
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: Week of Nov. 15
Giller Prize winner Madeleine Thien continues to own the fiction list, while a book about trees—ironic, no?—leads the non-fiction set
FICTIONBOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING Madeleine Thien 1 (9)
- HAG-SEED Margaret Atwood 4 (4)
- THE WHISTLER John Grisham 2 (2)
- RATHER BE THE DEVIL Ian Rankin 5 (2)
- SMALL GREAT THINGS Jodi Picoult 3 (3)
- THE WONDER Emma Donoghue 8 (9)
- TWO BY TWO Nicholas Sparks 6 (5)
- THRICE THE BRINDED CAT HATH MEW’D Alan Bradley 7 (9)
- THE MISTLETOE MURDER AND OTHER STORIES P.D. James and Val McDermid (1)
- A GREAT RECKONING Louise Penny 10 (10)
NON-FICTIONBOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES Peter Wohlleben 1 (10)
- BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen 2 (7)
- HILLBILLY ELEGY J.D. Vance 3 (12)
- WAITING FOR FIRST LIGHT Roméo Dallaire 10 (3)
- 99: STORIES OF THE GAME Wayne Gretzky 4 (5)
- NOT DEAD YET Phil Collins 6 (2)
- CANADA Mike Myers 5 (2)
- HOMO DEUS Yuval Harari (1)
- THE PROMISE OF CANADA Charlotte Gray 7 (4)
- THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO Amy Schumer 9 (13)
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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