CALGARY BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1 Bellevue Square Michael Redhill. A woman searches for her doppelganger in this literary thriller, the 2017 Giller Prize winning novel.

2 Salt Houses Hala Alyan. A family is uprooted during the Six-Day War.

3 Son of a Trickster Eden Robinson. A teenage boy struggles with his drinking mother, selling marijuana, and conversations with crows.

4 A Bramble House Christmas C.J. Carmichael. A man investigates a bequest of his late father and finds more than he expects. Adapted into a Hallmark movie. Local author.

5 Turtles All the Way Down John Green. A novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.

6 Munich Robert Harris. Historical fiction set in the pivotal year 1938.

7 Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan. With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, this novel follows a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers and union men.

8 I Am a Truck Michelle Winters. A woman struggles after her husband goes missing.

9 The Scarlet Forest: A Tale of Robin Hood E. Chandler. A new take on the classical figure.

10 The Dark and Other Love Stories Deborah Willis. The complications of human entanglement.

NON- FICTION

1 Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery Scott Kelly. Memoir from the astronaut holding the record for consecutive days in space.

2 Fail Safe Nikki Sheppy. A poetry collection that examines plant and human bodies on the inside and the outside.

3 Gold Medal Diary: Inside the World’s Greatest Sports Event Hayley Wickenheiser. A detailed narrative of the athlete’s day-to-day experience of the 2010 Olympic Games.

4 Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home Alan Doyle. Memoir from the musician and frontman for Great Big Sea.

5 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.

6 Free Women Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Camilla Paglia. Essential essays to affirm the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together.

7 Memoirs of a World Cyclist Darren Flach. A journey by bike from London, England to Kashgar, China. Local author.

8 The Inner Lives of Animals Peter Wohlleben. Research into how animals interact with the world.

9 Waiting for the First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD Romeo Dallaire. A self-portrait of a political figure whose nights are invaded by despair.

10 My Conversations with Canadians Lee Maracle. A tour de force exploration into the writer’s own history and a reimagining of the future of our nation.