
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of May 31
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s genetics book rises to the top of the pool. See what else made our list of the top-selling reads from the last week
FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- 15TH AFFAIR James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 2 (3)
- EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN Chris Cleave 5 (3)
- THE FIREMAN Joe Hill (1)
- THE NEST Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 3 (9)
- THE NOISE OF TIME Julian Barnes (1)
- THE LAST MILE David Baldacci 1 (5)
- MOTHERING SUNDAY Graham Swift 8 (7)
- LAROSE Louise Erdrich (1)
- THE NATURALIST Alissa York 7 (2)
- THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL Yann Martel 10 (17)
NON-FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- THE GENE Siddhartha Mukherjee (1)
- THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt 1 (6)
- WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanithi 2 (20)
- GRIT Angela Duckworth 3 (3)
- SHOE DOG Phil Knight 4 (5)
- THE HAPPINESS EQUATION Neil Pasricha 7 (11)
- THE SLEEP REVOLUTION Arianna Huffington 5 (7)
- THE ROMANOVS Simon Sebag Montefiore (1)
- LAB GIRL Hope Jahren 8 (2)
- ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? Frans de Waal 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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