By IANS
New Delhi : Ramachandra Guha's "India After Gandhi" continues to hold reader interest as does Khaled Hosseini with "A Thousand Splendid Sons" topping the fiction list, and his earlier "The Kite Runner" following close at number two position.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are:
Non-Fiction
1. "India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy"
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Picador India
Price : Rs.695.00
2. "India's External Intelligence: Secrets of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
Author : Maj Gen VK Singh
Publisher : Manas Publications
Price : Rs.495.00
3. "The Secret"
Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Atria Books
Price : Rs.495.00
4. "A Woman In Charge"
Author : Carl Bernstein
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Price : Rs.895.00
5. "The Clash Within – Democracy, Religious Violence and India's Future"
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Permanent Black
Price : Rs.595.00
6. "Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer – My Years as Finance Minister"
Author : Yashwant Sinha
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.450.00
7. "Military Inc. – Inside Pakistan's Military Economy"
Author : Ayesha Siddiqa
Publisher : Pluto Press
Price : £19.99 (Rs.1,632)
8. "Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire"
Author : Alex Von Tunzelmann
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : $25.00 (Rs.1,012)
9. "Einstein – His Life and Universe"
Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : $21.25 (Rs.860)
10. "The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857"
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.395.00
Fiction
1. "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Price : £5.99 (Rs.489)
2. "The Kite Runner"
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Price : £3.50 (Rs.285)
3. "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.295
4. "The Witch of Portobello"
Author : Paulo Coelho
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Price : Rs.295.00
5. "Shantaram"
Author : Gregory David Roberts
Publisher : Abacus
Price : £5.50 (Rs.449)
6. "Simple Genius"
Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : MacMillan
Price : £5.99 (Rs.489)
7. "Half of a Yellow Sun"
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Price : Rs.250.00
8. "Stalin's Ghost"
Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : MacMillan
Price : £5.99 (Rs.489)
9. "The Quickie"
Author : James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Publisher : Headline
Price : Rs.395.00
10. "By Which We See All Colours"
Author : Mrinalini Patwardhan Mehra
Publisher : Full Circle
Price : Rs.295.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online.)