The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Aug. 16

The newest Potter tops fiction (again), and a new title dethrones Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air on the non-fiction list

By Brian Bethune

August 16, 2016

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FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

J.K. Rowling and Jack Thorne

Colson Whitehead

Liane Moriarty

James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

Emily Giffin

Daniel Silva

Noah Hawley

Emma Cline

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Stephen King

Dave Eggers

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

Jeffrey Toobin

Paul Kalanithi

Angela Duckworth

Phil Knight

Jaycee Dugard

Nancy Isenberg

Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Sebastian Junger

Bernadette Murphy

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