‘A Great Reckoning’ by Louise Penny tops Maclean’s fiction list

Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Sept. 18 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The previous week’s position is in parentheses.

FICTION

1. (1) A Great Reckoning _ Louise Penny

2. (3) By Gaslight _ Steven Price

3. (-) Don’t Say We Have Nothing _ Madeleine Thien

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

5. (-) Nutshell _ Ian McEwan

6. (5) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

7. (4) Rushing Waters _ Danielle Steel

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

9. (-) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

10. (10) The Nest _ Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

NON-FICTION

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

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

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

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

5. (8) The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life _ John le Carre

6. (6) Sully: My Search for What Really Matters _ Chesley B. Sullenberger

7. (-) Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China _ Alexandre Trudeau

8. (-) Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy _ Cathy O’Neil

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

10. (5) The Kingdom of Speech _ Tom Wolfe