Fatima Bhutto's book tops bestseller list

 

New Delhi, May 06, 2010

In a super run for late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima Bhutto, her Songs of Blood and Sword completes a month on top of the non-fiction list while Amish Tripathi's The Immortals of Meluha dominates fiction this week.

The top 10 bestsellers 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, Author: Michael Lewis, Publisher: Allen Lane, Price: Rs 599.00

3. Freefall, Author: Joseph Stiglitz,  Publisher: Allen Lane,  Price: Rs 499.00

4. The Tryst Betrayed, Author: Jagat S. Mehta, Publisher: Penguin Viking, Price: Rs 550.00

5. The Checklist Manifesto, Author: Atul Gawande, Publisher: Penguin Viking, Price: Rs 399.00

6. Becoming Indian, Author: Pavan K. Varma, Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane, Price: Rs 499.00

7. The Difficulty of Being Good, Author: Gurcharan Das, Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane, Price: Rs 699.00

8. Inside the Kingdom, Author: Robert Lacey, Publisher: Hutchinson, Price: Rs 550.00

9. The Veiled Suite, Author: Agha Shahid Ali, Publisher: Penguin Books, Price: Rs 350.00

10. Gandhi: Naked Ambition, Author: Jad Adams, Publisher: Quercus, Price: Rs 699.00

Fiction

1. The Immortals of Meluha, Author: Amish Tripathi, Publisher: Tara Press, Price: Rs 295.00

2. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Author: Philip Pullman, Publisher: Penguin Viking, Price: Rs 499.00

3. One Amazing Thing, Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Publisher: Penguin Books, Price: Rs 450.00

4. The Temple-Goers, Author: Aatish Taseer, Publisher: Picador, Price: Rs 495.00

5. The Palace of Illusions, Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Publisher: Picador, Price: Rs 395.00

6. 61 Hours, Author: Lee Child, Publisher: Bantam Press, Price: Rs 550.00

7. Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War, Author: Alex Rutherford, Publisher: Headline Review, Price: Rs 495.00

8. 9th Judgement, Author: James Patterson, Publisher: Century,  Price: Rs 550.00

9. Solar, Author: Ian McEwan,  Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Price: Rs 550.00

10. Big Girl, Author: Danielle Steel, Publisher: Bantam Press, Price: Rs 550.00

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