Bob Woodward, Salman Rushdie top authors (IANS Books)
By IANSWednesday, October 27, 2010
NEW DELHI - Pulitzer winning journalist Bob Woodward’s “Obama’s Wars” tops the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while “Luka and the Fire of Life” by Salman Rushdie dominates fiction.
The top 10 in each section are:
Non-fiction
1. “Obama’s Wars”
Author: Bob Woodward
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs.972.00
2. “MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service”
Author: Keith Jeffery
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.799.00
3. “Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Pakistan”
Author: Compilation by various Pakistani writers
Publisher: Granta Publishing
Price: Rs.599.00
4. “First Draft”
Author: B.G. Verghese
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.695.00
5. “Tony Blair: A Journey”
Author: Tony Blair
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.999.00
6. “The Delhi Walla Series: Three Titles”
Author: Mayank Austen Soofi
Publisher: Collins
Price: Rs.199.00 Each Title
7. “Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857″
Author: Mahmood Farooqui
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs.699.00
8. “Finding Delhi”
Author: Bharati Chaturvedi
Publisher: Penguin/Viking
Price: Rs.350.00
9. “Ambani & Sons”
Author: Hamish McDonald
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.395.00
10. “Churchill’s Secret War”
Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.495.00
Fiction
1. “Luka and the Fire of Life”
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.499.00
2. “Freedom”
Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.694.00
3. “Room”
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.499.00
4. “After Taste”
Author: Namita Devidayal
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.399.00
5. “Worth Dying For”
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.550.00
6. “The Immortals of Meluha”
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Westland
Price: Rs.295.00
7. “Revolution Highway”
Author: Dilip Simeon
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.299.00
8. “Fall of Giants”
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.350.00
9. “The Cobra”
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: Corgi Books
Price: Rs.299.00
10. “The Emissary”
Author: Aniruddha Bahal
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.699.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
