Obama books return to bestseller list
By IANSWednesday, December 24, 2008
NEW DELHI - While the top of the bestseller lists remained the same this week, with Nandan Nilekani’s ‘Imagining India’ atop the non-fiction category and Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’ heading the fiction group, two books by US president-elect Barack Obama return to the bestseller list.
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. ‘Hot, Flat, and Crowded : Why the World Needs a Green Revolution - and How …’
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.595.00
4. ‘The Post American World’
Author: Fareed Zakaria
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
5. ‘Sahibs Who Loved India’
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.325.00
6. ‘Empires Of Indus’
Author: Alice Albinia
Publisher: John Murray
Price: Rs.550.00
7. ‘Dreams From My Father’
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs.395.00
8. ‘The Audacity of Hope’
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs.250.00
9. ‘Wild City: Nature Wonders Next Door’
Author: Ranjit Lal
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.275.00
10. ‘Rise of the Plebeians? The Changing Face of Indian Legislative Assemblies’
Author: Christophe Jaffrelot & Sanjay Kumar
Publisher: Routledge
Price: Rs.895.00
Fiction
1. ‘The White Tiger’
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
2. ‘Unaccustomed Earth’
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.450.00
3. ‘Sea of Poppies’
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
4. ‘Between The Assassinations’
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.295.00
5. ‘The Diary of a Social Butterfly’
Author: Moni Mohsin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.195.00
6. ‘Indian Memsahib: the Untold story of a Bureaucrat’s wife’
Author: Suchita Malik
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.195.00
7. ‘Breaking Dawn’
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Atom
Price: Rs.550.00
8. ‘The Private Patient: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery’
Author: P.D. James
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.695.00
9. ‘Karnak Cafe’
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.295.00
10. Title: Cross Country
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.433.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
