Argumentative Indian tops int'l book list

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's treatise on the 'argumentative Indian' and Gregory David Roberts Shantaram top the bestseller lists this week.

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's treatise on the 'argumentative Indian' and Gregory David Roberts Shantaram top the bestseller lists this week.

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The top 10 in the fiction and non-fiction categories are:

Non-fiction

The Argumentative Indian - Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Author : Amartya Sen

2. Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Survive
Author : Jared Diamond

3. PMO Diary-II: The Emergency
Author : B.N. Tandon

4. The Google Story
Author : David A Vise

5. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author : Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner

6. Alwaleed: Businessman Billionaire Prince
Author : Riz Khan

7. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Author : Malcolm Gladwell

8. Fulcrum of Evil: ISI-CIA-Al Qaeda Nexus
Author : Maloy Krishna Dhar, IPS (Retd.)

9. The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition
Author : Narendra Singh Sarila

10. Tomorrow's India: Another Tryst With Destiny
Author : B.G. Verghese

Fiction

1. Shantaram
Author : Gregory David Roberts

2. The Camel Club
Author : David Baldacci

3. Weight Loss
Author : Upamanyu Chatterjee

4. The Inheritance of Loss
Author : Kiran Desai

5. The Space Between Us
Author : Thrity Umrigar

6. The Kite Runner
Author : Khaled Hosseini

7. The Unspoken Curse
Author : VK Madhavan Kutty

8. Partitions
Author : Kamleshwar

9. Saving Fish From Drowning
Author : Amy Tan

10. Cell A Novel
Author : Stephen King

(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com)