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