CALGARY BEST SELLERS

FICTION

1 The Dark and Other Love Stories Deborah Willis. Stories of longing, strange humour and complications of human entanglement.

2 Son of a Trickster Eden Robinson. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs and family dynamics.

3 Secret Path Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire. The story of a young boy who died in flight from a Canadian residential school.

4 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders. A testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly to the things that matter.

5 Barkskins Annie Proulx. An epic and violent novel on the taking down of the world’s forests.

6 4321 Paul Auster. Four parallel lives of a boy during America’s time of great changes.

7 Etta and Otto and Russell and James Emma Hooper. Eighty-twoyear-old Etta sets off by foot for her first look at the ocean.

8 Hag-Seed Margaret Atwood. A retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

9 The Sellout Paul Beatty. A biting satire about a man’s isolated upbringing and a race trial in Supreme Court.

10 Universal Harvester John Darnielle. Mysterious footage begins to appear on VHS cassette tapes in a small town.

NON- FICTION

1 Stampede and the Westness of West Aritha Van Herk. A prose/poetry book on everything Stampede.

2 Red Notice Bill Browder. Story of an accidental activist during the breakup of the U.S.S.R.

3 The Love and Lemons Cookbook: An Apple to Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking Jeanine Donofrio. Vegetarian masterpieces.

4 Thug Kitchen Cookbook Thug Kitchen. How to cook up some real food.

5 The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben. Trees as feeling, communicative and social beings.

6 Communion: The Female Search for Love Bell Hooks. How the feminist movement changed ideas about women and love.

7 Lion Saroo Brierley. True story of a child lost and a young man finding his way back home.

8 I’ll Tell You In Person Chloe Caldwell. A frank account of attempts at adulthood and the ways we get there.

9 In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail. With history known, there is a responsibility to make things better.

10 Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer. A report on wealthy people with libertarian views and their bankrolled plan to alter American politics.