Must read: Bestsellers for the week of June 29, 2012
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles, plus our most recent book reviews
New in book reviews at Maclean’s:
- China Airborne, by James Fallows, review by Peter Shawn Taylor.
- Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety, by Daniel Smith, review by Brian Bethune.
- My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider’s Journey Through Hollywood, by Tom Mankiewicz and Robert Crane, review by Jaime J. Weinman.
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce, review by Jen Cutts.
- Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping, by Robert Zorn, review by Brian Bethune.
- Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes, by Bill McGuire, review by Andrew Stobo Sniderman.
Bestsellers last week:
| 1 | MISSION TO PARIS by Alan Furst | 2 (4) |
| 2 | CANADA by Richard Ford | 1 (6) |
| 3 | BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel | 4 (8) |
| 4 | IN ONE PERSON by John Irving | 6 (9) |
| 5 | THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION by Alexander McCall Smith | 8 (14) |
| 6 | A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by George R.R. Martin | 7 (52) |
| 7 | THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS by Peter Carey | 9 (3) |
| 8 | THE RED HOUSE by Mark Haddon | 3 (2) |
| 9 | THE STORM by Clive Cussler | (1) |
| 10 | THE HEADMASTER’S WAGER by Vincent Lam | 5 (10) |
| 1 | THE END OF GROWTH by Jeff Rubin | 2 (8) |
| 2 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Antony Beevor | 1 (4) |
| 3 | THE WORLD OF DOWNTON ABBEY by Jessica Fellowes | 7 (23) |
| 4 | THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro | 3 (9) |
| 5 | BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS by Katherine Boo | (1) |
| 6 | THE THIEVES OF BAY STREET by Bruce Livesey | 8 (2) |
| 7 | BARACK OBAMA by David Maraniss | 6 (2) |
| 8 | MIDNIGHT IN PEKING by Paul French | 5 (3) |
| 9 | THE ART OF INTELLIGENCE by Henry Crumpton | (1) |
| 10 | ZOOBIQUITY by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers | 10 (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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