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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.)
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