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‘The Difficulty of Being Good…’ top bestseller this week

By IANS,

New Delhi : “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma” by Gurcharan Das climbed to the No.1 position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum of Innocence” bounced back to dominate the fiction list.

The top 10 in each category are:

Non-fiction

1. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma”

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

2. “Victoria and Abdul”

Author: Shrabani Basu

Publisher: Rupa & Co

Price: Rs.395.00

3. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.499.00

4. “Committed”

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.499.00

5. “Delhi Adventures In A Mega City”

Author: Sam Miller

Publisher: Penguin

Price: Rs.499.00

6. “War and Peace in Modern India”

Author: Srinath Raghavan

Publisher: Permanent Black

Price: Rs.750.00

7. “The Oxford Companion to Politics”

Author: Jayal/Mehta

Publisher: OUP

Price: Rs.3500.00

8. “Open an Autobiography”

Author: Andre Agassi

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.599.00

9. “80 Questions to Understand India”

Author: Murad Ali Baig

Publisher: Tara

Price: Rs.395.00

10. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.999.00

Fiction

1. “The Museum of Innocence”

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.599.00

2. “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.495.00

3. “The Palace of Illusion”

Author: Chitra Banerjee

Publisher: Picador

Price: Rs.395.00

4. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

5. “I, Alex Cross”

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: Century

Price: Rs.550.00

6. “Twilight”

Author: Stephanie Meyer

Publisher: Atom/Hachette

Price: Rs.350.00

7. “The Humbling”

Author: Philip Roth

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.550.00

8. “Lessons in Forgetting”

Author: Anita Nair

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.399.00

9. “Blowback”

Author: Mukul Deva

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.199.00

10. “Death of a Moneylender”

Author: Kota Neelima

Publisher: Roli

Price: Rs.295.00

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