By IANS,
New Delhi : Meghnad Desai’s “The Rediscovery of India” continued to dominate the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while “The Museum of Innocence” by Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk retained the No.1 position in the fiction category.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. “The Rediscovery of India”
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
3. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Shaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.695.00
4. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
5. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
6. “The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir”
Author: Howard B. Schaffer
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
7. “Making India Work”
Author: William Nanda Bissell
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
8. “The Arabs: A History”
Author: Eugene Rogan
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.999.00
9. “My Friend The Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist”
Author: Sadanand Dhume
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.395.00
10. “The Idea of Justice”
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
Fiction
1. “The Museum of Innocence”
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
2. “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Price: Rs.495.00
3. “True Blue”
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.460)
4. “Empire of The Moghul: Raiders from the North”
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
5. “The Original of Laura”
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.699.00
6. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.399.00
7. “Crocodile Tears”
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Walker Books
Price: 5 pounds (Rs.374)
8. “The Palace of Illusions”
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.395.00
9. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
10. “The Many Conditions of Love: Join the Marriage Bureau for Rich People”
Author: Farahad Zama
Publisher: ABACUS
Price: Rs.295.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).