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Dalrymple, Pamuk top authors of the week

New Delhi, Jan 28 : 'Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India' by William Dalrymple bounced back to No.1 position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk's 'The Museum of Innocence' dominated the fiction category.

The top 10 in each category are:

Non-fiction

1. "Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India"

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.499.00

2. "The Hindus: An Alternative History"

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.999.00

3. "Evidence of Suspicion: A Writer's Report on the War on Terror"

Author: Amitava Kumar

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.350.00

4. "Too Big To Fail: Inside The Battle To Save Wall Street"

Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

5. "What The Dog Saw and other adventures"

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.599.00

6. "The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle art of Dharma"

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

7. "Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor"

Author: Fergus Nicoll

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.899.00

8. "Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey"

Author: Captain Gopinath

Publisher: Collins Business

Price: Rs.499.00

9. "The Defence of The Realm The Authorized History of MI5"

Author: Christopher Andrew

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.899.00

10. "A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War"

Author: Rajmohan Gandhi

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.599.00

Fiction

1. "The Museum of Innocence"

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.599.00

2. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

3. "The Girl Who Played with Fire"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

4. "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

5. "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.495.00

6. "Home Boy"

Author: H.M. Naqvi

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.399.00

7. "Wolf Hall"

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Price: Rs.399.00

8. "Return to Almora"

Author: R.K. Pachauri

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.395.00

9. "Empire of the Moghul: Raiders From The North"

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

10. "The Lost Symbol"

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

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