Top authors of the week – Ramchandra Guha, Mohsin Hamid

By IANS

New Delhi : Ramachandra Guha's "India After Gandhi" continues to attract readers this week while Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is back as number one fiction seller.


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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 Secret"
Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Beyond Words Publishing
Price : Rs.495.00

3. "The Last Mughal: The fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857"
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.395.00

4. "Beyond The Three Seas"
Author : Michael H. Fisher
Publisher : Random House – India
Price : Rs.350.00

5. "Reflections in a Sacred Pond"
Author : Murad Ali Baig
Publisher : Tara Press
Price : Rs.295.00

6. "In Spite of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India"
Author : Edward Luce
Publisher : Little Brown
Price : Rs.695.00

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. "Nixon and Mao"
Author : Margaret Macmillan
Publisher : Random House – New York
Price : $22.50 (Rs.912)

9. "India's Unending Journey : Finding Balance in a Time of Change"
Author : Mark Tully
Publisher : Rider
Price : Rs.450.00

10. "Nixon and Kissinger"
Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Price : $24.50 (Rs.994)

Fiction

1. "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.295

2. "The Witch of Portobello"
Author : Paulo Coelho
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Price : Rs.295.00

3. "Shantaram"
Author : Gregory David Roberts
Publisher : Abacus
Price : £ 5.50 (Rs.442)

4. "Merchants of Death"
Author : Neelima Dalmia Adhar
Publisher : Har-Anand Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Price : Rs.395.00

5. "The Children of Húrin"
Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Price : Rs.495

6. "How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)"
Author : Kathy Lette
Publisher : Pocket Books
Price : $ 5.75 (Rs.233)

7. "Digging to America"
Author : Anne Tyler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Price : $ 5.50 (Rs.223)

8. "The Good Husband of Zebra Drive"
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Pantheon Books
Price : $ 17.50 (Rs.708)

9. "In the Country of Men"
Author : Hisham Matar
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : £ 2.99 (Rs.240)

10. "The Quest"
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Price : £ 9.20 (Rs.739)

(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online.)

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