New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) There are no changes at the top of the bookrack this week as Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto’s ‘Songs of Blood and Sword’ again holds sway over the non-fiction category, while British author Jeffrey Archer tops the fiction list with ‘And Thereby Hangs a Tale’.
The top 10 bestsellers in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. ‘Songs of Blood and Sword’
Author: Fatima Bhutto
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.699.00
2. ‘Mother Pious Lady’
Author: Santosh Desai
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.399.00
3. ‘Jangalnama’
Author: Satnam
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs.250
4. ‘Gandhi: Naked Ambition’
Author: Jad Adams
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.699.00
5. ‘The Big Short’
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.599.00
6. ‘The Tryst Betrayed’
Author: Jagat Mehta
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.555.00
7. ‘Freefall’
Author: Joseph Stiglitz
Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
8. ‘Oprah: A Biography’
Author: Kitty Kelley
Publisher: Crown
Price: Rs.1172.00
9. ‘My Name is Gauhar Jaan’
Author: Vikram Sampath
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.595
10. ‘The Bridge’
Author: David Remnick
Publisher: Picador Rs 433
Price: Rs.399.00
Fiction
1. ‘And Thereby Hangs a Tale’
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Pan Books
Price: Rs.253.00
2. ‘The Immortals of Meluha’
Author: Amish
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.295.00
3. ‘One Amazing Thing’
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.450.00
4. ‘Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War’
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
5. ‘Solo’
Author: Rana Dasgupta
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
6. ’61 Hours’
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.550.00
7. ‘Deliver Us From Evil’
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs.433.00
8. ‘9th Judgement’
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.550.00
9. ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’
Author: Steig Larson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.495.00
10. ‘The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary’
Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Puffin
Price: Rs.299.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)