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Required reading for an August weekend
The week in bestsellers, plus our latest book reviews
Our latest book reviews at Maclean’s:
- Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion, by W.K. Stratton, review by Andrew Stobo Sniderman.
- The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy, by William J. Dobson, review by Michael Petrou.
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, by Cheryl Strayed, review by Rebecca Caldwell.
- Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us, by Andrew Keen, review by Jaime J. Weinman
- Penelope, by Rebecca Harrington, review by Sarah Weinman.
- Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World, by John W. Dower, review by Brian Bethune.
Bestsellers last week:
| 1 | THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce | 6 (2) |
| 2 | 13 by Kelley Armstrong | 3 (2) |
| 3 | CAPITAL by John Lanchester | 2 (5) |
| 4 | A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING by Dave Eggers | (1) |
| 5 | IN ONE PERSON by John Irving | 1 (14) |
| 6 | MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst | 7 (9) |
| 7 | CANADA by Richard Ford | 4 (11) |
| 8 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 5 (57) |
| 9 | BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel | 9 (13) |
| 10 | GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn | (1) |
| 1 | DOUBLECROSS by Ben Mcintyre | 6 (2) |
| 2 | A DAUGHTER’S TALE by Mary Soames | (1) |
| 3 | JOHNSON’S LIFE OF LONDON by Boris Johnson | 2 (2) |
| 4 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR Antony Beevor | 3 (9) |
| 5 | TECUMSEH AND BROCK by James Laxer | 1 (5) |
| 6 | THE END OF GROWTH by Jeff Rubin | 4 (13) |
| 7 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 5 (28) |
| 8 | WILD by Cheryl Strayed | 9 (4) |
| 9 | ROAD TO VALOUR by Aili and Andres McConnon | (1) |
| 10 | 8 (3) |
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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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