‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing’ by Madeleine Thien tops Maclean’s fiction list

Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Oct. 30 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The previous week’s position is in parentheses.

FICTION

1. (1) Do Not Say We Have Nothing _ Madeleine Thien

2. (-) Small Great Things _ Jodie Picoult

3. (9) Nutshell _ Ian McEwan

4. (4) Two by Two _ Nicholas Sparks

5. (-) The Witches of New York _ Ami McKay

6. (6) A Great Reckoning _ Louise Penny

7. (3) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

8. (7) Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d (A Flavia de Luce Mystery) _ Alan Bradley

9. (2) Hag-Seed _ Margaret Atwood

10. (8) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

NON-FICTION

1. (1) Born to Run _ Bruce Springsteen

2. (2) 99: Stories of the Game _ Wayne Gretzky with Kirstie McLellan Day

3. (3) The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from A Secret World _Peter Wohlleben

4. (7) The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo _ Amy Schumer

5. (4) The Promise of Canada: 150 Years – People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country _ Charlotte Gray

6. (-) Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD _ Romeo Dallaire with Jessica Dee Humphreys

7. (5) Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow _ Yuval Noah Harari

8. (6) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis _ J.D. Vance

9. (9) Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War _ Ben Macintyre

10. (8) Love Warrior _ Glennon Doyle Melton