‘Makers of Modern India’ is bestseller for tenth time (IANS Books)
By IANSThursday, January 6, 2011
NEW DELHI - Historian Ramachandra Guha continued to dominate the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week with his “Makers of Modern India” being at the top for the tenth time. “The Sunset Club” by Khushwant Singh dominated the fiction category for the sixth time.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. Title: “Makers of Modern India”
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Penguin/Viking
Price: Rs.799.00
2. Title: “India-China Boundary Problem 1846-1947″
Author: A.G. Noorani
Publisher: Oxford Press
Price: Rs.795.00
3. Title: “The Difficulty Of Being Good”
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs.699.00
4. Title: “Ambani & Sons”
Author: Hamish McDonald
Publisher: Roli books
Price: Rs.395.00
5. Title: “Jamies 30-Minute Meals”
Author: Jamie Oliver
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs 899.00
6. Title: “Arming Without Aiming”
Author: Stephen P. Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta
Publisher: Penguin Book
Price: Rs.499.00
7. Title: “India and The United States in The 21st Century”
Author: Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: India Research Press
Price: Rs.595.00
8. Title: Obamas Wars: The inside Story
Author: Bob Woodward
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs.670
9. Title: “My Life with the Taliban”
Author: Abdul Salam Zaeef
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.495.00
10. Title: “The Bhutto Murder Trail”
Author: Amir Mir
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.495.00
Fiction
1. Title: “The Sunset Club”
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.399.0
2. Title: “The Immortals of Meluha”
Author: Amish
Publisher: Tara press
Price: Rs.295.00
3. Title: “Battle For Bittora”
Author: Anuja Chauhan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.299.00
4. Title: “Shadow Princess”
Author: Indu Sundaresan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.399.00
5. Title: “The Forty Rules of Love”
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
6. Title: “The Finkler Question”
Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
7. Title: “Room”
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.499.00
8. Title: “Freedom”
Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: 4th Estate
Price: Rs.630
9. Title: “Eat Pray Love”
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.350.00
10. Title: “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.350.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
