LOCAL BESTSELLERS
FICTION
1 Zephyra: Book One of the Elemental Diaries Andrea B. Lamoureux. First in a fantasy series by a local author.
2 Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals Jim Nason. A veterinarian takes in her grandson after her daughter’s death and creates a diary of life lessons for him.
3 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie. Now a major film, a classic tale of murder and mystery on a snowbound train.
4 The Warden Anthony Trollope. An English cleric is accused of mishandling church funds.
5 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders. An unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm, both hilarious and terrifying.
6 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz. First in the classic trilogy set in Cairo.
7 The Course of Love Alain De Botton. A romantic novel in the true sense, exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term.
8 The Last Dickens Matthew Pearl. A mystery unfolds over Charles Dickens’s final manuscript.
9 A Head Full of Ghosts Paul Tremblay. Fifteen years after a reality television crew films her sister’s exorcism gone terribly wrong, Merry recounts the madness.
10 Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York Frances Spufford. A stranger arrives at a New York counting house with an order for an enormous sum.
NON-FICTION
1 Inhale Colleen Songs. Memoir by local poet and musician.
2 Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians Danielle Martin. A family doctor and a hospital vice-president reveals deficiencies in the health-care program.
3 Chronicles of a Liquid Society Umberto Eco. In his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics and the unbridled individualism.
4 12 Rules for Life Jordan Peterson. Rules to shatter modern commonplace science, faith and human nature, while transforming the mind and spirit of readers.
5 Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace and More Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len. Hawaiian teachings on how to live a good life.
6 On Not Losing my Father’s Ashes in the Flood Richard Harrison. Governor General award-winning collection by Calgary poet.
7 Fire and Fury Michael Wolff. Expose of the inner workings of the Trump White House.
8 Why Poetry
Matthew Zapruder. An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry.
9 This Will Be My Undoing Morgan Jerkins. Exposing the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression and the white male-dominated world at large.
10 What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us Tim O’Reilly. A call to action for businesses to do more with technology rather than just using it to cut costs and enrich shareholders.