New Delhi, April 22 (Calcutta Tube) ‘Songs of Blood and Sword‘ by Fatima Bhutto, niece of late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, remains on top among non-fiction bestsellers this week while prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta’s ‘Solo’ dominates the fiction list.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. ‘Songs of Blood and Sword’
Author: Fatima Bhutto
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.699.00
2. ‘The Big Short’
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Publisher: Allen Lane
Price: Rs.599.00
3. ‘Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India’
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
4. ‘Becoming Indian’
Author: Pavan K. Varma
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
5. ‘Victoria and Abdul’
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395.00
6. ‘My Name is Gauhar Jaan’
Author: Vikram Sampath
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.595.00
7. ‘The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma’
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
8. ‘The Last Sunset’
Author: Amarinder Singh
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.695.00
9. ‘Rukmini Devi: A Life’
Author: Leela Samson
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.550.00
10. ‘Amrita Sher-Gil: Volume 1 & Volume 2’
Author: Vivan Sundaram
Publisher: Tulika Books
Price: Rs.5,750.00
Fiction
1. ‘Solo’
Author: Rana Dasgupta
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
2. ‘The Immortals of Meluha’
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.295.00
3. ‘The Temple-Goers’
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.495.00
[ReviewAZON asin=”B000V6I7M6″ display=”inlinepost”]4. ‘The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ’
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs.499.00
5. ‘Way to Go’
Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
Price: Rs.499
6. ‘Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War’
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
[ReviewAZON asin=”B0033HWZS2″ display=”inlinepost”]7. ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest’
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.495.00
8. ‘The Museum Of Innocence’
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
9. ‘The Palace of Illusions’
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.395.00
10. ‘Gone Tomorrow’
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Books
Price: Rs.325.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)