Ramachandra Guha’s book third time lucky on charts (IANS Books)
By IANSWednesday, November 17, 2010
NEW DELHI - Historian Ramachandra Guha’s “Makers of Modern India” and “The Finkler Question” by Howard Jacobson have topped the non-fiction and fiction sections of the bestseller list respectively for the third straight week.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-Fiction
1. “Makers of Modern India”
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Penguin/Viking
Price: Rs.799.00
2. “Obama’s Wars: The Inside Story”
Author: Bob Woodward
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs.972.00
3. “From XL to XS - a fitness guru’s guide to changing your body”
Author: Payal Gidwani Tiwari
Publisher: Random House India
Price: Rs. 199.00
4. “India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership”
Author: Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: India Research Press
Price: Rs.595.00
5. “The Grand Design”
Author: Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.599.00
6. “Arming Without Aiming”
Author: Stephen Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499
7. “The Absent State”
Author: Neelesh Misra & Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Hachette India
Price: Rs.495.00
8. “The F word”
Author: Mita Kapur
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.599.00
9. “Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Pakistan”
Author: Compilation by various Pakistani writers
Publisher: Granta Publishing
Price: Rs.599.00
10. “Tony Blair: A Journey”
Author: Tony Blair
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.999.00
Fiction
1. “The Finkler Question”
Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
2. “Our Kind Of Traitor”
Author: John Le Carre
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs.299.00
3. “The Confession”
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs.299.00
4. “Battle for Bittora”
Author: Anuja Chauhan
Publisher: Harper Collins India
Price: Rs.299.00
5. “The Immortals of Meluha”
Author: Amish
Publisher: Westland
Price: Rs.295.00
6. “Baritmaeus”
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Publisher: Doubleday
Price: Rs.550.00
7. “Luka and the Fire of Life”
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.499.00
8. “Revolution Highway”
Author: Dilip Simeon
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs.299
9. “Serious Men”
Author: Manu Joseph
Publisher: 4th Estate
Price: Rs.499.00
10. “Shadow Princess”
Author: Indu Sundaresan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.399.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
