The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug 18

The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction

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FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. GO SET A WATCHMANHarper Lee 1 (6)
  2. THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Paula Hawkins 2 (30)
  3. HIS WHOLE LIFE Elizabeth Hay (1)
  4. ALERT James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (1)
  5. CIRCLING THE SUN Paula McLain 3 (2)
  6. FINDERS KEEPERS Stephen King 8 (10)
  7. THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP Nina George 4 (7)
  8. WIND/PINBALL Haruki Murakami (1)
  9. THE ENGLISH SPY Daniel Silva 6 (6)
  10. ARMADA Ernest Cline 5 (3)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

  1. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 1 (4)
  2. MODERN ROMANCE Aziz Ansari 2 (8)
  3. ELON MUSK Ashlee Vance 4 (12)
  4. DEAD WAKE Erik Larson 5 (10)
  5. THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE James Rebanks 6 (13)
  6. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Holly Madison 3 (7)
  7. WAGES OF REBELLION Chris Hedges (1)
  8. THE ROAD TO CHARACTER David Brooks 10 (7)
  9. THE BILLION DOLLAR SPY David E. Hoffman 8 (3)
  10. SICILY John Norwich (1)

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