Ramachandra Guha rules the non-fiction chart with two books (IANS Books)
December 9th, 2010 - 11:59 am ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Historian Ramachandra Guha dominates the non-fiction list this week with his “Makers of Modern India” and “How Much Should A Person Consume” the top two sellers of the week. Khushwant Singh’s “The Sunset Club” is number one in the fiction list.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. “Makers of Modern India”
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Penguin/Viking
Price: Rs.799.00
2. “How Much Should A Person Consume”
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.350.00
3. “From XL to XS - a fitness guru’s guide to changing your body”
Author: Payal Gidwani Tiwari
Publisher: Random House India
Price: Rs. 199.00
4. “Arming Without Aiming”
Author: Stephen P. Cohen And Sunil Dasgupta
Publisher: Penguin Book
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “Obama’s Wars: The Inside Story”
Author: Bob Woodward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Price: Rs.972.00
6. “An Illustrated retelling of the Mahabharata”
Author: Devdutt Pattanaikk
Publisher: Penguin India
Price: Rs.499.00
7. “Decision Points”
Author: George W. Bush
Publisher: Virgin Publishing
Price: Rs.999.00
8. “Finding Delhi”
Author: Bharati Chaturvedi
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs.350.00
9. “The Power - the Secret”
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Price: $14.75 (Rs.665)
10. “MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service”
Author: Keith Jeffery
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.799.00
Fiction
1. “The Sunset Club”
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin viking
Price: Rs.399.00
2. “The Confession”
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs.299.00
3. “Luka and the Fire of Life”
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.499.00
4. “Cross Fire”
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century books
Price: Rs.550.00
5. “Room”
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.499.00
6. “Shadow Princess”
Author: Indu Sunderesan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.399.00
7. “The Immortals of Meluha”
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Westland
Price: Rs.295.00
8. “The Slayer of Kamsa”
Author: Ashok Banker
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.250.00
9. “Serious Men”
Author: Manu Joseph
Publisher: 4th Estate
Price: Rs.499.00
10. “Battle For Bittora”
Author: Anuja Chauhan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.299.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
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