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Amitav Ghosh topples Archer as best-selling author

By IANS,

Mumbai : Amitav Ghosh’s latest, “Sea of Poppies”, debuts as the number one selling book in the fiction list, toppling Jeffrey Archer’s “A Prisoner of Birth”. Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret” continues its successful run in the non-fiction category.

The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories are:

Non-fiction:

1. The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs.550.00

2. Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury books
Price: Rs.299.00

3. Love Delhi
Author: Love Travel Guides
Publisher: Hardys Bay Publishing
Price: Rs.1,200.00

4. Crossed Swords: Pakistan Its Army, and the Wars Within
Author: Shuja Nawaz
Publisher: Oxford
Price: Rs.695.00

5. Super Star India: From Incredible to Unstoppable
Author: Shobhaa De
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.350.00

6. Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal and The Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a
Global Empire…
Author: Tim Bouquet & Byuron Ousey
Publisher: Little Brown
Price: Rs.650.00

7. Rivals: How The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan will shape
our…
Author: Bill Emmott
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.695.00

8. India: The Emerging Giant
Author: Arvind Panagariya
Publisher: Oxford
Price: Rs.695.00

9.My Country My Life
Author: L.K. Advani
Publisher: Rupa & Co.
Price: Rs.595.00

10. Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.695.00

Fiction:

1. Sea of Poppies
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00

2. Unaccustomed Earth: From the author of The Namesake
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. Brida
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.295.00

5. A Prisoner of Birth
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: PAN Books
Price: Rs.250.00

6. Devil May Care
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Penguin India
Price: Rs.395.00

7. The Enchantress of Florence
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.595.00

8. Percy Jackson And The Battle of The Labyrinth
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Puffin
Price: Rs.350.00

9. The Palace of Illusions Panchaali’s Mahabharat
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495.00

10. The White Tiger
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00

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