At Mughalsarai Station They Sat Down To Read

Non-Fiction Bestsellers of 2010

• You Can Sell by Shiv Khera (Rupa)—1,00,000 copies*
• Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight by Rujuta Diwekar (Random House)—81,000
• Kaun Banega Crorepati Ed. by Siddhartha Basu (Rupa)—50,000
• Text and Context: Quran and Contemporary Challenges by Arif Mohammed Khan (Rupa)—45,000
• Annual Horoscope 2011 by Sandeep Kataria (Full Circle)—39,000
• Simply Fly by Captain G.R. Gopinath (HarperCollins)—30,000
• Ambani & Sons by Hamish McDonald (Roli Books)—26,000
• Small Wonder: The Making of the Nano by Philip Chacko, Sujata Agarwal and Christabelle Noronhna (Westland)—25,000
• Super Power? The Amazing Race Between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise by Raghav Bahl (Penguin)—21,800
• Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir by Fatima Bhutto (Penguin)—21,000
• Shobhaa at Sixty: Secrets of Getting It Right by Shobhaa De (Hay House)—19,500
• Absolute Khushwant: The Low-Down on Life, Death and Most Things In-Between by Khushwant Singh, Humra Quraishi (Penguin)—19,000
• Before Memory Fades by Fali S. Nariman (Hay House)—19,000
• Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha (Penguin)—17,000
• TATA: Evolution of a Corporate Brand by Morgan Witzel (Penguin)—16,000

Fiction Bestsellers Of 2010

• 2 States: The Story of My Marriage by Chetan Bhagat (Rupa) —10,00,000 copies*
• Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer (Pan Macmillan)—93,000
• The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi (Westland)—60,000
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Random House)—58,000
• After the Darkness by Sidney Sheldon (HarperCollins)—55,000
• The Confession by John Grisham (Random House)—54,000
• Theodore Boone by John Grisham (Hachette)—50,426
• The White Tiger (PB Edition) by Aravind Adiga (Harper Collins)—50,000
• The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth (Random House)—40,800
• Johnny Gone Down by Karan Bajaj (HarperCollins)—40,000
• Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (Pan Macmillan)—40,000
• Ben 10 Alien Force: War of the Worlds by Charlotte Fullerton (Scholastic)—39,900
• Right Fit Wrong Shoe by Varsha Dixit (Rupa)—35,000
• Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese by Sidin Vadukut (Penguin)—26,000
• The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stepheni Meyer (Hachette)— 25,515