The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Mar. 8

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 (5)
  2. COMETH THE HOUR Jeffrey Archer 2 (2)
  3. THE NIGHTINGALE Kristin Hannah (1)
  4. MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON Elizabeth Strout 3 (8)
  5. MORNING STAR Pierce Brown 7 (3)
  6. NYPD RED 4 James Patterson and Marshall Karp 4 (5)
  7. QUANTUM NIGHT Robert Sawyer (1)
  8. FIND HER Lisa Gardner 5 (3)
  9. THE WIDOW Fiona Barton 6 (2)
  10. THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE Melanie Benjamin 10 (5)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. DARK MONEY Jane Mayer 2 (6)
  2. WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanithi 1 (8)
  3. A MOTHER’S RECKONING Sue Klebold 4 (2)
  4. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 5 (32) 
  5. THE NAME OF GOD IS MERCY Pope Francis 3 (5)
  6. AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ Sarah Bakewell (1)
  7. ORIGINALS 9 (4) Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg
  8. IN OTHER WORDS Jhumpa Lahiri 7 (3)
  9. GRATITUDE Oliver Sacks 8 (4)
  10. BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRITICISM A.O. Scott 6 (2)

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