Dalrymple, Pamuk top authors of the week
January 28th, 2010 - 10:19 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India” by William Dalrymple bounced back to 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” dominated the fiction category.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
2. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
3. “Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer’s Report on the War on Terror”
Author: Amitava Kumar
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.350.00
4. “Too Big To Fail: Inside The Battle To Save Wall Street”
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
5. “What The Dog Saw and other adventures”
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.599.00
6. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
7. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor”
Author: Fergus Nicoll
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.899.00
8. “Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey”
Author: Captain Gopinath
Publisher: Collins Business
Price: Rs.499.00
9. “The Defence of The Realm The Authorized History of MI5″
Author: Christopher Andrew
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.899.00
10. “A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War”
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
Fiction
1. “The Museum of Innocence”
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
2. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
3. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
4. “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
5. “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.495.00
6. “Home Boy”
Author: H.M. Naqvi
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.399.00
7. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.399.00
8. “Return to Almora”
Author: R.K. Pachauri
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395.00
9. “Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From The North”
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
10. “The Lost Symbol”
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.699.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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