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Amartya Sen top author of the week

Updated on: 13 August,2009 09:54 AM IST  | 
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Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice dominated the non-fiction section among best-selling books here in the first week of its release while The Wish Maker: A Novel by Ali Sethi continued to retain its number one position in the fiction category.

Amartya Sen top author of the week

Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice dominated the non-fiction section among best-selling books here in the first week of its release while The Wish Maker: A Novel by Ali Sethi continued to retain its number one position in the fiction category.


The top 10 in each section are:
Non-fiction


1. The Idea of Justice
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs 699.00


2. Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs 499.00

3. Stranger to History
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs 495.00

4. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Author: Antony Beevor
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs 499.00

5. Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier
Author: Zhao Ziyang
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: $20.00 Rs 957

6. A Better India A Better World
Author: NR Narayana Murthy
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs 499.00

7. Imagining India: Ideas for The New Century
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs 699.00

8. Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight
Author: Rujuta Diwekar
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs 199.00

9. 80 Questions To Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion
Author: Murad Ali Baig
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs 395.00

10. Curfewed Night
Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs 395.00

Fiction

1. The Wish Maker: A Novel
Author: Ali Sethi
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs 499.00

2. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs 395.00

3. Family Planning
Author: Karan Mahajan
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs 395.00

4. The White Tiger
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 395.00

5. Arzee The Dwarf
Author: Chandrahas Choudhury
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 325.00

6. Gone Tomorrow
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs 475

7. My Father's Tears & Other Stories
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Price: Rs 499.00

8. Swimsuit
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs 475

9. Just Take My Heart
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs 600

10. The White Queen
Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs 600

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

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