"The Difficulty of Being Good" by Gurcharan Das climbs six steps to reach the number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while Aatish Taseer's "The Temple-Goers" tops the fiction category.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. "The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma"
Author: Gurcharan Das
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.699.00
2. "Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India"
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
3. "Becoming Indian"
Author: Pavan K. Varma
Publisher: Penguin/Allen Lane
Price: Rs.499.00
4. "The Last Sunset"
Author: Amarinder Singh
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs.695.00
5. "Victoria and Abdul"
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Rupa & Co
Price: Rs.395.00
6. "Nixon, Indira and India"
Author: Kalyani Shankar
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs.445.00
7. "Committed"
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: Rs.499.00
8. "The British, The Bandits and The Bordermen"
Author: P.V. Rajgopal
Publisher: Wisdom Tree
Price: Rs. 495.00
9. "On the Brink"
Author: Hank Paulson
Publisher: Headline
Price: Rs.599.00
10. "Raja Ravi Verma: Painter of Colonial India"
Author: Rupika Chawla
Publisher: Mapin
Price: Rs.3,950.00
Fiction
1. "The Temple-Goers"
Author: Aatish Taseer
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.495.00
2. "The Immortals of Meluha"
Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Tara Press
Price: Rs.295.00
3. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Price: Rs.95.00
4. "The Palace of Illusions"
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Picador
Price: Rs.395.00
5. "The Museum Of Innocence"
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Faber And Faber
Price: Rs.599.00
6. "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest"
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Rs.495.00
7. "Way to Go"
Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
Price: Rs.499
8. "True Blue"
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Price: Rs.460.00
9. "Worst Case"
Author: James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
Publisher: Century
Price: Rs.550.00
10. "Solar"
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: Rs.550.00
(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)