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Murad Ali Baig, Daniyal Mueenuddin top authors of the week

By IANS,

New Delhi : Murad Ali Baig’s “80 Questions to Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion” reaches the No.1 position in the non-fiction list this

week while Daniyal Mueenuddin’s “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” tops the fiction category.

The top 10 in each section are as follows:

Non-Fiction

1. “80 Questions to Understand India : History, Mythology and Religion”

Author: Murad Ali Baig

Publisher: Tara Press

Price: Rs.395.00

2. “Prisoner of the State”

Author: Zhao Ziyang

Publisher: Simon Schuster

Price: $20.00 (Rs.965)

3. “Branding India : An Incredible Story”

Author: Amitabh Kant

Publisher: Collins Business

Price: Rs.499.00

4. “Saviors And Survivors : Darfur, Politics and The War on Terror”

Author: Mahmood Mamdani

Publisher: Verso

Price: �17.99 (Rs.1,425)

5. “Imagining India : Ideas for the New Century”

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699

6. “Outliers : The Story of Success”

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.399.00

7. “D-Day : The Battle for Normandy”

Author: Antony Beevor

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.495.00

8. “Stranger to History”

Author: Aatish Taseer

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.495.00

9. “Making Sense of Pakistan”

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

10. “A Better India A Better World”

Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.499.00

Fiction

1. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House

Price: �5.99 (Rs.475)

2. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

3. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

4. “The Case of the Missing Servant”

Author: Tarquin Hall

Publisher: Hutchinson, London

Price: �5.50 (Rs.435)

5. “Swimsuit”

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: Century

Price: �5.99 (Rs.475)

6. “Shanghai Girls”

Author: Lisa See

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.450.00

7. “The Gropes”

Author: Tom Sharpe

Publisher: Hutchinson, London

Price: �5.99 (Rs.475)

8. “The Thing Around Your Neck”

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Price: Rs.299.00

9. “The White Tiger”

Author: Aravind Adiga

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.395.00

10. “Sea of Poppies”

Author: Amitav Ghosh

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.599.00

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

online)