the fourth-bestselling adults’ self-help title of the year. Self-help in India is such a behemoth that the category breaks down into several streams—purely finance-focused, such as Rich Dad Poor Dad; spiritual, such as The Heartfulness Way; and those that straddle the two, such as Think and Grow Rich. Written in 1937, it teaches using positive thinking to grow your business.


9


Hindi is India’s most spoken language,


but with English used in higher education and some areas of government, it’s no surprise Word Power Made Easy, an English vocab guide, is in ninth place


Top


2


Patel and Pollock show plenty of heart


Forget mindfulness, “heartfulness” is where we’re at in 2018. Kamlesh D Patel and Joshua Pollock’s The Heartfulness Way is the second-biggest-selling title in the Indian chart, with 82,030 copies sold, after shooting straight into the non-fiction number one upon its release in January. Based on the ancient Indian practice of Raja Yoga, and focusing on relaxation, meditation, cleaning and prayer, the title is endorsed by India’s minister for commerce and, even more bizzarely, two Ohio-based US congress- men. The Hindi edition of The Heartfulness Way also features in the India chart, in 24th place—the title is avail- able in seven languages spoken across the territory.


Trend setter


7 Alchemical reaction


Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is India’s fiction bestseller in 2018, and the seventh-placed edition, published in 2005, is far and away the oldest in the territory’s top 10.


10


Ravi breathes easy as biography hits top 10


The biography of spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, written by his sister, claimed 10th place in India’s bestseller list, preventing the nation’s fiction favourite Chetan Bhagat from enter- ing the top 10. Aside from his work to broker peace deals with mili- tant groups in areas of north- east India, Shankar is alsois also famous for his breathing technique, Sudashan Kriya, which has been the subject of several medical studies.


n India’s bes nation’ hagat fr e fr


als with mili- s of north-


thing n


en r-


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48