CALGARY BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1 Escape Velocity

Ron S. Friedman. Sci-fi short stories from local Aurora-winning author.

2 The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories

Paulo de Costa. A collection of philosophical and enchanting fables.

3 Walking on the Moon

Stephen Shawcross. Continuing from Shawcross’s Runaway Summer, this compelling coming-of-age story embraces Woodstock as its backdrop.

4 The Lonely Hearts Hotel

Heather O’Neill. Extraordinary storytelling set in Montreal and New York between the wars with two talented orphans who imagine a sensational future.

5 Fifteen Dogs

Andre Alexis. The Canada Reads 2017 winner. Dogs at a vet clinic are given human intelligence.

6 The Midnight Sun

Cecilia Ekback. Novel set in 1860s Sweden. Companion to Wolf Winter.

7 Swing Time

Zadie Smith. Moving from London to Africa, a story of friendship, music and stubborn roots.

8 Avenue of Mysteries

John Irving. Juan Diego in the Philippines as what happened to him previously in Mexico collides with his future.

9 The Dark and Other Love Stories

Deborah Willis. Characters living on the edge of danger as they explore love in all its forms.

10 Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders. A father-son story featuring Abraham Lincoln.

NON- FICTION

1 All that We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons

Jay Walljasper. The argument that certain things (water, human knowledge) belong to everyone.

2 The Book of Sensations

Sheri-D Wilson. Poems to connect to one another and the earth.

3 Red Notice

Bill Browder. An accidental activist during the breakup of the U.S.S.R.

4 Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A feminist classic for people working toward gender equality.

5 Then/Again

Michelle Elrick. A poetic account of home and the meanings of home.

6 The Right to be Cold

Sheila Watt-Cloutier. An Inuk woman’s rise from humble beginnings in the Arctic.

7 Throwing the Diamond Hitch

Emily Ursuliak. In 1951, two intrepid women set off on a journey through poetry.

8 Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly. Four African-American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes.

9 Rise of the Rocket Girls

Nathalia Holt. The women who launched the U.S. into space.

10 A Sublime Vernacular:

The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug

Nancy Tousley et al. Colour reproductions of Flexhaug’s paintings, photographs, essays, and an extensive chronology of the artist’s life.