‘The Difficulty of Being Good…’ top bestseller this week
February 18th, 2010 - 9:34 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma” by Gurcharan Das climbed to the No.1 position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum of Innocence” bounced back to dominate the fiction list.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Victoria and Abdul”
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Rupa & Co
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
4. “Committed”
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “Delhi Adventures In A Mega City”
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs.499.00
6. “War and Peace in Modern India”
Author: Srinath Raghavan
Publisher: Permanent Black
Price: Rs.750.00
7. “The Oxford Companion to Politics”
Author: Jayal/Mehta
Publisher: OUP
Price: Rs.3500.00
8. “Open an Autobiography”
Author: Andre Agassi
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.599.00
9. “80 Questions to Understand India”
Author: Murad Ali Baig
Publisher: Tara
Price: Rs.395.00
10. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
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 Palace of Illusion”
Author: Chitra Banerjee
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.395.00
4. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
5. “I, Alex Cross”
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.550.00
6. “Twilight”
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Publisher: Atom/Hachette
Price: Rs.350.00
7. “The Humbling”
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.550.00
8. “Lessons in Forgetting”
Author: Anita Nair
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.399.00
9. “Blowback”
Author: Mukul Deva
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.199.00
10. “Death of a Moneylender”
Author: Kota Neelima
Publisher: Roli
Price: Rs.295.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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- Pavan Varma, Orhan Pamuk bestselling authors of the week - Mar 25, 2010
- Fatima Bhutto's book tops bestseller list (IANS Books) - Apr 15, 2010
- Gurcharan Das' book bounces back to No.1 - Apr 01, 2010
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- Fatima Bhutto's book remains on top (IANS Books) - May 13, 2010
- Amarinder Singh's 'The Last Sunset' tops bestseller list (IANS Books) - Mar 11, 2010
- Dalrymple, Pamuk top authors of the week - Jan 28, 2010
- 'Nine Lives...' stays atop bestseller list - Feb 11, 2010
- Khushwant, Fatima Bhutto amongst 2010's most read authors (IANS Books) - Dec 28, 2010
- Orhan Pamuk's book continues to retain No.1 position - Jan 07, 2010
- 'The Palace of Illusions' tops fiction bestseller list - Jan 21, 2010
- Orhan Pamuk's book again tops bestseller list - Feb 04, 2010
- Pamuk's book tops charts again - Dec 10, 2009
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