By IANS,
New Delhi : First Jeffrey Archer, now Jhumpa Lahiri. BJP leader L.K. Advani continues to hobnob with celebrity authors in the bestselling lists. His autobiography is once again number one on the non-fiction list while Lahiri’s latest “Unaccustomed Earth” is the predictable fiction favourite.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are:
Non-Fiction
1. “My Country, My Life”
Author : L.K. Advani
Publisher : Rupa & Co.
Price : Rs.595.00
2. “The Secret”
Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : Rs.550.00
3. “The World is What It Is : The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul”
Author : Patrick French
Publisher : Picador India
Price : Rs.595.00
4. “The New Asian Hemisphere : The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to The East”
Author : Kishore Mahbubani
Publisher : Public Affairs
Price : Rs.695.00
5. “Delhi Metropolitan : The Making of An Unlikely City”
Author : Ranjana Sengupta
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.250.00
6. “Red Sun : Travels in Naxalite Country”
Author : Sundeep Chakravarti
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.495.00
7. “Billions of Entrepreneurs”
Author : Tarun Khanna
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.595.00
8. “The Shock Doctrine”
Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Penguin India
Price : £5.99 (Rs.471)
9. “The Age of Turbulence”
Author : Alan Greenspan
Publisher : Penguin Allen Lane
Price : Rs.695.00
10. “We Are Like That Only : Understanding the Logic of Consumer India”
Author : Rama Bijapurkar
Publisher : Penguin Portfolio
Price : Rs.495.00
Fiction
1. “Unaccustomed Earth”
Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Random House
Price : Rs.450.00
2. “The Enchantress of Florence”
Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Price : Rs.695.00
3. “A Prisoner of Birth”
Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : PAN Books
Price : £2.99 (Rs.236)
4. “The Appeal”
Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Arrow Books
Price : £2.99 (Rs.236)
5. “The Palace of Illusions Panchaali’s Mahabharat”
Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Picador India
Price : Rs.495.00
6. “Atonement”
Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage
Price : £2.99 (Rs.236)
7. “Ishq and Mushq”
Author : Priya Basil
Publisher : Black Swan
Price : £3.75 (Rs.295)
8. “Rani”
Author : Jaishree Misra
Publisher : Penguin India
Price : Rs.350.00
9. “Remember Me?”
Author : Sophie Kinsella
Publisher : Bantam Press
Price : £6.75 (Rs.532)
10. “Ammi Letter to a Democratic Mother”
Author : Saeed Mirza
Publisher : Tranquebar
Price : Rs.395.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed
above are available online.)