The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Oct. 20

FICTION 

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

1. THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB David Lagercrantz 1 (8)
2. A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS George R.R. Martin (1)
3. THE HEART GOES LAST Margaret Atwood 2 (3)
4. THE ILLEGAL Lawrence Hill 5 (6)
5. THE MURDER HOUSE James Patterson and David Ellis 6 (2)
6. UNDERMAJORDOMO MINOR Patrick deWitt 8 (6)
7. GO SET A WATCHMAN Harper Lee 3 (15)
8. FATES AND FURIES Lauren Groff 7 (4)
9. THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Louise Penny 10 (8)
10. MAKE ME Lee Child 4 (5)

NON-FICTION

BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)

1. WHY NOT ME? Mindy Kaling 2 (5)
2. M TRAIN Patti Smith (1)
3. THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING Bill Bryson (1)
4. FURIOUSLY HAPPY Jenny Lawson 3 (3)
5. HISTORY’S PEOPLE Margaret MacMillan 1 (7)
6. THE REASON YOU WALK Wab Kinew 5 (3)
7. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 7 (13)
8. SIXTY Ian Brown 4 (3)
9. THE WHITE ROAD Edmund de Waal 6 (2)
10. THE ART OF MEMOIR Mary Karr 9 (4)

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