‘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 Nov. 20 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. (3) The Whistler _ John Grisham

3. (-) Night School (A Jack Reacher Novel) _ Lee Child

4. (2) Hag-Seed _ Margaret Atwood

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

6. (7) Two by Two _ Nicholas Sparks

7. (4) Rather Be the Devil _ Ian Rankin

8. (6) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

9. (5) Small Great Things _ Jodie Picoult

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

NON-FICTION

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

2. (2) Born to Run _ Bruce Springsteen

3. (5) 99: Stories of the Game _ Wayne Gretzky with Kirstie McLellan Day

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

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

6. (-) The Science of Why: Answers to Questions About the World Around Us _ Jay Ingram

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

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

9. (-) Frantumaglia _ Elena Ferrante

10. (8) Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow _ Yuval Noah Harari