Dalrymple's book stays atop bestseller chart

New Delhi, Nov 5 : William Dalrymple's 'Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India' continued at the number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while 'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel bounced back to dominate the fiction category.

The top 10 in each section 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. "Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars"

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette India

Price: Rs.495.00

4. "The Alqaeda Connection"

Author: Imtiaz Gul

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

5. "Making India Work"

Author: William Nanda Bissell

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

6. "Making Sense of Pakistan"

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.499.00

7. "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House"

Author: Taylor Branch

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Price: $29.75 (Rs.1,402)

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

Author: Fergus Nicoll

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.899.00

9. "Keynes: The Return of The Master"

Author: Robert Skidelsky

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.550.00

10. "When China Rules The World"

Author: Martin Jacques

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

Fiction

1. "Wolf Hall"

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: Rs.399.00

2. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

3. "The Girl Who Played with Fire"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

4. "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs.495.00

5. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

6. "The Lost Symbol"

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

7. "The Englishman's Cameo: A Mughal Murder Mystery"

Author: Madhulika Liddle

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.295.00

8. "The Glass Room"

Author: Simon Mawer

Publisher: Little Brown

Price: Rs.595.00

9. "Summertime"

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)

10. "The Children's Book"

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)