CALGARY BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1. Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice. Evan and his teenage daughter, Nangohns, are chosen to lead a scouting party to their traditional home to discover what kind of life, and danger, still exists.

2. Moon of the Crusted Snow Waubgeshig Rice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles.

3. Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt. A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

4. Midnight Sweatlodge Waubgeshig Rice. The tale of a group of strangers and family gathered together to partake in an ancient Aboriginal ceremony.

5. Still Life Sarah Winman. Evelyn Skinner has come to Italy to relive her memories of the time she had her heart stolen by an Italian maid.

6. Clark and Division Naomi Hirahara. Real crime and delicately wrought personal stories from 30 years of research and archival work in Japanese American history.

7. Lady Tan's Circle of Women Lisa See. Inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China.

8. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors). A celebration of Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination.

9. Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver. Kingsolver transposes a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South.

10. Five Little Indians Michelle Good. The desperate quest of residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.

NON FICTION

1. Results Matter Joseph Patrick Connelly. Leadership is not about your creativity or your popularity. Leadership is about one thing only: results.

2. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir Geena Davis. From a two-time Academy Award winner, the surprising tale of Davis's “journey to badassery.”

3. The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War James B Conroy. A character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943.

4. On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down James Fell. The hilarious, irreverent guide to world history you never knew you needed.

5. Spiritual Anatomy: Meditation, Chakras, and the Journey to the Center Kamlesh D Patel. A journey to the centre of our consciousness.

6. Truth and Reconciliation Through Education Yvonne Poitras Pratt and Sulyn Bodnaresko (Editors). A resource written by educators for educators wishing to embark on their own journeys of truth and reconciliation.

7. In a Human Voice Carol Gilligan. Gilligan returns to her classic book, re-examining its arguments from the vantage point of the present.

8. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines Anand Giridharadas. As the book's subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.

9. The Woman in Me Britney Spears. A brave story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith and hope.

10. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Matthew Perry. A book from the beloved former star of Friends goes behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction. Compiled from information from Owl's Nest Books and Shelf Life Books.