Meghnad Desai, Chetan Bhagat top authors this week
January 14th, 2010 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Meghnad Desai’s “The Rediscovery of India” climbed two positions to regain the No.1 spot in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while “2 States: The Story of My Marriage” by Chetan Bhagat dominated the fiction category.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. “The Rediscovery of India”
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
3. “Super Freakonomics”
Author: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.399.00
4. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
6. “India and The United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership”
Author: Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: CSIS
Price: $35.00 (Rs.1,593)
7. “Chasing The Dragon: Will India Catch up with China?”
Author: Mohan Guruswamy
Publisher: Pearson
Price: Rs.650.00
8. “Too Big To Fail: Inside The Battle to Save Wall Street”
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
9. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor”
Author: Fergus Nicoll
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.899.00
10. “The Arabs: A History”
Author: Eugene Rogan
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.999.00
Fiction
1. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
2. “The Museum of Innocence”
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
3. “The Palace of Illusions”
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.395.00
4. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
5. “The Girl With Dragon Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
6. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.399.00
7. “The Case of The Missing Servant”
Author: Tarquin Hall
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Price: Rs.525.00
8. “Lustrum: Blinded by Ambition, Seduced by Power, Destroyed by Rome”
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.550.00
9. “Last Night in Twisted River”
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.799.00
10. “The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments”
Author: Vladimin Nabokov
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Price: Rs.699.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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