Adiga, Nilekani begin New Year atop bestseller charts

New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) The roar of the tiger is once again heard this week as Aravind Adiga retains the top spot on the bestseller list in the fiction category with his Booker Prize winning novel as does Nandan Nilekani in the non-fiction category with 'Imagining India...'.

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

Non fiction

1. 'Imagining India: Ideas for the new century'

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

2. 'Outliers: The Story of Success'

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.399.00

3. 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution - and How...'

Author: Thomas L. Friedman

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.595.00

4. 'Songs of The Gurus: From Nanak to Gobind Singh'

Author: Khushwant Singh

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.399.00

5. 'Empires Of Indus'

Author: Alice Albinia

Publisher: John Murray

Price: Rs.550.00

6. 'The Duel Pakistan on The Flight Path of American Power'

Author: Tariq Ali

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $13.75 (Rs.670)

7. 'Rivals: How The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan will Shape our...'

Author: Bill Emmott

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.795.00

8. 'No Minister: Memoirs of a Civil Servant'

Author: Mahesh Prasad

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: Rs.295.00

9. 'Kashmir 1947 - 1965: A Story Retold'

Author: Manoj Joshi

Publisher: India Research Press

Price: Rs.595.00

10. 'The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006 - 2008'

Author: Bob Woodward

Publisher: Simon Schuster

Price: $ 22.50 (Rs.1090)

Fiction

1. 'The White Tiger'

Author: Aravind Adiga

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.395.00

2. 'Unaccustomed Earth'

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.450.00

3. 'Sea of Poppies'

Author: Amitav Ghosh

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.599.00

4. 'The Diary of a Social Butterfly'

Author: Moni Mohsin

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.195.00

5. 'Nine by Nine'

Author: Daman Singh

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.250.00

6. 'The Private Patient : An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery'

Author: P.D. James

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.695.00

7. 'Scarpetta'

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Publisher: Little Brown

Price: Rs.595.00

8. 'Cross Country'

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: Century

Price: £5.99 (Rs.420)

9. 'Extreme Measures'

Author: Vince Flynn

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Price: $12.50 (Rs.610)

10. 'The Wasted Vigil'

Author: Nadeem Aslam

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.599.00

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