Coelho’s ‘The Winner Stands Alone’ is top selling fiction

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amartya Sen's "The Idea of Justice" dominated the non-fiction section among best-selling books here in the first week of its release while "The Wish Maker: A Novel" by Ali Sethi continued to retain its number one position in the fiction category. The top 10 in each section are: Non-fiction 1.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Arundhati Roy's new book "Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy" topped the non-fiction category of the bestseller list this week while "The Wish Maker: A Novel" by Ali Sethi dominated the fiction list. The top 10 in each section are: Non-fiction 1.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Novelist Amitav Ghosh shared the Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 for his book Sea of Poppies with writer-reviewer Neel Mukherjee for his novel Past Continuous in the English fiction category, a press statement issued here Thursday said. The awards were announced at a glittering function in the Nehru Auditorium in Mumbai Thursday evening.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "Prisoner of the State" by late Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang continues to dominate the non-fiction section in the bestseller list this week while James Patterson's "Swimsuit" - the new entrant - tops the fiction group. The top 10 in each section are: Non-fiction 1.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Salman Rushdie's "The Enchantress of Florence", Amitav Ghosh's "Sea of Poppies" and "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri are among the fictions shortlisted for the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award 2008. The fiction shortlist, announced in the capital Thursday, also has Past Continuous by Neel Mukherjee and Escape by Manjula Padmanabhan.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "The Toss Of Lemon" by a Canada-based Indian writer tops the fiction section this week while "Prisoner Of The State" by late Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang dominates non-fiction in the bestselling list. The top 10 in each section is as follows: Fiction 1.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aatish Taseer's "Stranger to History", that has been ruling the non-fiction section for over a month now, continued to maintain its position on the bestseller list this week, while "Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian: Half Boy, Half God, All Hero" by Rick Riordan topped the fiction group for the second week running. The top 10 in each section are as follows: Non-fiction 1.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aatish Taseer's book 'Stranger to History' continued to dominate the bestseller list in the non-fiction category for the third week while Paulo Coelho was the new author atop the fiction list, with his latest 'The Winner Stands Alone'. The top 10 in each group are: Non-fiction 1.

March 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Author Ramachandra Guha, who has clinched a Rs.9.7 million (Rs.97 lakh) deal with Penguin India for seven books, feels it would encourage young authors to take to writing non-fiction. 'It (the deal) is a welcome acknowledgement of the imbalance between fiction and non-fiction.

February 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'Delhi: Adventures in A Megacity' by Sam Miller is the new book on top of the non-fiction bestseller list this week, while Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger' moves back to the top of the fiction list. The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are: Non-fiction 1.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Among the bestsellers this week, 'Tehelka As Metaphor...' by Madhu Trehan and 'Slumdog Millionaire' by Vikas Swarup stay on top of the non-fiction and fiction categories respectively. The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are: Non-fiction 1.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There was a clutch of new entries such as 'The Story of My Assassins' by Tarun J. Tejpal, 'Scarpetta' by Patricia Cornwell and 'Silks' by D Francis & F Francis in the fiction bestseller list this week.

January 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'Empires of The Indus' by Alice Albinia moved to the top of the bestseller chart in the non-fiction category this week, while Booker Prize winner 'The White Tiger' by Aravind Adiga stayed on top of the list in the fiction section. The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are: Non-Fiction 1.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'Imagining India ...' by Nandan Nilekani and 'The White Tiger' by Aravind Adiga stay on top of the bestseller lists here this week, in the non-fiction and fiction categories respectively. The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are: Non fiction 1.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US president-elect Barack Obama has three books among the top 10 bestsellers in the non-fiction category this week in India. Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger' stays atop the list in the fiction category.