Pavan Varma, Orhan Pamuk bestselling authors of the week
March 25th, 2010 - 2:23 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 25 (IANS) “Becoming Indian” by Pavan K. Varma continued to retain the number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum Of Innocence” again dominated the fiction group.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. “Becoming Indian”
Author: Pavan K. Varma
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
2. “Victoria and Abdul”
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Rupa & Co
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy”
Author: Joseph Stiglitz
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
4. “On the Brink”
Author: Hank Paulson
Publisher: Headline
Price: Rs.599.00
5. “The Rediscovery of India”
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
6. “Raja Ravi Verma: Painter of Colonial India”
Author: Rupika Chawla
Publisher: Mapin
Price: Rs.3,950.00
7. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
8. “The French & Delhi: Agra, Aligarh and Sardhana”
Author: Jean-Marie and Rehana Lafont
Publisher: India Research Press
Price: Rs.299.00
9. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
10. “The British, The Bandits and The Bordermen”
Author: P.V. Rajgopal
Publisher: Wisdom Tree
Price: Rs. 495.00
Fiction
1. “The Museum Of Innocence”
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber And Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
2. “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.495.00
3. “The Temple-Goers”
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.495.00
4. “Way to Go”
Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “The Immortals of Meluha”
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.295.00
6. “The Palace of Illusion”
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.395.00
7. “Worst Case”
Author: James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.550.00
8. “Solar”
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.550.00
9. “The Godfather of Kathmandu”
Author: John Burdett
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.550.00
10. “The Pregnant Widow”
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.599.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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