Art & Culture Thursday, December 03, 2009

Orhan Pamuk's book stays atop bestseller chart

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 12:01 PM IST

Nobel prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk's 'The Museum of Innocence' continued to dominate the bestseller list in the fiction category this week while 'The Hindus: An Alternative History' by Wendy Doniger jumped three positions to top the non-fiction section.

Here are the top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories:

Non-fiction

1. 'The Hindus: An Alternative History'

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.999.00

2. 'The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma'

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

3. 'Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India'

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.499.00

4. 'The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir'

Author: Howard B. Schaffer

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

5. 'India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership'

Author: Teresita C. Schaffer

Publisher: The CSIS Press

Price: $35.00 (Rs.1,630)

6. 'Have a Little Faith: A True Story'

Author: Mitch Albom

Publisher: Sphere

Price: Rs.495.00

7. 'Making Sense of Pakistan'

Author: Farzana Sbaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

8. 'The Rediscovery of India'

Author: Meghnad Desai

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

9. 'Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of The Mughal Emperor'

Author: Fergus Nicoll

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.899.00

10. 'Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier'

Author: Zhao Ziyang

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Price: $20.00 (Rs.925)

Fiction

1. 'The Museum of Innocence'

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.599.00

2. 'The Palace of Illusions'

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.395.00

3. '2 States: The Story of My Marriage'

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

4. 'Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories'

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

5. 'Ford County Stories'

Author: John Grisham

Publisher: Arrow Books

Price: Rs.299.00

6. 'Wolf Hall'

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: Rs.399.00

7. 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest'

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs.495.00

8. 'The Lost Symbol'

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

9. 'The Five Greatest Warriors'

Author: Matthew Reilly

Publisher: Orion Books

Price: Rs.595.00

10. 'True Blue'

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.460)

(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).

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