From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 09:30 AM IST

Amitav Ghosh's latest, 'Sea of Poppies', debuts as the number one selling book in the fiction list, toppling Jeffrey Archer's 'A Prisoner of Birth'. Rhonda Byrne's 'The Secret' continues its successful run in the non-fiction category.

The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories are:

Non-fiction:

1. The Secret

Author: Rhonda Byrne

Publisher: Simon and amp; Schuster

Price: Rs.550.00

2. Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

Publisher: Bloomsbury books

Price: Rs.299.00

3. Love Delhi

Author: Love Travel Guides

Publisher: Hardys Bay Publishing

Price: Rs.1,200.00

4. Crossed Swords: Pakistan Its Army, and the Wars Within

Author: Shuja Nawaz

Publisher: Oxford

Price: Rs.695.00

5. Super Star India: From Incredible to Unstoppable

Author: Shobhaa De

Publisher: Penguin Books

Price: Rs.350.00

6. Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal and The Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire...

Author: Tim Bouquet and amp; Byuron Ousey

Publisher: Little Brown

Price: Rs.650.00

7. Rivals: How The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan will shape our...

Author: Bill Emmott

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.695.00

8. India: The Emerging Giant

Author: Arvind Panagariya

Publisher: Oxford

Price: Rs.695.00

9.My Country My Life

Author: L.K. Advani

Publisher: Rupa and amp; Co.

Price: Rs.595.00

10. Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.695.00

Fiction:

1. Sea of Poppies

Author: Amitav Ghosh

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.599.00

2. Unaccustomed Earth: From the author of The Namesake

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.450.00

3. The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

4. Brida

Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.295.00

5. A Prisoner of Birth

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Publisher: PAN Books

Price: Rs.250.00

6. Devil May Care

Author: Sebastian Faulks

Publisher: Penguin India

Price: Rs.395.00

7. The Enchantress of Florence

Author: Salman Rushdie

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Price: Rs.595.00

8. Percy Jackson And The Battle of The Labyrinth

Author: Rick Riordan

Publisher: Puffin

Price: Rs.350.00

9. The Palace of Illusions Panchaali's Mahabharat

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.495.00

10. The White Tiger

Author: Aravind Adiga

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.395.00

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

(Staff Writer, © IANS)