BEST ON THE SHELF

FICTION

1(-) The Nature of the Beast (1wk) Louise Penny A Chief Inspector Gamache novel.

2 (1) Go Set a Watchman (7 wks) Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird’s followup.

3 (-) X (1wk) Sue Grafton The latest Kinsey Millhone novel.

4 (2) His Whole Life (3 wks) Elizabeth Hay This is the story of a boy and his Canadian-American family.

5 (-) Secondhand Souls (1wk) Christopher Moore The sequel to A Dirty Job.

6 (3) Circling the Sun (5 wks) Paula Mclain By the author of The Paris Wife.

7 (4) The Little Paris Bookshop (10 wks) Nina George This is a love letter to books.

8 (5) Speaking in Bones (2 wks) Kathy Reichs The latest Temperance Brennan.

9 (8) The Nightingale (23 wks) Kristin Hannah Two sisters resist during WWII.

10 (6) Wind / Pinball (4 wks) Haruki Murakami Two novels written in 1978.

NON-FICTION

1( 1) Between the World and Me (6 wks) Ta-Nehisi Coates A book of life lessons.

2 (-) What’s Happened to Politics? (1wk) Bob Rae By a former NDP premier.

3 (6) This is Happy (2 wks) Camilla Gibb A compelling memoir.

4 (3) H is for Hawk (26 wks) Helen Macdonald About a woman and a hawk.

5 (-) Stephen Harper (1wk) John Ibbitson About Canada’s prime minister.

6 (2) Wages of Rebellion (14 wks) Chris Hedges A book about revolt.

7 (5) The Shepherd’s Life (16 wks) James Rebanks This is about old meeting new.

8 (4) Letters to My Grandchildren (15 wks) David Suzuki Noted environmentalist writes to his grandchildren.

9 (7) The Brain’s Way of Healing (31 wks) Norman Doidge This book is about brain recovery.

10 (10) Sapiens (29 wks) Yuval Harari A history of humankind.

Large number is rating in the past week, number in parentheses indicates rating the previous week, third number is number of weeks on bestseller list. © TBM Book-Manager Ltd., www. bookmanager.com. Lists are compiled weekly from actual sales at more than 280 Canadian independent booksellers.