Dalrymple, Brown dominate bestseller charts

William Dalrymple's Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India maintained its number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list for the third consecutive week.

William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple's Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India maintained its number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list for the third consecutive week. 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

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