‘Stranger to History’ continues to top bestseller list
By IANSFriday, April 24, 2009
NEW DELHI - Aatish Taseer’s book ‘Stranger to History’ continued to maintain its position at the top of the charts in the non-fiction category this week, while ‘In Other Rooms, Other Wonders’ by Daniyal Mueenuddin grabbed the highest position in the fiction section.
The top 10 in each group are:
Non-fiction
1. ‘Stranger to History’
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495.00
2. ‘A Better India A Better World’
Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
3. ‘Delhi Adventures in A Megacity’
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
4. ‘India’s Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking On the World’
Author: Nirmalya Kumar
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Price: Rs.695.00
5. ‘Outliers: The Story of Success’
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.399.00
6. ‘Curfewed Night’
Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
7. ‘Challenge And Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy’
Author: Rajiv Sikri
Publisher: Sage
Price: Rs.595.00
8. ‘The Secret’
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Atria Books
Price: $12.50 (Rs.629.00)
9. ‘A Place Within: Rediscovering India’
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
10. ‘Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century’
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
Fiction
1. ‘In Other Rooms, Other Wonders’
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
2. ‘The White Tiger’
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
3. ‘The Storyteller’s Tale’
Author: Omair Ahmad
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.225.00
4. ‘Gone Tomorrow’
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.442.00
5. ‘The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay’
Author: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
6. ‘The Story of a Widow’
Author: Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495.00
7. ‘Solo’
Author: Rana Dasgupta
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
8. ‘A Case of Exploding Mangoes’
Author: Mohammed Hanif
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.195.00
9. ‘The Immortals’
Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495.00
10. ‘The Women’
Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.599.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
