Must read: bestsellers for the week of July 20, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles, plus our most recent book reviews
Our latest 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 (9) |
| 2 | A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING by Dave Eggers | (1) |
| 3 | BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel | 3 (11) |
| 4 | MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst | 5 (7) |
| 5 | THE PRISONERS OF HEAVEN by Carlos Ruiz Zafon | 2 (3) |
| 6 | IN ONE PERSON by John Irving | 7 (12) |
| 7 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 4 (55) |
| 8 | THE RED HOUSE by Mark Haddon | (1) |
| 9 | CAPITAL by John Lanchester | 10 (3) |
| 10 | SHADOW OF NIGHT by Deborah Harkness | 9 (2) |
| 1 | THE END OF GROWTH by Jeff Rubin | 2 (11) |
| 2 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR Antony Beevor | 1 (7) |
| 3 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 3 (26) |
| 4 | WILD by Cheryl Strayed | 10 (2) |
| 5 | TECUMSEH AND BROCK by James Laxer | 5 (3) |
| 6 | IMAGINE by Jonah Lehrer | 4 (2) |
| 7 | AMY, MY DAUGHTER by Mitch Winehouse | 6 (3) |
| 8 | SWIMMING STUDIES by Leanne Shapton | (1) |
| 9 | MICK by Christopher Andersen | 8 (2) |
| 10 | THE TOOLS Phil Stuz and Barry Michels | (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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