Dalrymple, Brown continue to dominate bestseller charts

"Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India" by William Dalrymple continued to retain the number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list for the fourth consecutive week while Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" topped 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. "The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma"

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

4. "India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership"

Author: Teresita C. Schaffer

Publisher: The CSIS Press

Price: $35.00

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

Author: Howard B. Schaffer

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

6. "In Search of Sita: Revisiting Mythology"

Author: M. Lal and N. Gokhale

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.399.00

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

Author: Fergus Nicoll

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.899.00

8. "Making India Work"

Author: William Nanda Bissell

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

9. "Delhi Adventures in a Megacity"

Author: Sam Miller

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

10. "The Rediscovery of India"

Author: Meghnad Desai

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

Fiction

1. "The Lost Symbol"

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

2. "Ford County Stories"

Author: John Grisham

Publisher: Arrow Books

Price: Rs.299.00

3. "The Palace of Illusions"

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.395.00

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

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

5. "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

6. "The Girl Who Played with Fire"

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Quercus

Price: Rs.299.00

7. "2 States: The Story of My Marriage"

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

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

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs.495.00

9. "True Blue"

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.465)

10. "Wolf Hall"

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: Rs.399.00

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

Last updated on Nov 19^th, 2009 at 08:12 am IST--IANS