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The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Dec. 13, 2016

A Christmas crime story debuts in a top position on our fiction list, while Peter Wohlleben continues to take root atop non-fiction

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FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING Madeleine Thien 1 (13)
  2. THE WHISTLER John Grisham 2 (6)
  3. THE MISTLETOE MURDER AND OTHER STORIES P.D. James and Val McDermid (1)
  4. BY GASLIGHT Steven Price (1)
  5. NIGHT SCHOOL Lee Child 3 (4)
  6. SWING TIME Zadie Smith 4 (3)
  7. THE WITCHES OF NEW YORK Ami McKay 5 (4)
  8. MOONGLOW  Michael Chabon 9 (2)
  9. CROSS THE LINE James Patterson (1)
  10. THE WONDER Emma Donoghue 7 (13)

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

  1. THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES Peter Wohlleben 1 (14)
  2. BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen 2 (11)
  3. TESTIMONY Robbie Robertson 3 (3)
  4. 99: STORIES OF THE GAME Wayne Gretzky 4 (9)
  5. THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO Amy Schumer 7 (17)
  6. BORN A CRIME Trevor Noah 6 (3)
  7. THE UNDOING PROJECT Michael Lewis (1)
  8. THE SCIENCE OF WHY Jay Ingram 8 (4)
  9. THE PROMISE OF CANADA Charlotte Gray 5 (8)
  10. HILLBILLY ELEGY J.D. Vance 10 (16)

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