CALGARY BEST SELLERS

FICTION

1 The Shoe on the Roof Will Ferguson. Most recent work from this local Giller-winning author, about psychological experiments and ethics.

2 The Only Café Linden Macintyre. A timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father’s death — a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native Lebanon.

3 Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy Jeff VanderMeer. Soon to be a motion picture, this groundbreaking trilogy examines the expeditions of a government agency into the mysterious, and wholly deadly, Area X.

4 The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the poetry is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

5 This Wound is a World Ray Belcourt. One of the four poetry titles in the annual Quartet series.

6 The Dark and Other Love Stories Deborah Willis. The characters in these stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted.

7 Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien. Inside the lives of an extended family in China living through Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

8 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood. In the patriarchal Gilead, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive as acts of rebellion.

9 Mothers and Other Strangers Gina Sorell. A woman’s quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist.

10 This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Short story finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize 2017.

NON- FICTION

1 A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa Alexis Okeowo. Four narratives intertwine in modern Africa.

2 We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates. A young writer begins a journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and lands in the Oval Office, interviewing a president.

3 Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places Henry Carroll. Book offers the knowhow to take meaningful pictures.

4 Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage Ken McGoogan. A comprehensive recasting of Arctic exploration history.

5 The Patch: The People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oil Sands Chris Turner. Fort McMurray oil business and its impact around the world.

6 Autumn Karl Ove Knausgaard. Author writes to his unborn daughter of what to expect of the world she will enter.

7 Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World Michael Harris. Living away from a life of ceaseless pings toward state of measured connectivity, a statement on the benefits of being alone.

8 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance. Inside perspective on the white working-class Americans oft- ignored in their country’s politics, and understanding Trump’s win.

9 Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit Michael Finkel. Story of a Maine man who lived alone for 27 years.

10 Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War Arkady Ostrovsky. Vladimir Putin’s rise and longevity, his use of hybrid warfare and military interventions.