New Delhi: `The Palace of Illusions` by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni climbed to the No 1 position in the fiction category of the bestseller list this week while Meghnad Desai`s `The Rediscovery of India` continued to dominate the non-fiction section.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. "The Rediscovery of India"
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. "Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India"
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
3. "Yours Sincerely"
Author: K. Natwar Singh
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395.00
4. "The Difficulty of Being God: On The Subtle art of Dharma"
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
5. "Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor"
Author: Fergus Nicoll
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.899.00
6. "Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century"
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
7. "What The Dog Saw and other adventures"
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.599.00
8. "The Hindus: An Alternative History"
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.999.00
9. "The Defence of The Realm: The Authorized History of MI5"
Author: Christopher Andrew
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.899.00
10. "A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War"
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.599.00
Fiction
1. "The Palace of Illusions"
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.395.00
2. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
3. "The Museum of Innocence"
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
4. "The Girl Who Played with Tattoo"
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
5. "Her Fearful Symmetry"
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.525.00
6. "Kal, Aaj Aur Kal"
Author: Cyrus Broacha
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.195.00
7. "The Confession of Sultana Daku"
Author: Sujit Saraf
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Price: Rs.399.00
8. "Lustrum: Blinded by Ambition, Seduced by Power, Destroyed by Rome"
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.550.00
9. "Last Night in Twisted River"
Author: John Irving
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.799.00
10. "The Five Greatest Warriors"
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Orion Books
Price: Rs.595.00
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First Published: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 10:52
