Jaswant joins Dan Brown in bestseller list - again
By IANSWednesday, September 30, 2009
NEW DELHI - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” continues as No.1 for the fifth consecutive week in the non-fiction section while Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” is the predictable topper in the fiction list this week.
The top 10 in each section are:
Non-fiction
1. “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”
Author: Jaswant Singh
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.695.00
2. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
3. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
4. “Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars”
Author: Gretchen Peters
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.495.00
5. “The Alqaeda Connection”
Author: Imitaz Gul
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
6. “Making Sense of Pakistan”
Author: Farzana Shaikh
Publisher: Foundation Books
Price: Rs.695.00
7. “The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War”
Author: Andrew Roberts
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: 11.99 pounds
8. “Delhi Adventures in a Megacity”
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
9. “The Idea of Justice”
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
10. “New Delhi: Making of a Capital”
Author: M. Singh and R. Mukherjee
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.1,975.00
Fiction
1. “The Lost Symbol”
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Summertime”
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)
3. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
Price: 7.99 pounds (Rs.609)
4. “The Children’s Book”
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Chatto and Windows
Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)
5. “The Little Stranger”
Author: Sarah Waters
Publisher: Virago
Price: Rs.550.00
6. “Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From The North”
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
7. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
8. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
9. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.395.00
10. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).
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October 1, 2009: 11:35 am
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