The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Nov. 15

Giller Prize winner Madeleine Thien continues to own the fiction list, while a book about trees—ironic, no?—leads the non-fiction set

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FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING Madeleine Thien 1 (9)
  2. HAG-SEED Margaret Atwood 4 (4)
  3. THE WHISTLER John Grisham 2 (2)
  4. RATHER BE THE DEVIL Ian Rankin 5 (2)
  5. SMALL GREAT THINGS Jodi Picoult 3 (3)
  6. THE WONDER Emma Donoghue 8 (9)
  7. TWO BY TWO Nicholas Sparks 6 (5)
  8. THRICE THE BRINDED CAT HATH MEW’D Alan Bradley 7 (9)
  9. THE MISTLETOE MURDER AND OTHER STORIES P.D. James and Val McDermid (1)
  10. A GREAT RECKONING Louise Penny 10 (10)

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

  1. THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES Peter Wohlleben 1 (10)
  2. BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen 2 (7)
  3. HILLBILLY ELEGY J.D. Vance 3 (12)
  4. WAITING FOR FIRST LIGHT Roméo Dallaire 10 (3)
  5. 99: STORIES OF THE GAME Wayne Gretzky 4 (5)
  6. NOT DEAD YET Phil Collins 6 (2)
  7. CANADA Mike Myers 5 (2)
  8. HOMO DEUS Yuval Harari (1)
  9. THE PROMISE OF CANADA Charlotte Gray 7 (4)
  10. THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO Amy Schumer 9 (13)