Stranger to History tops bestseller list again

Stranger to History by Aatish Taseer continues to rule non-fiction, while Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian..., is atop the fiction group this week.

Updated on: May 22, 2009, 18:52:38 IST

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Stranger to History by Aatish Taseer continues to rule the non-fiction section of the bestseller list while Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian: Half Boy, Half God, All Hero is atop the fiction group this week.

The top 10 in each section are:

Non-fiction

1. Stranger to History
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador India
Price: Rs 495

2. India and The Global Financial Crisis: Managing Money and Finance
Author: YV Reddy
Publisher: Orient Black Swan
Price: Rs 595

3. The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?
Author: Dipankar Gupta
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs 550

4. Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Price: Rs 499

5. Sufism: The Heart of Islam
Author: Sadia Dehlvi
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 695

6. The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Atria Books
Price: Rs 595

7. My China Diary 1956-88
Author: K Natwar Singh
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs 395

8. Curfewed Night
Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs 395

9. Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight
Author: Rujuta Diwekar
Publisher: Random House
Price: Rs 199

10.

Outliers: The Story of Success

Author

: Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher

: Allen Lane

Price

: Rs 399

Fiction

1. Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian: Half Boy, Half God, All Hero
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Puffin
Price: Rs 350

2. Paths of Glory
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs 255

3. The Associate
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Arrow Books
Price: Rs 218

4. The Winner Stands Alone
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
Price: Rs 325

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

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

7. Gone Tomorrow
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Price: Rs.437.00

8. The Case of the Missing Servant
Author: Tarquin Hall
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Price: Rs 400

9. First Family
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs 437

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

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

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