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Jaswant joins Dan Brown in bestseller list – again

By IANS,

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” continues as No.1 for the fifth consecutive week in the non-fiction section while Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” is the predictable topper in the fiction list this week.

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. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

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

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.495.00

5. “The Alqaeda Connection”

Author: Imitaz Gul

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

6. “Making Sense of Pakistan”

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

7. “The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War”

Author: Andrew Roberts

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: 11.99 pounds

8. “Delhi Adventures in a Megacity”

Author: Sam Miller

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

9. “The Idea of Justice”

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

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. “Summertime”

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)

3. “Wolf Hall”

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: 7.99 pounds (Rs.609)

4. “The Children’s Book”

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)

5. “The Little Stranger”

Author: Sarah Waters

Publisher: Virago

Price: Rs.550.00

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

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

7. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

8. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

9. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

10. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

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