From correspondents in Delhi, India, 11:32 AM IST

Indian origin author Amitav Ghosh's 19th century saga 'Sea of Poppies' tops the fiction list while Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria's 'The Post-American World' dominates non-fiction among the bestsellers this week.

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

Non-fiction:

1. 'The Post-American World'

Author: Fareed Zakaria

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

2. 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes'

Author: Mohammed Hanif

Publisher: Random House

Price: Rs.395.00

3. 'Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China'

Author: Pallavi Aiyar

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Price: Rs.395.00

4. 'The Secret'

Author: Rhonda Byrne

Publisher: Simon and amp; Schuster

Price: Rs.550.00

5. 'What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception'

Author: Scott McClellan

Publisher: Public Affairs

Price: Rs.840.00

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

Author: Shuja Nawaz

Publisher: Oxford

Price: Rs.695.00

7. 'Descent Into Chaos: How the war against Islamic Extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia'

Author: Ahmed Rashid

Publisher: Allen Lane

Price: Rs.495.00

8. 'The Audacity of Hope'

Author: Barack Obama

Publisher: Canongate

Price: Rs.425.00

9. 'Goodbye Shahzadi: A Political Biography of Benazir Bhutto'

Author: Shyam Bhatia

Publisher: Lotus Roli

Price: Rs.295.00

10. 'My Country My Life'

Author: L.K. Advani

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.595.00

Fiction:

1. 'Sea of Poppies'

Author: Amitav Ghosh

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.599.00

2. 'Unaccustomed Earth'

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. 'A Prisoner of Birth'

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Publisher: PAN Books

Price: Rs.256.00

5. 'The Palace of Illusions'

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.495.00

6. 'Brida'

Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.295.00

7. 'Families At Home'

Author: Reeti Gadekar

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.295.00

8. 'Chasing Harry Winston'

Author: Lauren Weisberger

Publisher: Harper

Price: Rs.195.00

9. 'The White Tiger'

Author: Aravind Adiga

Publisher: Harper Collins

Price: Rs.395.00

10. 'Devil May Care'

Author: Sebastian Faulks

Publisher: Penguin India

Price: Rs.395.00

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

(Staff Writer, © IANS)