CALGARY BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1 Terrace VII: Wall of Fire

Sarah L. Johnson and Robert Bose. Lust is a great and terrible thing, and this collection of dark tales follows a mere handful of the many paths leading to the wall of fire. Local authors.

2 Corridor Nine

Sophie Stocking. A woman moves away from her father and feels remorse upon his death. Local author

3 The Black City Beneath

R. Overwater. Flying under the radar, a diver and an engineer follow a mysterious woman’s trail of espionage into the wasteland of a parallel world, to prevent the destruction of their own. Local author.

4 An Honest Woman

Joann Mccaig. Women who are aging and confronting the truths about themselves against society’s stereotypes.

5 Street Shadows

Claire Gilchrist. Two coyote friends must learn how to survive when human development threatens their homes. Canadian author.

6 The Eater of Dreams

Kat Cameron. Fifteen interconnected stories of people looking at their fractured lives. Canadian author.

7 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball

Jeff Kinney. An unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley’s family a chance to make big changes to their house. But they soon find that home improvement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

8 Serotonin

Michel Houellebecq. An unhappy man wants to return to his homeland, but finds everything there had changed, too, and he is still not happy.

9 Cougar Frenzy

Pamela Mcdowell. Cricket Mckay and friends work together to save a cougar in the town of Waterton. Local author (children’s book).

10 Grand Union

Zadie Smith. A short story collection.

NON-FICTION

1 Dirty Food: Sticky, Saucy, Gooey, Crumbly, Messy, Sharable Food

Julie Van Rosendaal. Dirty Food is a joyful pushback against the amorphous, abstract buzzword “clean eating” and its connection with ideas of purity and goodness. Local author.

2

7th Cousins: An Automythography

Erin Brubacher & Christine Brubaker. Two women walked 700 kilometres and they tell the stories of those they met along the way.

3

Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times

Irshad Manji. A unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity, by the founder of the Moral Courage Project.

4

A Very Special Episode

Nathan Dueck. The author thinks hard about pop culture and looks at pieces of our past that have been lost in the internet era. Canadian author.

5

An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space

Bob Mcdonald. Beloved science commentator takes us on a tour of our galaxy, unravelling the mysteries of the universe and helping us navigate among the stars. Canadian author.

6

Pressure Cooker Love Bomb

Sharanpal Ruprai. Her second collection of poems.

7

Rocky Mountain Cooking: Recipes to Bring Canada’s Backcountry Home

Katie Mitzel. Embrace backcountry living at home with recipes inspired by life in the Rocky Mountains, from chef Katie Mitzel, bestselling author of The Skoki Cookbook. Local author.

8

Strange Planet

Nathan W. Pyle. A comic book of an adorable and profound universe.

9

The Spy and the Traitor

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

10

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson. The author turns his attention inward and tells us how it functions and its ability to heal itself.