‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ tops Maclean’s fiction list

Here are the top hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week ending Jan. 17 as compiled by Maclean’s magazine. The previous week’s position is in parentheses.

FICTION

1. (6) Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Alan Dean Foster

2. (1) Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham

3. (5) Cross Justice - James Patterson

4. (7) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin

5. (9) The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto - Mitch Albom

6. (-) My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout

7. (3) See Me - Nicholas Sparks

NON-FICTION

1. (1) Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

2. (4) Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear - Elizabeth Gilbert

3. (10) The Witches: Salem, 1692 - Stacy Schiff

4. (-) When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

5. (3) SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard

6. (-) Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive - Mark L. Winston

7. (2) Why Not Me? - Mindy Kaling