CALGARY BESTSELLERS
FICTION 1
Art Lessons
Katherine Koller. Story follows Cassie from ages 7 to 17 as she’s saved by her art.
2
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien. A family living through Mao’s China.
3
Commonwealth
Anne Patchett. A romantic encounter changes two families.
4
Wallflowers
Eliza Robertson. A woman’s painful trip into her family’s dysfunctional past.
5
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue. A love story pitted in one of evil’s masks.
6
Hag-Seed
Margaret Atwood. The Tempest is retold.
7
The Back of the Turtle Thomas King. A brilliant scientist creates GreenSweep, and indirectly causes a crisis.
8
The Parcel
Anoshi Irani. A transgender sex worker in Bombay.
9
Spawning Grounds
Gail Anderson-Dargatz. An aboriginal family and community with an environmental dilemma.
10
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel. England the 1520s; A half-made society on the cusp of change.
NON– FICTION 1
The Rise of the Rocket Girls
Nathalia Holt. Women who worked for the race to space.
2
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How they Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben.
3
The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir
Judy Fong Bates. A Chinese family’s arrival in Canada and a daughter’s search to understand her parents’ lives.
4
Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival
Bev Sellars. Making sense of misconceptions and myths of First Nations clouding history.
5
The Best of Writers & Company
Eleanor Wachtel. CBC host’s conversations with authors.
6
Settler Education: Poems
Laurie D Graham. Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake, death of nine settlers, hanging of six Cree warriors, and the imprisonment of Big Bear.
7
Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in Nazi Germany
Marie Simon Jalowicz.
8
Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa
Will Ferguson.
9
Art of Inequality: Architecture, House and Real Estate, A Provisional Report Reinhold Martin. Relationship between architecture, disparity and social infrastructure.
10
In Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer.
Teva Harrison. Comic illustrations and personal essays.