LOCAL BEST SELLERS

FICTION

1.

Finding Atlantis

J.M. Dover. A prophecy speaks of a trio who will save the fabled city.

2.

Unravelling Oliver

Liz Nugent. A chilling and psychologically astute exploration of human behaviour and the nature of evil.

3.

Women Talking: A Novel Miriam Toews. Eight women must make a decision for all the women in their Mennonite colony.

4.

A Killer in King’s Cove Iona Whishaw. First in the mystery series set in postSecond World War B.C.

5.

French Exit

Patrick Dewitt. Frances Price and her adult son face scandal.

6.

The Women Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir. Three women face crises.

7.

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald. In a small coastal town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

8.

Flights

Olga Tokarczuk. Exploring what it means to be a body in motion not only through space but through time.

9.

Starlight

Richard Wagamese. A man’s quiet life is disrupted when a woman and her child show up at his farm.

10.

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Therese Anne Fowler. A jazz-age novel from a female viewpoint.

NON-FICTION

1.

You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective

Richard Carlson. How to be happy no matter the situation.

2.

I’m Afraid of Men Vivek Shraya. A trans artist explores how masculinity haunts her.

3.

The Chapo Guide to Revolution

Chapo Trap House. A manifesto from the creators of the cult-hit podcast.

4.

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How To Make the Most of Them Now

Meg Jay. How work, relationships, personality, social networks, identity and even the brain can change more during one’s 20s than at any other time in adulthood.

5.

Kingdom of Olives and Ash

Michael Chabon. A collection of essays explores the cost of 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

6.

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance. A passionate personal analysis of white working-class culture in crisis.

7.

Educated

Tara Westover. Memoir of a woman who did not set foot in a classroom until age 17.

8.

Escape from Wreck City John Creary. Poems about nature, relationships and living in the city.

9.

Endure

Alex Hutchinson. Endurance is the trait underlying great performance in every field.

10.

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice

Bill Browder. The story of an accidental activist in the former U.S.S.R.