By IANS,
New Delhi : Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial book “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” continued to retain the No.1 position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while “The Wish Maker: A Novel” by Ali Sethi topped the fiction category for the fourth 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. “Stranger to History”
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495.00
4. “80 Questions To Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion”
Author: Murad Ali Baig
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.395.00
5. “The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?”
Author: Dipankar Gupta
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.550.00
6. “Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight”
Author: Rujuta Diwekar
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.199.00
7. “Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy”
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
8. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
9. “Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier”
Author: Zhao Ziyang
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: $20.00 (Rs.975)
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. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercsu
Price: Rs.299.00
4. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercsu
Price: Rs.299.00
5. “Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game”
Author: Tilly Bagshawe
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.250.00
6. “How to Paint A Dead Man”
Author: Sarah Hall
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.425.00
7. “The Thing Around Your Neck”
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Fourth Estate – London
Price: Rs.299.00
8. “The Defector”
Author: Daniel Silva
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.450.00
9. “The Angel’s Game”
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
Price: Rs.495.00
10. “Swimsuit”
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.475)
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).