‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two’ by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne tops Maclean’s fiction list

Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Aug. 21 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The previous week’s position is in parentheses.

FICTION

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

2. (2) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

3. (-) Three Sisters, Three Queens _ Philippa Gregory

4. (3) Truly Madly Guilty _ Liane Moriarty

5. (4) Bullseye (Michael Bennett Series No. 9) _ James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

6. (8) The Nest _ Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

7. (5) The Black Widow _ Daniel Silva

8. (9) End of Watch _ Stephen King

9. (6) Before the Fall _ Noah Hawley

10. (7) The Girls _ Emma Cline

NON-FICTION

1. (2) When Breath Becomes Air _ Paul Kalanithi

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

3. (5) Freedom: My Book of Firsts _ Jaycee Dugard

4. (4) Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike _ Phil Knight

5. (3) Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance _ Angela Duckworth

6. (-) The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History _ Thomas Harding

7. (7) The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss _ Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt

8. (1) American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst _ Jeffrey Toobin

9. (6) White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America _ Nancy Isenberg

10. (9) Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging _ Sebastian Junger