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Pakistani scholar, Rushdie team up as bestselling authors
Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Pakistani academic Husain Haqqani makes it to the top of the Indian non-fiction bestseller list this week with Salman Rushdie back as number one favourite in the fiction category.

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

Fiction

1. "Shalimar The Clown"
Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Jonathan Cape, London
Price : Rs.595.00

2. "Ptolemy's Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy"
Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Doubleday
Price : £4.25 (Rs.332)

3. "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana"
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Secker & Warburg
Price : £11.00 (Rs.858)

4. "The Lighthouse: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery"
Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Faber and Faber
Price : £6.99 (Rs.545)

5. "Never Let Me Go"
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Price : $12.50 (Rs.553)

6. "The Quiet of the Birds"
Author : Nisha Da Cunha
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.295.00

7. "The Hungry Tide"
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : Rs.250.00

8. "Kafka on the Shore"
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Price : Rs.250.00

9. "Yoga Hotel"
Author : Maura Moynihan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : $9.50 (Rs.420)

10. "The Hills of Angheri"
Author : Kavery Nambisan
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.350.00

Non-Fiction

1. "Pakistan Between Mosque and Military"
Author : Husain Haqqani
Publisher : Vanguard Books
Price : Rs.695.00

2. "Two Lives"
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.695.00

3. "The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition"
Author : Narendra Singh Sarila
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : Rs.500.00

4. "The Argumentative Indian"
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Penguin 
Price : Rs.650.00

5. "The Spice Route: A History"
Name of Author : John Keay
Publisher : John Murray
Price : £4.50 (Rs.351)

6. "Delhi: A Thousand Years of Building"
Author : Lucy Peck
Publisher : Lotus Roli
Price : Rs.500.00

7. "The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture"
Author : Annemarie Schimmel
Publisher : Oxford
Price : Rs.1,395.00

8. "Mao: The Unknown Story"
Author : Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Publisher : Jonathan Cape London
Price : £13.00 (Rs.1,014)

9. "The Shaping of Modern Gujarat: Plurality, Hindutva and Beyond"
Author : Achyut Yagnik & Suchitra Sheth
Publisher : Penguin Original
Price : Rs.350.00

10. Not listed

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