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India’s top ten bestsellers

New Delhi, Dec 24 Meghnad Desai's "The Rediscovery of India" continued to dominate the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while "The Museum of Innocence" by Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk retained the No.1 position in the fiction category.

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. "Making Sense of Pakistan"

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

4. "The Hindus: An Alternative History"

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.999.00

5. "The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma"

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

6. "The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir"

Author: Howard B. Schaffer

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

7. "Making India Work"

Author: William Nanda Bissell

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

8. "The Arabs: A History"

Author: Eugene Rogan

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.999.00

9. "My Friend The Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist"

Author: Sadanand Dhume

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

10. "The Idea of Justice"

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

Fiction

1. "The Museum of Innocence"

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.599.00

2. "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs.495.00

3. "True Blue"

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.460)

4. "Empire of The Moghul: Raiders from the North"

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

5. "The Original of Laura"

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.699.00

6. "Wolf Hall"

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Price: Rs.399.00

7. "Crocodile Tears"

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Publisher: Walker Books

Price: 5 pounds (Rs.374)

8. "The Palace of Illusions"

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.395.00

9. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

10. "The Many Conditions of Love: Join the Marriage Bureau for Rich People"

Author: Farahad Zama

Publisher: ABACUS

Price: Rs.295.00

(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).

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