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Pakistan theme tops fiction and non-fiction bestsellers list

By IANS

New Delhi : There are no new surprises in the bestsellers list this week but Pakistan theme tops both fiction and non-fiction lists. “Deception: Pakistan, The United States and The Global Nuclear” which traces the journey of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb climbs to the top of the non-fiction list. Pakistan-born Harvard Law School graduate turned journalist-writer Mohsin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is at the top in the fiction list.

The top 10 non-fiction and fiction bestsellers this week are:

Non-fiction:

1.”Deception: Pakistan, The United States and The Global Nuclear…”
Author: Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Price: £ 11.25 (Rs.903.00)

2. “The Secret”
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Atria Books
Price: Rs.550.00

3. “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in A New World”
Author: Alan Greenspan
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.695.00

4. “Entry From Backside Only: Hazaar Fundas of Indian-English”
Author: Binoo K. John
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.95.00

5. “India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy”
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.695.00

6. “The Elephant, The Tiger & The Cellphone”
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.495.00

7. “Inside IB and Raw: The Rolling Stone that Gathered Moss”
Author: K. Sankaran nair
Publisher: Manas Publications
Price: Rs.495.00

8. “In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir”
Author: David Devadas
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.495.00

9. “An American Witness to India’s Partition”
Author: Phillips Talbot
Publisher: SAGE
Price: Rs.720.00

10. “At The Center of the Storm: My years at the CIA”
Author: George Tenet
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: $22.50 (Rs.884.00)

Fiction:

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

2. “The Gathering”
Author: Anne Enright
Publisher: Vintage
Price: £ 3.75 (Rs.300.00)

3. “The Cleft”
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
Price: Rs.295.00

4. “The Music Room”
Author: Namita Devidayal
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00

5. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: £ 5.99 (Rs.480.00)

6. “The Ghost”
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: £ 6.00 (Rs.482.00)

7. “The Indian Clerk”
Author: David Leavitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.495.00

8. “Stone Cold”
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: £5.60 (Rs.450.00)

9. Divisadero
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.795.00

10. “What Is The What”
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
Price: $ 11.25 (Rs.903.00)

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