By IANS
New Delhi : Pakistan and Afghanistan: the two countries continue to be sources of huge interest for Indian readers with “Deception: Pakistan, The United States and The Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy” topping the non-fiction list and “A Thousand Splendid Sons” fiction favourite even months after release.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories are:
Non-Fiction
“Deception: Pakistan, The United States and The Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy”
Author : Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.595.00
2. “The Secret”
Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Atria Books
Price : Rs.550.00
3. “India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India”
Author : Ramin Jahanbegloo
Publisher : Oxford
Price : Rs.550
4. “Daughter of The East”
Author : Benazir Bhutto
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : Rs.650.00
5. “India’s Century: The Age of Entrepreneurship in the World’s Biggest Democracy”
Author : Kamal Nath
Publisher : Tata McGrawhill
Price : Rs.550.00
6. “Political and Incorrect : The Real India, Warts and All”
Author : Tavleen Singh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : Rs.395.00
7. “The Elephant, The Tiger & The Cellphone: Reflections on India in the 21st Century”
Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.495.00
8. “Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling”
Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Little Brown
Price : Rs.795.00
9. “Shakespeare”
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Harper Press
Price : Rs.325.00
10. “India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power”
Author : Pamela Mountbatten
Publisher : Roli Books
Price : Rs.695.00
Fiction
1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns”
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Price : £5.99 (Rs.465)
2. “The Kite Runner”
Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Price : £3.50 (Rs.272)
3. “Dead Heat”
Author : Dick Francis
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : £4.99 (Rs.387)
4. “Playing for Pizza”
Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Arrow Books
Price : £2.90 (Rs.225)
5. “The Indian Clerk”
Author : David Leavitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Price : Rs.495.00
6. “Eat Pray Love”
Author : Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury
Price : Rs.350.00
7. “7th Heaven : How do you catch a deadly fire-starter when the trial has gone cold?”
Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Century
Price : Rs.495.00
8. “The Book of Other People”
Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Price : £9.00 (Rs.699)
9. “Protect & Defend”
Author : Vince Flynn
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : Rs.525.00
10. “World Without End”
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Macmillan
Price : Rs.995.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online.)