New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) “India Remembered”, Pamela Mountbatten’s insight into the India of Nehru and her parents Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, zooms into number one position in the non-fiction list – notwithstanding its steep price – while Khaled Hosseini’s “A Thousand Splendid Suns” continues as fiction bestseller.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories this week are:
Non-Fiction
1. “India Remembered”
Author : Pamela Mountbatten
Publisher : Pavilion
Price : Rs.1,495.00
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. “India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy”
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Picador India
Price : Rs.695.00
4. “Indian Summer : The Secret History of the End of an Empire”
Author : Alex Von Tunzelmann
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : $25.00 (1,011)
5. “The Secret”
Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Atria Books
Price : Rs.550.00
6. “Ganga”
Author : Julian Crandall Hollick
Publisher : Random House India
Price : Rs.450.00
7. “Reflections in a Sacred Pond”
Author : Murad Ali Baig
Publisher : Tara Press
Price : Rs.295.00
8. “India’s Unending Journey: Finding Balance in a Time of Change”
Author : Mark Tully
Publisher : Rider Books
Price : Rs.450.00
9. “Making Conservation Work”
Author : Ghazala Shahabuddin & Mahesh Rangarajan
Publisher : Permanent Black
Price : Rs.595.00
10. “Bound Together”
Author : Nayan Chanda
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.525.00
Fiction
1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Price : £5.99 (Rs.496)
2. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.295
3. “Stalin’s Ghost”
Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : MacMillan
Price : £5.60 (Rs.464)
4. “Shopaholic and Baby”
Author : Sophie Kinsella
Publisher : Bantam Press
Price : £6.00 (Rs.497)
5. “Bungalow 2”
Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Bantam Press
Price : £11.50 (Rs.953)
6. “After Dark”
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Price : £6.00 (Rs.497)
7. “Bad Luck and Trouble”
Author : Lee Child
Publisher : Bantam Press
Price : £7.25 (Rs.601)
8. “Drop Dead Beautiful”
Author : Jackie Collins
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : $12.50 (Rs.505)
9. “Simple Genius”
Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : MacMillan
Price : £5.99 (Rs.496)
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)