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The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Sept. 20

Louise Penny and Amy Schumer maintain their #1 standings on our weekly bestseller list

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FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. A GREAT RECKONING Louise Penny 1 (2)
  2. BY GASLIGHT Steven Price 3 (4)
  3. DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING Madeleine Thien (1)
  4. HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany 2 (8) 
  5. NUTSHELL Ian McEwan (1)
  6. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Colson Whitehead 5 (7) 
  7. RUSHING WATERS Danielle Steel 4 (2)
  8. THRICE THE BRINDED CAT HATH MEW’D Alan Bradley (1)
  9. THE WONDER Emma Donoghue (1)
  10. THE NEST Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 10 (25)

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

  1. THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO Amy Schumer 1 (5)
  2. THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES Peter Wohlleben 4 (2)
  3. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanithi 3 (36)
  4. HILLBILLY ELEGY J.D. Vance 2 (4)
  5. THE PIGEON TUNNEL John le Carré 8 (2)
  6. SULLY Chesley B. Sullenberger 6 (3)
  7. BARBARIAN LOST Alexandre Trudeau (1)
  8. WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Cathy O’Neil (1)
  9. GRIT Angela Duckworth 9 (19)
  10. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH Tom Wolfe 5 (2)

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