Sunday, March 2, 2003		Books

Bestsellers

Fiction

1) Cross Road of Twilight by Robert Jordon. Tor. $23.5 (Rs 1192.45).

In the tenth book of The Wheel of Time from Jordon the world and character stand at a crossroads.

2) Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry. Penguin. Rs 280.

One of the finest novels that most of us will ever read. It certainly is a masterpiece.

3) Ignorance by Milan Kundera. Faber & Faber. Rs 902.27.

Milan Kundera is the only author today who can take such dizzying concepts as absence, memory, forgetting and ignorance, and transform them into material for a novel.

4) Truth, Love and Little Malice by Khushwant Singh. Penguin. Rs 295.

A blunt and honest account laced with a little peg of malice and single malt.

5) The King of Torts by John Grisham. Arrow. Rs 225

John Grisham is a copper-bottomed promise of reliable storytelling.

1) DK Illustrated Oxford Dictionary. Dorling Kindersley. Rs 1642.

The Ultimate family reference choice for the new millennium.

2) Raat Paashminey Ki by Gulzar. Rupa. Rs 295.

Another wonderful poetic work by Gulzar.

3) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. Pocket. Rs 295.

Fundamentals are key to success and Stephen is a master of them. Buy his book, but most importantly use it.

4) I Moved Your Cheese by Darrel Bristow Bovey. New Holland. Rs 115.

The author has adapted the insights from a multitude of self-help books. Before they may have appeared to be a shameless procession of old codswallop, but this book reveals the shining truth in all things.

5) Gitanjali (in new illustrated format) by Rabindranath Tagore. UBSPD. Rs 395.

One feels about them that they are the thoughts that come to our minds in moments of deep feeling, to some of us quite often to others rarely, written down for us in the most simple way.