Barack Obama has three books on bestseller list
By IANSThursday, January 8, 2009
NEW DELHI - US president-elect Barack Obama has three books among the top 10 bestsellers in the non-fiction category this week in India. Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’ stays atop the list in the fiction category.
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. ‘The Secret’
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs.550.00
3. ‘Dreams from My Father’
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs.395.00
4. ‘The Audacity of Hope’
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs.250.00
5. ‘Change We Can Believe In’
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs.475.00
6. ‘The Post American World’
Author: Fareed Zakaria
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
7. ‘Empires Of Indus’
Author: Alice Albinia
Publisher: John Murray
Price: Rs.550.00
8. ‘The Bin Ladens : The Story of a Family and its Fortune’
Author: Steve Coll
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.695.00
9. ‘The Girl From Foreign’
Author: Sadia Shepard
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.450.00
10. ‘Masters and Commanders’
Author: Andrew Roberts
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price : Rs.1,195.00
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. ‘Between The Assassinations’
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.295.00
4. ‘Sea of Poppies’
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
5. ‘The Diary of a Social Butterfly’
Author: Moni Mohsin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.195.00
6. ‘American Wife’
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher: Doubleday
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.445.00)
7. ‘A Mercy’
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Price: £5.99 (Rs.445.00)
8. ‘The Private Patient : An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery’
Author: P.D. James
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.695.00
9. ‘Scarpetta’
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Little Brown
Price: Rs.595.00
10. ‘Indian Memsahib’
Author: Suchita Malik
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.195.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
