
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Sept. 8
The hottest titles in both fiction and non-fiction
FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- GO SET A WATCHMAN Harper Lee 1 (9)
- THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Louise Penny 4 (2)
- THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB David Lagercrantz 3 (2)
- THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Paula Hawkins 2 (33)
- SECONDHAND SOULS Christopher Moore (1)
- X Sue Grafton (1)
- THE TAMING OF THE QUEEN Phillipa Gregory (1)
- PURITY Jonathan Franzen (1)
- ALERT James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 5 (4)
- THE DUST THAT FALLS FROM DREAMS Louis de Bernières 8 (2)
NON-FICTION
BOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- MODERN ROMANCE Aziz Ansari 4 (11)
- YOU’RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET (ALMOST) Felicia Day 1 (3)
- STEPHEN HARPER John Ibbitson 2 (2)
- HISTORY’S PEOPLE Margaret MacMillan (1)
- DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Holly Madison 6 (10)
- DEAD WAKE Erik Larson 7 (13)
- WHAT’S HAPPENED TO POLITICS? Bob Rae (1)
- BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Ta-Nehisi Coates 3 (7)
- ELON MUSK Ashlee Vance 5 (15)
- ON THE MOVE Oliver Sacks 10 (2)
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