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The Maclean’s Bestsellers List: week of Oct. 18

Bruce Springsteen was born to run amok on our non-fiction bestsellers list, while Emma Donoghue rises to the top in fiction

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FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. THE WONDER Emma Donoghue 5 (5)
  2. A GREAT RECKONING Louise Penny 3 (6)
  3. NUTSHELL Ian McEwan 8 (5)
  4. DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING Madeleine Thien 1 (5)
  5. BY GASLIGHT Steven Price 2 (8)
  6. TWO BY TWO Nicholas Sparks (1)
  7. THRICE THE BRINDED CAT HATH MEW’D Alan Bradley 9 (5)
  8. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Colson Whitehead 4 (11)
  9. HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany 7 (12)
  10. YIDDISH FOR PIRATES Gary Barwin 10 (2)

NON-FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen 1 (3)
  2. LOVE WARRIOR Glennon Doyle Melton 6 (2)
  3. THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO Amy Schumer 4 (9)
  4. THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES Peter Wohlleben 2 (6)
  5. HOMO DEUS Yuval Noah Harari 3 (5)
  6. HILLBILLY ELEGY J.D. Vance 5 (8)
  7. 99: STORIES OF THE GAME Wayne Gretzky (1)
  8. THE RETURN OF HISTORY Jennifer Welsh 7 (4)
  9. THE KILLER WHALE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD Mark Leiren-Young 8 (4)
  10. ROGUE HEROES Ben Macintyre (1)

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