Books

The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Jan. 19

The week’s hottest titles in fiction and non-fiction

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Alan Dean Foster 6 (2)
  2. ROGUE LAWYER John Grisham 1 (11)
  3. CROSS JUSTICE James Patterson 5 (6)
  4. A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS George R.R. Martin 7 (5)
  5. THE MAGIC STRINGS OF FRANKIE PRESTO Mitch Albom 9 (8)
  6. MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON Elizabeth Strout (1)
  7. SEE ME Nicholas Sparks 3 (12)
  8. BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS Stephen King 4 (9)
  9. LAKE HOUSE Kate Morton 2 (4)
  10. RULES FOR A KNIGHT Ethan Hawke (1)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 1 (25)
  2. BIG MAGIC Elizabeth Gilbert 4 (3)
  3. THE WITCHES Stacy Shiff 10 (9)
  4. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanith (1)
  5. SPQR Mary Beard 3 (2)
  6. BEE TIME Mark Winston (1)
  7. WHY NOT ME? Mindy Kaling 2 (17)
  8. ELON MUSK Ashlee Vance 8 (4)
  9. WHAT IF? Randall Munroe 5 (3)
  10. THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS Eric Weiner (1)

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