New Delhi, Oct 8 (Inditop.com) Amartya Sen’s “The Idea of Justice” climbed eight steps to reach the number one spot in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while “The Lost Symbol” by author Dan Brown continued to dominate the fiction category.
The top 10 in each section are as follows:
Non-fiction
1. “The Idea of Justice”
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
Author: Jaswant Singh
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.695.00
3. “Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century”
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
4. “When China Rules The World”
Author: Martin Jacques
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
5. “Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars”
Author: Gretchen Peters
Publisher: Hachette
Price: Rs.495.00
6. “The Alqaeda Connection”
Author: Imitaz Gul
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.499.00
7. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of The Mughal Emperor”
Author: Fergus Nicoll
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.899.00
8. “Delhi Adventures in a Megacity”
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
9. “Making India Work”
Author: William Nanda Bissell
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
10. “New Delhi Making of a Capital”
Author: M. Singh and R. Mukherjee
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.1975.00
Fiction
1. “The Lost Symbol”
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.699.00
2. “Summertime”
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)
3. “The Little Stranger”
Author: Sarah Waters
Publisher: Virago
Price: Rs.550.00
4. “The Children’s Book”
Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Chatto and Windows
Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)
5. “Wolf Hall”
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
Price: 7.99 pounds (Rs.609)
6. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”
Author: Ruchir Joshi
Publisher: Tranquebar
Price: Rs.395.00
7. “The Girl Who Played with Fire”
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.299.00
8. “Arzee The Dwarf”
Author: Chandrahas Choudhury
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.325.00
9. “Intervention”
Author: Robin Cook
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.452)
10. “Twenties Girl”
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.452)
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).