
The Maclean’s Bestsellers list: week of Oct. 4
Bruce Springsteen’s new memoir was born to run the top of our non-fiction charts. Who won the belt this week in fiction?
FICTIONBOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- BY GASLIGHT Steven Price 3 (6)
- THRICE THE BRINDED CAT HATH MEW’D Alan Bradley 6 (3)
- A GREAT RECKONING Louise Penny 1 (4)
- THE WONDER Emma Donoghue 9 (3)
- THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Colson Whitehead 4 (9)
- DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING Madeleine Thien 5 (3)
- NUTSHELL Ian McEwan 2 (3)
- THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR Shari Lapena 7 (2)
- A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW Amor Towles (1)
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany 8 (10)
NON-FICTIONBOOK NAME Author Last week (Weeks on list)
- BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen (1)
- THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO Amy Schumer 3 (7)
- THE RETURN OF HISTORY Jennifer Welsh 1 (2)
- THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES Peter Wohlleben 2 (4)
- hillbilly elegy J.D. Vance6 (6)
- THE KILLER WHALE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD Mark Leiren-Young 10 (2)
- HOMO DEUS Yuval Noah Harari 5 (2)
- MAD ENCHANTMENT Ross King (1)
- BARBARIAN LOST Alexandre Trudeau 4 (3)
- WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR Paul Kalanithi 9 (38)
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