Bestsellers

DEFINITION OF BESTSELLERS
Bestseller is a book that is included on a list of top-
selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based
on publishing industry and book trade figures and
library circulation statistics; such lists may be
published by newspapers, magazines, or book store
chains.
An author may also be referred to as a bestseller if
their work often appears in this category.

HOW A BOOK IS CONSIDERED AS
A
“bEsTsElLeR”
The bestseller’s list is purely about the
number of books sold and it does not have
a direct bearing on the actual merit of the
book. Even then, a book title on such a list
is indicative of the fact that you can buy
and give it a read.

WHO PUBLISHES THE
LIST ?
The New York Times Best Seller list is one of
the best-known bestseller lists for the US.
This list tracks national and independent
book stores, as well as sales from major
Internet retailers such as Amazon.com and
Barnes & Noble.Other well-known lists are
published by Publishers Weekly, USA Today
and the Washington Post.

HOW BEST SELLERS ARE MADE
A great number of buyers creates a best seller. The best
selling books touches the right emotional chord in the
mind of the large section of the reader.Thus bestsellers
create their own market to be the bestsellers.

BESTSELLERS ACCORDING TO
THEIR PUBLISHERS

HERE ARE SOME BESTSELLING
WRITERS OF
INDIA AND THEIR BOOKS

CHETAN BHAGAT
 BORN-22ND April,1974(age-
41),New Delhi
 NATIONALITY-Indian
 ETHNICITY-Punjabi
 LANGUAGE-English &
Hindi
 EDUCATION-
B.Tech,Mechanical Engineering
from IIT,Delhi;MBA from IIM
Ahmedabad
 GENRE-
Fiction,Romance,Realistic
Fiction,Non-fiction
 NOTABLE WORKS-Author
of best selling novels,Five Point
Someone,One Night @ Call
Center,The Three Mistakes Of
My Life,2 States,Half Girlfriend
etc.

BEST SELLING BOOKS OF BHAGAT
i. Five Point
Someone(2004)
ii. One Night @ Call
Center(2005)
iii. The Three Mistakes
of My Life(2008)
iv. 2 States(2009)
v. Revolution
2020(2011)
vi. What Young India
Wants(2012)
vii. Half
Girlfriend(2014)
viii.Making India
 All the books are remain
bestsellers since their release and
four have inspired Bollywood
films(3 Idiots,Kai Po Che,2
States,Hello)in 2008
 New York Times cited Bhagat as
‘’the biggest selling english
language novelist in India’s
history’’
 AWARDS-Society young achiever
award(2004);Publisher’s
Recognition award(2005);Time
magazine’s 100 Most Influential
People(2010);Filmfare award for
best screenplay 2014 –Kai Po Che

DURJOY DATTA
 BORN-7TH FEB,1987(age-
29)DELHI,INDIA
 PEN NAME-Deb,Sidharth
Oberoi
 EDUCATION-UG IN
MECHANICAL ENGG. From
Delhi College of
Engineering;PG in Finance &
Management from
GERMANY
 OCCUPATION-
Novelist,screenwriter,Grapevi
ne India Publishers(director)
 GENRE-Young-Adult
fiction,Romance,Thriller
 YEARS ACTIVE-2008-
Present

Some Durjoy's Best Seelling
Books
1. Of CourseI LoveU(2008)-Based on experiences at Delhi Engg. College;sleeper hit
book of that year
2. NowThatYou’reRICH(2009)-Sequel of 1st book;Debuted on various Best Seller Chart,The
overall response was lukewarm
3. SheBrokeUp,IDidn’t!(2010)
4. OhhYes,IAmSingle!-(2010)-Borrowed heavily from Durjoy’s life & was written jointly by
Neeti Rustagi
5. YouWere MyCrush!(2011)-Peaked at No.3 on the Hindustan Times
6. If It’sNotForever!(2012)-Opened at the No.6 spot at the Hindustan Times
7. TilltheLastBreath…(2012)-Opened at No.3 on the Hindustan Times Bestseller list
8. SomeoneLikeYou(2013)-Debuted at No.5 at Hindustan Times Bestseller List;1st book written from a
female perspective
9. HoldMy Hand(2013)-
10. WhenOnlyLoveRemains(2014)-
11. World’sBestBoyfriend(2015)

RAVINDER SINGH
 BORN-4TH February
1982(age
34)Burla,Odisha,India
 NATIONALITY-Indian
 ETHNICITY-Sikh
 ALMA MATER-Indian
School of
Business,Hydrabad
 GENRE-Fiction  NOTABLE WORKS-’’I
Too Had a Love Story’’

BEST SELLING BOOKS OF SINGH
I Too had a LOVE STORY(2011)-It is based on a real-life
incident of his meeting a girl and his love life.His
girlfriend died in 2007 five days before they got
engaged.
CANLOVE HAPPENTWICE
LOVE STORIES THAT TOUCHED MY HEART
LIKE IT HAPPENEDYESTERDAY
YOUR DREAMS ARE MINE NOW
TELLME A STORY

 BORN:18thoct,1974,Mumbai
 AGE:41
 NATIONALITY:INDIAN
 RELIGION:HINDU
 EDUCATION:UGfromSt.Xevier’s
college,Mumbai&PGfromIIM
Calctta(MBA)
 OCCUPATION:WRITER
 GENRE:INDIANMYTHOLOGY
BASEDFICTION
 YEARSACTIVE:2010topresent

 The immortals of meluha(2010)
 The secret of nagas (2011)
 Oath of the vayuputras (2013)
 Scion of ikshvaku (2015)
 Nagaon ka rahasya
 The shiva trilogy (2015)
AWARDS:
a) Indian new icon
b) Man of the year 2013
c) Pride of INDIA
d) Society young achievers award for literature
All of tripathi’s book are on religious topics since he is a devoted worshiper of
shiva and he believed in hindu philosophy.

JHUMPA LAHIRI
 Full Name-Nilanjana Sudeshna
Lahiri
[1]
 Born-11 July 1967 (age 48)
London,England
 Alma mater-Barnard College,
Boston University
 Genre-Novel, short
story,postcolonial
 Notable works-
i. Interpreter of Maladies(1999)
ii. The Namesake (2003)
iii. Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
iv. The Lowland(2013)
 Notable awards-
i. 1999 O. Henry Award
ii. 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Best selling books of Jhumpa
Lahiri
 Short story collections-
1.Interpreter of Maladies(1999)
2. Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
 Novels-
1.The Namesake(2003)
2.The Lowland(2013)
 Non-fiction-
1.In altre parole (2015)
2.In Other Words, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (2016)
 Uncollected non-fiction-
1."Cooking Lessons: The Long Way Home"(6 September 2004, The New Yorker)
2."Improvisations: Rice"(23 November 2009, The New Yorker)
3."Reflections: Notes from a Literary Apprenticeship"(13 June 2011, The New
Yorker)
4."Teach Yourself Italian"(7 December 2015, The New Yorker)

Awards of Jhumpa Lahiri
 1993 – TransAtlantic Award from the Henfield Foundation
 1999 – O. Henry Award for short story "Interpreter of Maladies"
 1999 – PEN/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for "Interpreter of
Maladies"
 1999 – "Interpreter of Maladies" selected as one of Best American Short Stories
 2000 – Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
 2000 – "The Third and Final Continent" selected as one of Best American Short Stories
 2000 – The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year for "Interpreter of Maladies"
 2000 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut "Interpreter of Maladies"
 2000 – James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for
"Indian Takeout" in Food & Wine Magazine
 2002 – Guggenheim Fellowship
 2002 – "Nobody's Business" selected as one of Best American Short Stories
 2008 – Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for "Unaccustomed Earth"
 2009 – Asian American Literary Award for "Unaccustomed Earth"
 2009 – Premio Gregor von Rezzori for foreign fiction translated into Italian for
"Unaccustomed Earth" ("Una nuova terra"), translated by Federica Oddera (Guanda)
 2014 – DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for The Lowland
 2014 – National Humanities Medal

& THESE ARE SOME FOREIGN
WRITERS AND THEIR BEST
SELLING BOOKS

J.K.ROWLING
 Full name-Joanne Rowling
 Born-31 July 1965 (age 50)
Yate, Gloucestershire, England
 Pen name-J. K. Rowling
Robert Galbraith
 Occupation-Novelist
 Nationality-British
 Education-Bachelor of Arts
 Alma mater-University of Exeter
 Period-1997–present
 Genre-Fantasy, drama, young-adult
fiction, tragicomedy, crime,fiction
 Notable works-Harry Potter series

BEST SELLING BOOKS OF ROWLING
 Harry Potter series:
 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (26 June 1997)
 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 July 1998)
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 July 1999)
 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (8 July 2000)
 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(21 June 2003)
 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005)
 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(21 July 2007)
 Short stories:
 Harry Potter prequel (July 2008)
 Adults:
• The Casual Vacancy(27 September 2012)
 Cormoran Strike series:
• The Cuckoo's Calling (as Robert Galbraith) (18 April 2013)
• The Silkworm(as Robert Galbraith) (19 June 2014)
• Career of Evil (as Robert Galbraith) (20 October 2015)

AWARDS OF J.K.ROWLING
 1997: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for HarryPotter and the Philosopher'sStone
 1998: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for HarryPotter and the Chamberof Secrets
 1998: British Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Philosopher'sStone
 1999: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 1999: National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, winner HarryPotter and the Chamberof Secrets
 1999: Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 2000: British Book Awards, Author of the Year
 2000: Order of the British Empire, Officer (for services to Children's literature)
 2000: Locus Award, winner HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 2001: Hugo Award for Best Novel, winner Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 2003: Premio Príncipe de Asturias, Concord
 2003: Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers, winner Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 2006: British Book of the Year, winner for HarryPotter and the Half Blood Prince
 2007: Blue Peter Badge, Gold
 2007: Named Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Personof the year
 2008: British Book Awards, Outstanding Achievement
 2010: Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, inaugural award winner
 2011: British Academy Film Awards, Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema for the HarryPotter film series, sharedwith David Heyman, cast and crew
 2012: Freedom of the City of London

E.L.JAMES
 Full Name-Erika Mitchell
 Born-7 March 1963 (age 53)
London, England
 Pen name-E. L. James
 Occupation-Novelist
 Citizenship-British
 Education-Wycombe High
School
University of Kent
 Genre-
Romance, Erotica, Fanfictio
n
 Notable works-Fifty
Shades of Grey

Some popular books & awards of james
Bibliography:
 Fifty Shades of Grey(2011)
 Fifty Shades Darker (2012)
 Fifty Shades Freed(2012)
 Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey As Told by Christian (2015)
Awards and honours:
 2012 Time 100 by Time magazine, "The 100 Most Influential People in the World"
 2012 Publishers Weekly"Publishing Person of the Year".
 2012 National Book Award (UK), "Popular Fiction Book of the Year", Fifty Shades of
Grey
 2012 National Book Award (UK), "Book of the Year", Fifty Shades of Grey

Rick Riordan

Full Name-Richard Russell Riordan, Jr.

Born-June 5, 1964 (age 51)
San Antonio, Texas

Occupation-NovelistLanguageEnglish

Nationality-United States

Alma mater-University of Texas

Genre-Fantasy detective fiction,mythology

Notable works-Percy Jackson & the
Olympians pentalogy
 The Kane Chronicles trilogy
 The Heroes of Olympuspentalogy
 The Maze of Bones
 Tres Navarre Series
 Years active-1997–present

Some best selling books of Rick
 Tres Navarre series:
 Big Red Tequila (1997)
 The Widower's Two-Step (1998)
 The Last King of Texas (2001)
 The Devil Went Down to Austin (2002)
 Southtown (2004)
 Mission Road (2005)
 Rebel Island (2008)
 Percy Jackson & the Olympians:
 Main article: Percy Jackson & the Olympians
 The Lightning Thief (2005)
 The Sea of Monsters (2006)
 The Titan's Curse (2007)
 The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008)
 The Last Olympian (2009)
 The Demigods of Olympus:
 The Two Headed Guidance Counselor (2014)
 The Library of Deadly Weapons (2014)
 My Demon Satyr Tea Party (2015)
 My Personal Zombie Apocalypse (2015; only published in compilation)

Awards given to the writer
 1998 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel and Anthony Award for Best
Paperback Original for Big Red Tequila
 1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower's Two-
Step
 2008 Mark Twain Award for The Lightning Thief
 2009 Mark Twain Award for The Sea of Monsters
 2009 Rebecca Caudill Award for The Lightning Thief
 2010 School Library Journal's Best Book for The Red Pyramid
 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Author of the Year
 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of
the Year for The Red Pyramid
 2011 Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award for The Last Olympian
 2011 Milner Award for Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
 2012 Indian Paintbrush Award for The Red Pyramid
 2013 Best Fiction Book for Children in Bulgaria for The Mark of Athena

Stephenie Meyer

FULLNAME-StephenieMorgan

Born-December 24, 1973 (age 42)
Hartford, Connecticut, US

Ocupation-Novelist, producer

Nationality-American

Almamater-Brigham Young
University (BA)

Genre-Vampire,romance, young-adult fiction,
science fiction

Notable works-
Twilight series
The Host

BEST SELLING BOOKS OF MEYER
Twilight series:
 Twilight (2005)
 New Moon (2006)
 Eclipse (2007)
 Breaking Dawn (2008)
 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2010)
 The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated
Guide (2011)
 Life and Death: Twilight Re-imagined (2015)
Otherbooks:
 The Host (2008)
Short stories:
 "Hell on Earth", published in Prom Nights from Hell (2009)

Stephen Hawking
 Full Name-Stephen William Hawking
 Born-8 January 1942 (age 74)
Oxford, England
 Residence-United Kingdom
 Nationality-British
 Fields-General relativity
Quantum gravity
 Institutions-
Caius College, Cambridge
California Institute of Technology
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics
 Alma mater-University College,
Oxford (BA, 1962)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge (PhD, 1965)
 Thesis-Properties of Expanding
Universes (1965)

Some books of Hawking
 Popularpublications-
1.A Brief History of Time (1988)
2.Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
3.The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)
4.On The Shoulders of Giants (2002)
5.God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed
History (2005)
6.My Brief History (2013)
 Co-authored-
1.The Nature of Space and Time (with Roger Penrose) (1996)
2.The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (with Roger Penrose, Abner
Shimony and Nancy Cartwright) (1997)
3.The Future of Spacetime (with Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris and
introduction by Alan Lightman, Richard H. Price) (2002)
4.A Briefer History of Time (with Leonard Mlodinow) (2005)
5.The Grand Design (with Leonard Mlodinow) (2010)
 Children'sfiction-Co-written with his daughter Lucy
1.George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007)
2.George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009)
3.George and the Big Bang (2011)
4.George and the Unbreakable Code (2014)

 IS IT A BESTSELLER ???
We cannot idealize about
BESTSELLERS without knowing
some of their names.So here are
some of those good ones.

Book Author(s)
Original
language
First
published
Approximate
sales
The Lord of the Rings J. R. R.
Tolkien
English 1954–1955 150 million
The Hobbit
J. R. R.
Tolkien
English 1937 140.6 million
Le Petit Prince (The Little
Prince)
Antoine de
Saint-
Exupéry
French 1943 140 million
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone
J. K. Rowling English 1997 107 million
And Then There Were None
Agatha
Christie
English 1939 100 million
Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin Chinese 1754–1791 100 million
She: A History of Adventure
H. Rider
Haggard
English 1887 100 million
List of best-selling single-
volume books
More than 100 million copies

Book
Author
(s)
Origin
al
langua
ge
First
publish
ed
Approx
imate
sales
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S.
Lewis
English 1950
85
million
The Da Vinci Code
Dan
Brown
English 2003
80
million
Think and Grow Rich
Napole
on Hill
English 1937
70
million
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K.
Rowlin
g
English 2005
65
million
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D.
Salinge
r
English 1951
65
million
O Alquimista (The Alchemist)
Paulo
Coelho
Portug
uese
1988
65
million
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K.
Rowlin
g
English 1998
60
million
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K.
Rowlin
g
English 1998
55
million
Between 50 million and 100 million copies

CONCLUSION
A great number of buyers creates a best
seller. The bestselling books touches the right
emotional chord in the mind of the large section
of reader. Thus best create their own market to
the bestseller.
In everyday use, the term bestseller is not
usually associated with a specified level of sales
and may be used very loosely indeed in publishers
publicity. Books of superior academic value or
literary merit tend to be bestsellers, although
there are exceptions.

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