Ramachandra Guha’s book rules charts yet again (IANS Books)
By IANSWednesday, November 24, 2010
NEW DELHI - Historian Ramachandra Guha’s “Makers of Modern India” is No.1 for the fourth time on the non-fiction section of bestsellers while “Room” by Emma Donoghue has topped the fiction list this 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. “Arming Without Aiming”
Author: Stephen P. Cohen And Sunil Dasgupta
Publisher: Penguin Book
Price: Rs.499.00
4. “Decision Points”
Author: George W. Bush
Publisher: Virgin Publishing
Price: Rs.999.00
5. “Tony Blair: A Journey”
Author: Tony Blair
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.999.00
6. “India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership”
Author: Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: India Research Press
Price: Rs.595.00
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. “Bangladesh Liberation War”
Author: B.Z. Khasru
Publisher: Rupa & Co.
Price: Rs.595.00
10. “How Much Should A Person Consume”
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.350.00
Fiction
1. “Room”
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.499.00
2. “Luka and the Fire of Life”
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.499.00
3. “Our Kind of Traitor”
Author: John Le Carre
Publisher: Prakash Books
Price: Rs.299.00
4. “The Finkler Question”
Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
5. “The Confession”
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs.299.00
6. “The Corrections”
Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.446.00
7. “Worth Dying For”
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.550.00
8. “The Forty Rules of Love”
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
9. “Revolution Highway”
Author: Dilip Simeon
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.299.00
10. “After Taste”
Author: Namita Devidayal
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.399.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
