‘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. 9 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The previous week’s position is in parentheses.

FICTION

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

2. (1) By Gaslight _ Steven Price

3. (3) A Great Reckoning _ Louise Penny

4. (5) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

5. (4) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

6. (9) A Gentleman in Moscow _ Amor Towles

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

8. (7) Nutshell _ Ian McEwan

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

10. (-) Yiddish for Pirates _ Gary Barwin

NON-FICTION

1. (1) Born to Run _ Bruce Springsteen

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

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

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

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

6. (-) Love Warrior _ Glennon Doyle Melton

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

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

9. (8) Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies _ Ross King

10. (10) When Breath Becomes Air _ Paul Kalanithi