Orhan Pamuk continues to dominate bestselling chart
December 18th, 2009 - 1:11 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Meghnad Desai’s “The Rediscovery of India” jumped two positions and dominated the non-fiction bestsellers this week while “The Museum of Innocence” by Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk continued to retain the No.1 position in the fiction category.
The top 10 in each category are as follows:
Non-fiction
1. “The Rediscovery of India”
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
3. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
4. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
5. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of The Mughal Emperor”
Author: Fergus Nicoll
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.899.00
6. “The Arabs: A History”
Author: Eugene Rogan
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.999.00
7. “Chasing The Dragon: Will India Catch Up with China?”
Author: Mohan Guruswamy and Z.D. Singh
Publisher: Longman
Price: Rs.650.00
8. “Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India’s North East”
Author: Subir Bhaumik
Publisher: Sage Publications
Price: Rs.595.00
9. “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Sphere
Price: Rs.495.00
10. “The Beautiful Tree”
Author: James Tooley
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
Fiction
1. “The Museum of Innocence”
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
2. “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Price: Rs.495.00
3. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.399.00
4. “The Englishman’s Cameo”
Author: Madhulika Liddle
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.295.00
5. “Ford County Stories”
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs.299.00
6. “Pirate Latitudes”
Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.250.00
7. “I, Alex Cross”
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.550.00
8. “The Five Greatest Warriors”
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Orion Books
Price: Rs.595.00
9. “True Blue”
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.460)
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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