‘The Palace of Illusions’ tops fiction bestseller list
January 21st, 2010 - 11:41 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) “The Palace of Illusions” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni climbed to the No.1 position in the fiction category of the bestseller list this week while Meghnad Desai’s “The Rediscovery of India” continued to dominate the non-fiction section.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. “The Rediscovery of India”
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
3. “Yours Sincerely”
Author: K. Natwar Singh
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395.00
4. “The Difficulty of Being God: On The Subtle art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
5. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor”
Author: Fergus Nicoll
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.899.00
6. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
7. “What The Dog Saw and other adventures”
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.599.00
8. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
9. “The Defence of The Realm: The Authorized History of MI5″
Author: Christopher Andrew
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.899.00
10. “A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War”
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
Fiction
1. “The Palace of Illusions”
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.395.00
2. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
3. “The Museum of Innocence”
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
4. “The Girl Who Played with Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
5. “Her Fearful Symmetry”
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.525.00
6. “Kal, Aaj Aur Kal”
Author: Cyrus Broacha
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.195.00
7. “The Confession of Sultana Daku”
Author: Sujit Saraf
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Price: Rs.399.00
8. “Lustrum: Blinded by Ambition, Seduced by Power, Destroyed by Rome”
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.550.00
9. “Last Night in Twisted River”
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.799.00
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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