Makers of Modern India top seller

Historian Ramachandra Guha's Makers of Modern India tops the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson was at number one in the fiction section.

Historian Ramachandra Guha's Makers of Modern India tops the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson was at number one in the fiction section.

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The top 10 in each section are:

Non-Fiction

1. Makers of Modern India
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Penguin/Viking
Price: Rs.799.00

2.Obama's Wars: The Inside Story
Author: Bob Woodward
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs.972.00

3.MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service
Author: Keith Jeffery
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.799.00

4. Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Pakistan
Author: Compilation by various Pakistani writers
Publisher: Granta Publishing
Price: Rs.599.00

5. Tony Blair: A Journey
Author: Tony Blair
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price: Rs.999.00

6. India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership
Author: Teresita C. Schaffer
Publisher: India Research Press
Price: Rs.595.00

7. The Absent State
Author: Neelesh Misra & Rahul Pandita
Publisher: Hachette India
Price: Rs.495.00

8. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Author: Sonia Faleiro
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: Rs.450.00

9. The Grand Design
Author: Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.599.00

10. India After Gandhi
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.595.00

Fiction

1. The Finkler Question
Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00

2. Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.499.00

3. Parrot and Olivier in America
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price: Rs.550.00

4. The Confession
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs.299.00

5. Freedom
Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Price: Rs.694.00

6. Worth Dying For
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.550.00

7. Luka and the Fire of Life
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.499.00

8. The Immortals of Meluha
Author: Amish
Publisher: Westland
Price: Rs.295.00

9. Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Hachette India
Price: Rs.395.00

10. Turbulence
Author: Samit Basu
Publisher: Hachette India
Price: Rs.250.00

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