CALGARY BESTSELLERS

FICTION 1 Dazzle Patterns

Alison Watt. Three intertwined lives navigate the dramatic aftermath of the Halifax explosion of 1917.

2 Sourdough

Robin Sloan. A company chef urges a woman to sell her homemade bread to local markets, opening a whole new world.

3 Shoe On The Roof

Will Ferguson. A gifted medical student spent his adulthood struggling to escape the legacy of his father, an esteemed psychiatrist who used him as a test subject when he was a boy.

4 Two Roads Home

Daniel Griffin. A group of idealistic environmental activists turns to sabotage.

5 Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur. Four chapters explore the bittersweet in pain and healing.

6 A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across from the Kremlin.

7 Winter Child

Virginia Pésnmapéo Bordeleau. A Métis woman’s journey tracing the life and death of her son.

8 Bellevue Square

Michael Redhill. A woman fears for her sanity while on the hunt for her mysterious doppelganger in this winner of the 2017 Giller Prize.

9 Bellefleur

Joyce Carol Oates. A gothic novel about the many lives of a wealthy and highly eccentric influential family.

10 I am a Truck

Michelle Winters. Shortlisted for the 2017 Giller Prize is this tender story about a man, a woman and their Chevrolet dealer.

NON- FICTION 1 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World

Peter Wohlleben. Forester and author convincingly makes the case for the forests existing as a social network.

2 Full-Metal Indigiqueer

Joshua Whitehead. A collection of poetry focused on a Two-Spirit Trickster named Zoa.

3 Best Beers

Tim Webb and Stephen Beaumont. A guide to beers for the connoisseur.

4 Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

Judith Butler. The exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection.

5 How to Be An Asshole of Calgary

Kris Demeanor. A satirical guide from Calgary’s former poet laureate.

6 Chronicles of a Liquid Society

Umberto Eco. An international cultural superstar, celebrated essayist and novelist, Eco provides his last collection of observations of the world around him.

7 Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith. The superior intelligence and deep consciousness of cephalopods.

8 Oil’s Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa

Kevin Taft. The former leader of the Opposition in Alberta, Taft sees direct action by the public as the only response that can unravel the oil industry’s agenda.

9 Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus Laura Kipnis. Interrogating sexual danger on university campuses. 10 Calgary by Bike, Second Edition

Mike Morrison. 130 must-see things to do on your bike in and around downtown Calgary.