Rana Dasgupta tops chart with new book

Books on and by US President Barack Obama dominated non-fiction, while Solo by Rana Dasgupta went straight to the top of the charts in the fiction category.

Books on and by US President Barack Obama dominated the bestseller list in the non-fiction category here this week, while Solo by Rana Dasgupta went straight to the top of the charts in the fiction category. Here are the top 10 in each group:

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Non-Fiction:

1. The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American...
Author: David E Sanger
Publisher: Harmony Books
Price: $20.00 (Rs 1,036.00)

2. Delhi: Adventures in A Megacity
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs 499

3. Dreams From My Father
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs 395

4. The Audacity of Hope
Author: Barack Obama
Publisher: Canongate
Price: Rs.250.00

5. Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed
Author: S Kumar & S Mehrotra
Publisher: Oxford
Price: Rs 495

6. A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to The 21st Century
Author: Mani Shankar Aiyar
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs 599

7. Imagining India : Ideas for the new century
Author: Nandan Nilekani
Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane
Price: Rs 699

8. Tehelka As Metaphor: Prism Me a Lie Tell Me a Truth
Author: Madhu Trehan
Publisher: Lotus Roli
Price: Rs 595

10. The Nuclear Express : A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation
Author: Thomas C Reed and Danny B Stillman
Publisher: Zenith Press
Price: $35.00 (Rs.1,814.00)

Fiction:

1. Solo
Author: Rana Dasgupta
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 395

2. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs 395

3. Paths of Glory
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: £2.99 (Rs.220.00)

4. The Associate
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: £2.99 (Rs.220.00)

5. 2 6 6 6 A Novel
Author: Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.750

6. The Girl Who Played with Fire
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Price: Rs 495

7. The White Tiger
Author: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 395

8. The Story of My Assassins
Author: Tarun J Tejpal
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 495

9 Life is Perfect
Author: Himani Dalmia
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs 195

10 Scarpetta
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Little Brown
Price: Rs 595

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