Books

The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 31

Siddhartha Mukherjee’s genetics book rises to the top of the pool. See what else made our list of the top-selling reads from the last week

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. 15TH AFFAIR James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 2 (3)
  2. EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN Chris Cleave 5 (3)
  3. THE FIREMAN Joe Hill (1)
  4. THE NEST Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 3 (9)
  5. THE NOISE OF TIME Julian Barnes (1)
  6. THE LAST MILE David Baldacci 1 (5)
  7. MOTHERING SUNDAY Graham Swift 8 (7)
  8. LAROSE Louise Erdrich (1)
  9. THE NATURALIST Alissa York 7 (2)
  10. THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL Yann Martel 10 (17) 

NON-FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. THE GENE Siddhartha Mukherjee (1)
  2. THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt 1 (6)
  3. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanithi 2 (20)
  4. GRIT Angela Duckworth 3 (3)
  5. SHOE DOG Phil Knight 4 (5)
  6. THE HAPPINESS EQUATION Neil Pasricha 7 (11)
  7. THE SLEEP REVOLUTION Arianna Huffington 5 (7)
  8. THE ROMANOVS Simon Sebag Montefiore (1)
  9. LAB GIRL Hope Jahren 8 (2)
  10. ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? Frans de Waal 9 (2)

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