Adiga still rides ‘White Tiger’ atop bestseller list
By IANSThursday, January 15, 2009
NEW DELHI - ‘Imagining India …’ by Nandan Nilekani and ‘The White Tiger’ by Aravind Adiga stay on top of the bestseller lists here this week, in the non-fiction and fiction categories respectively.
The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are:
Non fiction
1. ‘Imagining India: Ideas for the new century’
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. ‘Curfewed Night’
Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
3. ‘Hot, Flat, and Crowded : Why the World Needs a Green Revolution …’
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.595.00
4. ‘Empires of The Indus’
Author: Alice Albinia
Publisher: John Murray
Price: Rs.550.00
5. ‘The Secret’
Author : Rhonda Byrne
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : Rs.550.00
6. ‘Outliers : The Story of Success’
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.399.00
7. ‘Arguments for a Better World : Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen- 2 vol.set’
Author: Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur
Publisher: Oxford
Price : Rs.3,500.00
8. ‘The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power’
Author: Tariq Ali
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: $13.75 (Rs.671.25)
9. ‘China: A History’
Author: John Keay
Publisher: Harper Press
Price: Rs.395.00
10. ‘India Who’s Who : Thirtieth Edition 2008-2009′
Author: INFA Publications
Publisher: INFA Publications
Price: Rs.495.00
Fiction
1. ‘The White Tiger’
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
2. ‘Q & A’
Author: Vikas Swarup
Publisher: Black Swan
Price: Rs.295.00
3. ‘Sea of Poppies’
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
4. ‘Unaccustomed Earth’
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.450.00
5. ‘The Diary of a Social Butterfly’
Author: Moni Mohsin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.195.00
6. ‘The Immigrant’
Author: Manju Kapur
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
7. ‘A Case of Exploding Mangoes’
Author: Mohammed Hanif
Publisher: Random Hosuse
Price: Rs.395.00
8. ‘Run For Your Life’
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: £ 5.99 (Rs.436.29)
9. ‘Rough Justice’
Author: Jack Higgins
Publisher: Harper
Price: Rs.295.00
10. ‘Bombay Rains Bombay Girls’
Author: Anirban Bose
Publisher: Harper
Price: Rs.195.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
