New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Ramachandra Guha’s take on “India after Gandhi” is number one on the non-fiction list this week while Mohsin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” continues to be the fiction favourite in the best-selling list.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories 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. “The Last Mughal: The fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857”
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.395.00
3. “The Indians: Portrait of a People”
Author : Sudhir & Katharina Kakar
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.395.00
4. “Reflections in a Sacred Pond”
Author : Murad Ali Baig
Publisher : Tara Press
Price : Rs.450.00
5. “India’s Politics: A view from the backbench”
Author : Bimal Jalan
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.350.00
6. “Military Inc: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy”
Author : Ayesha Siddiqa
Publisher : Pluto Press : London
Price : £ 19.99 (Rs.1,615)
7. “A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of The Taj Mahal”
Author : Diana & Michael Preston
Publisher : Doubleday
Price : Rs.695.00
8. “Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner – The Regal Patriot”
Author : Prof. L.S. Rathore
Publisher : Lotus Collection : Roli Books
Price : Rs.595.00
9. “Standing Alone in MECCA : A Pilgrimage into the Heart of Islam”
Author : Asra Q. Nomani
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Price : Rs.395
10. “In Spite of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India”
Author : Edward Luce
Publisher : Little Brown
Price : Rs.695.00
Fiction
1. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.295.00
2. “The Namesake”
Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Price : Rs.295.00
3. “Merchants of Death”
Author : Neelima Dalmia Adhar
Publisher : Har-Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Price : Rs.395.00
4. “Shantaram”
Author : Gregory David Roberts
Publisher : Abacus
Price : £5.50 (Rs.448)
5. “Simple Genius”
Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Macmillan
Price : £5.99 (Rs.483)
6. “Step on a Crack”
Author : James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Publisher : Headline
Price : Rs.395.00
7. “Bad Luck and Trouble”
Author : Lee Child
Publisher : Bantam Press
Price : £7.25 (Rs.585)
8. “Sign of the Cross: No secret will keep for ever”
Author : Chris Kuzneski
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.250.00
9. “Wild Fire”
Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Sphere
Price : Rs.595.00
10. “The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers”
Author : Sarnath Banerjee
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.395.00
Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed
above are available online.)