Dalrymple’s new book tops bestseller chart
October 22nd, 2009 - 9:01 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) William Dalrymple’s new book “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India” topped the bestseller chart here in the non-fiction section this week, while Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” bounced back to the No.1 position in the fiction.
The top 10 in each section are as follows:
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. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Shaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.499.00
4. “Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars”
Author: Gretchen Peters
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.495.00
5. “The Idea of Justice”
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
6. “Making India Work”
Author: William Nanda Bissell
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
7. “Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan”
Author: Antonio Giustozzi
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.795.00
8. “The Alqaeda Connection”
Author: Imitaz Gul
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
9. “Chasing The Dragon: Will India Catch Up with China?”
Author: M. Guruswamy and Z.D. Singh
Publisher: Pearson
Price: Rs.650.00
10. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of The Mughal Emperor”
Author: Fergus Nicoll
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.899.00
Fiction
1. “The Lost Symbol”
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “The Children’s Book”
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Chatto and Windows
Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)
4. “Summertime”
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)
5. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House (India)
Price: Rs.395.00
6. “2 States - The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
7. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
8. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
9. “Transition”
Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Little Brown
Price: Rs.595.00
10. “Twenties Girl”
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.452)
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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