New Delhi, April 15 (Calcutta Tube) ‘Songs of Blood and Sword‘ by Fatima Bhutto, niece of late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, dominates the non-fiction list while Amish Tripathi’s ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ tops the fiction category among bestsellers this week.
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. ‘Becoming Indian’
Author: Pavan K. Varma
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
[ReviewAZON asin=”0143033425″ display=”inlinepost”]3. ‘The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma’
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
4. ‘Nixon, Indira and India’
Author: Kalyani Shankar
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs.445.00
5. ‘The Veiled Suite’
Author: Agha Shahid Ali
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.350.00
6. ‘The Last Sunset’
Author: Amarinder Singh
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.695.00
7. ‘Victoria and Abdul’
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395.00
8. ‘Indian Essentials’
Author: Compiled by Penguin
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.450.00
9. ‘Reforming Vaishno Devi’
Author: Jagmohan
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.395.00
[ReviewAZON asin=”0755360559″ display=”inlinepost”]10. ‘On the Brink’
Author: Hank Paulson
Publisher: Headline
Price: Rs.599.00
Fiction
1. ‘The Immortals of Meluha’
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.295.00
2. ‘The Temple-Goers’
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.495.00
3. ‘Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War’
Author: Alex Rutherford
Publisher: Headline Review
Price: Rs.495.00
[ReviewAZON asin=”0330458531″ display=”inlinepost”]4. ‘The Palace of Illusions’
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.395.00
5. ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest’
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.495.00
6. ‘Way to Go’
Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
Price: Rs.499
7. ‘The Museum Of Innocence’
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
8. ‘Solo’
Author: Rana Dasgupta
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs.395.00
9. ‘Worst Case’
Author: James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.550.00
10. ‘True Blue’
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs.435.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)