The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Nov. 29, 2016
Charlotte Gray ascends to the top spot in our nonfiction list while prize-happy Madeleine Thien stays strong atop our fiction reads
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How the Steven Galloway affair became a CanLit class war
A petition. A counter-petition. Apologies. Accusations. Canada’s most beloved authors have found themselves embroiled in an ugly controversy
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Nov. 22
Madeleine Thien and Peter Wohlleben continue to sit atop our bestsellers list in fiction and non-fiction
A memoir that grapples with loss, one book at a time
Peter Orner’s book of essays explores the loss of his father, his failed marriage and the immovable, sometimes tragic, force of plot
Fairy tales with a creepy twist, from the so-called decadent school
A collection of stories reacting to the political and socio-economic turmoil of 19th-century France
In Michael Chabon’s hopeful latest, the moon is everywhere
Michael Chabon’s new novel is richly written—even if it is plotted a bit lazily
After Brexit, a timely read on Charlemagne, ’father of Europe’
Johannes Fried looks at the moments that formed the legendary Frankish ruler
A new book on Grigori Rasputin unveils the man behind the myth
With remarkable new research into his diaries, letters, police files and more, Douglas Smith’s new book ’Rasputin’ separates fact from lurid fiction
How author Douglas Smith discovered the real Rasputin
Was he a mad monk? A German spy? The empress’s lover? An unkillable puppetmaster? A Q&A with an author who’s shed new light on who Rasputin really was
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