Must read: Bestsellers for the week of June 8, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles, plus our most recent reviews
New in book reviews at Maclean’s:
- Seating Arrangements, by Maggie Shipstead, review by Anne Kingston.
- Opium Fiend: A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction, by Steven Martin, review by Brian Bethune.
- God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, by Victoria Sweet, review by Joanne Latimer.
- Fooling Houdini, by Alex Stone, review by Mike Doherty.
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust, by John Coates, review by Andrew Stobo Sniderman.
- The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Witold Pilecki, review by Brian Bethune.
| 1 | CANADA by Richard Ford | 1 (4) |
| 2 | BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel | 2 (6) |
| 3 | THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION by Alexander McCall Smith | 4 (12) |
| 4 | MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst | 7 (2) |
| 5 | IN ONE PERSON by John Irving | 3 (7) |
| 6 | SILVER by Andrew Motion | 9 (3) |
| 7 | THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS by Peter Carey | (1) |
| 8 | THE HEADMASTER’S WAGER by Vincent Lam | 8 (8) |
| 9 | GOLD by Chris Cleave | (1) |
| 10 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 10 (50) |
| 1 | THE END OF GROWTH by Jeff Rubin | 1 (6) |
| 2 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 2 (21) |
| 3 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Antony Beevor | 4 (2) |
| 4 | LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED by Jenny Lawson | 3(4) |
| 5 | THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro | 6 (7) |
| 6 | MIDNIGHT IN PEKING by Paul French | (1) |
| 7 | NOTES ON A CENTURY by Bernard Lewis | (1) |
| 8 | A THOUSAND FAREWELLS by Nahlah Ayed | 8 (2) |
| 9 | WHAT MONEY CAN’T BUY by Michael Sandel | 9 (6) |
| 10 | THE PLANTAGENETS by Dan Jones | (1) |
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Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
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