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The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Apr. 12

The hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction from the week that was

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL Yann Martel 3 (10)
  2. THE NEST Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 2 (2)
  3. THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR Helen Simonson (1)
  4. FOOL ME ONCE Harlan Coben 5 (2)
  5. PRIVATE PARIS James Patterson and Mark Sullivan 4 (3)
  6. THE WATERS OF ETERNAL YOUTH Donna Leon (1)
  7. PROPERTY OF A NOBLEWOMAN Danielle Steel 1 (3)
  8. YIDDISH FOR PIRATES Gary Barwin 6 (2)
  9. THE NIGHTINGALE Kristin Hannah 10 (6)
  10. THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE Philip Kerr (1)

NON-FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanithi 1 (13)
  2. THE HAPPINESS EQUATION Neil Pasricha 5 (5)
  3. DARK MONEY Jane Mayer 2 (11)
  4. SMARTER, FASTER, BETTER Charles Duhigg 4 (4)
  5. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 3 (37)
  6. CITY OF THORNES Ben Rawlence (1)
  7. AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ Sarah Bakewell 7 (6)
  8. GIRLS & SEX Peggy Orenstein (1)
  9. THE NAME OF GOD IS MERCY Pope Francis 6 (10)
  10. EVICTED Matthew Desmond 8 (2)

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