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Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah already tops chart

By IANS,

New Delhi : The controversial book “Jinnah: India-Partition Independence” by Jaswant Singh predictably tops the non-fiction section of the bestseller list here in the first week of its release while Ali Sethi’s “The Wish Maker: A Novel” continued at the No.1 position in the fiction category for the third week in a row.

The top 10 in each section are:

Non-fiction

1. “Jinnah: India-Partition Independence”

Author: Jaswant Singh

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.695.00

2. “The Idea of Justice”

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

3. “Making Sense of Pakistan”

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

4. “80 Questions To Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion”

Author: Murad Ali Baig

Publisher: Tara Press

Price: Rs.395.00

5. “The Secret”

Author: Rhonda Byrne

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Price: $12.50 (Rs.610)

6. “Curfewed Night”

Author: Basharat Peer

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

7. “Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy”

Author: Arundhati Roy

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

8. “The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?”

Author: Dipankar Gupta

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.550.00

9. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

10. “A Better India A Better World”

Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.499.00

Fiction

1. “The Wish Maker: A Novel”

Author: Ali Sethi

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

2. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercsu

Price: Rs.299.00

3. “Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game”

Author: Tilly Bagshawe

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.250.00

4. “Secrets and Lies”

Author: Jaishree Misra

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.275.00

5. “The White Tiger”

Author: Aravind Adiga

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.395.00

6. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

7. “The Thing Around Your Neck”

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Fourth Estate – London

Price: Rs.299.00

8. “How to Paint A Dead Man”

Author: Sarah Hall

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.425.00

9. “Swimsuit”

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: Century

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.475)

10. “Empire of The Moghul: Raiders from the North”

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

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