The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Sept. 8

The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. GO SET A WATCHMAN Harper Lee 1 (9)
  2. THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Louise Penny 4 (2)
  3. THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB David Lagercrantz 3 (2)
  4. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Paula Hawkins 2 (33)
  5. SECONDHAND SOULS Christopher Moore (1)
  6. X Sue Grafton (1)
  7. THE TAMING OF THE QUEEN Phillipa Gregory (1)
  8. PURITY Jonathan Franzen (1)
  9. ALERT James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 5 (4)
  10. THE DUST THAT FALLS FROM DREAMS Louis de Bernières 8 (2)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. MODERN ROMANCE Aziz Ansari 4 (11)
  2. YOU’RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET (ALMOST) Felicia Day 1 (3)
  3. STEPHEN HARPER John Ibbitson 2 (2)
  4. HISTORY’S PEOPLE Margaret MacMillan (1)
  5. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Holly Madison 6 (10)
  6. DEAD WAKE Erik Larson 7 (13)
  7. WHAT’S HAPPENED TO POLITICS? Bob Rae (1)
  8. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 3 (7)
  9. ELON MUSK Ashlee Vance 5 (15)
  10. ON THE MOVE Oliver Sacks 10 (2)

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