Education Thursday, June 25, 2009

Coelho's 'The Winner Stands Alone' is top selling fiction

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 08:30 AM IST

Paulo Coelho's 'The Winner Stands Alone' jumped seven steps this week to reach the No.1 position in the fiction section of the bestseller list, while 'From Fatwa to Jihad : The Rushdie Affair And Its Legacy' by Kenan Malik stepped up four positions to dominate the non-fiction group.

The top 10 in each section are as follows:

Fiction

1. 'The Winner Stands Alone'

Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.325

2. 'The Long Walk Home'

Author: Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.295

3. 'The Case of The Missing Servant'

Author: Tarquin Hall

Publisher: Hutchinson, London

Price : pound 5.50 (Rs.437)

4. 'In Other Rooms, Other Wonders'

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395

5. 'The Thing Around Your Neck'

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Price: Rs.299

6. 'The Toss of a Lemon'

Author: Padma Viswanathan

Publisher: Tranquebar Press

Price: Rs.499

7. 'The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay'

Author: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499

8. 'First Family'

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: pound 5.99 (Rs.476)

9. 'Gone Tomorrow'

Author: Lee Child

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: pound 5.99 (Rs.476)

10. 'Six Graves to Munich'

Author: Mario Puzo

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs.399

Non-fiction

1. 'From Fatwa to Jihad : The Rushdie Affair And Its Legacy'

Author: Kenan Malik

Publisher: Atlantic Books, London

Price: Rs.399

2. 'Amen The Autobiography of a Nun'

Author: Sister Jesme

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.225

3. 'Stranger to History'

Author: Aatish Taseer

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.495

4. 'Delhi Adventures in a Megacity'

Author: Sam Miller

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499

5. 'Dreams from My Father'

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: Canongate

Price: Rs.395

6. 'The Audacity of Hope'

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: Canongate

Price: Rs.250

7. 'The Caged Phoenix : Can India Fly?'

Author: Dipankar Gupta

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.550

8. 'Nudge : Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness'

Author: Thaler and Sunstein

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.299

9. '80 Questions to Understand India : History, Mythology and Religion'

Author: Murad Ali Baig

Publisher: Tara

Price: Rs.395

10. 'Bangladesh and Pakistan : Flirting with Failure in South Asia'

Author: William B. Milam

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.895

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

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