‘A Great Reckoning’ by Louise Penny tops Maclean’s fiction list

Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Sept. 25 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The previous week’s position is in parentheses.

FICTION

1. (1) A Great Reckoning _ Louise Penny

2. (5) Nutshell _ Ian McEwan

3. (2) By Gaslight _ Steven Price

4. (6) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

5. (3) Don’t Say We Have Nothing _ Madeleine Thien

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

7. (-) The Couple Next Door _ Shari Lapena

8. (4) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two _ J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

9. (9) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

10. (7) Rushing Waters _ Danielle Steel

NON-FICTION

1. (-) The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century _ Jennifer Welsh

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

3. (1) The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo _ Amy Schumer

4. (7) Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China _ Alexandre Trudeau

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

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

7. (-) A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age _ Daniel J. Levitin

8. (6) Sully: My Search for What Really Matters _ Chesley B. Sullenberger

9. (3) When Breath Becomes Air _ Paul Kalanithi

10. (-) The Killer Whale Who Changed the World _ Mark Leiren-Young