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. “Stranger to History”
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs.495.00
2. “Govern Mint in India: An Inside View”
Author: T.S.R. Subramanian
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “India and The Global Financial Crisis: Managing Money and Finance”
Author: Y.V. Reddy
Publisher: Orient Black Swan
Price: Rs.595.00
4. “The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?”
Author: Dipankar Gupta
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.550.00
5. “Challenge And Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy”
Author: Rajiv Sikri
Publisher: Sage Publications
Price: Rs.595.00
6. “Electoral Politics in Indian States: Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 and Beyond”
Author: Sandeep Shastri, K.C. Suri and Yogendra Yadav
Publisher: Oxford
Price: Rs.795.00
7. “Curfewed Night”
Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
8. “Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity”
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
9. “Branding India: An Incredible Story”
Author: Amitabh Kant
Publisher: Collins Business
Price: Rs.499.00
10. “A Better India A Better World”
Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
Fiction
1. “Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian: Half Boy, Half God, All Hero”
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Puffin
Price: Rs.350.00
2. “The White Tiger”
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
3. “The Winner Stands Alone”
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.325.00
4. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
5. “Burnt Shadows”
Author: Kamila Shamsie
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.425.00
6. “The Story of a Widow”
Author: Murharraf Ali Farooqi
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.495.00
7. “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi”
Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.395.00
8. “The Case of the Missing Servant”
Author: Tarquin Hall
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Price: Rs.400.00
9. “Unaccustomed Earth”
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs.295.00
10. “Assegai”
Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs.795.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)
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