New Delhi: 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)