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'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' tops Maclean's fiction list for the week ending Aug. 31

September 2, 2010 | CP story

British author John le Carre holds a copy of his new book entitled 'Our Kind of Traitor' at a central London bookstore during a book signing event to mark the launch of the novel in London Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Alastair Grant

TORONTO - Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week of Aug. 31 compiled by Maclean's magazine.

FICTION

1 (1) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest _ Stieg Larsson

2 (-) Freedom _ Jonathan Franzen

3 (4) The Double Comfort Safari Club _ Alexander McCall Smith

4 (5) Star Island _ Carl Hiassen

5 (3) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet _ David Mitchell

6 (8) The Beauty of Humanity Movement _ Camilla Gibb

7 (7) Corduroy Mansions _ Alexander McCall Smith

8 (9) The Rembrandt Affair _ Daniel Silva

9 (2) The Help _ Kathryn Stockett

10 (10) Fauna _ Alissa York

NON-FICTION

1 (1) Ill Fares the Land _ Tony Judt

2 (7) Nomad _ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

3 (_) The Tiger _ John Vaillant

4 (_) Packing for Mars _ Mary Roach

5 (5) Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane _ Andrew Graham-Dixon

6 (4) Hitch-22 _ Christopher Hitchens

7 (2) Medium Raw _ Anthony Bourdain

8 (6) The Book of Awesome _ Neil Pasricha

9 (_) Women, Food and God _ Geneen Roth

10 (_) Peter Gzowski _ R.B. Fleming

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