The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Sept. 22

The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB David Lagercrantz 1 (4)
  2. THE ILLEGAL Lawrence Hill 2 (2)
  3. GO SET A WATCHMAN Harper Lee 5 (11)
  4. MAKE ME Lee Child (1)
  5. PURITY Jonathan Franzen 3 (3)
  6. THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Louise Penny 6 (4)
  7. TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT NIGHTS Salman Rushdie 9 (2)
  8. UNDERMAJORDOMO MINOR Patrick deWitt 4 (2)
  9. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Paula Hawkins 7 (35)
  10. X Sue Grafton 8 (3)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. HISTORY’S PEOPLE Margaret MacMillan 1 (3)
  2. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 2 (9)
  3. WHAT’S HAPPENED TO POLITICS? Bob Rae 3 (3)
  4. MODERN ROMANCE Aziz Ansari 5 (13)
  5. BLACK EARTH Timothy Snyder (1)
  6. WHY NOT ME? Mindy Kaling (1)
  7. STEPHEN HARPER John Ibbitson 4 (4)
  8. NEUROTRIBES Steve Silberman 6 (2)
  9. ON THE MOVE Oliver Sacks 7 (4)
  10. ELON MUSK Ashlee Vance 10 (17)

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