‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two’ tops Maclean’s fiction list

Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Aug. 14 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. (8) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

3. (3) Truly Madly Guilty _ Liane Moriarty

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

5. (5) The Black Widow _ Daniel Silva

6. (7) Before the Fall _ Noah Hawley

7. (2) The Girls _ Emma Cline

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

9. (9) End of Watch _ Stephen King

10. (10) Heroes of the Frontier _ Dave Eggers

NON-FICTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. (10) The Gene: An Intimate History _ Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

10. (8) Van Gogh’s Ear _ Bernadette Murphy