Jaswant's book on Jinnah stays atop bestseller list

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence' by expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh retained the No.1 position among bestselling books in the non-fiction section this week. J.M. Coetzee's 'Summertime' topped the fiction category.

The top 10 in each section are:

Non-fiction

1. 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence'

Author: Jaswant Singh

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.695.00

2. 'The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma'

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

3. 'Making Sense of Pakistan'

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

4. 'Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century'

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

5. 'Delhi Adventures in a Megacity'

Author: Sam Miller

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

6. 'The Idea of Justice'

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

7. '80 Questions To Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion'

Author: Murad Ali Baig

Publisher: Tara Press

Price: Rs.395.00

8. 'Making India Work'

Author: William Nanda Bissell

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

9. 'Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars'

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.495.00

10. 'New Delhi Making of a Capital'

Author: M. Singh and R. Mukherjee

Publisher: Roli Books

Price: Rs.1,975.00

Fiction

1. 'Summertime'

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.698)

2. 'Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From The North'

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

3. 'In Other Rooms, Other Wonders'

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

4. 'The Wish Maker: A Novel'

Author: Ali Sethi

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

5. 'Like a Diamond in The Sky'

Author: Shazia Omar

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.250.00

6. 'Love And Summer'

Author: William Trevor

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.450.00

7. 'The Children's Book'

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)

8. 'Alex Cross's Trial'

Author: James Patterson & Richard Dilallo

Publisher: Century

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.478)

9. 'Twenties Girl: She's Having the Time of her Life'

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.478)

10. 'Medusa'

Author: Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos

Publisher: Penguin Michael Joseph

Price: Rs.399.00

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

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