Wendy Doniger, Hilary Mantel week’s top authors
October 15th, 2009 - 11:06 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus: An Alternative History” topped the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel topped the fiction group.
The top 10 in each section are as follows:
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. “The Idea of Justice”
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
4. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Shaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars”
Author: Gretchen Peters
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.495.00
6. “The Alqaeda Connection”
Author: Imtiaz Gul
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
7. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
8. “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”
Author: Jaswant Singh
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.695.00
9. “Chasing The Dragon: Will India Catch Up with China?”
Author: M. Guruswamy and Z.D. Singh
Publisher: Pearson
Price: Rs.650.00
10. “Delhi Adventures in a Megacity”
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
Fiction
1. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
Price: 7.99 pounds (Rs.609)
2. “The Lost Symbol”
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.699.00
3. “Summertime”
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)
4. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House (India)
Price: Rs.395.00
5. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.395.00
6. “2 States The Story of My Marriage”
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
7. “The Children’s Book”
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Chatto and Windows
Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)
8. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
9. “The Englishman’s Cameo”
Author: Madhulika Liddle
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.295.00
10. “The Angel’s Game”
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Weidenfield and Nicolson
Price: Rs.495.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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