‘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. 27 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. (2) The Whistler _ John Grisham

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

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

5. (-) This Was a Man (The Final Volume of The Clifton Chronicles) _ Jeffrey Archer

6. (-) No Man’s Land _ David Baldacci

7. (8) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

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

9. (-) Swing Time _ Zadie Smith

10. (4) Hag-Seed _ Margaret Atwood

NON-FICTION

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

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

3. (2) Born to Run _ Bruce Springsteen

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

5. (-) Testimony _ Robbie Robertson

6. (3) 99: Stories of the Game _ Wayne Gretzky with Kirstie McLellan Day

7. (-) Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood _ Trevor Noah

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

9. (-) Hostages to Fortune: The United Empire Loyalists and the Making of Canada _ Peter C. Newman

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