Jaswant Singh’s book on Jinnah already tops chart
August 20th, 2009 - 9:18 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The controversial book “Jinnah: India-Partition Independence” by Jaswant Singh predictably tops the non-fiction section of the bestseller list here in the first week of its release while Ali Sethi’s “The Wish Maker: A Novel” continued at the No.1 position in the fiction category for the third week in a row.
The top 10 in each section are:
Non-fiction
1. “Jinnah: India-Partition Independence”
Author: Jaswant Singh
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.695.00
2. “The Idea of Justice”
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
3. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Shaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.695.00
4. “80 Questions To Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion”
Author: Murad Ali Baig
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.395.00
5. “The Secret”
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Price: $12.50 (Rs.610)
6. “Curfewed Night”
Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
7. “Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy”
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
8. “The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?”
Author: Dipankar Gupta
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.550.00
9. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
10. “A Better India A Better World”
Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
Fiction
1. “The Wish Maker: A Novel”
Author: Ali Sethi
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
2. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercsu
Price: Rs.299.00
3. “Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game”
Author: Tilly Bagshawe
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.250.00
4. “Secrets and Lies”
Author: Jaishree Misra
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.275.00
5. “The White Tiger”
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
6. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
7. “The Thing Around Your Neck”
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Fourth Estate - London
Price: Rs.299.00
8. “How to Paint A Dead Man”
Author: Sarah Hall
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.425.00
9. “Swimsuit”
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.475)
10. “Empire of The Moghul: Raiders from the North”
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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