Orhan Pamuk, Meghnad Desai top bestselling authors
November 27th, 2009 - 6:58 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum of Innocence” tops the fiction list this week while Meghnad Desai’s “The Rediscovery of India” leads the books in the non-fiction bestsellers.
Here are the top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories:
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. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
4. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
5. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Shaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.695.00
6. “The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir”
Author: Howard B. Schaffer
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
7. “Making India Work”
Author: William Nanda Bissell
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
8. “India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership”
Author: Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: The CSIS Press
Price: $35.00 (Rs.1,631)
9. “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Sphere
Price: Rs.495.00
10. “Looking East To Look West: Lee Kuan Yew’s Mission India”
Author: Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
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, London
Price: Rs.399.00
4. “The Palace of Illusions”
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.395.00
5. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
6. “Ford County Stories”
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs.299.00
7. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.395.00
8. “True Blue”
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.460)
9. “The Lost Symbol”
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.699.00
10. “The Five Greatest Warriors”
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Orion Books
Price: Rs.595.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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