Wendy Doniger, Hilary Mantel week’s top authors

By IANS,

New Delhi : Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus: An Alternative History” topped the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel topped the fiction group.


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The top 10 in each section are as follows:

Non-fiction

1. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.999.00

2. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma”

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

3. “The Idea of Justice”

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

4. “Making Sense of Pakistan”

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.499.00

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

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.495.00

6. “The Alqaeda Connection”

Author: Imtiaz Gul

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

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

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

8. “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”

Author: Jaswant Singh

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.695.00

9. “Chasing The Dragon: Will India Catch Up with China?”

Author: M. Guruswamy and Z.D. Singh

Publisher: Pearson

Price: Rs.650.00

10. “Delhi Adventures in a Megacity”

Author: Sam Miller

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

Fiction

1. “Wolf Hall”

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: 7.99 pounds (Rs.609)

2. “The Lost Symbol”

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

3. “Summertime”

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)

4. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House (India)

Price: Rs.395.00

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

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

6. “2 States The Story of My Marriage”

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

7. “The Children’s Book”

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)

8. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

9. “The Englishman’s Cameo”

Author: Madhulika Liddle

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.295.00

10. “The Angel’s Game”

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Publisher: Weidenfield and Nicolson

Price: Rs.495.00

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

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