By IANS,
New Delhi : William Dalrymple’s “The Last Mughal” continues as number one on the non-fiction list, but Kiran Desai has been dislodged from the top slot by Mohsin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” as fiction favourite this week.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are:
Non-Fiction
1. “The Last Mughal : The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857”
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.695.00
2. “The War of The World”
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : £5.50 (Rs.451)
3. “The Secret”
Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : Rs.495.00
4. “India’s Politics : A View From The Backbench”
Author : Bimal Jalan
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.350.00
5. “The Indians : Portrait of a People”
Author : Sudhir & Katharina Kakar
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.395.00
6. “Demystifying Kashmir”
Author : Navnita Chadha Behera
Publisher : Pearson Longman
Price : Rs.425.00
7. “Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam”
Author : Zahid Hussain
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.395.00
8. “In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India”
Author : Edward Luce
Publisher : Little Brown
Price : Rs.695.00
9. “Planet India”
Author : Mira Kamdar
Publisher : Scribner
Price : Rs. 395.00
10. “A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of Taj Mahal”
Author : Diana & Michael Preston
Publisher : Doubleday
Price : Rs.695.00
Fiction
1. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
Author : Mohsin Hamid
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.295.00
2. “On Chesil Beach”
Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Price : £12.99 (Rs.1.065)
3. “The Inheritance of Loss”
Author : Kiran Desai
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.495.00
4. “The Namesake”
Author : Juhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : Rs.295.00
5. “Shantaram”
Author : Gregory David Roberts
Publisher : Abacus
Price : £5.50 (Rs.451)
6. “Digging to America”
Author : Anne Tyler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Price : $5.50 (Rs.451)
7. “Step On A Crack”
Author : James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Publisher : Headline
Price : Rs.395.00
8. “I heard That Song Before”
Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : $18.75 (Rs.772)
9. “The Quest”
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Price : £9.20 (Rs.378)
10. “Merchants of Death”
Author : Neelima Dalmia Adhar
Publisher : Har Anand
Price : Rs.395.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed
above are available online.)