CALGARY’S BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1 (4) Ru

Kim Thuy. The life story of a Vietnamese girl.

2 All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews. Story of two sisters and love.

3 Unnatural Creatures

Neil Gaiman. Stories of imaginary creatures.

4 Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Jordan Sonnenblick. How a family with a preteen deals with a life- threatening illness in the family.

5 Farthing

Jo Walton. A murder is pinned on a Jewish man in 1949.

6 Death’s Golden Whisper

R.J. Harlick. A mining company entering a northern forested area causes problems.

7 And The Birds Rained Down

Jocelyne Saucier. Two men living in a remote forest are joined by two women, and together they piece together a dead man’s history.

8 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler. A family raises a chimpanzee as one of their children and when it disappears, their daughter withdraws into herself.

9 Of Things Gone Astray

Janina Matthewson. A magical story of people losing things they value and a boy who begins to find things.

10 The Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin. A bookstore owner having trouble with his life and his business sees things start to change.

NON- FICTION

1 Darn Good Dandies

Nadine Mackenzie. When Scottish Tartans became a trend, two brothers cashed in.

2 Calgary’s Best Walks

Lori Beattie. Thirty-five new walks through Calgary.

3 (1) The Inconvenient Indian

Thomas King. A look at aboriginal-white relations in North America over the years.

4 The Winter We Danced

The Kino-Nda-Niimi Collective. A collection of the Idle No More Movement.

5 Play It Again

Alan Rusbridger. The editor of The Guardian sets himself a challenge to learn, and play fluently, the most difficult composition he can find, in 20 minutes a day.

6 (2) My Name Is Shield Woman

Ruth Scalp Lock. A Siksika woman shares her experiences as a young child.

7 (9) Pie Face Boy In Search Of Soul

Brian E. Pearson. Memories that seem to be his search for his soul.

8 Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey

Nick Bertozzi. The remarkable journey to Antarctica of Shackleton and his crew.

9 Dead Wake: The Crossing Of The Lusitania

Erik Larson. The drama of a disaster of a passenger liner in 1915.

10 Girl In A Band

Kim Gordon. A memoir of an underground rock guitarist. Information provided by Owl’s Nest Books and Shelf Life Books.