Orhan Pamuk’s book stays atop bestseller chart
December 3rd, 2009 - 11:18 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Nobel prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum of Innocence” continued to dominate the bestseller list in the fiction category this week while “The Hindus: An Alternative History” by Wendy Doniger jumped three positions to top the non-fiction section.
Here are the top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories:
Non-fiction
1. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
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 Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir”
Author: Howard B. Schaffer
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership”
Author: Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: The CSIS Press
Price: $35.00 (Rs.1,630)
6. “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Sphere
Price: Rs.495.00
7. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Sbaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.695.00
8. “The Rediscovery of India”
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin 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. “Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier”
Author: Zhao Ziyang
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Price: $20.00 (Rs.925)
Fiction
1. “The Museum of Innocence”
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
2. “The Palace of Illusions”
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
4. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.395.00
5. “Ford County Stories”
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs.299.00
6. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
Price: Rs.399.00
7. “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Price: Rs.495.00
8. “The Lost Symbol”
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.699.00
9. “The Five Greatest Warriors”
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Orion Books
Price: Rs.595.00
10. “True Blue”
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.460)
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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