‘The Wonder’ by Emma Donoghue tops Maclean’s fiction list

Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Oct. 16 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The previous week’s position is in parentheses.

FICTION

1. (5) The Wonder _ Emma Donoghue

2. (3) A Great Reckoning _ Louise Penny

3. (8) Nutshell _ Ian McEwan

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

5. (2) By Gaslight _ Steven Price

6. (-) Two by Two _ Nicholas Sparks

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

8. (4) The Underground Railroad _ Colson Whitehead

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

10. (10) Yiddish for Pirates _ Gary Barwin

NON-FICTION

1. (1) Born to Run _ Bruce Springsteen

2. (6) Love Warrior _ Glennon Doyle Melton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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