BESTSELLERS
FICTION 1 When the Flood Falls
J.E. Barnard. When a phantom stalker targets her friend, Lacey McRae’s crime-busting skills are tested to their limits.
2 The Progress of Love
Alice Munro. Short stories exploring intimate and transformative moments.
3 Machine Without Horses
Helen Humphreys. A story that explores the real life and the imagined internal life of the famously private salmon-fly dresser, Megan Boyd, a craftswoman who worked for 60 years out of a cottage in a small village in Scotland.
4 Leverage in Death
J.D. Robb. The 47th navel in the “In Death” mystery series.
5 I Still Dream
James Smythe. Over the course of her life, Laura develops an empathetic, instead of ruthless, artificial intelligence, if only she’d share it.
6 The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris. A story of hope and courage based on interviews conducted with a Holocaust survivor and tattooist, an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.
7 The Comedian
Clem Martini. A historical novel of a theatre manager in Ancient Rome.
8 Noir
Christopher Moore. An outrageous, zany noir set on the streets of postSecond World War San Francisco.
9 Less
Andrew Sean Greer. A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding.
10 This is How it Always Is
Laurie Frankel. A touching story in which the youngest in a family of five boys wants to be a girl when he grows up.
NON-FICTION 1 I’m Afraid of Men
Vivek Shraya. A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl.
2 Cowboy Wild
David Campion and Sandra Shields. A photography book celebrating the Calgary Stampede.
3 Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress
Steven Parker. People are living longer, healthier, freer and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
4 Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
Alice Bolin. Investigating the widespread cultural fixation with women who are abused, killed and disenfranchised.
5 Berlin’s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld and translated
James J. Conway. In Germany’s imperial capital at the dawn of the 20th century, Berlin’s Third Sex reveals astonishingly diverse gay subculture years ahead of the Weimar era, with cross-dressing cabaret, all-night parties and erotic licence at every level of society.
6 Forgiveness
Mark Sakamoto. A prisoner-of-war and an internment survivor meet when their children fall in love. (Winner of Canada Reads)
7 Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Edited by Roxane Gay. A collection of essays that address what it means to live as a woman in the world.
8 Educated
Tara Westover. Memoir of a woman who did not set foot in a classroom until the age of 17.
9 The Modern Cook’s Year
Anna Jones. How to make the most of seasonal produce, using simple, hugely inventive flavours and ingredients.
10 My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
Mark Lukach. A heart-wrenching memoir of a young marriage redefined by mental illness.