The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Feb. 23

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 1 (3)
  2. MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON Elizabeth Strout 2 (6)
  3. MORNING STAR Pierce Brown (1)
  4. BLUE Danielle Steel 4 (4)
  5. NYPD RED 4  James Patterson and Marshall Karp 3 (3)
  6. FATES AND FURIES Lauren Groff 6 (4)
  7. FIND HER Lisa Gardner (1)
  8. ROGUE LAWYER John Grisham 7 (16)
  9. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Alan Dean Foster 8 (7)
  10. THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE Melanie Benjamin 9 (3)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanith 1 (6)
  2. THE NAME OF GOD IS MERCY Pope Francis 2 (3)
  3. DARK MONEY Jane Mayer 4 (4)
  4. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 5 (30)
  5. ORIGINALS Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg 9 (2)
  6. IN OTHER WORDS Jumpha Lahiri (1)
  7. GRATITUDE Oliver Sacks 6 (2)
  8. FURIOUSLY HAPPY Jenny Lawson 3 (4)
  9. THE WITCHES Stacy Shiff 10 (14)
  10. THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS Eric Weiner 8 (6)

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