By IANS,
New Delhi : Indian origin author Amitav Ghosh’s 19th century saga “Sea of Poppies” tops the fiction list while Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World” dominates non-fiction among the bestsellers this week.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories are:
Non-fiction:
1. “The Post-American World”
Author: Fareed Zakaria
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
2. “A Case of Exploding Mangoes”
Author: Mohammed Hanif
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China”
Author: Pallavi Aiyar
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.395.00
4. “The Secret”
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs.550.00
5. “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception”
Author: Scott McClellan
Publisher: Public Affairs
Price: Rs.840.00
6. “Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within”
Author: Shuja Nawaz
Publisher: Oxford
Price: Rs.695.00
7. “Descent Into Chaos: How the war against Islamic Extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia”
Author: Ahmed Rashid
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.495.00
8. “The Audacity of Hope”
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs.425.00
9. “Goodbye Shahzadi: A Political Biography of Benazir Bhutto”
Author: Shyam Bhatia
Publisher: Lotus Roli
Price: Rs.295.00
10. “My Country My Life”
Author: L.K. Advani
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.595.00
Fiction:
1. “Sea of Poppies”
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
2. “Unaccustomed Earth”
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.450.00
3. “The 3 Mistakes of My Life”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
4. “A Prisoner of Birth”
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: PAN Books
Price: Rs.256.00
5. “The Palace of Illusions”
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495.00
6. “Brida”
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.295.00
7. “Families At Home”
Author: Reeti Gadekar
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.295.00
8. “Chasing Harry Winston”
Author: Lauren Weisberger
Publisher: Harper
Price: Rs.195.00
9. “The White Tiger”
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
10. “Devil May Care”
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Penguin India
Price: Rs.395.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online.)