HT-Nielsen top 10: Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time tops non-fiction list

Here’s your weekly digest of the best-selling fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.

Ravinder Singh’s Will You Still Love Me? is at the top spot on the bestselling fiction list this week as well. It is followed by Paulo Coehlo’s The Alchemist and Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl. Dan Brown’s novel Origin is at number four, and Ashwin Sanghi’s Keepers of the Kalachakra is at number five.

Here’s the HT-Nielsen Top 10 list for this week. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Interest in British physicist Stephen Hawking’s books seems to have spiked since his demise on March 14. His best-selling 1988 book A Brief History of Time leads the non-fiction list this week. It is followed by Bhanumathi Narasimhan’s Gurudev and Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s India 2018 is at the fourth spot and last week’s topper, Joshua Pollock and Kamlesh D Patel’s The Heartfulness Way, is on the fifth spot this week.

Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid book, The Getaway, is still at the top on the list of bestselling children’s books by international publishers, followed by JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is at number three, followed by Sudha Murty’s Grandma’s Bag of Stories and Geronimo Stilton’s The Dragon of Fortune.

Rungeen Singh’s The Best of Tenali Raman is at the number one spot on the list of bestselling children’s books in Indian publishing this week as well. 365 Bedtime Stories comes next and is followed by Timeless Tales from Panchatantra. 365 Panchatantra Stories is at the fourth spot and Rungeen Singh’s The Best of Panchatantra is at number five.

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