Education Thursday, November 15, 2007

Pakistan theme tops fiction and non-fiction bestsellers list

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 05:00 PM IST

There are no new surprises in the bestsellers list this week but Pakistan theme tops both fiction and non-fiction lists. 'Deception: Pakistan, The United States and The Global Nuclear' which traces the journey of Pakistan's nuclear bomb climbs to the top of the non-fiction list. Pakistan-born Harvard Law School graduate turned journalist-writer Mohsin Hamid's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' is at the top in the fiction list.

The top 10 non-fiction and fiction bestsellers this week are:

Non-fiction:

1.'Deception: Pakistan, The United States and The Global Nuclear...'

Author: Adrian Levy and amp; Catherine Scott-Clark

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Price: Pound 11.25 (Rs.903.00)

2. 'The Secret'

Author: Rhonda Byrne

Publisher: Atria Books

Price: Rs.550.00

3. 'The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in A New World'

Author: Alan Greenspan

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.695.00

4. 'Entry From Backside Only: Hazaar Fundas of Indian-English'

Author: Binoo K. John

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.95.00

5. 'India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy'

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.695.00

6. 'The Elephant, The Tiger and amp; The Cellphone'

Author: Shashi Tharoor

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.495.00

7. 'Inside IB and Raw: The Rolling Stone that Gathered Moss'

Author: K. Sankaran nair

Publisher: Manas Publications

Price: Rs.495.00

8. 'In Search of a Future: The Story of Kashmir'

Author: David Devadas

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.495.00

9. 'An American Witness to India's Partition'

Author: Phillips Talbot

Publisher: SAGE

Price: Rs.720.00

10. 'At The Center of the Storm: My years at the CIA'

Author: George Tenet

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: $22.50 (Rs.884.00)

Fiction:

1. 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'

Author: Mohsin Hamid

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.295

2. 'The Gathering'

Author: Anne Enright

Publisher: Vintage

Price: Pound 3.75 (Rs.300.00)

3. 'The Cleft'

Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: Rs.295.00

4. 'The Music Room'

Author: Namita Devidayal

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

5. 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'

Author: Khaled Hosseini

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Pound 5.99 (Rs.480.00)

6. 'The Ghost'

Author: Robert Harris

Publisher: Hutchinson

Price: Pound 6.00 (Rs.482.00)

7. 'The Indian Clerk'

Author: David Leavitt

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.495.00

8. 'Stone Cold'

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: Pound5.60 (Rs.450.00)

9. Divisadero

Author: Michael Ondaatje

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.795.00

10. 'What Is The What'

Author: Dave Eggers

Publisher: Vintage

Price: $ 11.25 (Rs.903.00)

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

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