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

FICTION

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

2. (-) Hag-Seed _ Margaret Atwood

3. (1) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

4. (6) Two by Two _ Nicholas Sparks

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

6. (2) A Great Reckoning _ Louise Penny

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

8. (8) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

9. (3) Nutshell _ Ian McEwan

10. (5) By Gaslight _ Steven Price

NON-FICTION

1. (1) Born to Run _ Bruce Springsteen

2. (7) 99: Stories of the Game _ Wayne Gretzky with Kirstie McLellan Day

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

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

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

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

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

8. (2) Love Warrior _ Glennon Doyle Melton

9. (10) 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. (9) The Killer Whale Who Changed the World _ Mark Leiren-Young