By IANS,
New Delhi : Arundhati Roy’s “Listening to Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy” topped the non-fiction category among best-selling books here this week, while Ali Sethi’s “The Wish Maker: A Novel” was number one in the fiction category.
The top ten in each section:
Non-Fiction
1. “Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy”
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499
2. “Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier”
Author: Zhao Ziyang
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs. 1,022
3. “Stranger to History”
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495
4. “80 Questions To Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion”
Author: Murad Ali Baig
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.395
5. “Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight”
Author: Rujuta Diwekar
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.199
6. “Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism is being lost in Pakistan”
Author: Ahmed Rashid
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.495
7. “GovernMint in India – An Inside View”
Author: T.S.R. Subramanian
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395
8. “Branding India: An Incredible Story”
Author: Amitabh Kant
Publisher: Collins Business
Price: Rs.499
9. “A Better India A Better World”
Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499
10. “Welcome to The Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World”
Author: Jeb Brugmann
Publisher: Harper Litmus
Price: Rs.399
Fiction
1. “The Wish Maker: A Novel”
Author: Ali Sethi
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499
2. “Family Planning”
Author: Karan Mahajan
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395
3. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395
4. “The White Tiger”
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395
5. “The Case of the Missing Servant”
Author: Tarquin Hall
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Price: Rs. 435
6. “Gone Tomorrow”
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs. 501.96
7. “The Scarecrow”
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Orion Books
Price: Rs.595
8. “Corsair”
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.399
9. “First Family”
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs.480
10. “Swimsuit”
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.475
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).