Books

The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of May 26

The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. A GOD IN RUINS Kate Atkinson 1 (3)
  2. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Paula Hawkins 2 (18)
  3. 14TH DEADLY SIN James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 3 (2)
  4. SEVENEVES Neal Stephenson (1)
  5. MEMORY MAN David Baldacci (1)
  6. THE GREEN ROAD Anne Enright 10 (2)
  7. THE LIAR Nora Roberts 6 (5)
  8. GOD HELP THE CHILD Toni Morrison 4 (4)
  9. A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD Anne Tyler 7 (3)
  10. THE NIGHT STAGES Jane Urquhart 5 (8)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. WAGES OF REBELLION Chris Hedges 1 (2)
  2. THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE James Rebanks (1)
  3. IT’S A LONG STORY Willie Nelson 5 (2)
  4. ON THE MOVE Oliver Sacks 9 (4)
  5. THE ROAD TO CHARACTER David Brooks 7 (5)
  6. THE BOOK OF JOAN Melissa Rivers 4 (2)
  7. BEING MORTAL Atul Gawande 10 (32)
  8. THE BRAIN’S WAY OF HEALING Norman Doidge 6 (16)
  9. HOPE Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus 2 (3)
  10. H IS FOR HAWK Helen Macdonald 3 (13)

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