Must read: Bestsellers for the week of June 8, 2012

New in book reviews at Maclean’s:

• Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead, review by Anne Kingston.
• Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction, by Steven Martin, review by Brian Bethune.
• God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, by Victoria Sweet, review by Joanne Latimer.
• Fooling Houdini, by Alex Stone, review by Mike Doherty.
• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust, by John Coates, review by Andrew Stobo Sniderman.
• The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Witold Pilecki, review by Brian Bethune.

Fiction

1	CANADA by Richard Ford	1 (4)
2	BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel	2 (6)
3	THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION by Alexander McCall Smith	4 (12)
4	MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst	7 (2)
5	IN ONE PERSON by John Irving	3 (7)
6	SILVER by Andrew Motion	9 (3)
7	THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS by Peter Carey	(1)
8	THE HEADMASTER’S WAGER by Vincent Lam	8 (8)
9	GOLD by Chris Cleave	(1)
10	A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin	10 (50)

Non-fiction

1	THE END OF GROWTH by Jeff Rubin	1 (6)
2	THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes	2 (21)
3	THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Antony Beevor	4 (2)
4	LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED by Jenny Lawson	3(4)
5	THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro	6 (7)
6	MIDNIGHT IN PEKING by Paul French	(1)
7	NOTES ON A CENTURY by Bernard Lewis	(1)
8	A THOUSAND FAREWELLS by Nahlah Ayed	8 (2)
9	WHAT MONEY CAN’T BUY by Michael Sandel	9 (6)
10	THE PLANTAGENETS by Dan Jones	(1)

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