By IANS,
New Delhi : “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” by expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh retained the No.1 position among bestselling books in the non-fiction section this week. J.M. Coetzee’s “Summertime” topped the fiction category.
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 Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
3. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Shaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.695.00
4. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
5. “Delhi Adventures in a Megacity”
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
6. “The Idea of Justice”
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
7. “80 Questions To Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion”
Author: Murad Ali Baig
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.395.00
8. “Making India Work”
Author: William Nanda Bissell
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
9. “Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars”
Author: Gretchen Peters
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.495.00
10. “New Delhi Making of a Capital”
Author: M. Singh and R. Mukherjee
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.1,975.00
Fiction
1. “Summertime”
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.698)
2. “Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From The North”
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
3. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
4. “The Wish Maker: A Novel”
Author: Ali Sethi
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “Like a Diamond in The Sky”
Author: Shazia Omar
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.250.00
6. “Love And Summer”
Author: William Trevor
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.450.00
7. “The Children’s Book”
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Chatto and Windows
Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)
8. “Alex Cross’s Trial”
Author: James Patterson & Richard Dilallo
Publisher: Century
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.478)
9. “Twenties Girl: She’s Having the Time of her Life”
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.478)
10. “Medusa”
Author: Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
Publisher: Penguin Michael Joseph
Price: Rs.399.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).