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Bestsellers
Non-fiction
 Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta.
Pages 584. Penguin.
Rs 595.
A brilliant portrait of Bombay — from the pen of an award-winning writer-journalist.
 The Daily Drucker
by Peter F. Drucker. Harper Business. Rs 650.
An enduring commentator on the practice of management and the economic institutions of society. A good read for non-professionals.
 50 Self-Help Classics
by Tom Butler-Bowdon.
Nicholas Breakley.
Rs 350.
Tremendous resource for anyone seeking a bite-sized look at the philosophies of many self-help legends, including sacred scriptures.
 Ideas That Have Worked.
Viking. Rs 495.
Brings together 20 fascinating and enlightening essays by some of India's leading industrialists, statesmen , bureaucrats and social workers. A positive book.
 Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11.
by Paul L. Williams.
Viva. Rs 295.
Anxious about the threat of terrorism? What the media and the government have not told you, Paul Williams makes abundantly clear.
Fiction
 The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition
by Dan Brown.
Rs 995.
A mind bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.
 Magic Seeds
by V.S Naipaul.
Rs 495.
From that master of English prose, we now have a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us.
 The Piano Teacher
by Elfriede Jelinek Rs 437.50.
Alfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for her musical flow of voices and counter voices in novels and plays.
 The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst.
Picador. Rs 306.25.
As good as the English novels gets. Almost every sentence is a thing of beauty and the book as a whole will prove itself a joy.
 Echoes
by Danielle Steel.
Bantam Press.
Rs 1,028.
A compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal over three generations.
— The Browser, Chandigarh
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