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No drop in popularity of Jaswant’s book on Jinnah

By IANS,

New Delhi : The controversial book “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” by expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh continued to dominate the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week. It has now topped the charts for over a month. Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” topped the fiction list.

The top 10 in each section are:

Non-fiction

1. “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”

Author: Jaswant Singh

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.695.00

2. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of The Mughal Emperor”

Author: Fergus Nicoll

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.899.00

3. “The Idea of Justice”

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

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

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

5. “Making Sense of Pakistan”

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

6. “Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars”

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.495.00

7. “The Alqaeda Connection”

Author: Imitaz Gul

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

8. “Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir”

Author: Arif Jamal

Publisher: Vij Books

Price: Rs.850.00

9. “God is Back: How The Global Rise of Faith is Changing The World”

Author: John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.499.00

10. “New Delhi Making of a Capital”

Author: M. Singh and R. Mukherjee

Publisher: Roli Books

Price: Rs.1,975.00

Fiction

1. “The Lost Symbol”

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

2. “The Children’s Book”

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)

3. “The Little Stranger”

Author: Sarah Waters

Publisher: Virago

Price: Rs.550.00

4. “Summertime”

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)

5. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

6. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

7. “The Wish Maker: A Novel”

Author: Ali Sethi

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

8. “Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From The North”

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

9. “Intervention”

Author: Robin Cook

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.478)

10. “The Angel’s Game”

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London

Price: Rs.495.00

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