Pamuk, Desai top bestselling authors
Last Updated: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 10:03
  
New Delhi: Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk`s "The Museum of Innocence" tops the fiction list this week while Meghnad Desai`s "The Rediscovery of India" leads the books in the non-fiction bestsellers.Here are the top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories:

Non-Fiction:

1. "The Rediscovery of India"

Author: Meghnad Desai

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs699.00

2. "The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma"

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs699.00

3. "Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India"

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs499.00

4. "The Hindus: An Alternative History"

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs999.00

5. "Making Sense of Pakistan"

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs695.00

6. "The Limits of Influence: America`s Role in Kashmir"

Author: Howard B Schaffer

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs499.00

7. "Making India Work"

Author: William Nanda Bissell

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs499.00

8. "India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership"

Author: Teresita C Schaffer

Publisher: The CSIS Press

Price: USD35.00 (Rs1,631)

9. "Have a Little Faith: A True Story"

Author: Mitch Albom

Publisher: Sphere

Price: Rs495.00

10. "Looking East To Look West: Lee Kuan Yew`s Mission India"

Author: Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs499.00

Fiction:

1. "The Museum of Innocence"

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs599.00

2. "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet`s Nest"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs495.00

3. "Wolf Hall"

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: Rs399.00

4. "The Palace of Illusions"

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs395.00

5. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs95.00

6. "Ford County Stories"

Author: John Grisham

Publisher: Arrow Books

Price: Rs299.00

7. "Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories"

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs395.00

8. "True Blue"

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs460)

9. "The Lost Symbol"

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs699.00

10. "The Five Greatest Warriors"

Author: Matthew Reilly

Publisher: Orion Books

Price: Rs595.00

IANS

First Published: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 10:03


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