Books

The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 12

The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Paula Hawkins 1 (16)
  2. GOD HELP THE CHILD Toni Morrison 3 (2)
  3. A GOD IN RUINS Kate Atkinson (1)
  4. THE LIAR Nora Roberts 5 (3)
  5. THE NIGHT STAGES Jane Urquhart 4 (6)
  6. A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD Anne Tyler (1)
  7. INSIDE THE O’BRIENS Lisa Genova 2 (4)
  8. THE MOUNTAIN STORY Lori Lansens 6 (4)
  9. THE LADY FROM ZAGREB Philip Kerr 7 (2)
  10. THE BURIED GIANT Kazuo Ishiguro 9 (11)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. THE ROAD TO CHARACTER David Brooks 1 (3)
  2. THE BRAIN’S WAY OF HEALING Norman Doidge 4 (14)
  3. DEAD WAKE Erik Larson 3 (10)
  4. MISSOULA Jon Krakauer 2 (3)
  5. ON THE MOVE Oliver Sacks 9 (2)
  6. THE RESIDENCE Kate Andersen Brower 7 (4)
  7. HOPE Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus (1)
  8. BEING MORTAL Atul Gawande 5 (30)
  9. WHAT IF? Randall Munroe 8 (34)
  10. H IS FOR HAWK Helen Macdonald 6 (11)

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