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Reader favourites this week: Thant Myint-U and Doris Lessing

Oct 25, 2007, 15:17 GMT

New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Thant Myint-U's insider view of his country in 'The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma' and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's 'The Cleft' are top selling books in the non-fiction and fiction categories respectively.

The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories are:

Non-Fiction

1. 'The River of Lost Footsteps : Histories of Burma'

Author : Thant Myint-U

Publisher : Faber and Faber

Price : Rs.495.00

2. 'The Secret'

Author : Rhonda Byrne

Publisher : Atria Books

Price : Rs.550.00

3. 'Mr.& Mrs. Dutt'

Author : Priya Dutt & Namrata Dutt Kumar

Publisher : Roli Books

Price : Rs.695.00

4. 'The Age of Turbulence : Adventures in A New World'

Author : Alan Greenspan

Publisher : Penguin Allen Lane

Price : Rs.695.00

5. 'The Israel Lobby And US Foreign Policy'

Author : John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

Publisher : Penguin Allen Lane

Price : pound8.99 (Rs.730)

6. 'The Assault On Reason'

Author : Al Gore

Publisher : Bloomsbury

Price : Rs.775.00

7. 'Travels with Herodotus'

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski

Publisher : Allen Lane

Price : pound5.25 (Rs.425)

8. 'A Writer's People : Ways of Looking and Feeling'

Author : V.S. Naipaul

Publisher : Picador India

Price : Rs.395.00

9. 'India's Unending Journey'

Author : Mark Tully

Publisher : Rider

Price : Rs.450.00

10. 'Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment'

Author : Deepak Chopra

Publisher : Harper Collins

Price : Rs.395.00

Fiction

1. 'The Cleft'

Author : Doris Lessing

Publisher : Fourth Estate, London

Price : Rs.295.00

2. 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'

Author : Khaled Hosseini

Publisher : Bloomsbury

Price : pound5.99 (Rs.485)

3. 'Shantaram'

Author : Gregory David Roberts

Publisher : Abacus

Price : pound5.50 (Rs.446)

4. 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'

Author : Mohsin Hamid

Publisher : Penguin Viking

Price : Rs.295

5. 'Animal's People'

Author : Indra Sinha

Publisher : Simon & Schuster

Price : Rs.595.00

6. 'Stone Cold'

Author : David Baldacci

Publisher : Macmillan

Price : pound5.60 (Rs.453)

7. 'Girls of Riyadh'

Author : Rajaa Alsanea

Publisher : Penguin Fig Tree

Price : pound4.50 (Rs.364)

8. 'The Bastard of Istanbul'

Author : Elif Shafak

Publisher : Penguin Viking

Price : pound4.25 (Rs.344)

9. 'On Chesil Beach'

Author : Ian McEwan

Publisher : Jonathan Cape

Price : pound6.00 (Rs.486)

10. 'The Kite Runner'

Author : Khaled Hosseini

Publisher : Bloomsbury

Price : pound3.50 (Rs.283)

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

© 2007 Indo-Asian News Service



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