Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of October 13th, 2009)
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of October 13th, 2009)
| 1 | THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown | 1 (4) |
| 2 | HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY by Audrey Niffenegger | (1) |
| 3 | THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD by Margaret Atwood | 2 (5) |
| 4 | TOO MUCH HAPPINESS by Alice Munro | 3 (7) |
| 5 | THE BISHOP’S MAN by Linden MacIntyre | (1) |
| 6 | JULIET, NAKED by Nick Hornby | 5 (2) |
| 7 | THE GOLDEN MEAN by Annabel Lyon | (1) |
| 8 | THE WINTER VAULT by Anne Michaels | (1) |
| 9 | THE WHITE QUEEN by Philippa Gregory | 4 (8) |
| 10 | THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson | 9 (12) |
| 1 | THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH by Richard Dawkins | 1 (4) |
| 2 | THE CASE FOR GOD by Karen Armstrong | 3 (3) |
| 3 | TRUE COMPASS by Edward Kennedy | 4 (5) |
| 4 | EMPIRE OF ILLUSION by Chris Hedges | 2 (12) |
| 5 | D-DAY by Antony Beevor | (1) |
| 6 | THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM by Christopher Andrew | (1) |
| 7 | OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell | 6 (46) |
| 8 | QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER by William Shawcross | (1) |
| 9 | THE BOY IN THE MOON by Ian Brown | 10 (3) |
| 10 | THE CELLO SUITES by Eric Siblin | 9 (30) |
FictionNon-fictionLAST WEEK (WEEKS ON LIST)
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
Related Posts
Books
Six must-read books for April and May
An ode to Canada’s lost buildings and a memoir by Elamin Abdelmahmoud are among our picks for the best books of the season
Books
What do you do when your mother is Miriam Toews?
Debut novelist Georgia Toews is carving her own literary path, with some sage advice from her celebrated parent
Books
Joshua Whitehead takes on CanLit
In ‘Making Love With the Land,’ Whitehead moves between genres and languages in a series of essays that open up a whole new window on the meaning of Canadian literature
Books
Is it ethical to have kids in the climate crisis?
Researcher Britt Wray grapples with bringing new life into a dying world
Get the Best of Maclean’s straight to your inbox.
Sign up for news, commentary and analysis. Join 60,000+ Canadian readers.