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Must read: Bestsellers for the week of July 13, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles, plus our most recent book reviews
New in book reviews at Maclean’s:
- A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchhill’s Youngest Child, by Mary Soames, review by Brian Bethune.
- A Hologram For the King, by Dave Eggers, review by Richard Warnica.
- Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, by Orlando Figes, review by Brian Bethune.
- The Queen’s Lover, by Francine du Plessix Gray, review by Patricia Treble.
- Alys, Always, by Harriet Lane, review by Rebecca Caldwell.
- Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con, by Guy Lawson, review by Martin Patriquin.
Bestsellers last week:
| 1 | CANADA by Richard Ford | 1 (8) |
| 2 | THE PRISONERS OF HEAVEN by Carlos Ruiz Zafon | 7 (2) |
| 3 | BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel | 2 (10) |
| 4 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 5 (54) |
| 5 | MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst | 3 (6) |
| 6 | GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn | (1) |
| 7 | IN ONE PERSON by John Irving | 4 (11) |
| 8 | THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen Thompson Walker | 9 (2) |
| 9 | SHADOW OF NIGHT by Deborah Harkness | (1) |
| 10 | CAPITAL by John Lanchester | 10 (2) |
| 1 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Antony Beevor | 1 (6) |
| 2 | THE END OF GROWTH by Jeff Rubin | 2 (10) |
| 3 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 3 (25) |
| 4 | IMAGINE by Jonah Lehrer | (1) |
| 5 | TECUMSEH AND BROCK by James Laxer | 4 (2) |
| 6 | AMY, MY DAUGHTER by Mitch Winehouse | 9 (2) |
| 7 | THE THIEVES OF BAY STREET by Bruce Livesey | 5 (4) |
| 8 | MICK by Christopher Andersen | (1) |
| 9 | WINNER TAKE ALL by Dambisa Moyo | 8 (2) |
| 10 | WILD by Cheryl Strayed | 9 (2) |
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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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