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).