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'The Idea of Justice', 'The Lost Symbol' top bestseller list

Arun Kumar

New Delhi, Oct 8 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"

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)

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