The Hindi bestsellers list for Q3 October –December 2017 was released by Namita Gokhale, eminent author and co-director Jaipur Literature Festival, Sanjoy Roy, MD, Teamwork Arts and Producer Jaipur Literature and Vishnu Tripathi, senior editor, Jagran Prakashan Group, at the 11th Zee Jaipur Literature Festival. The bestseller list was released in three categories: Fiction , Non-Fiction and Translation .
This was followed by a discussion led by Alka Saraogi , Chitra Mudgal and Anant Vijay.
Writer Chitra Mudgal said "The Hindi bestseller list is going to be explaining what kind of readers are interested in the present time and its will not have any impact on serious literature.”
Writer Alka Saraogi said, "I am happy that this bestseller includes books of some famous writers."
In this third trimester, in the adult fiction category, young writer Satya Vyas' Banaras Talkies; in the adult non-fiction category, writer Narendra Kohli's Vyangya Samay; and in translation, writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Draupadi Ki Mahabharat crown the lists.
Apart from these, writer and lyricist Gulzar’s book Do Log, lyricist Javed Akhtar’s Lava, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography Sachin Tendulkar - Meri Aatmkatha, actor Twinkle Khanna’s Mrs Funnybones and Amish Tripathi's four books Sita Mithila ki Yoddha, Nagaon Ka Rahasya (The Secret of the Nagas), Vayuputron Ki Shapath (The Oath of The Vayuputras), Ikshvaku Ke Vanshaj (Scion of Ikshvaku) and Devdutt Pattanaik's Meri Sita feature in the list.
Vishnu Tripathi, senior editor of Jagran Prakashan Goup said, "Hindi is not a survey of best sellers, it is a kind of study that increases the tendency of readers to read.”
The bestseller not only includes popular Hindi writers and books, but some popular English authors too who have won over Hindi readers, as seen in the translation category. World renowned Neilsen BookScan is instrumental in the selection process of the Hindi bestseller list.
The category wise top 10 Hindi bestseller list :
Adult Fiction:
Title | Author | Publisher |
| Satya Vyas | Hindi Yugm |
| Bhagwant Anmol | Rajpal & Sons |
| Divya Prakash Dubey | Hind Yugm |
| Pravin Kumar | Rajpal & Sons |
| Gulzar | Harper Collins |
| Neelesh Mishra | Westland Books |
| Pankaj Dubey | Penguin Random House |
| Anu Singh Choudhary | Hind Yugm |
| Abir Anand | Zorba Books |
| Surender Mohan Pathak | Harper Collins India |
Adult Non-Fiction:
Title | Author | Publisher |
| Narendra Kohli | Kitabghar Prakashan |
| Mohankrishna Bohara | Vani Prakashan |
| Javed Akhtar | Rajkamal Prakashan |
| Anup Mani Tripathi | Anjuman Prakashan |
| Suhil Siddharth | Kitabghar Prakashan |
| Irshad Kamil | Vani Prakashan |
| Ramesh Kuntal Megh | Vani Prakashan |
| Sandeep Dev | Bloomsbury India |
| Brajendra Kumar Singhal | Vani Prakashan |
| Bhasha Singh | Penguin Random House |
Translation:
Title | Author | Publisher |
| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Manjul Publishing House |
| Amish Tripathi | Westland Limited |
| Chetan Bhagat | Rupa Publications |
| Devdutt Pattanaik | Rupa Publications |
| Amish Tripathi | Westland Limited |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Manjul Publishing House |
| Amish Tripathi | Westland Limited |
| Twinkle Khanna | Prabhat Prakashan |
| S.Hussain Zaidi | Manjul Publishing House |
| Amish Tripathi | Westland Limited |