Books

The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug. 25

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 (7)
  2. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Paula Hawkins 2 (31)
  3. ALERT James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 4 (2)
  4. HIS WHOLE LIFE Elizabeth Hay 3 (2)
  5. CIRCLING THE SUN Paula McLain 5 (3)
  6. THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP Nina George 7 (8)
  7. WIND/PINBALL Haruki Murakami 8 (2)
  8. FINDERS KEEPERS Stephen King 6 (11)
  9. THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES  Alice Hoffman  (1)
  10. ARMADA Ernest Cline 10 (4)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. YOU’RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET (ALMOST) Felicia Day (1)
  2. MODERN ROMANCE Aziz Ansari 2 (9)
  3. ELON MUSK Ashlee Vance 3 (13)
  4. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 1 (5)
  5. DEAD WAKE Erik Larson 4 (11)
  6. THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE James Rebanks 5 (14)
  7. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Holly Madison 6 (8)
  8. VOICES IN THE OCEAN Susan Casey (1)
  9. THE BILLION DOLLAR SPY David E. Hoffman 9 (4)
  10. SICILY John Norwich 10 (2)

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