The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Jan. 5

The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. ROGUE LAWYER John Grisham 1 (9)
  2. BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS Stephen King 2 (7)
  3. CROSS JUSTICE James Patterson 7 (4)
  4. A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS George R.R. Martin 4 (3)
  5. THE ILLEGAL Lawrence Hill (1)
  6. WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor 6 (2)
  7. THE MAGIC STRINGS OF FRANKIE PRESTO Mitch Albom 9 (6)
  8. LAKE HOUSE Kate Morton 3 (2)
  9. SEE ME Nicholas Sparks 10 (10)
  10. EVEN DOGS IN THE WILD Ian Rankin 8 (9)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING Bill Bryson 2 (11)
  2. THE WITCHES Stacy Shiff 5 (7)
  3. WHAT IF? Randall Munroe (1)
  4. WHY NOT ME? Mindy Kaling 4 (15)
  5. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 8 (23)
  6. HISTORY’S PEOPLE Margaret MacMillan 1 (17)
  7. HOCKEY TOWNS Ron MacLean and Kirstie McLellan Day 3 (8)
  8. JOHN LE CARRE Adam Sisman 9 (5)
  9. BIG MAGIC Elizabeth Gilbert (1)
  10. ELON MUSK Ashlee Vance 6 (2)

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