Dalrymple's new book tops bestseller chart

William Dalrymple's new book "Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India" topped the bestseller chart here in the non-fiction section this week, while Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" bounced back to the No.1 position in the fiction.

The top 10 in each section are as follows:

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

Author: Gretchen Peters

Publisher: Hachette

Price: Rs.495.00

5. "The Idea of Justice"

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

6. "Making India Work"

Author: William Nanda Bissell

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

7. "Empires of Mud: Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan"

Author: Antonio Giustozzi

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.795.00

8. "The Alqaeda Connection"

Author: Imitaz Gul

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.499.00

9. "Chasing The Dragon: Will India Catch Up with China?"

Author: M. Guruswamy and Z.D. Singh

Publisher: Pearson

Price: Rs.650.00

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

Author: Fergus Nicoll

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.899.00

Fiction

1. "The Lost Symbol"

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

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

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

3. "The Children's Book"

Author: A.S. Byatt

Publisher: Chatto and Windows

Price: 6.25 pounds (Rs.498)

4. "Summertime"

Author: J.M. Coetzee

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London

Price: 8.75 pounds (Rs.673)

5. "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders"

Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin

Publisher: Random House (India)

Price: Rs.395.00

6. "2 States - The Story of My Marriage"

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

7. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

8. "The Girl Who Played with Fire"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

9. "Transition"

Author: Iain Banks

Publisher: Little Brown

Price: Rs.595.00

10. "Twenties Girl"

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.452)

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

Last updated on Oct 22^nd, 2009 at 07:33 am IST--IANS