Dalrymple, Dan Brown dominate bestseller charts

New Delhi, Nov 12 : William Dalrymple's 'Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India' maintained its No.1 position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list for the third consecutive week while 'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown 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. "Making Sense of Pakistan"

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.499.00

4. "Super Freakonomics"

Authors: S.D. Levitt and S.J. Dubner

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.399.00

5. "The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir"

Author: Howard B. Schaffer

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

6. "Making India Work"

Author: William Nanda Bissell

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

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

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

8. "Seeds of Terror: The Taliban, The ISI and The New Opium Wars"

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.495.00

9. "Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century"

Author: Nandan Nilekani

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

10. "Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military"

Author: Husain Haqqani

Publisher: Vanguard Books

Price: Rs.1295.00

Fiction

1. "The Lost Symbol"

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

2. "Wolf Hall"

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: Rs.399.00

3. "Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories"

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

4. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

5. "True Blue"

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.465)

6. "Intervention"

Author: Robin Cook

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.465)

7. "Empire of The Moghul Raiders From The North"

Author: Alex Rutherford

Publisher: Headline Review

Price: Rs.495.00

8. "The Children's Book"

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)

9. "Summertime"

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)

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

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs.495.00

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