Date:28/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/03/28/stories/2006032815900200.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Self-help books on bestseller lists

J. Malarvizhi

Think and Grow Richhas stubbornly refused to leave the bestseller lists

CHENNAI: Find out how to change your life in seven days, learn the seven habits of highly effective people or even pick up the 92 little tricks for big success in relationships. A lot of people seem to be doing just that.

Booksellers say that the sales of the self-help titles have begun to pick up. They include Who Moved my Cheese? and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In a mad, bad world these books offer readers a comforting message — changing an attitude can change the mad, bad world. Or at least the way the mad, bad world treats you. Change Your Thinking, Change your Life, says a Brian Tracy title. Covey's latest offering, The Eighth Habit, is not doing too well though.

Think and Grow Rich is a title that has stubbornly refused to leave the bestseller lists. If you enjoyed it, other titles to look out for from the Napoleon Hill stable is Keys to Success, a compilation of principles drawn from his unpublished work. Also new is The Master Key to Riches, at an affordable Rs.150.

While self-improvement literature has a long publishing history, the titles have moved into the bestseller lists in India only recently.

All of us would love to know How to Talk to Anyone or Change Your Life and Create Your Own Destiny (the last one is Russell Grant).

More titles — Are You Ready to Succeed? and Tracy's latest, Create your Own Future at Rs.250. If your spiritual self needs nourishment, Wayne Dwyer's Inspiration and Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now are the newest options.