CALGARY BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1 All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault

James Alan Gardner. Canadian award winning author Gardner’s humorous story of Good versus Evil — where Good has just joined the game.

2 The Future is Written

Jonas Saul. A woman who solves kidnappings through prophetic messages is kidnapped herself.

3 Severance

Ling Ma. A millennial corporate drone hardly notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York.

4 Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens. Kya Clark, a girl who has survived years living alone in a North Carolina marsh, is a suspect in a murder.

5 Dual Citizens

Alix Ohlin. After a life of feeling invisible and overshadowed, Lark traces a path toward fulfilment as an artist and human being.

6 Front Lines

Michael Grant. An epic, genre-bending, and transformative new series that reimagines the Second World War with female soldiers fighting on the front lines.

7 The Overstory

Richard Powers. Interlocking fables that unfold in concentric rings written in reverence to the natural world.

8 This is How it Always Is

Laurie Frankel. A novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales and family.

9 My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite. A Nigerian woman’s younger sister has the very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.

10 Season of Fury and Wonder

Sharon Butala. Stories that present the lives of old women in all their sweetness, bitterness and complexity. Local author.

NON-FICTION

1 The Spy and The Traitor

Ben Macintyre. The thrilling true story of Oleg Gordievsky and his role in the fall of the Soviet Union.

2 The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-breaking Power of Strength and Resilience

Jennifer Pharr Davis. A record holder of the fastest known time on the Appalachian Trail reveals the secrets behind her endurance.

3 Educated

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

4 Life In The Garden

Penelope Lively. A memoir from the bestselling author, taking up her key themes of time, memory, gardening and philosophy.

5 Embers

Richard Wagamese. In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime.

6 No One is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg. The groundbreaking speeches of the young climate crisis activist.

7 Birds Art Life

Kyo Maclear. Maclear’s year-long adventure of discovering inspiration in the intricacies of birds, bird-searching and bird-watching in a big city.

8 There Are No Grown-ups

Pamela Druckerman. A hilarious mid-life coming of age memoir about “adulthood.”

9 Save Me The Plums

Ruth Reichl. Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine.

10 The Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration and the Revolt Against Globalization

John B. Judis. Why has nationalism come back with a vengeance?

Compiled from information from Owl’s Nest Books and Shelf Life Books.