'Prisoner of the State' tops bestseller list again

"Prisoner of the State" by late Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang continues to dominate the non-fiction section in the bestseller list this week while James Patterson's "Swimsuit" - the new entrant - tops the fiction group.

The top 10 in each section are:

Non-fiction

1. "Prisoner of the State"

Author: Zhao Ziyang

Publisher: Simon Schuster

Price: $20.00 (Rs.970.00)

2. "Renegade: The Making of Barack Obama"

Author: Richard Wolffe

Publisher: Virgin Books

Price: Rs.490.00

3. "Map of the Invisible World"

Author: Tash Aw

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.450.00

4. "Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and The Bankers who Broke the ..."

Author: Liaquat Ahamed

Publisher: William Heinemann, London

Price: Rs.980.00

5. "The Great Divide: India and Pakistan"

Author: Ira Pande

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.495.00

6. "A Better India A Better World"

Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.499.00

7. "Branding India: An Incredible Story"

Author: Amitabh Kant

Publisher: Collins Business

Price: Rs.499.00

8. "A Men: The Autobiography of a Nun"

Author: Sister Jesme

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.225.00

9. "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness"

Author: Thaler and Sunstein

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.299.00

10. "From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy"

Author: Kenan Malik

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Price: Rs.399.00

Fiction

1. "Swimsuit"

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: Century

Price: Rs.470.00

2. "The Toss of a Lemon"

Author: Padma Viswanathan

Publisher: Tranquebar Press

Price: Rs.499.00

3. "First Family"

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: Rs.470.00

4. "Gone Tomorrow"

Author: Lee Child

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.657.00

5. "Paths of Glory"

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: Rs.275.00

6. "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders"

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

7. "The Thing Around Your Neck"

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Price: Rs.299.00

8. "Air Head Being Nikki"

Author: Meg Cabot

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: Rs.399.00

9. "The Winner Stands Alone"

Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.325.00

10. "Angels and Demons"

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Corgi

Price: Rs.235.00

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

Last updated on Jul 9^th, 2009 at 08:12 am IST--IANS