Books
Must read: bestsellers for the week of June 22, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles, plus our most recent book 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.
- Menu Confidential, by Megan Ogilvie, interview with the author by Jessica Allen.
- Ed, the Happy Clown, by Chester Brown, review by Stephen Carlick.
Fiction
| 1 | CANADA by Richard Ford | 1 (5) |
| 2 | MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst | 4 (3) |
| 3 | THE RED HOUSE by Mark Haddon | (1) |
| 4 | BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel | 2(7) |
| 5 | THE HEADMASTER’S WAGER by Vincent Lam | 8 (9) |
| 6 | IN ONE PERSON by John Irving | 5 (8) |
| 7 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 10 (51) |
| 8 | THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION by Alexander McCall Smith | 3 (13) |
| 9 | THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS by Peter Carey | 7(2) |
| 10 | THE QUEEN’S LOVER by Francine du Plessix Gray | (1) |
Non-fiction
| 1 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Antony Beevor | 3 (3) |
| 2 | THE END OF GROWTH by Jeff Rubin | 1 (7) |
| 3 | THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro | 5 (8) |
| 4 | A THOUSAND FAREWELLS by Nahlah Ayed | 8(3) |
| 5 | MIDNIGHT IN PEKING by Paul French | 6 (2) |
| 6 | BARACK OBAMA by David Maraniss | (1) |
| 7 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 2 (22) |
| 8 | THE THIEVES OF BAY STREET by Bruce Livesey | (1) |
| 9 | WHAT MONEY CAN’T BUY by Michael Sandel | 9 (7) |
| 10 | ZOOBIQUITY by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers | (1) |
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