M.G. Vassanji's "The Assassin's Song" tops Maclean's fiction list
TORONTO - Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada compiled by Maclean's magazine.
FICTION
1 (3) The Assassin's Song - M.G. Vassanji
2 (1) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
3 (5) Spook Country - William Gibson
4 (-) Friend of the Devil - Peter Robinson
5 (8) Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje
6 (6) Standard of Honor - Jack Whyte
7 (-) Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
8 (4) On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
9 (9) Life Class - Pat Barker
10 (2) Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs
NON-FICTION
1 (1) The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
2 (5) Memoirs - Brian Mulroney
3 (6) The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
4 (3) The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
5 (2) God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
6 (-) The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
7 (4) The Iambics of Newfoundland - Robert Finch
8 (9) You Can Run but You Can't Hide - Duane "Dog" Chapman
9 (8) Lawyers Gone Bad - Philip Slayton
10 (7) Fateful Choices - Ian Kershaw